2020 "Future prospects of post-industrial towns". Presentation for students at the University of Petroșani, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Petroșani (10 March)
2019 Halemba, Agnieszka, J. Otto Habeck & Isabel Cellati: "Życie na granicy - transnarodowe praktyki mieszkańców polsko-niemieckiego pogranicza" [Life at the border: transnational practices of inhabitants of the Polish-German border region]. Workshop of perspektywa, "Vom Grenzraum zum Begegnungsraum. Engagement und Bürgerbeteiligung auf dem Dorf" [From a border space towards a meeting space: social commitment and citizens’ participation in the countryside], Groß Pinnow (29 November)
2019 "Aufs Rentier gekommen: Rentierhaltung im Hohen Norden Russlands in sowjetischer und heutiger Zeit" [Reindeer herding in the Far North of Russia in Soviet times and at present]. Interessengemeinschaft Tunneltal, Public Library of Ahrensburg (10 October)
2019 "Recollecting 'sustainable development' in research and regional politics of northern Russia". Biannual Conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA-Tagung), Konstanz (30 September)
2019 "Engagement with land use conflicts in the North of Russia: lessons from Anthropology". Inter-Congress of IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) on “World Solidarities”, Poznań, (28 September)
2019 Dudeck, Stephan & J. Otto Habeck: “Gender in Arctic Communities”. Presentation at the workshop “Gateway to the Arctic Workshop VI. Perceiving Arctic Change: Climate, Society and Sustainability”, Bremerhaven (27. März)
2019 Habeck, J. Otto & Mathias Ulrich: “Permafrost and pastoral land use: environmental and social-economic dynamics under conditions of past and current climate change”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Arkhangelsk (22 March)
2018 Habeck, J. Otto & Joseph Long: “Travel Biography Interviews and Photo Elicitation as Methods for Studying Lifestyle in Russia”. Presentation at the workshop “Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin (7. Dezember)
2018 “Plurality of research methods: empirical studies on urban youth and social change and below”. Presentation at the workshop “Overcoming the distance – urban pioneers in Eastern Europe”, ZOIS (Centre for East European International Studies) Berlin (23. Oktober)
2018 “Land improvement under conditions of permafrost: melioratsiia and intended forms of environmental change in Soviet Yakutia”. Presentation at Mie University, Tsu, Japan (17. Juni)
2017 Habeck, J. Otto & Mathias Ulrich: “How to Study an Exemplary Social-Ecological System: Pastoralism in a Permafrost Landscape”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Prague (4. April)
2017 Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, May-Britt Öhman, Brenda Parlee, Olga Ulturgasheva, J. Otto Habeck & Virginie Vaté: "Roundtable: Gender, Gender Studies, and gendered science in the Far North and the Arctic", Ninth International Conference on Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX), Umeå (9. Juni)
2017 Agnieszka Halemba & J. Otto Habeck: " Life at the border: insights from a Polish-German anthropological field research co-laboratory", Ethnologisches Kolloquium, Hamburg (18. April)
2017 "Nomadenlager und Eigentumswohnung: Veränderungen der Umweltwahrnehmung beim Übergang von mobilen zu festen Wohnformen" [Nomadic camp and individually owned flat: changes in the perception of the environment in the transition from mobile to sedentary forms of dwelling], Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (9. März)
2017 "Remoteness as an asset", International Conference on "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", Uppsala (21.-23. Februar)
2016 Agnieszka Halemba & J. Otto Habeck: "New Directions in the Polish-German borderland – Towards a Pomeranian or Some Different Identification?", First Tomsk Forum on Anthropology (Antropologiia v poiskakh novogo yazyka opisaniia), Tomsk (15. September)
2016 Keynote Speech, “Livelihoods on Frozen Ground: Why Permafrost Matters to Indigenous Communities in Siberia and Elsewhere”, XI International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP), Potsdam (24. Juni)
2016 Presentation, Young Researchers’ Workshop at the XI International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP), Potsdam (18. Juni)
2016 "Feldforschung in Sibirien (Jakutsk) 2015: Forschungsergebnisse und Eindrücke aus dem heutigen Russland" [Fied research in Siberia, Yakutsk 2015: research results and impressions from contemporary Russia]". Vortrag für den Verein der Freunde des Museums für Völkerkunde Hamburg (27. April)
2016 Presentation at the Symposium "Do we speak the same language of science?", Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), Fairbanks, Alaska (13. März)
2016 "The Anthropology of Waiting: A Siberian perspective". Internationale Tagung "Infrastructure in the Arctic (and Elsewhere) as a Social and Ecological Challenge", Wien (15.-16. Januar)
2015 "Wohnkultur in Sibirien: Mobilität – Territorialität – Abgrenzung" [Cultivating homes in Siberia: mobility – territoriality – distinction]. Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Berlin (7. Dezember)
2015 J. Otto Habeck & Galina Belolyubskaya: "Fences and private/public spaces in a Siberian city". Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Marburg (Germany) (2. Oktober)
2015 "Zwischen Eiswüste und Gemüsegarten: Rentierhirten im Hohen Norden Russlands" [Between ice desert and vegetable plot: reindeer herders in the Far North of Russia]. Evangelische Studentengemeinde, Rostock (13. Mai)
2015 Kirill Istomin & J. Otto Habeck: "Permafrost and indigenous land use in the Northern Urals: Komi and Nenets reindeer husbandry". Poster presentation, Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), Toyama (28.-29. April)
2014 “Hangover: eine kulturvergleichende Betrachtung des Umgangs mit den Folgen exzessiven Alkoholkonsums” [Hangover: a cross-cultural perspective on how to tackle the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption]. Jüdisches Krankenhaus Berlin (25. September)
2014 “Make Love Fake War: playgrounds for adults in post-Soviet space“. Survival Kit 6 – Symposium: “Urban Utopia: art and culture as a tool for exploring and researching a city”, Riga (13. September)
2014 “The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Herdsman: mobility, management and herding techniques in Russian reindeer husbandry since the 1920s”. Internationale Tagung “On the Road: bioarchaeological and cultural scientific aspects of non-sedentary communities”, Berlin (16. Mai)
2014 “Lifestyle in Siberia: how social theory of Western Europe plays out in post-Soviet Asia”. Invited lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Durham (30. Januar
