Our research focuses on a critical analysis of categories of difference and their political effectiveness. We investigate how dynamics of knowledge production relate to questions of (in)equality and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Social movements, migration and border regimes, economic justice, forms of racialization, and politics of belonging all count among our empirical fields.

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Racial anthropology from Germany to India

a transnational look at the scientific racialization of human diversity by Thiago Pinto Barbosa “Race” has travelled the world along with many anthropologists. Racial knowledge—as the set of thinking that apprehends human diversity through essentializing relatively fixed categorizations of people, and…

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Far-right anthropologies

by Agnieszka Pasieka Far-right anthropologies One of the things that surprised me most after I began doing research on European far-right youth activists was my research participants’ statements on how much they love anthropology. Not Mussolini, not Christianity, not philosophy, but…

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Institutional Transformation in South Africa and Germany

An Interview with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni in conversation with Katharina Schramm Katharina Schramm (KS): In your book “Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization”, you make reference to W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously stated in “The Souls of Black Folk” that the…

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Antiracist challenges to the gun violence debate

by Mihir Sharma for Anthropology Now Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational effects of gun violence, among them trauma and disability/debilitation among survivors and kin of persons shot or killed. Following in the footsteps of work done by…

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Doing Public Anthropology in the Classroom

(Un) Learning ‘Race,’ White Fragility, and Mobilizing Antiracist Pedagogy in Germany by Nasima Selim Introduction  On 6 June 2020, thousands of people gathered at Berlin Alexanderplatz in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. While a singular event does not…

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boasblogs: undoing race and racism

Anthropological Interventions with Katharina Schramm, Mihir Sharma, and Manuela Bojadzijev In Germany today, critiques of racism, practices and forms of racialisation, and their multiple entanglements in anthropology have gained renewed prominence.  On the one hand, in academic discussions an expansive debate…

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Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology (M.A.)

The M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology is a research-focused master’s program which offers students an advanced orientation in socio-cultural anthropology and guides them through an ethnographic research project. At the heart of the program is the “guided research” component, in…

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Anthropology Lecture Series: #2: An anthropologist from the Global South Plays with Augmented Reality: Reflections on technology, public spaces, politics, and waste in Maputo

by Anselmo Matusse 10. May 2022, 1830 CET Register here: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ysc–rrD8pEtQhOLinorPUPr8x5huuAZaE The rise of new media has significantly impacted different spheres of society and calls humanities and social scientists to critically engage with new media, mostly in the context of the…

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Pneuma: Is Language Enough?

On March 6, 2022, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin-Wedding hosted PNEUMA: IS LANGUAGE ENOUGH?—a public INVOCATIONS programme accompanying the exhibition THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER, artist Pallavi Paul’s first solo exhibition in Berlin,…

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AG Public Anthropology

Call for contributions. We are looking for anthropologically informed, evocative storytelling from the diverse fields of work we do (public engagement/ teaching/ research/ writing/ illustrating/ filmmaking among others) and/or precise argumentation with illustrative examples related to a topic of public/political interest.…

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What Happens to Race When Empires Crumble?

Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network Meeting, 15-16 December 2021 Our two-day event seeks to connect social and cultural anthropology to the crucial activism surrounding heritage, museums, and public culture in Europe today. The event will gather together activists such as…

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Special Issue Citizenship Studies

“Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple” Sabine Netz , Sarah Lempp, Kristine Krause & Katharina Schramm What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs,plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and ageassessments of refugees in common? They all determine…

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„Neue Ansätze in der Museumspraxis – Datenbanken (re)loaded“

New Approaches to Museology: Databases reloaded mit Regina Sarreiter (Foto von goethe.de) „Wir fordern den uneingeschränkten Zugang zu den Museumsbeständen afrikanischer Objekte in Deutschland!“, schrieben mehr als 200 Wissenschaftler*innen, Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffende in einem offenen Brief an die deutsche Kultusministerkonferenz im Oktober 2019.…

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WORKSHOP

„Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” „Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” will take place   from 8th to 11th July 2021   on campus…

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Wissenschaftsfreiheit / Academic Freedom

,,Wir verstehen Wissenschaftsfreiheit als einen Prozess der Erweiterung von Teilhabe an Wissenschaft, und damit bedeutet Wissenschaftsfreiheit auch Ermöglichung: von Forschung, von Lehre und von Räumen kritischer Auseinandersetzung über jenes System Wissenschaft, dessen Funktionieren auch auf Diskriminierung, Prekarisierung und Ausschluss beruht. ”…

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