Curriculum Vitae

Professional affiliations

German Anthropological Association (DGV)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Network for Experts in Cross-Cultural Competencies

Presentations (Conferences, symposia, seminars)

2012
Cultural differences
Presented at Seminar NATO Multinational Pre-Clinical Mission Readiness Training PILOT, Hamburg, 17 January 2012.

2011
Côte d’Ivoire: The Limits of the Politics of Reconciliation
European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Workshop: “Contested truths in Africa: facing power, transitional justice and memory politics”, Uppsala, 15-17 June 2011.

2010
Africa – Continent with Future? Developments, Crisis and Problems
Presented at the Seminar of the Ebelin & Gerd Bucerius Foundation, Area: Education/Governance, Hamburg, 26 January 2010.

2009
Exploring the Nexus of Science, Development and the Quest for Africa
Albrecht Daniel Thaer Colloquium 2009, Humboldt University Berlin, 12 November 2009.

2009
West Africa: Social, political and economic challenges
Paper presented at the Workshop on the “Project Go Africa…Go Germany 2009/10” Federal Agency of Civic Education, Potsdam, 26-27 June 2010.

2009
Elite in West Africa
Presented at the Conference „Elite and/without Development?“
Evangelical Academy, Wittenberg, 16-18 October 2009.

2008
Islam and Politics in West Africa
Presented at the Anthropological Seminar Zurich, 14 May 2008

2007
Music and Globalization in West Africa
Presented at the Seminar “Arts and Globalization”, Institute of Social Anthropology, University Strasbourg, 8 November 2007

2005
Joking Relations in Burkina Faso
Presented at the International Conference “The Politics of Joking Kinships in West Africa”
Sciences Politiques-CNRS, Paris, 27-29 October 2005

2005
Hunters and Identity Politics in Côte d’Ivoire
International Conference DGV: Konflikte- Menschenrechte-Interventionen, Workshop: The problem of legal self-help groups in Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Halle/Saale, 04-07 October 2005.

2005
Landnutzung bei den Senufo im Norden der Côte d’Ivoire
Symposium: Mensch und Umwelt in Afrika, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, 08 April 2005.

2005
Migrations et changements d’identité ethnique (Nord-ouest du Burkina Faso),
Presented at the Seminar « Groupe d’Etudes comparatives des sociétés peules », Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 14 February 2005.

2004
Anthropologie und Kolonialismus (Frankreich und Großbritannien): Geschichte, Konzeptionen und Begründungen, „Habilitationskolloquium“, University of Leipzig, 23 November 2004.

2003
Occupation et exploitation des espaces pastoraux dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso, Presented at the Seminar « Groupe d’Etudes comparatives des sociétés peules (GREFUL) », Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 13 January 2003.

2002
Pastoralists, farmers and the state (Côte d’Ivoire),
Presented at African Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., 05-08 December 2002.

2002
The land use of the Fulbe and the politics of belonging among the Senufo (Northern Côte-d’Ivoire), presented at the International Conference on “Land rights and the politics of belonging in West Africa”, University of Frankfort, 03-05 October 2002.

2001
Conflict, Cooperation and Integration: A West African example (Côte-d’Ivoire),
Presented at the “West Africa Seminar”, University College London, 02 February 2001

2001
Eleveurs et agriculteurs du Komonola (Sud-Ouest du Burkina Faso),
Presented at the International Conference on « Environnement, histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso », University of Frankfort/University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, 04-06 December 2001.

2000
Processes and types of pastoral migration in northern Côte d’Ivoire,
Presented at the African Studies Seminar on “Moving people: trends in population mobility in Africa”, University of Leiden, 22 June 2000.

Expertise

Management of natural resources (northern Côte d’Ivoire), Project German Technical Cooperation-DRDB, Boundiali, September 1994.

“Remembering Slavery: Travelling hierarchies of Fulbe societies in Mali and France”, expertise for The Board of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) (Ref.: W 01.51.2004.100), The Hague, January 2004.

“Conflict, Poverty and Copying in the Lake Chad Region”, (University College of London), expertise for Nuffield Foundation”, (Ref.: SGS/32110), London, July 2005.

Journal Comparative Studies in Society and History (University of Michigan) on « Bantu/nilotic racial mythology; conflicts in Central Africa », February 2006.

Cultural Advisor “Military Exercise of German Staff Officers Course 2010”, Hamburg, July, September, December 2011

Cultural Advisor, European Union Training Mission (Mali)

Koblenz, Centre for Leadership and Civic Education, June, September 2013