Presentations
1. 15/03/2025: Speaker at IMISCOE Spring Conference 2025, organized by the University for Continuing Education Krems, Department for Migration and Globalisation.
o Presentation: “Unity in Victory, Division in Departure: Nationalism and Illegal Migration in Post-Colonial Morocco.”
2. 05/02/2025: Co-lecture with Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt at Goethe University Frankfurt. Organized byTrans.Arch and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
o Presentation: “Islam, the West, and the New Anglophone Literatures: An Introduction.”
3. 04-06/10/2024: Speaker at the international conference Political Narratives:
Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives organized by the Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
o Presentation: “From International Glory to Death Boats: The Paradoxical Narratives between National Progress and Illegal Migration in Postcolonial Morocco”
4. 23/10/2024: Guest speaker at Research Delegation Babel Initiative organized by Sciences Po Paris, France
o Presentation: "Doing Research in Morocco: Art between patronage, freedom of expression, and social precarity"
5. 24-29/06/2024: Speaker at XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, Lisnbon, Portugal
o Theme: Culture at War
o Presentation: "Beyond Violence: Coming to Grips with Childhood War Games in Post-Colonial Morocco"
6. 02-05/11/2023: Speaker at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Montreal, Canada
o Panel: Time Frames: Art as an Embodied Practice of Time from an Anthropological Perspective
o Presentation: "Al-'Atara as a Marginal Community: Negotiating Art and its Practices from Below"
7. 11-14/10/2023: Speaker at the Annual Conference of the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth, Germany
o Theme: Reconfiguring African Studies Through Spatialities
o Panel: Knowledge and Location
o Presentation: "Treasure Hunting and the Dynamics of the Soil"
8. 17-19/03/2023: Speaker at MECAM conference "Imagining Futures - Dealing with Disparity", Tunis, Tunisia
o Panel: "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice": Disparity and Future Models in Arab Literature and Arts
o Presentation: "Waiting, Art Practitioners, Hope, and Never-Ending Queues"
9. 22-24/06/2022: Speaker at SeSaMo 2022 conference organized by University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Germany
o Panel: Class, a Useful Category for Ethnography? Case Studies from Egypt and Morocco
o Presentation: "The Task of the Ethnographer: Waiting and Vernacular Art Communities as a Precarious Social category"
10. 29/04/2022: Talk at the research group "Figures of Thought, Turning Points", Marburg, Germany
o DFG, Leibniz,the Center for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS), Phillips-Marburg University
o Presentation: "Traveling optics of the weak: invisible art practitioners and the pursuit of beauty in Morocco"
11. 20-30/03/2022: Public Presentation and workshop at Tunis University, Tunis, Tunisia
o Presentation: "Street Art, Festivity and The Politics of Possession in The Moroccan Urban Space"
12. 22/07/2021: Online public presentation organized by the Center for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS), Phillips-Marburg University
o Presentation: "The Aesthetics of the Margin: Vernacular Art Communities in Morocco"
13. 20-21/01/2021: Speaker at the online conference New Covid-Reality?: Philosophy's Voice In and For the Crisis, organized by COCO I
o Presentation: "COVID-19: Knowing our Disasters Through Memesis"
14. 27-29/11/2019: Land Conference organized by the University of Cape Town
o Presentation: "When Archeology Meets its Arc: The Soil and Its Diggers in Times of Precariousness"