2009. Convener and chair of panel ‘The “deviant” children of Africa: Youth, crime and the juridical/penitentiary system in Africa’. ECAS European Conference of African Studies, Leipzig, 4-7 June.

2009. Creole zero tolerance: Cape Verde, youth, and the war on crime. ECAS European Conference of African Studies, Leipzig, 4-7 June.

2009. From Home to the Street: Cape Verdean Children as Independent Child Migrants. Children on the Move - Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Children's Mobility in Africa. University of Copenhagen.

2008. On isolation, marginality and being cut off in the bijagó islands. Networks, margins and alliances: the Upper Guinea coast and the making of the Atlantic. ICS, Lisbon, 18-20 December.

2008. From home to the street: Cape Verdean children street migration. African children in focus: a paradigm shift in methodology and theory? Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS), Leiden, the Netherlands.

2008. La forme sonore des ancêtres. Hypothèse pour une interprétation du langage rythmique du tambour kumbonki (Archipel des Bijagós, Guinée Bissau). Mémoire, traces et histoire dans les musiques de tradition orale. Colloque International, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Nice.

2008 “In the street you live like a rebel”: Why Cape Verdean street children choose to live in the streets. Paper presented at the workshop: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropology of Childhood. C-FAR, Brunel University, London, May 15th.

2008. ‘In the street you live like a rebel’. Why Cape Verdean children choose to live in the street. ASA (African Studies Association) UK biennal meeting, Preston (UK).

2008 (with Filipa Alvim) ‘The greatest crime in the world’s history’. Uma análise arqueológica do discurso sobre tráfico de mulheres. Paper presented at the Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia annual meeting, Lisbon.

2008. From home to the street: Cape Verdean children street migration. Paper presented at the workshop: Children on the Move in the Developing World: Sharing Research Findings. Development and Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty, University of Sussex, 6 - 8 May.

2008. Tráfico de Mulheres em Portugal: pânico moral, cruzadas e a construção de um problema social. 16 April, Vila Real (with Filipa Alvim).

2008. Tráfico de mulheres em Portugal. Onde estão as vítimas? UMAR open course on ‘Women Trafficking’, 12 April, Lisbon.

2008. Crianças, adolescentes, criminais. As políticas públicas sobre menores ‘em risco’ em Cabo Verde entre protecção e criminalização. CEAS seminars, 14 March, Lisbon.

2008. From home to the street: Cape Verdean street children as independent child migrants. The Politics of Youth Mobilisation Workshop, 21-23 February, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen.

2008. Na rua ninguém manda. Histórias de crianças de rua em Cabo Verde. Universidade Nova, Nucleo de Estudos Africanos do CEMME, Lisboa.

2007. La forme sonore des ancêtres. Phonogrammes et séquences mnémoniques chez les Bijagós (Guinée Bissau). Journées d’études: Art, Image, Memoire. Organisée par Carlo Severi, Carlos Fausto and Julien Bonhomme. Musée du quai Branli, Paris.

2007. Beyond victimization: youth and the appropriation of modernity in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea Bissau). ASA (African Studies Association) Annual Meeting, New York.

2007. Convenor of international conference Youth and Modernity in Africa, Lisbon

2007. Beyond victimization: youth and the appropriation of ‘development’ in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea Bissau). International Conference ‘Youth and Modernity in Africa’, Lisbon.

2007. Youth, marginality and development in Guinea Bissau. A case study from the archipelago of the Bijagós. AEGIS/ECAS Conference, Leiden.

2007. La forme sonore des ancêtres. Hypothèse pour une interprétation du langage rythmique du tambour kumbonki (Archipel des Bijagós, Guinée Bissau). Journées d’études : Oralité et écriture. INHA/Sorbonne, Paris.

2006. (with Chiara Pussetti). The Young and the Mermaid: Pursuing Modernity in the Archipelago of the Bijagós (Guinea Bissau). ASA (African Studies Association) Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2006. Convenor and chair of panel Guinea Bissau, Today. ASA (African Studies Association) Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Discussant: Prof. Eric Gable.

2006. Youth and the ambiguities of global modernity: the experience of marginality in the Archipelago of the Bijagós (Guinea Bissau). EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennal Conference, Bristol (UK).

2006. Convenor (with Chiara Pussetti) and chair of panel Strategic uses of colonial legacies. EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennal Conference, Bristol (UK).

2006. Valores e ícones da cultura juvenil na Guiné Bissau. APA (Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia) National Conference, Lisbon.

2006. Convenor (with Chiara Pussetti) and chair of panel Identidades Migantes. APA (Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia) National Conference, Lisbon.

2004. (with C. Pussetti). L´amore ai tempi della ”Yamba”. Emozioni e relazioni di genere in un contesto in trasformazione (Arcipelago dei Bijagó – Guinea Bissau). Centro Interculturale della Città di Torino.

2004. What am I doing here? Reflections from fieldwork in Guinea Bissau. EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference, Vienna.

2004. Convenor (with Elsa Lechner) of panel Facing the Other. EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference, Vienna.

2003. Sex in the City. Shifting Models of Gender Relation among Young Males in Bubaque (Archipelago of the Bijagós, Guinea-Bissau). ASA (African Studies Association) Annual Meeting, Boston.

2003. (with C. Pussetti). Da utopia da emigração à saudade dos emigrados. Percursos migratórios entre Bubaque (Guiné Bissau) e Lisboa. International Seminar 'Terrenos Metropolitanos: desafios metodológicos', ICS, Lisboa.

2003 ‘Se solo potessi andarmene!’: giovani, situazione postcoloniale e desiderio di fuga a Bubaque (Guinea Bissau). AISEA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Etno-Antropologici) National Conference, Roma.