Lectures

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.