Vorträge

Vorträge seit 2012 (Auswahl)

2022

• ‘International Relations, Cross-Border Mobility and Education: The Case of Fiji and Japan’, 26. Konferenz der New Zealand Studies Association, online, 06. Juli 2022.

• [mit Sa’iliemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor] ‘Pacific Islanders, mobility, and institutional dynamics: an introduction’, 13. Konferenz der European Society for Oceanists (ESFO), Ajaccio, 04. Juni 2022.

• [mit Anita von Poser] ‘The potentials and limitations of the “RG Ozeanien”’, 13. Konferenz der European Society for Oceanists (ESFO), Ajaccio, 03. Juni 2022.

2021

• ‘Gathering the “community” in the metropolis: Fiji Islander sociality in the Greater Tokyo Area’, Konferenz der Pacific History Association, online, 18. November 2021.

• ‘Keeping the Bula Association alive? Generational dynamics and a UK-based Fijian migrant organisation in times of crisis’, Zweijahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, online, 30. September 2021.

• [mit Sina Emde] ‘Fiji Islander sociality in urban and migrant environments: the case of Fijian professionals’, Online-Workshop: Environments & Socialities in Oceania: Practices of Transformation & Cooperation, 25. Juni 2021.

2019

• ‘The potential of multi-ethnic Fiji Islander sociality: A comparative perspective of two migrant settings (Japan & United Kingdom)’, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’ Océanie, Marseille, 15. März 2019.

• ‘Fiji Islander kava discourses and practices in Japan and the United Kingdom’, Meeting der Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Auckland, 14. Februar 2019.

• ‘Sociality: A useful tool to conceptualize multi-ethnic migrant “communities”? Insights from anthropology’, SOWIS-Lab(or), Seminar für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Siegen, 08. Januar 2019.

2018

• ‘The potential of Fiji Islander sociality: a comparison of inter-ethnic relations in three ethnographic settings’, Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 24. April 2018.

• ‘Exploring multi-ethnic Fiji Islander sociality in Tokyo and London’, Melanesia Research Seminar, British Museum, London, 23. März 2018.

• ‘Fiji Islander migrant organisations in Japan and the United Kingdom: (Multi-)ethnic sociality in context’, Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie (Wednesday Seminars), Universität Wien, in Kooperation mit der Österreichisch-Südpazifischen Gesellschaft, Wien, 24. Januar 2018.

2017

• ‘“This is not Fiji bro!” Vanua practices and discourses among indigenous Fijians in Japan and the United Kingdom’, Zweijahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Berlin, 06. Oktober 2017.

• ‘Coups d’état and soldiership in Fiji: Colonial legacies and indigenous agency’, 5. Konferenz des European Network in Universal and Global History, Budapest, 02. September 2017.

• ‘Alternative Socialities in and beyond Oceania’, 11. Konferenz der European Society for Oceanists (ESFO), München, 02. Juli 2017.

2016

• [Mit Sina Emde] ‘Urban Middle Classes, Professionalism and the Moral Economy in Contemporary Fiji’, Internationale Konferenz ‘“Village” and “Town” in Oceania’, Frobenius Institut, Frankfurt am Main, 02. April 2016.

2015

• ‘The 1961 British Military Recruitment Campaign in Fiji and Its Implications for Fiji Islanders in the United Kingdom’, Zweijahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV), Marburg, 02. Oktober 2015.

• ‘Dilemmas of Ethnographic Encounter: Reflections on Estranged Interlocutors and the Anthropologist as Community Builder’, 10. Konferenz der European Society for Oceanists (ESFO), Brüssel, 27. Juni 2015.

• ‘Doing Ethnography Among Fiji Islanders in Japan and the United Kingdom’, AN441 Anthropological Field Methods & AN501 Field Research Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 23. Februar 2015.

2014

• ‘Narratives of “Fijianness”: Perspectives from Urban Fiji and Japan’, Brunel Anthropology Seminar, Brunel University London, 02. Dezember 2014.

• ‘Negotiating Community Online: Social Media Use among Fiji Islanders in Japan’, Anthropology in London Day, University College London, 24. Juni 2014.

• ‘Rugby Migration and the Fijian “Way of Life”: Perspectives from Japan’, Austronesia Research Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 17. März 2014.

2013

• ‘Fijian Rugby Migration: Perspectives from Japan and Beyond’, World Rugby Museum, Twickenham, London, 28. November 2013.

• ‘Fijian Rugby Players in Japan’, Internationale Konferenz ‘Fiji Rugby Centenary’, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fidschi, 01. Juli 2013.

• ‘Coups and Cults: A Comparison of Two Fijian Political Projects’, Internationales Symposium ‘Cargo Cults and Contemporary Conflicts in Pacific Societies’, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 26. Januar 2013.

2012

• ‘Questioning Community? Perceptions of Self and Belonging Among Fiji Islanders in Japan’, 9. Konferenz der European Society for Oceanists (ESFO), Bergen, 08. Dezember 2012.

• ‘Fiji Islanders in Japan: Transnational Ties and Ideas of Community’, Social Research Working Group, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ), Tokyo, 14. November 2012.

• ‘“Studying-up” in Pacific Anthropology: Political History, Coup Culture and Elite Discourse in the Fiji Islands,’ Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, 16. Juli 2012.