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Negotiating Sovereignty

Presenter : “Negotiating Sovereignty: How International Arbitrators Navigate the Arbitration Backlash to Protect Their Lucrative Business”. Workshop ‘Lawyers and Capitalism. The History of Lawyers as Key Actors in the Development of Global Capitalism’, University of Zurich.

Times of Crisis under Anthropological Scrutiny

Workshop organiser: PhD Workshop ‘Times of Crisis under Anthropological Scrutiny’. Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), University of Bern, with Lucie Benoit and Lucien Schönenberg

Défis du « study up » dans la recherche ethnographique de l’arbitrage international d’investissement

Presenter “Défis du « study up » dans la recherche ethnographique de l’arbitrage international d’investissement : Naviguer entre confidentialité, vie privée et discours officiels”. Conference ‘Law and/in the Anthropocene’. Swiss Network for Law and Society (SNLS), University of Bern.

Quelle place pour la souveraineté environnementale dans les disputes d’investissements

Presenter: Quelle place pour la souveraineté environnementale dans les disputes d’investissements liés aux « minerais de la transition » en Tanzanie ? Conference « Mining the Connections, » Marrakech

‘Critical Ethnography of Mining Encounters’, EHESS

Presenter: “Distant mining encounters: modularizing “justice” in international investment arbitration tribunals”. Workshop ‘Critical Ethnography of Mining Encounters’, EHESS.

Arbitrating Extraction in the Anthropocene

Organiser: International workshop “Arbitrating Extraction in the Anthropocene: Legal, ethical and political challenges”, University of Bern.

Interdisciplinary approaches to ethnographic research

Workshop organiser: “Interdisciplinary approaches to ethnographic research”. 15th EthnoDoks Workshop, University of Basel.

The legal business of consistent inconsistency

Presenter « The legal business of consistent inconsistency: Environmental sovereignty and the impossible refom of investment law in Tanzania. » XIX Biennial International Association for the Study of the Commons Conference ‘The Commons We Want: Between Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions’, University of Nairobi

Energy Ethics Conference ‘Financing the Future’, University of St Andrews

Panel organiser and presenter: “When mitigating investors uncertainties threatens the urgency of an energetic transition. Thinking about « time » along international arbitration”. Energy Ethics Conference ‘Financing the Future’, University of St Andrews.

Withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty to protect the commons?

Panel organiser and presenter: “Withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty to protect the commons? When mitigating investors uncertainties threatens the urgency of an energy commoning.” XIX Biennial IASC Conference ‘The Commons We Want: Between Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions’, Nairobi.

Traceability of Gold

Organiser International Workshop Traceability of Gold – International Conference and Workshop. Palais de Rumine, Lausanne. with Beck, B. Boisvert, V., Bolay, M. Côte, M.,

Book review of The Case for Degrowth

“Book review of Kallis, G. Paulson, S. D’Alisa, G. Demaria, F. 2020. The Case for Degrowth. Cambridge: Polity Press”. Hypotheses, Anthropo-Scènes [online].

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