Curriculum Vitae

Education

April 2011 to present
PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Research School Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

Oct 2010-Mar 2011
Start-up grant at the Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. R. Rottenburg

July 2010
Completion of M.A. in Social Anthropology (M.A. major), History of Art (M.A. minor), English and American Studies (M.A. minor)

Jan 2008-Jun 2008
Exchange student at the Department for Sociology and Social Anthropology Stellenbosch University/South Africa

Jul-Oct 2006
Affiliated student at the Department for Sociology and Social Anthropology Stellenbosch University/South Africa

Oct 2003
Beginning of M.A. studies in Social Anthropology, History of Art, Studies of English and American Studies (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

July 2003
Abitur/ A-level

Professional Experience

July 2013 to present
Vice chair: Employees Representative Council of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Germany

March 2011
Conference Assistant and Rapporteur at the 101. Dahlem Conference of Freie Universität Berlin in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale on “Knowledge, Domination and the Public in Africa” (21-25 Mar 2011)

Aug 2008-Mar 2010
Student Assistant at the Seminar for Social Anthropology (Department for Philosophy and Social Anthropology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

June 2009
Conference Assistant: Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle “The Authority of Science” (15-17 Jun 2009)

Jan-May 2008
Assistant Teacher at Ikaya Primary School Kayamandi/Stellenbosch

Oct 2007
Conference Assistant: German Anthropological Association "Streitfragen – zum Verhältnis von empirischer Forschung und ethnologischer Theoriebildung am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts" (1-4 Oct 2007 Halle)

Oct 2006-Feb 2007
Assistant lecturer/tutor: “Introduction to Social Anthropology” Course at the Seminar for Social Anthropology (Department for Philosophy and Social Anthropology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Jan-Feb 2005
Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle (Supervisors: Dr. T. Thelen, Dr. A. Behrends)

Jul-Sep 2004
Internship at the Saxonian State Collections of Ethnography Leipzig

Research Experience

Mar 2014- Apr 2014
Fieldwork on “Access to Justice” in Rwanda

Mar 2012- May 2013
Fieldwork on “Juridification, Access to Justice and Legal Aid in Land Disputes” in Rwanda.

Aug-Sep 2011
Fieldwork on “Rights-based Organisations, Access to Justice and Legal Aid” in Kigali and Butare, Rwanda.

Jan-Jul 2008
M.A. fieldwork in South Africa with thesis on “Contesting Tongues: The Politics of Language Rights and Claims at an Afrikaans-medium University in South Africa”

Jul-Oct 2006
Fieldwork in South Africa “Language Policy at Stellenbosch University” (Research scholarship from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)

Nov 2005-Jan 2006
Fieldwork/Germany: “Anthropology and the Museum in Weißenfels”

Apr-Jul 2005
Fieldwork training/Germany: “Tourism in South-East Asia” Halle

Invited Lectures

June, 23 2014
The historical context of the genocide in Rwanda and its contemporary repercussions. Course: ‘Anthropography of genocide’. Organiser: Fazil Moradi. Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany.

Sep, 9 2012
The significance of legal aid and mediation for the organisation of access to justice in Rwanda. Ziviler Friedensdienst (ZFD) & GIZ. Butare, Rwanda

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

July, 31- August, 3 2014
Iterations of eligibility: On access and competences on the threshold of the Rwandan justice system. Panel ‘Tracing eligibilities. Moralities, performances, practices’. Organiser: EASA network Anthropology of Law and Rights. Heike Drotbohm/Julia Eckert. 13th EASA Biennial Conference. Estonian Institute of Humanities. Tallinn University, Estonia.

June, 30- July, 5 2014
The promise of access to justice in Rwanda. Annual conference of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle, Germany.

June, 11-14 2014
The legal laboratory in Rwanda: Experimentalisation and adaptation. Panel ‘The future after genocide – Dis/Orders and the remaking of society after periods of violence’. Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) ‘Future Africa’. Bayreuth University, Germany

March, 20- 21 2014
The promises and challenges of Komite z’Abunzi (Mediation Committees) in Rwanda. 6th International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on “Peace and Security Dynamics in the Great Lakes Region” organized by the Centre for Conflict Management, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.

June, 14-16 2014
Discussant: Missing persons/ memory and descent. Workshop: ‘The claims of descent: Science, representation, race and redress in 21st century South Africa’. Organisers: Katharina Schramm/Kerry Bystrom. Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany.

February, 5-7 2014
Love and justice as competences in mediation. 2nd Biannual Conference ‘On Mediation’. International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

November, 7-8 2013
The legal laboratory in Rwanda: Experimentalisation and adaptation. Workshop: ‘Normative spaces: insights from and into African judicial encounters’. Organiser: Katrin Seidel, Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

October, 4-6 2012
Discussant at the Biennial Conference of the German Research Foundation’s Priority Programme Adaptation and Creativity in Africa - Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder. Maputo/Mozambique.

February, 5 2012
What remains unsaid: A Critical Inventory of Transitional (In)Justice in Rwanda. Workshop: ‘Scrutinizing Transitional Justice’. Annual conference of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Hinterzarten, Germany.

February, 3-4 2012
Rights-based Organisations and Legal Aid as Reconfigurations of Public Justice in Rwanda. Annual conference of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max PlanckInstitute for Social Anthropology. Hinterzarten, Germany.

December, 10 2011
Partial amnesia in retaliation. Or: The politics of selective forgetting & remembering as imperative source for enactments of retaliation & vengeance in the aftermath of violent conflict. Course: Anthropology of retaliation: Basic principles of conflict regulation from a legal anthropological perspective. Organiser: Bertram Turner. Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany.

September, 29 - October 1 2011
L’Engagement associatif en faveur des droits humains au Rwanda: Interventions humanitaires et assistance judiciaire dans le contexte de la justice transitionelle. Le 2ème Symposium des Jeunes Pénalistes de l’AIDP aura pour thème «La justice transitionnelle». La Rochelle, France.

June, 27-28 2011
Rights-based Activism in Rwanda: Legal and Humanitarian Interventions in Transitional Justice. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

May 4-5, 2010
Translating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) in African contexts: Interventions, Transformations and Revolutions in Rwanda. University of Edinburgh / School of Social and Political Science / Centre for African Studies: CAS Annual Conference 'ICT: Africa's Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century?' Edinburgh, Scotland.

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

October, 11-12 2013
Workshop: On Mediation: Forms, models and theories. International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle, Germany

February, 5 2012
Workshop: Scrutinizing Transitional Justice. International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Hinterzarten, Germany

Courses taught

Winter term 2013/2014
Seminar: Anthropologie normative Ordnungen: Von lokaler Ungerechtigkeit über translokale Gesetzmäßigkeiten zu globaler Gerechtigkeit. (Anthropology of normative orders: From local injustice and translocal laws to global justice). Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany.

Winter term 2006/2007    
Tutorial: Einführung in die Ethnologie (Introduction to Social Anthropology). Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany.

Languages

German: native
English: fluent, academic
French: fluent, academic
Kinyarwanda: good
Spanish: good
Afrikaans: good
IsiXhosa: basic
Farsi: basic
Swedish: beginner
Kurdish (Sorani): beginner

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