2023 Ethnography of a Police Killing. An Experimentation in Legal Anthropology, International Week of the Social Sciences, University of Sarajevo, 12 May.
2023 Neither Vulnerability, Nor Resilience. A Critical Approach to Exiles’ Experiences, Exploring Vulnerability and Resilience. Learning from Populations on the Move, Sabanci University, Istanbul, 5 May.
2023 Les épreuves de la frontière, Cours au Collège de France, 5 April-24 May.
2023 Critique de la crise, Conférence de rentrée de l’École Polytechnique, Paris, 6 April.
2023 Sciences sociales par temps de crise, Inaugural Lecture, Chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies, Collège de France, 30 March.
2023 La prison en question, Les Mardis de l’Hôtel de Beauvais, Cour administrative d’appel de Paris, 7 February.
2022 L’intellectuel et sa mémoire, Universidad de Granada, 24 May.
2022 Portrait of the Anthropologist as an Investigator, Bernt Lambert Memorial Lecture, Cornell University, 6 September
2022 Politics of Endangering. Practices of Rescuing. Ethnography of a Border in the Alps, Thanatic Ethics Conference. The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces, Oxford University, 28 April.
2022 Crisis. Elements of a Critique, Page-Barbour Lectures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 29-30-31 March
2022 La pensée inquiète de Veena Das, Symposium Voix de l’ordinaire. L’anthropologue face à la violence, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, 15 February.
2022 Ethnography as Counter-Investigation, Symposium Death of a Traveller, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 10 February.
2021 How to Get Away with Killing? A Social Science Counter Investigation, Symposium Death of a Traveller, London School of Economics, London, 9 December.
2021 Crisis at the Border. The Dramatury of the Politics of Immigration, Anthropology Talks, University of Bern, Bern, 5 October.
2021 Enquêtes sur la morale et l’éthique, Congrès de l’Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française “La société morale. Enjeux normatifs dans les sociétés contemporaines”, Tunis, 13 July.
2021 Conspiracy Theories as Crisis and Critique, Mosse Lecture, Humboldt-University, 10 June.
2021 Penser l’éthique en prison, Conseil National Consultatif d’Éthique, Paris, 20 May.
2021 Considérations inactuelles sur l’économie, Prix du Meilleur Jeune Économiste, Cercle des Économistes et “Le Monde”, Paris, 13 May.
2021 Anthropology of Public Health, Collège de France, 14 April-16 June
2021 Crisis Under Critique, Khaddit Beirut Special General Assembly, Beirut, 16 February.
2021 From Ethnography to Ethno-Graphic. Representing the World of the Police, Global Perspective Series, UCLA, Los Angeles, 29 January.
2020 The Value of Life. Inequality in the Time of the Coronavirus, On Inequity and Its Contemporary Forms Series, Duke University, Durham, 8 October.
2020 Critique de la raison punitive, Rencontres. Dis-moi comment tu punis, je te dirai qui nous sommes, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, 11 January.
2019 Conversations on Europe. What’s Left of the Yellow Vest Movement, With Anne-Claire Defossez, University of Michigan, Michigan, 3 December.
2019 Of Plots and Men. The Heuristics of Conspiracy Theories, Eric Wolf Lecture, University of Vienna, Vienna, 24 October.
2019 Those Obscure Objects of Prison Worlds. An Ethnography of Carceral Materiality, University of Oslo, Oslo, 23 October.
2019 Forms of Life. Can Philosophical Concepts Help Us Understand the Condition of Exiles? Harald Grimen Memorial Lecture, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, 22 October.
2019 In the Shadow of the City. Planetary Punitivescape, The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, Bologna, 5 July.
2019 Vers un autre approche de la santé des migrants, Institut Convergence Migrations. Université Paris Diderot, Paris, 12 June.
2019 What Does the Language of Crisis Mean? Sociology Department. New School for Social Research, New York, 2 April.
2019 Beyond the Punitive Moment, Center for Global Criminology. University of Copenhagen, 29 March.
2019 What the So-Called Migrant Crisis Tell us about Crisis? University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 28 March.
2019 Blow Up. A Critical Approach to Ethnographic Exposure, University of Vienna, 27 March.
2019 Forced Exile as a Form of Life, Keynote Lecture, Conference Borders of Humanitarianism. Ethnographic Perspectives on Reconfigurations of Contemporary Europe, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt University, Berlin, 10 January.
2018 Anti Anti-Humanism. Notes on the Social Life of Things in Prison, Anthropology Department, Cambridge University, 2 November.
2018 The Police Are the Punishment, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1 November.
2018 Revisiting Thing Theory. An Ethnography of Prison Worlds, University of Prague, 31 October.
2018 Of Things and Men. A Social Anthropology of the Material World of Prisons, Lehigh University, 22 October.
2018 A New Age of Anxiety? Rethinking Crisis in the Contemporary World, Nomis Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture, Zürich, 4 October.
2018 Crisis. A Critique, Università di Siena, 3 October.
2018 Of Peepholes and People. The Moral and Political Life of Things in Prison, Melvin Tumin Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, 27 September.
2018 La presencia pública de la etnografía, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 6 September.
2018 El momento punitivo, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 4 September.
2018 Castigar. Una passion contemporánea, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 31 August.
2018 Comprendre la prison, École nationale de la magistrature, La Prison en Question, Paris, 20 June.
2018 The Moral Work of Law Enforcement, Normal University, Beijing, 28 May.
2018 A Defense and Illustration of Ethnography, Tongji University, Shanghai, 25 May.
2018 Contemporary Forms of Life. Rethinking the Refugee Question Globally, University of Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 23 May.
2018 Between Resentfulness and Ressentiment. An Inquiry into a Negative Passion, Inaugural Lemkin Lecture, Rutgers University, Newark, 17 April.
2018 Une économie morale du châtiment, Conférence inaugurale de la Chaire Henri Janne, Université Libres de Bruxelles, Brussels, 27 February.
2018 À la recherche de la santé globale. Leçons d’Ebola et de quelques autres épidémies, Collège de France, Paris, 15 January.