Lectures
Borders as Arenas of Authoritarian Transformation: Ethnographic Examinations Along the Democracy-Authoritarianism Matrix. Lecture (online) as part of the lecture series "Border Regimes on the Move", Centre for Global Migration Studies, University of Göttingen, 15 May 2025.
Die autoritäre Grenze - Zum Zusammenhang von Migrations- und Grenzpolitik und autoritären Transformations. Lecture (online) as part of the lecture series "Rechtspopulismus - quo vadis? Expertises, questions and research approaches from Empirical Cultural Studies/European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, 5 May 2025.
Political Change as Refiguration? Ethnographic Perspectives on Authoritarian Populism. The case of Poland. Lecture at the Institute for Ethnology of the Germans of Eastern Europe, Freiburg, 14 January 2025.
The Authoritarian Border and the (Liberal) State. Lecture at the conference "Border Internalization: Authoritarian Transformation and the Societal Impact of Border Work", Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, 28 November 2024.
Fear and Gratitude. On the moral economies of 'soft authoritarianism'. Lecture at the Mainz Defence for European Ethnology "Changing Europe(s)", Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 17 July 2024.
Difference and hegemony. On the Affect Structures of 'Soft Authoritarianism'. Lecture at the 6th Congress on Polish Studies "Umbrüche - Aufbrüche", Dresden University of Technology, 15 March 2024.
Programme Strategies for Cultural Cooperation in Illiberal/Authoritarian Contexts. Lectures as part of the training course "Illiberal Contexts and Red Lines", Goethe-Institut, South Asia Region, 22/29 January, 5 February 2024.
Knowing and planning the post-war city. Lecture as part of the DAAD lecture series "Global Insights and Local Realities - Lessons from International Perspectives on Integrated Urban Development of Ukraine", 5 December 2023.
Europe's new colour line? Racialisation and solidarity along Poland's eastern borders. Lecture at the conference "Contesting 21st Century B/Orders", European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 7 September 2023 (together with Sabine Hess).
Erratic Europeanisation. Imperial debris, war and repair in West-Ukrainian Lviv. Lecture at the conference "Living Uncertainty" of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Brno, 8 June 2023.
Everyday Cultural Diplomacy. Cultural heritage and cultural work in fragile structures. Lecture as part of the lecture series of the DFG Graduate College "Identity and Heritage", University of Technology Berlin, 18 April 2023.