Environmental Justice Conference 'Transformative Connections', University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 2- 4 July 2019, talk: “Coastal transformation, port development and environmental justice”.

Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), Oslo, 19.-22. June 2018, talk: “Forest carbon and the state: carbon offsetting vs. rural development in Jambis coastal peat swamps”.

Together with Alina Brad: Arbeitskreis ländliche Entwicklung in der DGFG, Kiel, 22.-24. February, 2018“, talk: „Transnationalized agrarian conflicts: insights from Sumatra, Indonesia”.

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, 05. - 09. April 2017, talk: “The transnationalization of competing state projects - Carbon Offsetting and development in Sumatra's peat swamps”.

„AGEP Winter School – An interdisciplinary perspective on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut und AGEP Netzwerk, Bonn, 15. bis 17. Februar 2017, talk: “Trade-offs, synergies and interdependencies: understanding SDG interactions in rural Sumatra, Indonesia” (invited talk).

Seminar "Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Postkolonialismus und Entwicklungskritik", Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Universität Freiburg. Universität Rostock, Bonn, 18.-22 December, talk: „Nachhaltige Entwicklung für wen? Zielkonflikte bei der Umsetzung von SDGs“ (invited talk).

Together with Alejandro Guarin and Ezra Fromme: Green zone side event to UN Climate Change Conference COP 22, ”The NDC Explorer: launch of interactive tool with discussion focused on Africa's ambitions and REDD”, Marrakech, 15. November 2016, talk: “Sectoral perspective on NDCs: The role of land-use, forestry and REDD+”.

Forclime office at Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, 15. August 2016, talk: „Conflictive access and property relations in Jambi, Indonesia“ (invited talk).

Together with Heiko Faust: Agricultural University Bogor, Bogor, 04. August 2016, talk: „Interdisciplinary research on contested land use change in Sumatra“ (invited talk).

Together with Jean Carlo Rodriguez and Carmen Richerzhagen: Berlin Conference on Global Environmental Governance, Berlin, 23-24 May 2016, talk: “Why power matters: Power and social relations as mediators of benefits from REDD+ and PES schemes”.

Together with Heiko Faust: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, 29 March to 2 April 2016, talk: “Unraveling property and power relations as factors filtering the ability to benefit from REDD+ - a case study from Jambi Indonesia”.

European conference of Tropical Ecology, Göttingen, 23-26 February 2016, talk: “Transnationalized land conflicts in the context of REDD+, insights from Jambi, Indonesia”.

Together with Yvonne Kunz: International conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies, Vienna, 11-14 August 2015, talk: “Sumatra’s Oil Palm Frontier in the REDD – The Politics of Scale of Land Conflicts”.

Together with Fariborz Zelli and Hannes Hotz: Side event to UN Climate Change Conference COP 20/ CMP 10 “REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection”, Lima, 4th December 2014, talk: “Social Inclusiveness of REDD in Peru”

Together with Barbara Beckert: Arbeitskreis Südostasien in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG), Jahrestagung 2014, 14-15 November 2014, Cologne, talk: “Land for farmers or forests for tigers: the Harapan Rainforest Case”.

International Conference “Carbon, Land and Property“, University of Copenhagen, 01-04 July 2014, talk: „Exclusions as consequences of REDD+ and conservation. A case study from Jambi, Indonesia”.

Together with Carmen Richerzhagen: International conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 13-15 August 2014, Reykjavik, talk: „Social implications of benefit-sharing arrangements in conservation policies: the case of Indonesia”.

“Kulia umum dan temu wicara magister ilmu lingkungan pascasariana”, Universitas Jambi, Jambi (Indonesien) (Guest lecture at University of Jambi), 14 September 2013, talk:” Climate Change Mitigation, Forest Policies and Resource Access in Indonesia” (invited talk).

Forum Saling Asah – Diskusi Hasil Penelitian”, Faculty for Human Ecology, Agricultural University, Bogor (IPB), Bogor (Indonesia), 14th June 2013, talk: “The International Climate Negotiations and their Implications for Forest Policies and Resource Access in Indonesia” (invited talk).