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Contributions to conferences

  • Simon, Sandro. Conchoidal Intimacies in Volatile Deltaic Lifeworlds. Presentation in the panel Environment and Intimacy from Human to More-Than-Human Perspectives of the Vienna Anthropology Days 2020: Environmental Challenges to Anthropology: Elusive Places, Uncertain Times, Hybrid Fields. Online. 1. October 2020.
  • Simon, Sandro. Of Gleaning and Domestication in Deltaic Lifeworlds. Presentation in the panel Contested Waters and Fluid Properties in Capitalist Natures at the Conference POLLEN 2020: Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration. Online. 23. September 2020.
  • Krause, Franz. Liminal river deltas? Observations from the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Presentation at the panel Liminality in Transitional Spaces  of the Royal Anthropological Institute conference Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future. Online. 15. September 2020.
  • Thompson, Michelle, Krause, Franz and Léna Remy-Kovach. Imagining Canada: 'Discovering' & Navigating 'All Our Relations' in an (Un)Common Country. Emerging Scholars' Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS). Online. 3.-5. September 2020.
  • Krause, Franz, Krauß, Werner, Ivars, Benoit, Horisberger, Nora and Sandro Simon. Panel Wet horizons: hydrosocial re-articulations in the Anthropocene at the 16th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Lisbon, Portugal/Online. 21. July 2020.
  • Horisberger, Nora. Of affectivity and continuity: how practices of multispecies care contribute to constancy on the fluctuating islands of the Parnaíba Delta, Brazil. Presentation at the panel Wet horizons: hydrosocial re-articulations in the Anthropocene at the 16th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Lisbon, Portugal/Online. 21. July 2020.
  • Krause, Franz. Melt, mud and mobility: skills for navigating a volatile Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Presentation at the panel Wet horizons: hydrosocial re-articulations in the Anthropocene at the 16th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Lisbon, Portugal/Online. 21. July 2020.
  • Ivars, Benoit. When Floods Become a Political Resource: Claiming Back Land in the Nyaungdone Island, Myanmar. Presentation at the panel Wet horizons: hydrosocial re-articulations in the Anthropocene at the 16th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Lisbon, Portugal/Online. 21. July 2020.
  • Thompson, Michelle, Remy-Kovach, Léna and Franz Krause. Emerging Scholars' Panel at the Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries Political Orders, Grainau, DE. 15. February 2020.
  • Krause, Franz, Greiner, Clemens and Michael Bollig. When Things Fall Apart: Navigating Socio-ecological Disintegration.  Double Panel at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Changing Climates, Vancouver, CA. 22. November 2019.
  • Krause, Franz. A Disintegrating Delta: On the Hydrosociality of Melt in the Canadian Arctic. Presentation at the panel When Things Fall Apart: Navigating Socio-ecological Disintegration at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Changing Climates, Vancouver, CA. 22. November 2019. 
  • Ivars, Benoit. Jumping to filling in the blanks: speculation and anticipation on the Ayeyarwady River land frontier, Myanmar. Presentation in the panel Future Making Along Southeast Asian Frontiers at the 10th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) conference. Berlin, Germany; 13. September 2019.
  • Simon, Sandro. Rhythm and relation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal. Presentation in the panel Volatile waters, improvised worlds: hydrosocial transformations and the making of orderly flows at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spanien; 16. April 2019.
  • Horisberger, Nora. Of fishermen, shrimp and tides: rhythms and uncertainties in the Parnaíba Delta. Presentation in the panel Volatile waters, improvised worlds: hydrosocial transformations and the making of orderly flows at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spanien; 16. April 2019.
  • Cremer, Teresa. 'It's a privilege to call it a crisis': socio-cultural dynamics of Cape Town's current water situation. Presentation in the panel Volatile waters, improvised worlds: hydrosocial transformations and the making of orderly flows at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spanien; 16. April 2019.
  • Krause, Franz and Lukas Ley. Volatile waters, improvised worlds: hydrosocial transformations and the making of orderly flows. Panel at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spanien; 16. April 2019.
  • Krause, Franz. Melting waters in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Presentation in the panel Water futures: making a living in times of environmental uncertainty at the conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology. Oxford, UK; 19. September 2018. 
  • Simon, Sandro. Waterwork and Progeneration in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal. Presentation in the panel Water futures: making a living in times of environmental uncertainty at the conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology. Oxford, UK; 19. September 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. Making, following and keeping trails in the Mackenzie Delta. Presentation in the panel Lines on the land: mobility and stasis in northern extractive landscapes at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Staying - moving - settling; Stockholm, Sweden; 17. August 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. Discussant for the Panel Dwelling on water: mobilities, immobilities and metaphors at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Staying - moving - settling; Stockholm, Sweden; 15. August 2018.
  • Ivars, Benoit. Sharing the River, Dividing the Land : Territoriality and Village Settlement in Pyidawtha Kyun, Ayeyarwady Delta. Presentation in the Panel Rivers, Estuaries and Livelihoods in Lower Myanmar/Burma at the International Burma Studies Conference (IBSC) Distant Past(s), Latest News : Scholarly Insights on Burma/Myanmar ; Bangkok, Thailand ; 4. August 2018.
  • Simon, Sandro. Watery Relations: On Ways of Hybridisation in Urban Wetlands. Presentation in the panel Contested Waterfronts in Kenya, Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire at the Conference of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS/ECAS) Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban; Basel, Switzerland, 24. Juni 2017. 
  • Krause, Franz. Muskrat ethnography: towards an amphibious approach to life in the Mackenzie Delta. Presentation in the panel River deltas as living landscapes: movement, management, and the critique of a commonplace at the joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies (IUAES) Mo(u)vement; Ottawa, Canada, 4. May 2017. 
  • Richardson, Tanya and Franz Krause. River deltas as living landscapes: movement, management, and the critique of a commonplace. Panel at the joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies (IUAES) Mo(u)vement; Ottawa, Canada, 4. May 2017. 
  • Horisberger, Nora. Dwelling strategies within an urbanizing Brazilian floodplain: New coping strategies for novel uncertainties. Presentation in the panel Dwelling in an evanescent landscape: people's strategies to deal with chronical uncertainty at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity; Göttingen, Germany; 27. March 2017.
  • Ivars, Benoit. Where Land and Water Meet: Changing relations in the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) Delta in Myanmar. Presentation in the panel Amphibious dwelling: exploring life between wet and dry at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity; Göttingen, Germany; 29. March 2017.
  • Simon, Sandro. Volatile Powers: Place- and Force-Making in the Tana Delta and Beyond. Presentation in the panel Amphibious dwelling: exploring life between wet and dry at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity; Göttingen, Germany; 29. March 2017.
  • Krause, Franz and Mark Harris. Amphibious dwelling: exploring life between wet and dry. Panel at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity; Göttingen, Germany; 29. March 2017. 
  • Krause, Franz. "Never say die" - notes on a stubborn hamlet in an Arctic river delta. Presentation in the panel Amphibious dwelling: exploring life between wet and dry at the congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity; Göttingen, Germany; 29. March 2017. 
  • Ivars, Benoit. The environmental dimension of irrigation management transfer in the lower Mekong: insights from Cambodia. Presentation at the GRI Conference Environmental Change, Agricultural Sustainability, and Economic Development in the Lower Mekong Basin; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; 8. March 2017.
  • Krause, Franz. Participation in roundtable discussion on Rewilding Europe at the conference The Future of Wild Europe. Leeds, UK, 13. September 2016.
  • Krause, Franz and Lukas Ley. Water and social relations: Wittfogel's legacy and hydrosocial futures. Panel at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists Anthropological legacies and human futures; Milan, Italy; 23. July 2016
  • Krause, Franz and Caterina Scaramelli. Muddy footsteps and hydrosocial futures: understanding relationality with, through and about water. Panel at the conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology; Durham, UK; 6. July 2016 
  • Krause, Franz. Situating wetness in Soomaa, Estonia. Presentation in panel Muddy footsteps and hydrosocial futures: understanding relationality with, through and about water at the conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology; Durham, UK; 6. July 2016