Selection since 2010
2024 ESA 16th Conference: Tension, Trust and Transformation, (27-30 August, Porto, Portugal). Paper presented: "Resilience and Ritualization: A qualitative exploration of the celebration of Romanian Orthodox Easter during the first Covid-19 Lockdown." Coordinator, reviewer, chair for RS02 Sociology of Celebration.
2023 XX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies (June 25-July 1, 2023, Melbourne, Australia). Paper presented: "Reflections on the Resilience of Diary Methods in Times of Crisis or How Did I Cope with the Methodological Challenges of Exploring Romanian People's Attitudes Towards Celebrating Easter during the First National Covid-19 Lockdown" (RC33 "From Interviewing to Diaries: Data Quality in Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research")
2022 The Timescapes 10 Festival (5 - 16 September) Panels: Exploring Causal Complexity through Qualitative Longitudinal Research (12 September); International Symposium: Qualitative Longitudinal Research on Families and Transitions (13 September). Delegat.
2021 ESA 15th Conference: Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures (31 August- 3 September 2021, Barcelona, Spain). Paper presented: "Between Observing Tradition and Obeying to the Lockdown Rules. A Qualitative Study of the Celebration of Romanian Easter 2020 through Solicited Diaries" (RS10 Sociology of Celebration)
2019 ESA 14th Conference: Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging (20 August- 23 August 2019, Manchester, U.K.). Paper presented: "To Feel or not to Feel like Christmas. Exploring the Festive Emotionality from a Life Course Perspective" (RS13 Sociology of Celebration)
2018 Midterm Conference of the Research Network 20 ESA `Unspoken, unseen, unheard of.Unexplored realities in qualitative research(6-8 September 2018, St. Gallen, Switzerland). Paper presented: „Managing emotions when using solicited diaries in panel studies” (Session 4a. Feeling the field II, session chair, Maggie Kusenbach, University of South Florida, USA)
2017 SAPEA Workshop: Risk Perception and acceptability of human exposure to pesticides. 20 December 2017, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany.
2017 ESA 13th Conference:(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities (29 August- 01 September 2017, Athens, Greece). Paper presented: "The manifestation of the holiday spirit across cultures. A comparative analysis of winter holidays diaries, in the UK and Romania." (RS11 Sociology of Celebration)
2017 Mass Observation’s 80th Anniversary Conference (10-11 July 2017, Brighton - University of Sussex, U.K.). Paper presented: "Exploring the Holiday Spirit through Winter Diaries in the UK and Romania" (4V Panel: Celebrations, well-being and the everyday)
2017 IABA Europe 2017 Life writing, Europe and New Media, King's College London (7-9 June 2017, London, U.K.). Paper presented: "Researching socio-cultural identities through solicited diaries" (section Diaries 2)
2016 ESA RN20 Midterm Conference: Qualitative Methods and Research Technologies (1-3 September 2016, Krakow, Poland). Paper presented: "Researching the emotional dimension of celebrations through solicited diaries" (Group O Storytelling and Narratives through Technology)
2015 ESA 12th Conference: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination (28-28 August 2015, Prague). Paper presented: "The Holiday Spirit: Cliche or Indicator of the Social Values Symbolic Assertion?" (RS4 Sociology of Celebration)
2014 The Annual Conference of the Westermarck Society: Ties that bind (27-28 March 2014, Rovaniemi). Workshop Sociology of Celebration. Paper presented: „From traditionalism to postsentimentalism in celebrating Christmas in Romania today”.
2013 ESA 11th Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change (28-31 August 2013, Torino). Poster presented: "Is Diary a Proper Sociological Method for Studying Changes?"
2013 ESA 11th Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change (28-31 August 2013, Torino). Paper presented: "The Celebration of Christmas. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Festive Feeling".
2013 The International Conference LUMEN, "Current Paradigms in Social Sciences" (12th-14th April 2013, Iasi, "Petre Andrei" University. Poster presented: "Using diaries. A real challenge for the social scientist".
2013 Brailoiu's Workshops of the „Constantin Brăiloiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. Paper presented: "The personal documents - major research tool for Mass Observation Archive", Session The Research Tools for Ethnography.
2012 Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference. Seventy five years of Mass Observation. Thirty years of the Mass Observation Project, University of Sussex, U.K.
2012 The 2nd International Conference of the Society of Sociologists from Romania, “Beyond Globalization”, Bucharest. Paper presented: „The challenge of personal documents - methodological challenge for social human research”, Session 42, coordinated and moderated by Ozana Cucu-Oancea.
2010 The First International Conference of the Society of Sociologists from Romania, “Remaking the Social: New Risks and Solidarities”, Cluj-Napoca. Paper presented: „Using diaries in social research”, Session „Rebuilding the Social through personal documents”, coordinated and moderated by Ozana Cucu-Oancea.
2010 The First International Conference of the Society of Sociologists from Romania, “Remaking the Social: New Risks and Solidarities”, Cluj-Napoca. Paper presented: „Reusing qualitative data in social sciences. Archiving and analysis.” Session „New themes and trends in social history research”, coordinated by Zoltan Rostaş, moderated by Marius Lazăr, reviewer Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu.