Conferences and Invited Talks:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
2026. Un regard g\u00e9ographique : exemple du contexte Suisse. Colloque “L’intervention sociale en contexte p\u00e9nal”. 27\/28.1.2026. Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025. Notions, actors, and challenges of rehabilitation: Focus on prison social work. Carceral geography seminar. 4.12.2025. online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025. (Post-)Humaniser le travail social en prison ? Vers une posture d’ouverture. GIS-Hybrida. 28.8.2025. Fribourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025. The power of trust in the context of social work in prison. EUROCRIM, 3.-6.9.2025. Athens. (together with Martin B\u00f6hnel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025. Soziale Arbeit im Justizvollzug: Einblick in die Forschung. 50 ans de la formation de travail social en Valais, HESTS, 2.6.2025. Sierre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025. Social work in prisons through a historical lens: Exploring and underestimated profession. ECSWR, 14.3.2025. Munich. (together with Julia Emprechtinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024. Organisation of the panel: Constructing mental illness, negotiating vulnerabilities: institutional response of the law enforcement and criminal justice system to emotional and mental disturbance. Swiss Sociological Association, 10.9.2024. Muttenz. (organization of a panel with Esteban Pi\u00f1eiro & Krzysztof Skuza)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024. Accompagner sous extr\u00eame contrainte: le travail social dans le champ p\u00e9nal. Cycle de conf\u00e9rences publiques, printemps 24. Universit\u00e9 de Fribourg, d\u00e9partement de travail social, politiques sociales et d\u00e9veloppement global.11.04.24. Fribourg. (together with Lucile Franz and Sabrina Helle-Russo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024. Social (work) places in carceral settings. SIG Social work and the more-than-human, ECSWR. 17.-19.4.24. Vilnius. (together with Julia Emprechtinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024. Social work in prisons in Switzerland. Seminar ESWRA SIG Social Work, Crime and Criminal Justice. 10.01.24. online. (together with Martin B\u00f6hnel & Julia Emprechtinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023. Carceral Geographies: Primacy of security and risk thinking. DKG 2023. 19.23.9.2023. Frankfurt a.M. (co-organization of a panel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023. Sozialgeographie und Post-Humanismus: Inspirationen f\u00fcr die Forschung im und zum Gef\u00e4ngnis. DKG 2023. 19.-23.9.2023. Frankfurt a.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023. Risk thinking as a time issue: Past offense and future risk. DKG 2023. 19.-23.9.2023. Frankfurt a.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023. Quelle(s) m\u00e9thodologie(s) pour des approches ” post ” : r\u00e9flexions sur un projet de recherche sur le travail social en prison. Ateliers lausannois d’\u00e9thnographie. 8.\/9.6.2023. Lausanne. (with Lucile Franz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022. An den Grenzen von Sozialer Arbeit. Kritische Perspektiven auf berufliche Positionierung in ausgew\u00e4hlten Handlungsfeldern. Forum SGSA (online, Switzerland). 25.11.2022. (co-organization of a panel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022. Aktuelle Dispositive und Logiken in Justizsystem und Justizvollzug. Implikationen f\u00fcr die Soziale Arbeit \/ Dispositives et logiques actuels dans le syst\u00e8me judiciaire et l\u2019ex\u00e9cution de la justice. Implications pour le travail social. Forum SGSA (online, Switzerland). 25.11.2022. (co-organization of a panel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022. Soziale Arbeit im station\u00e4ren Justizvollzug: Auslotungen an der Grenze. SGSA Forum. 25.11.2022. online [Switzerland].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022. La ville comme espace d\u2019inclusion? Refl\u00e9xion sur les enjeux spatiaux du travail social. Journ\u00e9e de la Commission Scientifique TS, HES-SO. 31.01.2022. Gen\u00e8ve [Switzerland]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021. O caso do Suiza. Seminario \u201cNovas di\u00e1sporas: A nova vaga de emigraci\u00b4n galega en context\u201d. Consello da Cultura Galega. 7.\/8.10.2021. Santiago de Compostela [Spain].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021. L’introduction de ROS (ex\u00e9cution des sanctions orient\u00e9es vers les risques) et les d\u00e9fis pour le travail social: r\u00e9flexions sur la situation dans la Suisse alemanique. Colloque prosaj. 23.06.2021. Lausanne [online]. (together with Julia Emprechtinger). 23.06.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021. Zwang als Charakteristikum “spezieller” Institutionen? Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Soziologie. 28.-30.06.2021. Genf [online]. 28.06.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021. Reflections on social work in prisons: Different framings for professional positioning. 10th European Conference for Social Work Research. 05.-07.05.2021. Budapest [online]. 06.05.2021. (together with Julia Emprechtinger).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2020. Conceptualizing and exploring coercive space-time-regimes. 4th<\/sup> International Conference for Carceral Geography. 14.\/15.12.2020. Brussels [online]. 15.12.2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020. Participant of the Roundtable at the Kick-off event of the Feminist Geographies Working Group of the Swiss Association of Geography. 28.2.2020. Neuch\u00e2tel. 28.2.2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019. Emotionales Material. Ko-Konstruieren, Reflektieren, Rekonstruieren? \u00dcberlegungen zu Emotionen als Zugang zum Verstehen. Workshop “Ich weiss, was du f\u00fchlst” 21.\/22.11.2019. Leipzig. 21.11.2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019. To wear or not to wear the stethoscope. Rearrangements of health care professions in times of professionalization, academization and diversification. SSA Congress 10.-12.09.2019. Neuch\u00e2tel. 12.09.2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019. Das Tripelmandat zwischen Strafe und Resozialisierung. Soziale Arbeit im Justizvollzug. SSA Congress 10.-12.09.2019. Neuch\u00e2tel. 11.09.2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019. Das Gef\u00e4ngnis als Endstation. Herausforderungen f\u00fcr das System Justizvollzug und die Soziale Arbeit. HES-SO Valais\/Wallis. 11.06.2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018. Working conditions, job satisfaction, and work-life balance among physicians and nurses: An institutional perspective on a Swiss acute hospital. Competence Network Health Workers, 1st Conference. 2018. Coercion through space-time regimes: An example from a Swiss prison. Eurocrim 2018. 29.08.-01.09.2018. Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina). (together with Ueli Hostettler and Irene Marti).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017. Der Justizvollzug im Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichen, organisationalen und individuellen Interessen. Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fu\u0308r Soziologie. 21.-23.06.2017. Zu\u0308rich (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017. Differing trajectories among economic migrants: Inclusion and exclusion along ethnicity and skills in the Bulgarian case. Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fu\u0308r Soziologie. 21.-23.06.2017. Zu\u0308rich 2016. The dying body as a site of negotiation: Care and control in end-of-life situations in Swiss prisons. RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2016. 30.08. \u2013 02.09.2016. London (GB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016. Lebensende im Gef\u00e4ngnis. Series of lectures \u201cSterben und Tod\u201d. Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, University of Fribourg. 5.4.2016. Fribourg (CH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016. Dying in prison: Challenges of end-of-life under confinement. American Association of Geographers 2015. Exklusion durch Inklusion? Informelle Praktiken von VermittlungsagentInnen am Beispiel bulgarischer MigrantInnen. Deutscher Kongress fu\u0308r Geographie. 01.-06.10.2015. Berlin (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015. Bulgarian youth studying and working abroad: Migration as a pressure valve for unattractive job 2015. Interlinkages between migration patterns and social inequality: Same country \u2013 different outcomes. 12th Annual IMISCOE Conference. 25.-27.06.2015. Geneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015. The female migrant body: Exploited and\/or strategically used? 15th International Migration Conference. 18.-20.6.2015. Dudelange (Luxemburg).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014. \u201cEnd-of-Life\u201d en prison en Suisse: entre le devoir ambigu de soigner et de surveiller. Journ\u00e9e scientifique<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014. \u201cSoigner la mort\u201d. 03.11.2014. Haute \u00e9cole de sant\u00e9 Vaud. Lausanne (Switzerland). (together with Ueli Hostettler and Irene Marti)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014. Migration and Transnationalism between Switzerland and Bulgaria: Assessing social inequalities and 2013. End-of-life in Swiss prisons: first findings from a study on institutions and actors. 13th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. 04.-07.09.2013, Budapest (Hungary). (together with Ueli Hostettler, Nicolas Queloz, Irene Marti and Stefan B\u00e9rard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012. Can you feel the difference? Emotions as an analytical lens. Colloque international \u201cMasculins\/f\u00e9minins, dialogues g\u00e9ographiques et au-del\u00e0\u2026\u201d. 10. \u2013 12.12.2012. University of Grenoble, Grenoble (France).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012. Comment maintenir les liens transnationaux de la deuxi\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de migrants? Quelle place pour les questions de genre? 01.11.2012. Department of Geography, University of Geneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012. Totalizing materiality and subaltern practices in the context of education in the Swiss penal system: 2012. Secondos\/Secondas. Ein medial konstruiertes Stereotyp fu\u0308r eine heterogene Gruppe. 36. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft fu\u0308r Soziologie. 01.-05.10.2012. Bochum (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012. Mapping sites and tracing meanings: Translocal practices of first and second generation migrants. 2012. Making sense of multilocality. Five stories in several pictures. International Geographical Congress. 26.- 30.08.2012, Cologne (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011. R\u00e4ume der Normalisierung: Wie sich Bildungsr\u00e4ume im Gef\u00e4ngnis der Logik des Freiheitsentzugs 2011. Les espaces sociaux comme concept charni\u00e8re: les spatialit\u00e9s de la migration et de l’enfermement. ENS, UMR 5600 “environnement, ville, soci\u00e9t\u00e9”. 03.11.2011. Lyon (France).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011. How to study transnational social spaces: Experience from a project on second generation Spaniards in Switzerland. ESA 10th Conference. 07.-10.9.2011. Geneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011. Spaces of belonging: Transnational networks of the Spanish second generation in Switzerland. ESA 10th Conference. 7.-10.9.2011. Geneva (Switzerland). (with Michael Nollert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011. Exploring the limits and limitations of our own research. 6. International Conference of Critical 2011. Studying transnational social spaces: Methodological questions on researching the Spanish second 2010. Experiences from the field: Migration and identity in a transnational research project. Paper presented at Dialogues in research: Longitudinal methods and the study of migration, 26.11.2010. NUI Maynooth, 2010. Jumping scale: Dealing with the local and the global in a transnational research project. Paper presented at Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 19.\/20.11.2010. Fribourg (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010. Here and now: Spatialising intersectionality. Paper presented at Masculin\/F\u00e9minin, questions pour la g\u00e9ographie, 16.-18.9.2010. Bordeaux (France). (with Bettina Bu\u0308chler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010. Migrants’ perception of transnational social spaces: A methodological inquiry. Paper presented at ESF-LiU Conference on Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies, 6. – 10.8.2010. Link\u00f6ping (Sweden).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010. Mujeres cualificadas: situaci\u00f3n, retos y oportunidades. Talk invited by the Asociaci\u00f3n de mujeres 2010. Le social dans les prisons: recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales. Association Internationale des criminologues de langues fran\u00e7aise, 12. – 14.5.2010. Fribourg (Switzerland). (with Ueli Hostettler, Roger Kirchhofer and Chris Young).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010. Resozialisierung als Ziel des Strafvollzugs: Das Beispiel der Bildung in Gef\u00e4ngnissen. Invited talk at the Vortragsreihe 2010: Delinquenz und Bestrafung (Soziologie, Sozialpolitik und Sozialarbeit, Universit\u00e4t 2009. Topographien der Ungleichheit: Deskilling als ein weibliches Ph\u00e4nomen?. Paper presented at the 2009. Transnationale soziale R\u00e4ume: eine r\u00e4umliche Perspektive auf Fragen von Identit\u00e4t und Zugeh\u00f6rigkeit. Paper presented at the Congr\u00e8s de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Suisse de Sociologie, \u201cIdentit\u00e9 et transformation des modes de vie\u201d, 7. \u2013 9. September 2009. Geneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2009. Transnationale Perspektiven in der Forschung \u2013 Erkenntnisse fu\u0308r die Soziale Arbeit?. Paper presented at Transnationalisierung und ihre Folgen fu\u0308r die Soziale Arbeit, 26. Juni 2009. Rorschach (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2009. \u201cFalsche\u201d und \u201crichtige\u201d Schweizer: Staatsbu\u0308rgerschaft als Belohnung fu\u0308r erfolgreiche Integration?. Paper presented at \u201cMissbrauch\u201d in Wirtschaft, Staat und Gesellschaft. Realit\u00e4ten, Fiktionen und 2008. \u00bfEnfoques adecuados para el estudio de las pr\u00e1cticas transnacionales de los migrantes? El potencial de las perspectivas de espacio social transnacional y de la interseccionalidad de clase, etnicidad y g\u00e9nero. 2007. Infektionskrankheiten und Drogenkonsum im Freiheitsentzug: Erfahrungen mit Auftragsforschung. Paper presented at the Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Ethnologischen Gesellschaft (SEG). 31.11.-01.12.2007. 2007. Intersektionalit\u00e4t\/\u00dcberschneidung\/Verschr\u00e4nkung? Herausforderungen und Nutzen fu\u0308r die 2007. Immigrants\u2019 appropriation of space: Questions of meaning and duration. Paper presented at the 2007. National immigration policies between economic interests and protection of national cohesion: impacts on migrants\u2019 identities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American 2006. Is the elderly association of the 21st century more transnational than the exiled political opposition in the 20th century? Some thoughts on the analytic usefulness of \u201ctransnationalism\u201d. Paper presented at the 11th International Metropolis Conference. 02.-06.10.2006. Lisbon (Portugal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2005. Eingeschlossen – Ausgeschlossen. Erfahrungen aus dem Alltag spanischer Migrantinnen und Migranten in Zu\u0308rich. Paper presented at the 55th Geographentag. 03.-07.10.2005. Trier (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2005. Identit\u00e4t und Geschlecht im Integrationsprozess: Spanische Migration in die Schweiz. Poster presented at 2005. Spaces and places: A meaningful materiality. Paper presented at the closing conference of the Graduate 2004. \u201cMaybe in Spain I would just have stayed at home with my children\u201d: Changing gender roles in a 2004. Staying or returning: More than an easy question. Paper presented at the 30th IGC. 16.-20.08.2004. 2003. Von den \u201cAchsen der Differenz\u201d zu den \u201cDifferenzr\u00e4umen\u201d: Ein Beitrag zur theoretischen Diskussion in der geograhischen Geschlechterforschung. Paper presented ad the 54th Geographentag. 28.09.- 2003. Identit\u00e4t und Geschlecht im Integrationsprozess. Poster presented at the 54th Geographentag. 28.09.- 2003. Integration, Identit\u00e4t und Geschlecht. Poster presented at the Summer School of the Graduate Schools Gender Studies Switzerland. 09.-12.09.2003. Basel (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2001. Geschlechterbeziehungen und ihre Ver\u00e4nderungen im Kontext des Integrationsprozesses: Eine 2001. Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Migration. Zwischen Rahmenbedingungen und Aushandlungsprozessen 2000. Gedachte und gelebte Geschlechterbeziehungen. Momente aus dem Leben galicischer Migrantinnen und Migranten in Zu\u0308rich. Paper presented at the 2. Berner Graduiertenkolloquium zu Geschlechtergeographie und feministischer Forschung. 23.-25.10.2000. Bern (Switzerland).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conferences and Invited Talks: 2026. Un regard g\u00e9ographique : exemple du contexte Suisse. Colloque “L’intervention sociale en contexte p\u00e9nal”. 27\/28.1.2026. 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\n25.\/26.10.2018. Bern (Switzerland). (together with Carole Ammann and Susan Thieme).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n(Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAnnual Congress. 29.3.-2.4.2016. San Francisco (USA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nprospects. Conference \u201cEducation and Work: (Un-)Equal Transitions\u201d. 24.-25.09.2015. Sofia (Bulgaria).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nregional disparities in the context of changing policies. Conference on International Migration. 14.02.2014. Economic Research Institute at BAS: Sofia (Bulgaria).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nReflections on the porosity of the Total Institution. International interdisciplinary workshop \u201cMaterial
\nculture in closed spaces\u201d. 11.-12.10.2012. University of Luxembourg, Walferdange (Luxemburg). (with
\nUeli Hostettler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nInternational Workshops: Rethinking the transnational Perspective: Shortcomings and new approaches.
\n13.-14.09.2012. Fribourg (Switzerland). (with Yvonne Ria\u00f1o)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nwidersetzen. Internationale Tagung \u201cPraktiken, Akteure und R\u00e4ume der Einsperrung: Zirkulation und
\nTransfers\u201d. 01.-03.12.2011. Berlin (Germany). (with Ueli Hostettler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nGeography. 16.-20.8.2011. Frankfort (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ngeneration in Switzerland. 27th ATM Development Days. 8.-10.6.2011. Fribourg (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMaynooth (Ireland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nespa\u00f1olas, 25.6.2010. Zu\u0308rich (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFribourg), 4.5.2010. Fribourg (Switzerland). (with Roger Kirchhofer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nDeutscher Geographentag, Fachsitzung Geschlechtsspezifische Geographien der Migration, 19. \u2013 26.
\nSeptember 2009. Vienna (Austria).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ngesellschaftliche Antworten, 15.\/16. Januar 2009. Fribourg (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPaper presented at the Simposio Internacional \u201cNuevos retos del transnacionalismo en el estudio de las
\nmigraciones\u201d. 14.-15.02.2008. Barcelona (Spain). (with Yvonne Ria\u00f1o)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nBasel (Switzerland). (with Ueli Hostettler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMigrationsforschung. Paper presented at a Conference organised by the Instituts fu\u0308r Regional- und
\nMigrationsforschung (IRM) \u201cMigration and Inequality\u201d 28.-30.06.2007. Trier (Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nInternational Geographical Union – Commission on gender and geography Symposium \u201cSustainable public
\nplaces: Feminist perspectives on appropriation, representations and planning of public spaces\u201d. 31.05.-
\n02.06.2007. Zu\u0308rich (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nGeographers. 17.-21.04.2007. San Francisco (USA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nthe closing event of the Graduate School \u201cShifting Gender Cultures\u201d. 29.04.2005. Bern (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSchools Gender Switzerland. 03.-05.03.2005. Basel (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nmigratory context. Paper presented at the 9th International Metropolis Conference. 27.09.-01.10.2004.
\nGeneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nGlasgow (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n04.10.2003. Bern (Switzerland). (with Pascale Herzig)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n04.10.2003. Bern (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nempirische Studie der spanischen Bev\u00f6lkerung in Zu\u0308rich. Paper presented ad the Forschungskolloquium
\nGender Studies, IZFG, Interdisziplin\u00e4res Zentrum fu\u0308r Gender Studies. 20.12.2001. Bern (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPaper presented at the Workshop \u201cWork in progress – gender studies\u201d. 10.05.2001. Z\u00fcrich (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n