2024

• “Witnessing Violence and Undoing Entrenched Pedagogies in Times of Crisis” (P160), Panel co-convenor (with Cristiana Strava and Caitlin Procter), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference 2024, University of Barcelona, 23-26 July 2024 (forthcoming)

• “Feminist Afterlives: Witnessing, Violence, and Gender Justice in Tanzania”, Invited Talk, Colloquium, Institute of Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2 July 2024 (forthcoming)

2023

• “The Indian Ocean as Feminist Aesthetic Space: Thinking with Lubaina Himid’s Contemporary Practice”, Invited Talk, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE, 14-15 December 2023

• “Feministische Öffentlichkeiten und Politischer Wandel in Tansania”, Public Lecture, JGenderU: Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Gender und Körper, JGU Mainz, 4 December 2023

• “(Counter)public Contestations: Feminist Theorizing for Anthropological Ethics “, Panel co-convenor (with Mario Schmidt), German Anthropological Association Conference 2023, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 25-28.7.2023

• “Parenting, Interrupted”, Invited Discussant, “Affecting Parenting Politics: Critical Perspectives on the Global Standardization of Childcare” Conference, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, 4.-6.5.2023.

• “There Could be an Endless Ocean”: Gender, Generation and the (Swahili) Seas in Lubaina Himid’s Political Painting”, Invited Talk, Association for Art History Annual Conference [Conference Booklet], IOE University College London, UK, 12-14.4.2023.

• “Children, Violence, and Political Ethnography: Moving Beyond Systemic Critique”, Panel co-convenor (with Caitlin Procter), Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, SOAS, London, UK, 11-14.4.2023.

2022   

• “‘Swahili is my grandmother-tongue’: Indian Ocean Confluences, the Dissolution of Dialogue and Gendered Linguistic Belonging in the Gulf”, Reimagining Mobilities/Immobilities in the Indian Ocean: Inaugural Program, [Conference Booklet], The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE, 15-17.12.2022

• “Women Storying the Swahili Seas: Indian Ocean Feminist Aesthetics and Affective Imaginaries in Lubaina Himid’s Political Painting”, BARAZA: Swahili Studies Conference, SOAS, London, 29.10.2022

• “‘Kuishi Ughaibuni’: Thinking with Diaspora and Dialogue, Belonging and Absence about the Swahili-speaking Gulf”, Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow, Guest Lectures, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), The Hague, Netherlands, 17/18.10.2022

• “Swahili Semiotic Seascapes: Potentialities of Space and Subjectivities in the Swahili-speaking Gulf”, EASA2022, Belfast, 26-29.7.2022

• “Toward a (Feminist) Politics of Translation? Some Anthropological Reflections on tafsiri, Response-ability and Decolonisation”, Kolloquium: Politik der Translation, JGU Mainz (Germersheim), 08.07.2022

• “How Do We Protect Things?” – Towards a Political Anthropology of Protection, ifeas Departmental Seminar Series, 24.05.2022

• “Thinking With Translation About Response-Abilities of Decolonisation”, Panel co-convernor (with Irene Brunotti and Nathalie Arnold Koenings), German African Studies/VAD Conference 2022, University Freiburg, 8 June 2022, | Panel Description

• “Decolonize Collective Breathing: Inequalities, Inspirations, Intersections”, AG Public Anthropology experimental writing workshop, 31.03.-02.04.2022

• Buchvorstellung – Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools (Rutgers UP 2021), Kolloquium von Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Sutterlüty, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 25.01.2022

• “On Ethnographic Witnessing and Response-ability in Child Protection Research.” Presentation, Workshop: Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologie, DFG Scientific Network “Public Anthropology”, Halle, 13.01.2022

2021   

• “Disputing Discipline: Politics of Protection and Punishment in Zanzibar Schools.” Presentation, Child Protection Research Group, Gender Violence and Health Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK, 10.12.2021 (online)

• “Thinking with Refusal and Disconnection about a Political Anthropology of Protection”, ifeas Departmental Seminar, JGU Mainz, 7.12.2021

• “Reflections on Doing Ethnographic Research with Children on Protection and Punishment in Zanzibar Schools”, CHASE Encounters Conference, University of London, 22.11.2021 (online)

• TAFSIRI: Siasa ya Kutafsiri na Kujikwamua kutoka kwenye Ukoloni katika Taaluma ya Kiswahili / Politics of Translation and Decolonisation in Swahili Studies, International Workshop (co-organised with Irene Brunotti and Nathalie Koenings) JGU Mainz/zoom (hybrid) 19-20.11.2021

• “Thinking Politics with Childhood: An Ethnographic Reflection on Researching Child Protection”, Anthropology Lecture Series 2021/22, University of Bayreuth, 9.11.2021

• “Ufeminia? Translating Feminist Politics in Tanzania” BARAZA: Swahili Studies Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 29.10.2021 (online)

• “Disputing Discipline: Politics of Protection and Punishment in Zanzibar Schools.” The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective - CCYSC Dialogues: Schooling in African Contexts. 26.10.2021 (online)

• “Book Launch: Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools, RUP 2021.” Research Center Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt, 22.10.2021 (online)

• “On Refusal and Discontinuities: Politicising Reflections on Child Protection (in Zanzibar).” ANSO Tuesday Seminar, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, 12.10.2021

• “Rest-less Breathing, Sovereignty and Collective Decolonisation in Tanzania”, Presentation (Panel: Decolonize Collective Breathing: Intersectional Public Anthropology in the Racial Capitalocene), DGSKA/GAA Conference 2021, 30.09.2021 (online)

• “Decolonising Child Protection”, Invited Guest Lecture, Course: Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Sciences Po, Paris, France.

• “Decolonising Child Protection”, Invited Guest Lecture, Course: Children and Youth in Development Context, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, NL.

• “Young Swahili-speakers in Oman and the ‘Zanzibar Diaspora’”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin, 14 January 2021 (online)

2020   

• “Waswahili (Vijana) wa Oman na Dhana ya ‘Zanzibar Diaspora’”, Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin (BALAKI-BE), ZMO (online)

• “Normative Orders Insights – Dr. Franziska Fay beantwortet 5 Fragen zu ihrer Forschung mit Blick auf die Coronakrise”, Research Centre Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt (online)

• “After Waithood? Contemporary Approaches to Research with Youth Across ‘Muslim Worlds’.” Organiser, International Workshop, Research Centre Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt

2019   

• “When Ruins Speak: Making Sense of Space on the Kenya Coast”, Workshop: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Variation in Swahili, University of Mainz

• “Youth Identity and Belonging in the ‘Zanzibar Diaspora’”, Bloomsbury Childhood and Youth Studies Group, UCL, London

• “Decolonising Child Protection”, Module: Critical Theoretical Debates about Global Childhoods and Society, University College London/ IOE, London

• “’The Prophet Told Us to Use the Cane, but…’ – Islam, Kinderschutz, und Konsens-Suche in Sansibar”, Presenter, Conference of the German Anthropological Association, University of Konstanz, Germany

• “Youth Identity and Belonging in the Zanzibar Diaspora”, Presenter, Conference: Us and Them: Diasporas for Others in the Indian Ocean, Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle, Germany

• “Moral übersetzen? Sprachanthropologische Überlegungen zu Kindheit und Disziplin im Swahili-sprachigen Sansibar”, Presenter, Afrikanistisches Kolloquium, Instiute for African Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

• “Young People and Future-Making between Zanzibar and Oman”, Presenter, Conference: Rurality and Future Making, University of Cologne, Germany

• “Discussion Panel: A Critical Return to Youth in North Africa”, Invited speaker, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), The Hague, Netherlands

2018

• “Children’s Rights and Critique: Decolonial Perspectives on a Development Aid Sector.” (Kinderrechte und Kritik: Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf ein Feld der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit), Invited public lecture, Goethe Lectures Offenbach, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany.

• “Being Young and Being Muslim in Oman: Contemporary Reforms Around Childhood, Piety, and Education in the Sultanate.” Panel convenor, 25th International Congress of DAVO, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

• “Corporal Punishment and Child Protection in Zanzibar Schools – A Review.”, Presenter, Workshop: Children and Youth Facing Violence in Africa: What Do We Know? What Can We Do?, Young Lives, University of Oxford and UCL Institute of Education, Addis dAbaba, Ethiopia.

• “Conducting Research with Adolescents Subject to Physical and Humiliating Punishment in Zanzibar.” Presenter, Workshop: Engaging Hard-to-Reach Adolescents: Insights from Participatory Ethnographic Research. UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy.

• “Between ‘malezi ya jamii’ and ‘malezi ya kisasa’: Changing Temporalities and Spaces of Child Rearing in Zanzibar.”, Presenter, 3rd international thematic CRG conference on Africa and the Indian Ocean, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien Martin-Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany.

• “Säkularisierung und islamische Bildung: Koranschul-Reformen in Sansibar.“ Presenter (poster), Sommersymposium, Frobenius-Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

• “‘Men who Abuse Boys are Gay’: Addressing the Gender Gap in Children’s Experiences of Violence and Child Protection in Zanzibar.” Presenter, Workshop: Zanzibar: showing/hiding, saying/concealing and other (false-)secrets, Université Paris Nanterre/EHESS, Paris, France.

• “Discipline, Chastisement and Child Protection in Schools in Zanzibar – Lessons learned from a PhD research project.” Presenter, Save the Children Zanzibar Office, Tanzania.

2017

• “’We are the Nation of Tomorrow’ – Young Zanzibaris’ Constructions of Belonging and Citizenship amidst Child Rights Reconfigurations”, Presenter, German Anthropological Association (GAA/DGSKA) Conference 2017, Freie Universität Berlin, 4-7.10.2017

• Belonging through Uncertainty – Chaos Navigation in Young People’s Lives”, Panel co-convenor (with Mario Schmidt), German Anthropological Association (GAA/DGSKA) Conference 2017, Freie Universität Berlin, 4-7.10.2017, Panel Description

2016

• “’A Child is Someone who Greets the Elders’: Narratives of Children and Childhood in Zanzibar.” Presenter, African Studies Association of the UK (ASA UK), Cambridge.

• “Karaoke and Beyond: Challenging the Impact Agenda”, Panel co-convenor (with Zoe Goodman), Association for Social Anthropologists (ASA) Conference 2016, Durham University, 4-7 July 2016, Panel Description

• “Discipline or Punishment? Exploring ‘Child Protection’ Interventions in Schools in Zanzibar.”, Module: Children’s Rights in Practice, University College London/IOE, UK, 2016.

• “Navigating the Self in the Politics of Child Protection in Zanzibar: Thoughts on Positionality and Punishment.” Presenter, Anthropology in London Day, London.

• “Children’s Perceptions of ‘Child Protection’ in Educational Settings in Zanzibar.” Presenter, (poster), Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South Workshop, Sheffield.

2015

• “The Meaning of Adabu and Adhabu for the 'Child Protection' Discourse in Zanzibar.” Presenter, Baraza: Swahili Conference, London.

• “Challenges and Opportunities of Studying Perceptions of Child Protection in Zanzibar, Tanzania.” Presenter, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA 2015), Exeter