Theater Workshops
• Affect Theater: Working on the Anthropology of Institution, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) project Art-e-Fact, Université Paris Cité, Paris, June 22-26, 2026.
• Theater from the Field: Exploring Anthropology through Performance, Wenner-Gren Workshop, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 6-9, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop at the Boundaries of Theater and Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Manchester University (UK), March 27-29, 2025
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, The Italian Migration Studies Working Group and the Departments of Italian Studies, Anthropology, French Studies, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 7, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Anthropology Department, University of Toronto (Canada), January 31-February 1, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Latvian Cultural Center, San Francisco, November 22-23, 2024.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), February 18, 2023.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Department of Theater and Dance, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, January 27, 2023.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, Fall semester, 2021.
• The Ritual of Performance: in “Rituals of the Contemporary”, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (Italy), July 15, 2019.
• Getting Caught: Dialoghi e sperimentazioni tra teatro e antropologia II (sul palco e non), Milan (Italy), May 9, 2019.
• Affect Theater: Ethnography and Theatrical Composition, Goldsmith College, London (UK), March 7, 2019.
• Getting Caught: Dialoghi e sperimentazioni tra teatro e antropologia (sul palco e non), Universita’ Milano-Bicocca (Italy), February 21, 2019.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Anthropology Department, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), October 17, 2018.
• Organizers, Unstories II (roaming) workshops, University of California, Davis, 2017-2018.
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Quito (Ecuador), June 11-15, 2017.
• Organizers, University of California, Davis Humanities Institute Cluster on “Theater Research, Narrative, and Performance: Explorations in between the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities,” 2016-2017.
• Co-Organizers (with Lisa Stevenson and Eduardo Kohn) “Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana”, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Quito, Ecuador, June 11-15, 2016.
• Theater from the Field: Exploring Anthropology through Performance, Wenner-Gren Workshop, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 6-9, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop at the Boundaries of Theater and Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Manchester University (UK), March 27-29, 2025
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, The Italian Migration Studies Working Group and the Departments of Italian Studies, Anthropology, French Studies, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 7, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Anthropology Department, University of Toronto (Canada), January 31-February 1, 2025.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Latvian Cultural Center, San Francisco, November 22-23, 2024.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), February 18, 2023.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Department of Theater and Dance, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, January 27, 2023.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, Fall semester, 2021.
• The Ritual of Performance: in “Rituals of the Contemporary”, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (Italy), July 15, 2019.
• Getting Caught: Dialoghi e sperimentazioni tra teatro e antropologia II (sul palco e non), Milan (Italy), May 9, 2019.
• Affect Theater: Ethnography and Theatrical Composition, Goldsmith College, London (UK), March 7, 2019.
• Getting Caught: Dialoghi e sperimentazioni tra teatro e antropologia (sul palco e non), Universita’ Milano-Bicocca (Italy), February 21, 2019.
• Affect Theater: A Workshop, Anthropology Department, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), October 17, 2018.
• Organizers, Unstories II (roaming) workshops, University of California, Davis, 2017-2018.
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Quito (Ecuador), June 11-15, 2017.
• Organizers, University of California, Davis Humanities Institute Cluster on “Theater Research, Narrative, and Performance: Explorations in between the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities,” 2016-2017.
• Co-Organizers (with Lisa Stevenson and Eduardo Kohn) “Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana”, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Quito, Ecuador, June 11-15, 2016.
Papers and Presentations
• A Performative Book Talk on Affect and Theater, Applied Intercultural Arts Research program, University of Arizona, February 20, 2026.
• Affect Ethnography: A Book Roundtable, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, April 30, 2025.
• A Performative Book Talk Around Affect, Ethnography, and Theater, Program in Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis, March 6, 2025.
• Affect Ethnography: A Performative Book Talk Around the Mediterranean “Refugee Crisis,” Italian Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, November 21, 2024.
• Unstorying the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Engaging Empirical Research through Affect Theater, McGill Refugee Research Group, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), February 20, 2023.
• Getting caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Department of Theater and Dance, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, January 27, 2023.
• Getting-Caught: On Process and Affect Theater, public series: “The values of multimodal projects,” Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 9, 2022.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology (performative lecture), (co-presented with Greg Pierotti). The Center for Experimental Ethnography, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2021.
• Affect Theater: Ethnography and Theatrical Composition (co-led with Greg Pierotti), Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA), University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2021.
• Getting Caught: between Theater and Anthropology (co-presented with Greg Pierotti). 15th National Symposium of Theater and Performance Arts in Academe, Washington and Lee University, April 1-2, 2021.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Goldsmith College, London, March 5, 2019.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Canadian Anthropology Society, Santiago de Cuba, May 2018.
• Un-Stories Disrupting the Narrative Urge, produced by Lisa Stevenson, edited by A. S. Krauss, Society for Cultural Anthropology Virtual Conference, April 19-21, 2018.
• Theater and the Devising of Research, Department of Anthropology, Università Milano-Bicocca, December 13, 2017.
• Un-Stories: Disrupting the Narrative Urge, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C., December 2017.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Visual Culture in and out of Crisis Symposium, Rutgers University, October 19-20, 2017.
• On being caught, Panel: Experimental Methods in Ethnographic Research, 5th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 18, 2017.
• Dramaturgy, CoLED Conference, ETHNOGRAPHY & DESIGN: MUTUAL PROVOCATIONS, University of California, San Diego, October 29, 2017.
• Getting Caught: A Collaboration On and Off Stage Between Theater and Anthropology. Society for Cultural Anthropology Meetings, Cornell University, May 14, 2017.
• Affect Ethnography: A Book Roundtable, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, April 30, 2025.
• A Performative Book Talk Around Affect, Ethnography, and Theater, Program in Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis, March 6, 2025.
• Affect Ethnography: A Performative Book Talk Around the Mediterranean “Refugee Crisis,” Italian Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, November 21, 2024.
• Unstorying the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Engaging Empirical Research through Affect Theater, McGill Refugee Research Group, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), February 20, 2023.
• Getting caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Department of Theater and Dance, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, January 27, 2023.
• Getting-Caught: On Process and Affect Theater, public series: “The values of multimodal projects,” Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 9, 2022.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology (performative lecture), (co-presented with Greg Pierotti). The Center for Experimental Ethnography, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 2021.
• Affect Theater: Ethnography and Theatrical Composition (co-led with Greg Pierotti), Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA), University of Pennsylvania, November 11, 2021.
• Getting Caught: between Theater and Anthropology (co-presented with Greg Pierotti). 15th National Symposium of Theater and Performance Arts in Academe, Washington and Lee University, April 1-2, 2021.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Goldsmith College, London, March 5, 2019.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Canadian Anthropology Society, Santiago de Cuba, May 2018.
• Un-Stories Disrupting the Narrative Urge, produced by Lisa Stevenson, edited by A. S. Krauss, Society for Cultural Anthropology Virtual Conference, April 19-21, 2018.
• Theater and the Devising of Research, Department of Anthropology, Università Milano-Bicocca, December 13, 2017.
• Un-Stories: Disrupting the Narrative Urge, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C., December 2017.
• Getting Caught: a collaboration on and off stage between theater and anthropology, Visual Culture in and out of Crisis Symposium, Rutgers University, October 19-20, 2017.
• On being caught, Panel: Experimental Methods in Ethnographic Research, 5th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 18, 2017.
• Dramaturgy, CoLED Conference, ETHNOGRAPHY & DESIGN: MUTUAL PROVOCATIONS, University of California, San Diego, October 29, 2017.
• Getting Caught: A Collaboration On and Off Stage Between Theater and Anthropology. Society for Cultural Anthropology Meetings, Cornell University, May 14, 2017.
Performances/Productions
• Unstories II (Roaming), University of California, Davis, June 10, 2018
• Unstories, Transform Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA, September 23, 2017.
• Unstories, University of California, Davis, California, USA, May 27, 2017.
• Sogni e Miraggi, Teatro di Sabbia, Siracusa, Italy, August 11, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro Cumandá Parque Urbano, Quito, Ecuador, July 3, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador, June 24, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Quito, Ecuador, June 23, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Tumbaco, Ecuador, June 15 2016.
• Unstories, Transform Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA, September 23, 2017.
• Unstories, University of California, Davis, California, USA, May 27, 2017.
• Sogni e Miraggi, Teatro di Sabbia, Siracusa, Italy, August 11, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro Cumandá Parque Urbano, Quito, Ecuador, July 3, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador, June 24, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Quito, Ecuador, June 23, 2016
• Teatro Experimental. Momentos de la vida Colombéana, Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Tumbaco, Ecuador, June 15 2016.