Conference papers and seminars |
Dec 2019 | ‘Performances of love in “mixed” intimacies between Senegal and Europe.’ Invited paper presented at international workshop on The Power(s) of Love. New insights on intimacy in Africa, Stone Town, Zanzibar (10-12.12.2019). |
June 2019 | Convened panel on ‘Photographs as objects of affective connection and disruption’, ECAS conference 2019, Edinburgh (13.06.2019). |
Sep 2018 | ‘Shifting dependence, transnational marriage and the reconfiguration of gender in Senega-lese families.’ Invited paper presented at Anthropology workshop on Dependence, Gender and Kinship, U. of Oslo (21.09.2018). |
Sep 2018 | Convened 3-part panel on ‘Re-thinking the anthropology of dance’ (with Georgiana Gore). ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) conference 2018, Oxford. |
Aug 2018 | ‘The control of ”mixed” marriage and racialised boundaries in France.’ Paper presented at EASA conference, U. of Stockholm (14.08.2018). |
Dec 2017 | ‘Dance in Senegal as embodied archive.’ Paper presented at ASA conference, Chicago (17.11.2017). Organised triple panel on ‘Retrieving African histories through music and dance’. |
June 2017 | 'Visions of polygyny and marriage choices among middle-class Senegalese women.’ Paper presented at Cadbury conference on ‘Marriage in Africa’, U. of Birmingham (01.06.2017). |
Sep 2016 | 'Senegalese families from regional mobility to transnational immobility.’ Paper present-ed at ASA-UK conference, UCL African Studies panel, Cambridge (09.09.2016). Also acted as panel convenor. |
July 2016 | ‘Le marriage mixte comme alternative à la polygamie au Sénégal : Perspectives féminines.’ Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the African Studies in France (REAF), Paris (06.07.2016). |
June 2016 | ‘Dance and the art of life in urban Senegal.’ Short research presentation at UCL Knowledge Africa event, London (16.06.2016). |
June 2016 | ‘Transnational polygamy and the disenchantment with absence in Senegal.’ Paper presented at AAA/ASA joint conference, Dakar (02.06.2016). |
May 2016 | ‘Marriage migration and intimate borders in France.’ Paper presented at workshop on ‘Regulating relationships’, University of Bristol (20.05.2016). |
Mar 2015 | ‘Play, experimentation and subversion in urban Senegalese dance events.’ Paper presented at ‘Music, dance and the brain’ symposium organized jointly with Morten Kringelbach. Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris (29.03.2016). |
Nov. 2015 | Marrying out’ for love: Narratives of polygamy and alternative marriage choices in con-temporary Senegal.’ Paper presented at ASA annual meeting, San Diego (20.11.2015). |
Aug. 2014 | ‘The paradox of parallel lives: immigration policy and transnational polygyny between Sen-egal and France’, paper presented at the African Studies seminar, Cambridge University (24.11.2014) |
Oct. 2014 | ‘Dance, morality and self in urban Senegal’, paper presented at interdisciplinary social sci-ence seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich (22.10.2014). |
Oct. 2014 | ‘Dance, morality and self in urban Senegal’. ‘Africa talk’ paper presented at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology and Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (08.10.2014). |
Aug. 2014 | ‘The paradox of parallel lives: immigration policy and transnational polygyny between Sen-egal and France’, paper presented at Nordic Migration Conference, Copenhagen. Panel: Transnational migrant families: norms, laws, and lived realities (14.08.2014). |
Aug. 2014 | ‘Bending the bodies of others? Africa-Europe choreographic collaborations as intimate poli-tics’, paper presented at EASA conference, Tallinn. Panel: Collaborative intimacies in music and dance: anthropologies in/of sound and movement (01.08.2014). |
July 2014 | ‘Les enjeux sociaux de la création chorégraphique contemporaine dans le Sénégal urbain’, paper presented at colloquium ‘Rencontres Recherches et Création’, Agence Nationale de la Recherche/Festival d’Avignon (09.07.2014). |
Feb. 2014 | ‘Transnational polygyny and children left behind: immigration policies and transnational relationships between Senegal, France and the UK’, International Migration Program seminar at UCLA, Los Angeles (14.02.2014). |
Feb. 2014 | ‘The Sabar genre: embodiment and agency in urban Senegal’, Medicine, Mind and Culture seminar at the UCLA Department of Anthropology, Los Angeles (10.02.2014). |
Feb. 2014 | ‘Choreographic performance and politics in 20th-century urban Senegal’, University of Cali-fornia Irvine, Anthropology and Dance Studies seminar (06.02.2014). |
Jan. 2014 | Choreographic performance and politics in 20th-century urban Senegal’, UCLA African Studies Seminar (28.01.2014). |
Jan. 2014 | ‘Choreographic performance and politics in 20th-century urban Senegal: a cosmopolitan history’, seminar presented at the University of California Santa Barbara Interdiscipli-nary Humanities Seminar, Santa Barbara (23.01.2014). |
Dec. 2013 | ‘ “Mixed” marriage, citizenship and the policing of intimacy in contemporary France’, seminar presented at the Culture, Power and Social Change series at the UCLA Department of Anthropology, Los Angeles (05.12.2013). |
July 2013 | ‘Transnational marriage, citizenship and the policing of intimacy in contemporary France’, paper presented at ODP/COMPAS conference in Oxford (01.07.2013). |
June 2013 | ‘Gender and the experience of polygyny in transnational families between Senegal and Eu-rope’, paper presented at ECAS 2013 conference in Lisbon (29.06.2013). |
April 2013 | ‘Transnational marriage, citizenship and the policing of intimacy in contemporary France’, paper presented at ‘Intimate Migrations’ conference, Roskilde University, Denmark (04.04.2013). |
Jan. 2013 | ‘Africa dances back: artistic responses to the invention of Africa through moving bodies’, pa-per presented at ‘Afrika Nko – Speaking of Africa in the World’ conference, CODESRIA/Point Sud, Dakar (31.01.2013). |
June 2012 | ‘Images, self and movement in the Senegalese choreographic world’, paper presented at ‘Afri-can Music in the 21st Century’ workshop, University of Mainz (14.06.2012). |
May 2012 | ‘Contesting polygamy and “marrying out”: Euro-Senegalese families beyond the migration perspective’, paper presented at social sciences seminar series, St Anne’s College, Oxford (09.05.2012). |
Nov. 2011 | ‘Les enjeux politiques de la creation chorégraphique contemporaine au Sénégal‘, paper pre-sented at the ‘Art et Politique en Afrique’ seminar series, EHESS, Paris (25.11.2011). |
Nov. 2011 | ‘Images of a mobile youth: popular dances in urban Senegal’, paper presented at the AAA annual meeting, Montreal. |
Nov. 2010 | ‘Performing the Casamance in Dakar: migrant associations and the politics of performance in urban Senegal’, paper presented at annual meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco (19.11.2010). |
Sept. 2010 | ‘Dance troupes and “national culture” in Senegal, 1960-2010’, paper presented at the annual conference of the ASA-UK, Oxford (17.09.2010) |
May 2010 | ‘Performing the Casamance in Dakar: migrant associations, dance and intergenerational poli-tics in urban Senegal’, paper presented at conference on popular culture and the city in Af-rica, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (07.05.2010). |
Dec. 2009 | ‘Danse et régionalisme casamançais au Sénégal’, Atelier de la danse, Cannes (27.11.2009) |
Nov. 2009 | ‘Female beauty and photography in Senegal’, paper presented at African Studies seminar, University of Oxford (05.11.2009). Also presented at workshop on the anthropology of photography, Wolfson College (11.11.2009). |
Sept. 2009 | ‘Moving shadows of Casamance: performance and regionalism in Senegal’, paper presented at Anthropology Seminar, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (28.09.2009). |
Nov. 2008 | ‘The weight of success: bodily fitness, dance and career in Dakar’, paper presented at Departmental Seminar, University of Oxford (28.11.2008). |
Feb. 2008 | ‘The weight of success: bodily fitness, dance and career in Dakar’, paper presented at Departmental Seminar, University of East London (28.02.2008). |
Mar. 2007 | ‘Il faut s’enraciner avant de s’ouvrir! The evocation of Senghor’s legacy in contemporary Sen-egalese dance’, paper presented at ‘Literature and the Arts in Senegal’ symposium in Bloomington, Indiana (30.03.07). |
Nov. 2006 | ‘Action or deception? Gender and performance in Dakar, Senegal’, paper presented at Insti-tute of Gender Studies seminar, University of Oxford (16.11.06). |
Sept. 2006 | ‘Senegalese dancers, Europe and the global market’, paper presented at EASA conference, Bristol (20.09.06). |
Feb. 2006 | ‘Afééru jigéen (women’s business): popular dances and changing gender relations in urban Senegal’, paper presented at West Africa seminar, UCL (24.02.06). |
Nov. 2005 | ‘Senegalese dancers in the global world of performing arts’, paper presented at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington (20.11.05). |
Nov. 2005 | ‘The devil is in the drum: Play, competition and exclusion in Senegalese women's dances’, paper presented at departmental seminar, Brunel (10.11.05). |
Oct. 2005 | ‘The devil is in the drum: Play, competition and exclusion in Senegalese women's dances’, paper presented at departmental seminar, St Andrews (20.10.05). |
July 2005 | ‘Forgetting the nation, remembering the artist: the changing uses of memory in contemporary Senegalese performance’, paper presented at AEGIS conference, SOAS (02.07.05). |
June 2005 | ‘Women’s dances in urban Senegal’, paper presented at St Anne’s College, Oxford (06.06.05). |
May 2005 | ‘New models of success? Senegalese dancers and musicians in the global performing arts world’, paper presented at African Studies seminar, Oxford (12.05.05). |
Sept. 2004 | ‘Dance, status and power in urban Senegal’, paper presented at EASA conference, Vienna (10.09.04). ‘Meaning in Motion’ panel convened jointly with J. Skinner. |
Feb. 2004 | ‘Une affaire de femmes: dance, sexuality and power in urban Senegal’, paper presented at Gender Studies seminar, QEH, Oxford (26.02.04) |