Talks

Conference Papers

"Construction of the enemy: Security narratives by the state and (other) armed groups." Paper presented at International Conference of the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” and the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict, and Security network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Held at Philipps University Marburg (Germany), March 21–22, 2024.

"Fishing dynamics and lionfish perception in Dibulla, La Guajira, Colombia." With Kyle Dettloff. Poster Presented at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 (OSM24). New Orleans, February 18-23, 2024.

"Voice alternations in Gorontalo." Paper presented at APLL (Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference), Olomouc, Czechia, 2023.

"Indigenous language activism and social justice in Colombia." With Gustavo Rojas Páez. AMAZONICAS IX. Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, June 5-9, 2023.

"Language contact in Kamsá." With Felipe Sandoval Correa (2022). SLE conference.

"Exploring the asymmetries of symmetrical voice: The case of Gorontalo." With Novi Usu. Meeting of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 2022.

"Gorontalo and Safaliba languages and literacies: Indigenous meaning making and practice." With Ari Sherris. American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2022.

"Conflict temporalities and Indigenous victimhood narratives within Colombia’s transition justice scenario." With Gustavo Rojas-Páez. Zentrumstage 2020: (Re)thinking Time and Temporalities in Peace and Conflict. University of Marburg. 29–31 October 2020.

"Exploring the uses of multilingual dictionaries among the Safaliba in Ghana and the Gorontalo in Indonesia." With Ari Sherris. Paper presented at Annual Conference of Foundation for Endangered Languages. 23–25 September 2020.

"Voice systems of Western Austronesian languages: Emerging evidence from Indonesia." Paper presented at Conference for Indonesian Languages and Linguistics. Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia. 16–18 February 2020.

"Language endangerment and revitalization in Colombia: New political challenges." Paper presented at The Ninth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment. University of Cambridge. 02 July 2019.

"Transformation of the ETCRs: (Espacios Territoriales de Capacitación y Reincorporación) in Colombia and the implications for peace." Paper presented at Colombian Days. Jena, Germany. 27–28 May 2019.

"Between noun class and classifier: The case of Kamsá." Paper presented at Noun 3 Categorization: From Grammar to Communicative Interaction. Lyon, France. 18–19 April 2019.

"In search of practical peacebuilding strategies for a changing Colombia." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. Portland, OR, USA. 19–23 March 2019.

"Retos de reintegración de las FARC: una perspectiva del cine etnográfico." Paper presented at Entendiendo a los grupos excombatientes: Metodologías alternativas para la investigación del conflicto armado colombiano. Workshop held at: Lateinamerikanisches Institut FU Berlin. December 19, 2018.

"Speaker perceptions of language change: Contact and endangerment of Camsá." Paper presented at the Seventh Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment. University of Cambridge. 04 July 2017.

"The mysterious case of =em: Grammaticalization of a serial verb construction in Fataluku. With Yuko Otsuka." Paper presented at APLL 9 (Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference). Paris, France. 21–23 June 2017.

"No to peace: Contextualizing the Colombian conflict." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM, USA. March 2017.

"Creating relevant curricula for endangered languages in Colombia." Paper presented at the Sixth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment. University of Cambridge. July 6, 2016.

"At the crossroads of language death: Displacement, language loss, and identity in Colombia." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 2016.

"What we say and what we mean: Technical and aesthetic considerations of street slang." With Bryan Page. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. March 2015.

"Constructing the existential construction: L2ers and bilinguals in English." Paper presented at the annual meeting of GURT (Georgetown University Roundtable). Washington, DC, USA. March 2014.

Invited Talks

Invited plenary speaker. International Peace Research Association conference. “Reconciliation and ethnographic filmmaking.” Trinidad. May 17-21, 2023.

Invited speaker for talk accompanying film screening at Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, Paris. Title of talk: “The impact of civil war on Indigenous communities and their languages in Colombia.” Film: Strangers to Peace. Paris Nanterre University. September 30, 2022.

Invited speaker for Fulbright Panel Discussion “Indigenous Languages: Endangerment and Documentation” hosted by AMINEF and Centre for Endangered Languages Documentation (CELD), Faculty of Literature and Culture, Universitas Papua in Manokwari, West Papua. February 21, 2020

Special guest for Research Dialogue “Reconciliation and Memory: Transnational, Academic and Artistic Inquiries”. Biblioteca Museo Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Bogotá. February 28, 2019.

Invited Talks for Film

At the following universities: Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ETH Zurich, University of Bayreuth, University of Leipzig, and University of Jena.