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Amsterdam Centre for Migration Research ACMR

Prof. dr. P.L. (Peter) Geschiere

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Exploring Diversity
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15508
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile
  • Publications

    2023

    • Geschiere, P. L. (2023). Responsibility versus responsibilization: From "mafiacraft" and "witchcraft" to conspiracy thinking today. In M. Demian, M. Fumanti, & C. Lynteris (Eds.), Anthropology and Responsibility Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003332077-4

    2022

    • Bernault, F., & Geschiere, P. L. (2022). Joseph Tonda, the social sciences and the vortex of city life in Africa. Africa, 92(1), 152-160.
    • Geschiere, P. (2022). The Secrets of Fariba Adelkhah’s Anthropology: Intimacy and Mobility. Sociétés Politiques Comparées , 57, 1-12. https://fasopo.org/node/337 [details]

    2021

    • Geschiere, P. (2021). Dazzled by New Media: Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual. African Studies Review, 64(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.80 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Belonging. In V. Das, & D. Fassin (Eds.), Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times (pp. 83-102). Duke University Press.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Getting a second pair of eyes: the precarious balance of healing and killing in Cameroon. In C. Buijs, & W. Welling (Eds.), Healing Power: Living Traditions, Global Interactions (pp. 32-38). Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/healing-power
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Liberté, censure, autocensure : les défis de la recherche: Un hommage à Fariba Adelkhah. Sociétés Politiques Comparées , 55, 1-15.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2021). Shifting figures of the witch in colonial and postcolonial Africa. In J. Dillinger (Ed.), The Routledge History of Witchcraft (pp. 299-317). Routledge.
    • Geschiere, P., & Lucchese, C. (2021). De bas en haut. indocilités politiques et africanisation des sciences sociales. Politique Africaine, 161-162(1-2), 57-70. https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2021-1-page-57.htm?contenu=article
    • Orock, R., & Geschiere, P. (2021). Decolonization, freemasonry and the rise of 'homosexuality' as a public issue in Cameroon: The return of Dr Aujoulat. African Affairs, 120(478), 26-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa027 [details]

    2020

    • Geschiere, P. (2020). Langages scientifiques et réalités africaines: La « sorcellerie » comme membrane épistémologique. Editions Oudjat en Ligne, 3(1). http://editionsoudjat.org/index.html/spip.php?article222 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2020). The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon. In B. Rubbers, & A. Jedlowski (Eds.), Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts (pp. 180-198). New York: Berghahn Books. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2020). “The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon. Ethnography, 21(3), 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138120938076 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2020). Sex as identity or as practice? Comment on Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2019. Kenyan, Christian, queer: Religion, lgbt activism, and arts of resistance in Africa. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2), 626-629. https://doi.org//10.1086/709580
    • Geschiere, P., & Orock, R. (2020). Anusocratie? Freemasonry, sexual transgression and illicit enrichment in postcolonial Africa. Africa, 90(5), 831-851. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000650 [details]

    2019

    • Geschiere, P. (2019). Autochthony, Belonging, and Xenophobia in Africa. In W. R. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics [e-755] (Oxford Research Encyclopedias). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.755 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2019). Historicizing belonging in Cameroon. In J. Beek, K. N’Guessan, & M. Späth (Eds.), Zugehörigkeiten: Erforschen, Verhandeln, Aufführen im Sinne von Carola Lentz (pp. 85-100). (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; Vol. 42). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2019). The historicity of witchcraft narratives: Examples from the forest region of South Cameroon. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14(3), 371-391. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0032 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2019). Le souverain moderne, style camerounais: la Franc-maçonnerie et ses articulations avec les discours locaux sur l’occulte. In N. B. Boundzanga, C-O. Mpaga, & P. Ondo (Eds.), Joseph Tonda – Entre imaginaires et connaissance (pp. 27-42). (Colloques et Rencontres). Paris: L'Harmattan. [details]

    2018

    • Geschiere, P. L. (2018). African Chiefs and the Post-Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority. In J. L. Comaroff, & J. Comaroff (Eds.), The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa (pp. 49-79). University of Chicago Press. [details]

    2017

    • Geschiere, P. (2017). A “Vortex of Identities": Freemasonry, Witchcraft and Postcolonial Homophobia. African Studies Review, 60(2), 7-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.52 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2017). La sorcellerie: Un savoir qui se refuse à la connaissance ? Politique Africaine, 148, 158-163. [details]

    2016

    • Duyvendak, W. G. J., Geschiere, P. L., & Wekker, F. E. A. (Eds.) (2016). Homing the Dutch: Politics and the Planning of Belonging. Home Cultures, 13(2).
    • Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe. In L. Kounine, & M. Ostling (Eds.), Emotions in the History of Witchcraft (pp. 213-229). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52903-9_12 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Nostalgia: A Review Essay. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 58(1), 242-265. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417515000638 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2016). Witchcraft: The Dangers of Intimacy and the Struggle over Trust. In V. Broch-Due, & M. Ystanes (Eds.), Trusting and Its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (pp. 60-84). New York: Berghahn Books. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2016). Éric de Rosny et la violence du monde nocturne. In G. Séraphin (Ed.), Religion, guérison et forces occultes en Afrique: Le regard du jésuite eric de Rosny (pp. 83-96). (Hommes et sociétés). Paris: Karthala. [details]
    • Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2016). Conclusion: Post-script on Sex, Race and Culture. In J. W. Duyvendak, P. Geschiere, & E. Tonkens (Eds.), The Culturalization of Citizenship : Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World (pp. 203-218). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53410-1_10 [details]
    • Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2016). Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures. In B. Goldstone, & J. Obarrio (Eds.), African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility (pp. 167-180). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226402413.003.0012 [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Geschiere, P. (2014). La réponse de l'auteur. Politique Africaine, 135, 217-224. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.135.0197 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2014). The funeral in the village: urbanites' shifting imaginations of belonging, mobility, and community. In M. Diouf, & R. Fredericks (Eds.), The arts of citizenship in African cities: infrastructures and spaces of belonging (pp. 49-66). (Africa connects). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481887_3 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2014). Witchcraft. In V. V. Rao, P. Krishnamurthy, & C. Kuoni (Eds.), Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork (pp. 41-44). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375906 [details]
    • Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2014). Changing mobilities, shifting futures. In B. Przybył-Ołowski, & J. Swianiewicz (Eds.), Into Africa: learning, acting, sharing (pp. 195-208). (Le Monde Diplomatique). Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa.
    • Geschiere, P., & Socpa, A. (2014). Nowe wzory mobilności, nowa przyszłość. In J. Jankowska (Ed.), Ku Afryce: poznawać, działać, dzielić się (pp. 191-215). (Le Monde diplomatique. Artystyka). Warzawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa. [details]

    2013

    • Awondo, P., Geschiere, P., & Reid, G. (2013). Une Afrique homophobe? Sur quelques trajectoires de politisation de l'homosexualité: Cameroun, Ouganda, Sénégal et Afrique du Sud. Raisons Politiques, 2013(1), 95-118. https://doi.org/10.3917/rai.049.0095 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2013). Witchcraft, intimacy and trust: Africa in comparison. University of Chicago Press. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2013). Autochthony and the politics of belonging. In N. Cheeseman, D. M. Anderson, & A. Scheiber (Eds.), Routledge handbook of African politics (pp. 108-120). (Routledge handbooks). London [etc.]: Routledge. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2013). Autochthony, citizenship, and (in)security: new turns in the politics of belonging in Africa and elsewhere. In Z. Gambetti, & M. Godoy-Anativia (Eds.), Rhetorics of insecurity: belonging and violence in the neoliberal era (pp. 40-68). New York [etc.]: New York University Press. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2013). Sociality and its dangers: witchcraft, intimacy and trust. In N. J. Long, & H. L. Moore (Eds.), Sociality: new directions (pp. 61-82). (WYSE series in social anthropology; No. 1). New York [etc.]: Berghahn Books. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2013). Autochthonie, Zugehörigkeit und Exklusion: Die widersprüchlichen Verflechtungen des Lokalen und Globalen in Afrika und Europa. Historische Antropologie. Kultur, Gesellschaft, Altag, 21(1), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.7788/ha.2013.21.1.85 [details]

    2012

    • Awondo, P., Geschiere, P., & Reid, G. (2012). Homophobic Africa? Toward a more nuanced view. African Studies Review, 55(3), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0002020600007241 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2012). Política de la pertenencia: brujería, autoctonía e intimidad. (Umbrales). Mexico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2012). Religion's 'others': Jean Comaroff on religion and society. Religion and Society, 3(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2012.030102 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2012). The political economy of autochthony: labour migration and citizenship in Southwest Cameroon. In J. Abbink (Ed.), Fractures and reconnections: civic action and the redefinition of African political and economic spaces: studies in honor of Piet J.J. Konings (pp. 15-35). (African Studies Centre; No. 5). Zürich [etc.]: LIT Verlag. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2012). The return of culture: anthropology's temptations. In N. Faraclas, R. Severing, C. Weijer, & E. Echteld (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECICC-conference Guyana 2001. - Vol. 1: Multiplex cultures and citizenships: multiple perspectives on language, literature, education and society in the ABC-Islands and beyond (pp. 17-27). Willemstad: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (FPI) / University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA). [details]
    • Geschiere, P., & Allen, R. M. (2012). An introduction: multiple cultures and multiplex citizenships in the ABC-islands and beyond. In N. Faraclas, R. Severing, C. Weijer, & E. Echteld (Eds.), Proceedings of the ECICC-conference Guyana 2001. - Vol. 1: Multiplex cultures and citizenships: multiple perspectives on language, literature, education and society in the ABC-Islands and beyond (pp. 13-15). Willemstad: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (FPI) / University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA). [details]

    2011

    • Geschiere, P. (2011). 'Sons of the soil': autochthony and its ambiguities in Africa and Europe. In J. Abbink, & M. de Bruijn (Eds.), Land, law and politics in Africa: mediating conflict and reshaping the state (pp. 80-98). (African dynamics; No. 10). Leiden: Brill. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony as a "nervous language": some elements of its genealogy. In E. Jul-Larsen, P. J. Laurent, P. Y. Le Meur, & E. Léonard (Eds.), Une anthropologie entre pouvoirs et histoire: conversations autour de l'œuvre de Jean-Pierre Chauveau (pp. 347-368). (Hommes et sociétés). Marseille/Paris: IRD/Karthala. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony, citizenship and exclusion: new patterns in the politics of belonging in Africa and Europe. In S. Albiez, N. Castro, L. Jüssen, & E. Youkhana (Eds.), Ethnicity, citizenship and belonging: practices, theory and spatial dimensions = Etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia: prácticas, teoría y dimensiones espaciales (pp. 175-198). (Ethnicity, citizenship and belonging in Latin America; No. 1). Madrid: Iberoamericana. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2011). Autochthony, citizenship and exclusion: paradoxes in the politics of belonging in Africa and Europe. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 18(1), 321-339. https://doi.org/10.2979/indjglolegstu.18.1.321 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2011). L’autoctonia e le contese sulla cittadinanza: nuovi sviluppi nelle politiche dell’appartenenza nell’Africa del dopo guerra fredda. Afriche e Orienti, 2011(3-4), 16-33. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2011). The 1994 forest law in Cameroon: neoliberals betting on "the" community. In N. Schareika, E. Spies, & P-Y. Le Meur (Eds.), Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen: Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk (pp. 477-494). (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung; No. 28). Köln: Köppe. [details]

    2010

    • Geschiere, P. (2010). Autochthony: local or global? In U. Freitag, & A. von Oppen (Eds.), Translocality: the study of globalising processes from a southern perspective (pp. 207-228). (Studies in global social history; No. 4). Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004181168.i-452.58 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2010). Een worsteling met productiewijzen. Krisis, 2010(2), 45-48. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2010). Homosexuality in Cameroon: identity and persecution. In I. Dubel, & A. Hielkema (Eds.), Urgency required: gay and lesbian rights are human rights (pp. 126-131). The Hague: Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos). [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2010). Sorcellerie... comment guérir le mal qui vient de l'intérieur? In L. Lado (Ed.), Le pluralisme médical en Afrique: colloque international de Yaoundé, 3-5 février 2010: hommage à Éric de Rosny (pp. 429-448). Paris: Karthala. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2010). The self-reflective turn in ethnography: from dialogue to narcissism? Etnofoor, 22(1), 137-146. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2010). Witchcraft and modernity: perspectives from Africa and beyond. In L. Nicolau Parés, & R. Sansi (Eds.), Sorcery in the black Atlantic (pp. 233-258). University of Chicago Press. [details]

    2009

    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Perils of belonging: autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe. University of Chicago Press. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Autoctonia: locale o globale? In A. Bellagamba (Ed.), Inclusi/esclusi: prospettive africane sulla cittadinanza (pp. 3-31). Novara: UTET. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Is there "a" postcolonial condition? The Salon / Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, 1(1), 23-25. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2009). La stregoneria e i limiti della legge in Camerun e Sud Africa. In R. Beneduce (Ed.), Poteri e identità in Africa subsahariana (pp. 59-93). Napoli: Liguori Editore. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Von Gravenreuth and Buea as a site of history: early colonial violence on Mount Cameroon. In I. Fowler, & V. G. Fanso (Eds.), Encounter, transformation and identity: peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands, 1891-2000 (pp. 69-92). (Cameroon studies; No. 8). Oxford: Berghahn. [details]

    2008

    • Geschiere, P. (2008). [Review of: H.G. West (2007) Ethnographic sorcery]. African Studies Review, 51(3), 138-140. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0103 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2008). Witchcraft and the state: Cameroon and South Africa: Ambiguities of ‘reality’ and ‘superstition’. Past & Present, 199(3), 313-335. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm070 [details]
    • Geschiere, P., Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2008). Introduction. In P. Geschiere, B. Meyer, & P. Pels (Eds.), Readings in modernity in Africa (pp. 1-43). Oxford: Currey / Indiana U.P. [details]

    2023

    2020

    2019

    2016

    2015

    • Geschiere, P. (2015). Postface. In J. Tonda (Ed.), L'impérialisme postcolonial: Critique de la société des éblouissements (pp. 243-246). (Les Afriques). Paris: Karthala. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2015). Le jeune Bayart ert le discours foudroyant du grand parti unique: Ou comment prendre un imaginaire ingrat au sérieux? In La bande à Bayart (Ed.), À bas les fonctionnaires apathiques et ventripotents: pour un fonctionnaire intellectuellement fécond et physiquement disponible, en avant! (pp. 81-91). Paris: Karthala.

    2011

    2008

    • Geschiere, P. (2008). Een nieuw idee van emigratie in Kameroen: 'Bushfalling': jagen in rijke landen. De linker wang: platform voor geloof en politiek, 2008(4), 24-25. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2008). Homoseksueel in Kameroen: identiteit en vervolging. In I. Dubel, & A. Hielkema (Eds.), Urgentie geboden: homo- en lesborechten zijn mensenrechten (pp. 126-131). Amsterdam: SWP. [details]
    • Geschiere, P., Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2008). Readings in modernity in Africa. (Readings in...). Oxford: James Currey / Indiana U.P. [details]

    2018

    • Geschiere, P. (2018). Belonging. In G. Desai, & A. Masquelier (Eds.), Critical Terms for the Study of Africa (pp. 27-39). (Critical Terms). University of Chicago Press. [details]

    2017

    • Geschiere, P. (2017). Afterword: Academics, Pentecostals and Witches: The Struggle for Clarity and the Power of the Murky. In K. Rio, M. MacCarthy, & R. Blanes (Eds.), Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia (pp. 281-291). (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56068-7_12 [details]

    2015

    • Geschiere, P. (2015). [Review of: I. Niehaus (2013) Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa]. Journal of Religion in Africa, 45(2), 225-227. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340043 [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2015). [Review of: J.-F. Bayart (2014) Le plan cul: Ethnologie d'une pratique sexuelle]. Revue Française de Science Politique, 64(5), 1025-1027. [details]

    2012

    • Geschiere, P. (2012). Modernity as sorcery? [Review of: A. Lattas (2010) Dreams, madness, and fairy tales in New Britain]. Anthropology Now, 4(1), 79-84. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2012). Reconciling difference and equality [Review of: G. Pandey (2010) Subaltern citizens and their histories: investigations from India and the USA]. Economic & Political Weekly, 47, 34-37. [details]

    2009

    • Geschiere, P. (2009). [Review of: G. Steinmetz (2007) The devil’s handwriting: precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa and Southwest Africa]. American Journal of Sociology, 115(1), 289-291. https://doi.org/10.1086/605748 [details]

    2018

    • Geschiere, P., & Guadeloupe, F. (2018). Europese Oogkleppen. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie, 17.

    2015

    • Geschiere, P. L. (2015). L’anthropologie marxiste en questions. Le retour contemporain énigmatique de l'esclavage dans une société segmentaire de la forêt du Cameroun. In F. Keck (Ed.), Repenser l’anthropologue aujourd’hui’ avec Emmanuel Terray (pp. 15-23). Parijs: Musée Quai Branly.

    2012

    • Geschiere, P. L., & Guadeloupe, F. (2012). Al dat gesjacher met die vluchtelingen. NRC Handelsblad.

    2009

    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Autochtonie, cultuur en geschiedenis: het glibberige pad van de identiteit. De Gids, 2009(dec), 901-911. [details]
    • Geschiere, P. (2009). Het autochtone gevaar. De Groene Amsterdammer, 18-21.

    2008

    • Geschiere, P. (2008). Westerse ondeugd schandvlek voor de samenleving. De Gay-krant, 594, 28-31.

    Membership / relevant position

    • Geschiere, P. L. (2014). Visiting professor course on ‘Cultural dynamics in Africa', HEM School of Management, Rabat, Marocco.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2014). Visiting professor for Course on ‘Autochthony and Modernity’ for Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Program, Social Research Council (New York).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (2008). Member Steering Committee, NWO Programme "Cultural Dynamic".
    • Geschiere, P. L. (1995-2011). Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

    Media appearance

    • Geschiere, P. L. (25-02-2014). Koloniaal verleden ligt ten grondslag aan homowetten Afrika [Radio] Radio 1. Koloniaal verleden ligt ten grondslag aan homowetten Afrika.

    Journal editor

    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2010-2011). Politique Africaine (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2010-2011). African Studies Review (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2010-2011). Africa (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2010-2011). Critique of Anthropology (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2010-2011). Afrika Spectrum (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) (2009-2011). Critique of Anthropology (Journal).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (editor) & Willis, P. (editor) (2007-2015). Ethnography (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (1-12-2016). Tempting Transgressions – Same-Sex Practices as a Challenge to African Studies, African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture, Washington DC.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (24-11-2016). Museums, Citizenship and Belonging, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (22-7-2016). Capitalism and Witchcraft, Deutsche Afrikanistenverein.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (29-6-2016). Witchcraft, Freemasonry and Homosexuality – Postcolonial Obsessions in Cameroon (and Elsewhere), WISER, University of the Witwatersrand.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (keynote speaker) (15-6-2016). Face à la sorcellerie, L’État et les institutions face à la sorcellerie dans l’Afrique conbtemporaine, Paris.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe, Witchcraft and Emotions, Berlin.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft, Homosexuality and Freemasonry – Popular Imaginaries of Affliction, Healing and Medecine, Point Sud, Stellenbosch.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). Witchcraft and Practices of Trust in Family, Work and Migration, Point Sud, Bamako.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (speaker) (2016). The Historicity of Witchcraft Narratives – Examples from the Forest Region of South Cameroon, Narrating Witchcraft – Agency, Discourse and Power, Erfurt.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (15-10-2015). Ethnicity: pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial - Africa in comparison, Conference on ethnivity in pre-colonial societies, Keulen.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (19-6-2015). Sorcellerie, intimité et crise de la présence - souffrances chez les Maka (Cameroun), Conférence il rovescio della immigrazione, Turijn.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (6-2-2015). Genre et citoyenneté, REASOPO, CERI, Parijs.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (25-4-2014). The Return of Chieftaincy in Africa, keynote, conference on chieftaincy, African Studies Center, Harvard, Cambridge.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (17-1-2014). African Futures, keynote Program African Futures, Univ. of Bayreuth, Bayreuth.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (2013). Lord Lugard and the Ambiguities of Belonging : From Indirect Rule to Present-day Issues of Autochthony’, Lugard Lecture 2007. http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/lugard.html
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (22-10-2012). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust - Africa in Comparison, keynote for Ph.D. conference, dept. of anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (4-5-2012). Homophobia and Citizenship in Cameroon and Elsewhere in Africa, Keynote address: for conference on Culture, Citizenship and Belonging, Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen, Willemstad.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (13-7-2011). Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust - Africa in Comparison, Invited lecture of Johannesburg Workshop in Critical Theory, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
    • Geschiere, P. L. (invited speaker) (7-5-2011). African Urbanites and the Funeral in the Village: An Ultyimate Test of Belonging?, invited lecture for Conference on The Art of Citizienship in African Cities, New York, Columbia University.

    Others

    • Geschiere, P. (organiser) & Andrikopoulos, A. (organiser) (2019). Panel for American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference: Transnational Mobility and the Dynamics of Kinship, Vancouver (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. (organiser), Spronk, R. (organiser) & Hendriks, T. (organiser) (2019). Panel at European Congress in African Studies (ECAS), Edinburgh (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Besnier, N. (organiser) & Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) (19-12-2018). KNAW Symposium "Global Sports, Masculinity and Exploitation: Views from Africa", Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (organiser), Hendriks, T. (organiser) & Spronk, R. (organiser) (20-3-2017 - 22-3-2017). Dissident Desires, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hekma, G. (organiser) & Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) (4-8-2016 - 5-8-2016). Conferentie ‘Proud in Europe?’, Amsterdam. 3 panels on LGBT+ Refugees, Immigration Officers and the Gay Community (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) & Hendriks, T. (organiser) (2016). African Studies Association, Washington DC. double panel on ‘Power and transgression – Queering Notions of Asexuality and Dissidence’ (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (organiser) & Pratten, D. (organiser) (19-11-2015 - 22-11-2015). Conference of African studies association, San Diego. Double round-table: Post-cold war, post-nation state? (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (organiser), Hendriks, T. (organiser) & Spronk, R. (organiser) (8-7-2015). European congress of African studies, Parijs. Dissident genders and sexualities: comparative and theoretical perspectives from Africa (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (7-11-2013). Organizer Panel for Arjun Appadurai, honorate doctorate, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (28-6-2013). Organizer Panel for ECAS2013: Une anthropologie entre pouvoirs et histoire - Conversations autour de l’œuvre de Jean-Pierre Chauveau’, Lisbon (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) (31-1-2013). Organizer Panel for REASOPO / CERI: ’In Memory of Eric de Rosny’, Paris (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant), Malaquais, D. (participant) & Goheen, M. (participant) (29-11-2012 - 1-12-2012). for annual conference African Studies Association, Philadelphia. Commoditizing Identities - Recent Cameroonian Trajctories (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Jandoh, M. G. (participant) (1-9-2012 - 2-9-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Institue of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Migration, Citizenship and Belonging - African Caribbean and European Perspectives (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Allen, R. (participant) (2-5-2012 - 3-5-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen, Curaçao. Culture, Citizenship and Belonging (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Akan, M. (participant) (8-3-2012 - 9-3-2012). Outreach conference of NWO Cultural Dynamics programme on Culturalization of Citizenship in collaboration with Boghazici University, Istanbul. Citizenship, Democracy and Diversity: Comparison (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Geschiere, P. L. (participant) & Akan, M. (participant) (2-3-2012 - 4-3-2012). panel for annual Mediterranean Research Meeting, Montecatini. Contextualizing Multiculturalism (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2017

    • Andrikopoulos, A. (2017). Argonauts of West Africa: Migration, citizenship and kinship dynamics in a changing Europe. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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