• 2023. Introduction to Renewable Energy and Post-Carbon Futures, Energy Anthropology Network, ISCTE Lisboa.


• 2023. Energy Crisis, key note, Symposium Urban-Industrial Entanglements in Crisis, European Humanities University, Vilnius.


• 2022. Commoning-decommoning dynamics in climate and energy politics. Introduction, EASA Queens University Belfast.


• 2022. Decolonial curation as alter-heritage, EASA Queens University Belfast.


• 2021. Digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions. Energy Anthropology Network, University of Stavanger.


• 2021. Digitizing against climate change. DGSKA Conference, Bremen University.


• 2021. On-site realities of a global business: Indian and German renewable energy production. Energy and Society Conference, Trento University.


• 2021. The spatio-temporal politics of energy production. Energy Futures - Emerging pathways in an uncertain world?, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.


• 2021. To see and not to see: Coal mining industry’s infrastructure in and beyond the city. Cityindustries: Renewal, Endurance and Care, Hamburg University.


• 2020. Curating the truth as grass-roots history: Digital archives and their relation to postcolonial theory and practice. Digital Truth-Making, Humboldt University Berlin.


• 2020. Sammlungen online: Postkoloniale Ideale und digitale Wirklichkeit. Zwischentagung DGSKA AG Materielle Kultur, AG Museum, Cologne.


• 2020. The political power of energy futures – introduction / The futures of visual restitution. EASA, University Lisbon.


• 2020. Die (Im)Materialität von Objekten im digitalen Raum. Zukunft der Objekte, University of Cologne.


• 2020. The futures of visual restitution. EASA, University Lisbon.


• 2020. Decarbonising Electricity & Strukturwandel in India, Australia and Germany. Resources and Strukturwandel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.


• 2020. Die Grenzen des rechtlich Machbaren. Sammlungen zwischen Materialität und Medialität, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.


• 2019. with Tom Morton. The state of decarbonization in Germany: the “Coal Commission”, climate policy and decarbonization on the ground in the Lausitz. Socio-ecological relations of energy transition in Australia, Germany, and India, IIT Kanpur.


• 2019. with Tom Morton. The spatio-temporal politics of wind energy: some initial reflections on fieldwork and energy transition in Brandenburg. Socio-ecological relations of energy transition in Australia, Germany, and India, IIT Kanpur.


• 2019. Objekte als rechtliche Grenzmarken der Digitalisierung. DGSKA-Tagung, Universität Konstanz.


• 2019. with Boris Wille. Coral Blocks and Binary Code: Moving Matter(s) in the Indian Ocean World. Deutscher Südasientag, Universität Bonn.


• 2019. The Meaning of ‘Sharing’ for Online Projects - Analysis of a Changing Term as Applied in Indian Digital Archives. Sharing Society, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.


• 2019. Digital Archives: Postcolonial Ideas and Online Involvement. After-Lives of Photographs in the Digital Age, Pembroke College, London.


• 2019. Ethnographisch-journalistische Arbeit in der Lausitz 2014-17 - The Coal Rush and Beyond. Perspektivwechsel im Strukturwandel, IASS Potsdam.


• 2018. The Coal Rush and Beyond. Kohlentag: A multi-disciplinary workshop on the past, present, and future of coal use, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin.


• 2018. Conference organizer, with Haidy Geismar (University College London): Postcolonial Digital Connections. MLU Halle-Wittenberg. Funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.


• 2018. The Internet as a field for decolonizing Indian cultural heritage. Conference Heritage, Decolonisation and the Field, German Historical Institute London & UCL Institute of Archaeology.


• 2018. Following the 1947 Partition Archive – Online community-building beyond kin and borders. Asiascape: Digital Asia Conference, Universiteit Leiden.


• 2018. Adivasi Images, Adivasi Voices: The resonance of the Eickstedt collection. 25th ECSAS, Paris.


• 2018. Lecture series organizer, with Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten Endres and John Eidson (MPI Halle): Fueling the Future: Energy, Resources & Environment, MPI for Social Anthropology.


• 2017. Anthropologic Photographs. The Present and (Digital) Future of Images from the Past, FFA, Brno Technical University.


• 2017. with Tom Morton. Globalising the Local to Reach the National. Extended Coal Mines in Lusatia, Germany. The Coal Rush and Beyond: A Workshop on Coal Contestation and Advocacy for Energy Transition, IASS Potsdam.


• 2017. Digitale Fotografien – Erweiterte Erinnerungen, erweiterte Identitäten. Symposium Augmented Identites, ZIS Universität Mainz.


• 2017. Online Archives of Indian Photography. Towards an Accessibility of Visual Cultural Heritage, Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi.


• 2017. Colonial Photography by Egon von Eickstedt. A German anthropologist’s camera view on India in the 1920s, Sahapedia Baithak Talks, Delhi.


• 2017. with Boris Wille. Materiality and Mobility. Comparative notes on heritagisation in the Indian Ocean World, Conference Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World, Max Planck Institute, Halle.


• 2017. Digital Future of Anthropological Archives? Memory Making on the Indian Past, Seminar Series Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research, University College London.


• 2016. Digitale Objekte. Subjektive Materie, Zwischentagung AG Materielle Kultur der DGV, Frankfurt/M.


• 2016. with Tom Morton. At the coalface. A case study between anthropologist and journalist, Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Sydney.


• 2016. Waiting for the pre-cut conveyor belt. How time shapes mining protest forms, Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Sydney.


• 2016. The (post)digital future of anthropological archives: Memory-making and heritage in cyberspace, 17th AoIR Annual Conference, Berlin.


• 2016. Linking museum- and community-based archives in a postdigital world, 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Milano.


• 2016. Opening archives. Digital photographs between India and Europe, India International Centre, New Delhi.


• 2016. Erinnern online. Museum- und Community-basierte Fotoarchive in Indiens postdigitaler Welt, Ringvorlesung Museum 4.0, Halle. ->prezi


• 2018. Lecture series organizer, with Malte Stieper, Christian Papilloud and Burkhard Schnepel (MLU Halle): Museum 4.0: Herausforderungen an kulturelles Erbe in der digitalen Welt, MLU Halle.


• 2016. Von 0 und 1 zum Koraj Hill. Digitalisiertes Erbe in Ahnenverehrung und Erinnerung, Mitteldeutscher Südasientag, Leipzig. ->prezi


• 2015. Dialogue through Digitisation. Herrenhäuser-Symposium „Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century“, Hannover.


• 2014. Indifference and fetishizing. Modes of visual appropriation without reciprocal value, Conference „Anthropology and Photography”, Royal Anthropological Institute, London.


• 2012. Vom möglichen Umgang mit ethnologischen/anthropologischen Archiven. Perspektiven des Eickstedt Archivs, Symposium „Koloniale Portraitfotografie“, Museum of Photography, Berlin.


• 2011. Conference organiser with Daniel Rycroft (University of East Anglia): The Future of Anthropological Archival Knowledge – An International Reassessment (FAAKIR). GrassiMuseum für Völkerkunde Leipzig. Funded by VolkswagenStiftung.


• 2011. The Egon von Eickstedt Collection, Conference “Objects and Words: Writing on, around and about things”, Museums Ethnographers Group, Oxford.