Awards

In 2022 I was awarded the Anthony D. Smith Article Prize for “Nationalism and Environmentalism: The Case of Vauban”, co-authored with Iarhflaith Watson and Published in Nations and Nationalism, Vol 28 Issue 4.

Invited Talks

Histories of Nationalism, Infrastructures, and Climate Change
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, May 28, 2024


Constructions muséographiques, mémoires contemporaines d'Empires et de capitales
Université Aix-Marseille, France, April 14, 2022

 

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

 

“United We Stand: National Consolidation in the Case of Ukraine”
University of Copenhagen, November 14–15, 2024.
Co-organized with Dan Zahavi and Andrij Wachtel

 

“Space and Memory: Places, Museums, and Narratives”
Palazzo Valentini, Rome, May 18, 2023
Co-organized with Claudia Hassan


“The Future of Diversity: Threats to Cultural and Biological Diversity in the
Anthropocene”
Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, June 5–6, 2023. Co-organized with Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Daniele Conversi.


“Where is Nationalism? Resilience and Pervasiveness of Nationalism in the 21st
Century Globalized World”
Center for Southeast European Studies (CSEES), Graz, April 19, 2019

 

Conference Presentations

Climate Change and Loss of Biocultural Diversity: Bridging the Gap Between Global
Concern and National Action
Sociological Association of Ireland 2024, May 10-11, Maynooth University, Ireland.
(Co-presented with I. Watson)


We Are Not the Museum Police
Sociological Association of Ireland 2023, June 8-9, University College Dublin, Ireland.
(Co-presented with I. Watson)

 

Climate change: Bridging the gap between global concern and national action

The Future of Diversity: Threats to Cultural and Biological Diversity in the
Anthropocene, Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, June 5–6, 202

 

Irish Language and Belonging
Sociological Association of Ireland 2021, May 7-8

 

Exhibiting the Nation: Museums, Power, and Nationalism in Turkey Under the Justice
and Development Party
Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 5th Biennial Conference, August 26-30, 2020,
University College London, UK


On Behalf of the Nation: The First World War Narrative as Displayed in the Museum
and Simulation Centre of Kabatepe


Nation and Nationalism: Past, Present, and Future, June 11, 2015, University College
Dublin


Conquerors and Victims: Neo-Ottoman Representations in Turkish Museums.
What You See Is What You Get: Old and New Ways of Seeing Society, The International
Visual Sociological Association, June 25-27, 2015, Tinos Island, Greece)


Between Autonomy and Heteronomy: The Museum Field in the Field of Power
Empirical Investigation of Social Space II, October 12-14, 2015, Bonn, Germany


Re-Shaping National Identities: Visitors’ Responses to Neo-Ottoman Narratives in
Turkish Museums
Narratives of Displacement, International Interdisciplinary Conference, November 19-21,
2015, Warsaw, Poland