Scholarly Presentations

Collaboration, friction, fragmentation: Biomedical Research in the West African Ebola Outbreak
(with Tamara Giles-Vernick)
Conference title: Social Sciences and biomedical engagement in the West African Ebola outbreak
Institution: Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases, Pasteur Institute
07.11.2016 in Paris, France

Politics of the Gap: Vaccine Development in the time of Ebola

(Panel by Berhard Hadolt and Andrea Stockl)
Conference Title: Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures
Institution: EASA
20.-23. July 2016 in Milan, Italy

Almost there and back again: Knowledge Production and Translation during the Ebola Ourbreak
(Panel by Catherine Bolten)
Conference title: The Familiar and the Strange
Institution: AAA
17.-22. November 2015 in Denver, USA

Beyond Ebola: Knowledge Production and the limitations of Translation
(Workshop with Rose Marie Beck)
Institution: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
29.-30. October 2015 in Halle/Saale, Germany

Engaging Global Health During Ebola: Anthropological Knowledge Production and Translation
University Seminar on Contemporary Africa
Institution: Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
08.10.2015 in New York, USA

Anthropology in the time of Ebola: Anthropological Insights in a Global Health Emergency
(Panel with Juliet Bedford)
Conference Title: Anthropology and Global Health
Institution: EASA
9.-11. September 2015 in Brighton, UK

Ebola. African Studies in Times of Emergency
(Round Table with Guillaume Lachenal)
Conference title: 6th European Conference on African Studies
Institution: ECAS
8.-10. July 2015 in Paris, France

Ebola in Guinea: Localities of exception?
Conference title: EboDakar 2015: Epidémie d’Ebola en Afrique de l’ouste. Approches ethno-sociales comparées
Institution: SHS Ebola, IRD, INSERM
19.-21.05.2015 in Dakar, Senegal

Crisis, critique, and action: Ebola and the anthropological response
(with Anne Menzel, René Umlauf, Sung-Joon Park)
Conference title: What To Do with/in Global Health?
Institution: AG Medical Anthropology with Freie Universität Berlin
28.-30.11.2014 in Berlin, Germany

The cultural constitution of causal cognition - exploring the integration of field-based methods in studying cognition
Conference title: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds
Institution: International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) with University of Manchester
05.-10.08.2013 in Manchester, UK

Suffering for the nation? Comparing Guinea-Bissau and Guinea’s cornerstones of national identity
(with Christoph Kohl)
Conference title: European Conference of African Studies (hereafter ECAS) 5: African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
Institution: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (hereafter AEGIS) with Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (hereafter ISCTE), University of Lisbon
27.-29.06.2013 in Lisbon, Portugal

What can we learn about causal reasoning from explanatory models of illness?
(with York Hagmayer)
Conference title: Exploring the Cultural Constitution of (Causal) Cognition: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Approaches
Institution: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (hereafter ZiF), University of Bielefeld
11.-12.04.2013 in Bielefeld, Germany

How universal is causal cognition? And how can we know?
(with Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller)
How Causal Models of Mind and Behavior Shape Causal Models of Mental Illnesses
(with York Hagmayer)
Conference title: Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society
Institution: German Cognitive Science Society and University of Bamberg
30.09.-03.10.2012 in Bamberg, Germany

Abolished, demystified, democratised: The Guinean state’s diverging strategies towards elders’ resilient authority
Conference title: CAS @ 50: Cutting Edges and Retrospectives
Institution: Center for African Studies, University of Edinburgh
06.-08.06.2012 in Edinburgh, UK

La Démocratie Guinéenne: localising international discourses and searching for citizens
Conference title: ECAS 4: African Engagements: On Whose Terms?
Institution: AEGIS and Nordic African Institute
14.-18.06.2011 in Uppsala, Sweden

Ambiguous notions of citizenship: Local debates of the Guinean Diaspora’s role in shaping national politics
Conference title: The Upper Guinea Coast in Transnational Perspective
Institution: Research Group Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (hereinafter IC_UGC_MPI)
Organised by: Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
8.-10.12.2010 in Halle/Saale, Germany

DDR between individual, collective and community-based? Questions of timing
Conference title: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peace Building Seminar
Institution: Institute for Security Studies and Egmont Institute
Organised by: Henri Boshoff and Koen Vlassenroot
20.-21.09.10 in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Singing for change: women’s belief to make better politics
Conference title: Sociocultural and Musical Aspects of the Conflict in Sierra Leone
Institution: Free Floater Research Group Music, Conflict and the State at University of Göttingen
Organised by: Morag J. Grant and Cornelia Nuxoll
28.05.10 in Göttingen, Germany

The window of opportunity to change gender relations: International interventions in post-war Sierra Leone and Liberia
Conference title: ECAS 3
Panel title: In Between War and Peace - Spaces of Transition in Africa
Institution: AEGIS
Organised by: Maria Brandstetter and Susanne Buckley-Zistel
5.-7.06.09 in Leipzig, Germany

The people, the power and the public service: Political identification during Guinea’s general strikes in 2007
Conference title: ECAS 3
Panel title: States, Public Bureaucracies and Civil Servants: Organisational Fields and Actors’ Practices
Institution: AEGIS
Organised by: Thomas Bierschenk et. al.
5.-7.06.09 in Leipzig, Germany

Gender mainstreaming as a travelling model in post-war reconstruction
Framework: Research Colloquium WS 2008/09 Politics of Transnationalization: Security and Conflict
Institution: University of Bielefeld
Department: Faculty of Sociology
21.01.09 in Bielefeld, Germany

Moria politics: from political centre to self-marginalisation. Perspectives of power and space in littoral Guinea
Conference title: Networks, Margins and Alliances: The Upper Guinea Coast and the Making of the Atlantic
Organised by: Jacqueline Knörr (IC_UGC_MPI) and Ramon Sarró (Institute for Social Sciences/ICS, Lisbon)
18.-20.12.08 in Lisbon, Portugal

Guinea: a nation confronts the state
Workshop title: Simpósio de Antropologia: Entre o Legal e o Ilegal
Institution: Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Organised by: Departamento de Antropologia
20.-21.10.08 in São Carlos, Brazil

Changing gender relations through war: The post-war window of opportunity ill-used? International interventions in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Framework: Research colloquium of Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (hereafter IFCH)
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Department: Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero
15.10.08 in Campinas, Brazil

Changing gender relations through war? Examples from international interventions in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Framework: Seminário do Departamento de Antropologia
Institution: Universidade Nacional de Brasília
Department: Departamento de Antropologia
05.10.08 in Brasilia, Brazil

The People, the power and the public service: Political identification during general strikes in Guinea (2007)
Framework: Research colloquium of Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH)
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Department: Departamento de Antropologia
01.10.08 in Campinas, Brazil

Civil society in Guinea: Notions of civil in a changing political environment
Conference title: Mande Studies Biannual Conference
Panel title: Grassroots Civil Society in the Mande World
Institution: Mande Studies Association (MANSA)
Organised by: Esther Kuhn and Lianne Holten
24.-27.06.08 in Lisbon, Portugal

Local authority in relation to state and nation in Guinea and the UGC
Workshop title: UGC Workshop in The Gambia
Organised by: IC_UGC_MPI
11.-16.07.08 in Banjul, The Gambia

A failing state or a state’s resilience? Contesting the social order in Guinea
Conference title: Frontiers and Passages
Panel title: Beyond the Failed State: Statehood and Self-Organisation After Crisis
Institution: Vereinigung der Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (hereafter VAD)
Organised by: Gregor Dobler and Till Förster
14.-17.05.08 in Freiburg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland

Normative power in a shadow state: the case of Guinea
Workshop title: The Upper Guinea Coast: Topics and Problems Addressed in Current Research
Organised by: Christian K. Højbjerg (Center of African Studies, Copenhagen University) and Jacqueline Knörr (IC_UGC_MPI)
08.02.08 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Guinea: a nation confronts the state?
Conference title: Streitfragen – zum Verhältnis von empirischer Forschung und ethnologischer Theoriebildung am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts
Panel title: Comparative Perspectives on Postcolonial Nation-Building and Concepts of Nationhood in Africa
Institution: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV)
Organised by: Jacqueline Knörr
03.10.2007 - 04.10.2007 in Halle/Saale, Germany

Talking history and drawing boundaries: local authorities in Guinea’s current upheavals
Event: Talk for Special Court Members
Institution: UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
28.02.07 in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Choosing between different realities: gender mainstreaming and self-images of women after armed conflict in Sierra Leone
Conference title: Wissen und Wissenschaft in Afrika
Panel title: Prize Winners’ Panel
Institution: VAD
25.07.2006 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany


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