INVITED TALKS

2025. ‘Contested Sovereignty: Chinese-led urban development and the Kenyan middle-class in Nairobi.’ Center for African Studies, Leiden University, February 20th.

2025. ‘Negotiating the City: builders, planners, residents and the making of Nairobi.’ African Studies Seminar, University of Amsterdam, February 13th.

2024. ‘Negotiating the City: builders, planners, residents and the making of Nairobi.” Departmental Seminar. Department of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, November 5.

2019. ‘Moving House: place, identity and the politics of military villages relocation in urban Taiwan.’ Department of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, July 3rd.

2018. ‘Moving Home: space, identity and the politics of relocation in Taiwan’s military villages.’ Talk series ‘Novissima Sinica’, China Center, University of Tübingen, July 18th.

2018. ‘Rescaling futures: planning, horizons and the politics of urban relocation in Taiwan.’Paper presented as an invited speaker at the conference ‘Culture and Political Change in Contemporary Taiwan.’ Canberra, Australian National University, May 20th.

2017. ‘Moving House: Facing Urban Relocation as a Displaced Community.’ Center of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London. December 5th.

CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS

2025. ‘Economic Conjunctures: Planners, Residents, and Chinese-led Urban Development in Nairobi.’ Asia Center, Harvard University, April 22nd.

2025. ‘Negotiating the City: builders, planners, residents and the making of Nairobi.’ Urban Conversations Talk Series, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University. March 11th.

2019. ‘Whose heritage and for whom? Heritagization by dispossession in Taiwan’s military dependents’ villages.’ Department of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London. December 11th.