2024
Universität Basel – ‘Sustainability Week Switzerland’ (March 20, 2024)
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “Sustainability and Allyship: United against the Climate Crisis”.
2023
Universität Bern – ‘Nachhaltigkeitstag’ (Nov 3, 2023)
Panelist.
Title of panel: “Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre: Rolle der rassismuskritischen Hochschule”.
ETH Zurich – ‘Decolonizing Archives and Collections’ (Nov 1, 2023)
Workshop Leader.
Title of Workshop: “(De)Coloniality of Archives and Collections” - Workshop for librarians and archivists from different libraries and archives at ETH Zurich.
University of Bayreuth, Annual Conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence – ‘Reconfiguring African Studies through Spatialities’ (Oct 11 – Oct 14)
Chair of Panel: ‘Urban Spaces’.
Panelist of Panel: ‘Urban Spaces’.
Title of paper: “When social spaces in Cape Town produce everyday forms of trauma and exclusions”
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Kritische Bildungstage, (Oct 1 - Oct 4), Berlin
Workshop Leader.
Title of workshop: “Learning to Unlearn and the Importance of Allyship in Dismantling Structures of Racism”
Reporter:innenforum 2023 - Forum Medien - (29.09.2023), Zurich
Panelist.
Title of panel: “Wo bleibt der Migrationshintergrund in Schweizer Medienhäusern”
Basel Summer School in African Studies 2023 (08/23 – 01/09) Making Knowledge Policy-Relevant – The SSH’s Role in Global Sustainable Government
Panelist & Participant.
Title of presentation: “Spatial Formations in Post-Apartheid Cape Town - Exclusions, Negotiations and Forms of Citizenship”
HU Berlin - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Deutschland) (03.08.2023) – Vorbereitendes Interkulturelles Training für Masterstudierende. Vorbereitung auf Forschungsaufenthalt in Südafrika. Lecture – Workshop.
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “Doing Research in Cape Town, a Post-Traumatic and Structural Violent Space.”
Lecture-Workshop (half day event) presented at the University of Freiburg, Germany. ‘Coloniality of Gender und dekoloniales Ver_Lernen im Kontext Universität’, (July 14), organised by Nora Teuscher, Sina Tresp, Han Bührle
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “And now what? Allyship in the decoloniality of gender”
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Doktorand:innenseminar, organized by Dr. Daniel Keil, (July 6 - July 7), Berlin
Panelist in the PhD seminar of my PhD funding institution, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Paper presented: Forms of Citizenship and Exclusion in Post-Apartheid Cape Town. Focus on Preliminary findings and the current status of my PhD project “Black Subjectivities and Whitened Spaces in Cape Town - Constructions, In/Compatibilities and Reactions to Exclusions”
University of Bayreuth, Colloquium of Working Group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities”, led by Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm and temporary led by Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka
Presentation in Colloquium on 26.06.2023
Content: Field research, preliminary findings, current status of my PhD project “Black Subjectivities and Whitened Spaces in Cape Town - Constructions, In/Compatibilities and Reactions to Exclusions”
European Conference on African Studies - African Futures
(May 31 - June 03), Cologne 2023
Panelist in Panel “African urban spaces and futures of democratic citizenship”.
Paper presented: “Being a citizen in an exclusionary environment: Constructions of citizenship in Cape Town”
32nd session of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (May 01 - May 05) “Economic Empowerment of People of African Descent”
Guest Speaker.
UN Fellows Event. To Centralise & Organise the Collective African Struggle.
How can civil society use the WGEPAD country visit to globally advocate for the rights of people of African descent?
Annual Conference Decolonizing Swiss Research Collaborations (May 05), Online Workshop Series April 19 - May 31.
Lecture-Workshop.
Title of presentation / workshop: “The importance of allyship and empowerment in the decolonization of research partnerships”
Lecture-Workshop (half day event) presented at the University of Freiburg, Germany. ‘Coloniality of Gender und dekoloniales Ver_Lernen im Kontext Universität’, (April 21, 2023), organised by Nora Teuscher, Sina Tresp, Han Bührle
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “Learning to unlearn - Challenging internalized imaginaries and beliefs”
Talk presented at the University of Cape Town ‘Introduction to African Art’ , focus on 20th century art on the African continent, (March 02, 2023), organised by Prof. Dr. Nomusa Makhubu
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “Art institutions as racialized spaces? Constructions and disruptions”
Conference: Decolonizing Curricula, Pluralizing Teaching and Research: Postcolonial Perspectives on Universities in the 21st Century (02/02-02/04)
Panelist in Panel 'Diversity in Faculty'.
Title of presentation: “When doing nothing is tiring – trying to challenge colonial legacies while trying to live and heal”
Talk presented at the University of Leipzig ‘Postkoloniale Debatten’ (January 05, 2023), organised by Prof. Dr. Lara Krause and Dr. Irene Brunotti
Guest Lecturer.
Title of presentation: “Die Konstruktion von Exklusion im Raum: Geweißte Räume in Kapstadt”
2022
Black History Month at the ETH Zurich (October 2022)
Title of presentation: “Spaces that were not meant for me.” - Exclusionary, racialized spaces in Switzerland”
Workshop: “How could I have acted?” - Allyship-Workshop
Workshop: “If I had known that…” - Empowerment-Workshop
UN Comittee Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (May 2022)
30th Public Session on 'Children of African Descent' (05/23-05/27)
Panelist in Panel 'Multiple Literacies for Children of African Descent to Survive and Thrive'
Conference: Second European Student’s Conference on African Studies (08/31-09/02)
Co-moderator panel: “Imagination and Artistic Practices: Remedial forms of embodying current debates”
Co-moderator panel: “Imagination and Artistic Practices: Remedial forms of embodying current debates Leader”
Workshop-Leader: “Learning to Unlearn - Challenging Internalized Imaginaries in African Studies”
2021
ETH Zurich: Conference Treffpunkt Science City - “Arm und Reich” (November 2021)
Kindervorlesung für Kinder ab 7 Jahren.
Title of presentation: “Blonde Prinzessin oder Schwarzer Peter?” Altersgerechte, interaktive Vorlesung rund um das Thema Rassismus, Diskriminierung und Gerechtigkeit
Conference: African Culture Day organized by African Students Association and (September 2021)
Panelist in Panel.
Title of presentation: “What Do We Mean When We Say 'Africa'?”