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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDELTA - Volatile Waters and the Hydrosocial Anthropocene in Major River Deltas

Presentations

  • Krause, Franz. Inhabiting volatility in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Seminar presentation at the Department of Geography, Free University Berlin. Berlin, Germany. 22. November 2022.

  • Krause, Franz. Inhabiting a transforming delta: volatility and improvisation in the Canadian Arctic. Seminar presentation Charles University Prague. Prague, Czech Republic. 23. November 2021.

  • Krause, Franz. Inhabiting thaw in the Mackenzie Delta: environmental-humanities reflections on liquescence in the Canadian Arctic. Presentation in the series Global Environmental Humanities. Cologne, Germany/online. 10. November 2021.

  • Krause, Franz.  Four deltas: inhabiting dynamic worlds in Brazil, Canada, Myanmar and Senegal. Presentation at workshop on the socio-ecological transformation of Jakarta Bay. Online. 5. July 2021.

  • Krause, Franz. Inhabiting Global Change Locally: Colonialism and Climate in the Canadian Mackenzie Delta. Presentation in the series Interdisciplinary Forum: Peace and Sustainability. Online. 28. June 2021.

  • Krause, Franz. An Anthropology of the Amphibious Anthropocene: Towards a Decolonial Perspective on Global Water Crises. Opening keynote at conference Waterworlding: Reflecting on Multiple Waters. Online. 17.-19. June 2021.

  • Krause, Franz. Hydrosocial flooding: making sense of water flows in anthropology and beyond. Presentation in the series Flooding the Field. Online. 25. February 2021.
  • Simon, Sandro. Artist Roundtable/Webinar. Weaving Connections. Extracting Us/ONCA Gallery. Online. 24. September 2020.
  • Krause, Franz. Navigating a disintegrating delta: on volatility and improvisation in the Canadian Arctic. Presentation at the Institutskolloquium Ethnologie, Heidelberg University; 28. January 2020.
  • Simon, Sandro. Practice, Pause and Anticipation in Deltaic Lifeworlds. Presentation at the Workshop After Waithood? Contemporary Approaches to Research with Youth Across ‘Muslim Worlds’, Postdoctoral Dialogue Series ‘Norms, Plurality and Critique’, ‘Normative Orders’ Research Centre, Goethe University Frankfurt; 24. January 2020.
  • Simon, Sandro. From Fact to Figuration, from Materiality to Sensuality in Anthropological Representation. Presentation at the EASA’s Environment and Anthropology Network inaugural meeting Perspectives and stories in a world of facts and figures? Exploring the potential of anthropology in tackling environmental issues, Universtiy of Cologne; 13. December 2020.
  • Ivars, Benoit. Frontiers of Uncertainty: Dynamics of Inland Fishery Tenure in a Village of the Ayeyarwady Delta. Presentation at the workshop The Kaleidoscope of Myanmar Transformations. Myanmar-Europe Research Network (MYern). Turin, Italy; 26. October 2019. 
  • Krause, Franz. Navigating a melting Mackenzie Delta: losing and finding your way in a transforming world. Keynote at the doctoral workshop of the Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology Ecology and Hermeneutics of Skills, Männedorf, CH; 20. September 2019.
  • Simon, Sandro. Conchoidal Correspondences. Talk at the Workshop of the Network for Visual Anthropology (VANEASA) Crafting the Future of the Visual Essay, Antwerp; 13. September 2019. 
  • Simon, Sandro. mollUScs + MOLLusCS. Talk at the I Never Read Art Book Fair Podcast Radio, Art Basel, Basel; 15. June 2019.
  • Krause, Franz. Flexibility and Improvisation in a melting Mackenzie Delta. Presentation in the series Wasser. Macht. Lebenswelten. of the Gesellschaft für Geographie und Ethnologie in Freiburg, DE; 17. January 2019.
  • Krause, Franz. Hydrosocial volatility in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Presentation at the Ethnologiekolloquium, University of Zurich, CH; 18. December 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. Mobile Inuit, melting ice, and murky independence: reflections on volatile life in the Canadian Mackenzie Delta. Presentation in the series Sixty minutes in ethnography, theory, anthropology. University of Cologne, DE; 7. November 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. Hydrosocial relations: why water is more than H2O, and how this matters in drinking water supply, flood control, and climate change. Presentation at seminar Water for Life. University of Hohenheim, DE; 15. October 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. River deltas and sea crossings: reflections on movement where land and water meet. Presentation at the workshop Sea crossings in context: Investigating the impact of human dispersal across Straits. Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, DE; 5. October 2018.
  • Krause, Franz. The tempo of solid fluids: on river ice, permafrost, and other melting matter in the Mackenzie Delta. Presentation at the workshop Solid Fluids. New Appraches to Materials and Meanings. University of Aberdeen, Scotland; 28. August 2018.
  • Simon, Sandro. Fear and Epistemic Murkiness: Fieldwork under the Possibility of Fire. Presentation at the seminar RAI Research in Progress, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK; 24. Januar 2018.
  • Ivars Benoit ; Neopanae, Nawaraj. Frictions between Fishing and Agriculture Interests : the Case of the Inn Leasable Fisheries in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. Presentation at the symposium Myanmar Fisheries and Aquaculture Research. WorldFish. Yangon, Myanmar; 14. November 2017.
  • Krause, Franz. Grundzüge einer amphibischen Anthropologie vom Leben in Flussdeltas. Presentation at the seminar Wasser: Kontrolle und Kommerzialisierung; Goethe University Frankfurt, DE; 16. November 2016
  • Krause, Franz. From sustainable flood memories to volatile delta life. Presentation at the workshop Living with Floods: Concepts and Practices of Flood Management in the UK, Vietnam and the Global South; Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 9. May 2016
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