August 29-31, 2011: participation in the conference Instituto de Artes da Uerj – 50 anos de História da Arte, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage e Instituto de Artes da Uerj, Rio de Janeiro
October 11-12, 2012: participation in the conference Transkulturelle Imaginationen des Sakralen / Transcultural Imaginations of the Sacred, papers by Jens Baumgarten and Tristan Weddigen
September 1-8, 2012: participation in the study trip to Sao Paulo organized by EMAMS (UZH) on contemporary art in Brazil