Breathing Well in Suffocating Times.
by Nasima Selim
On Wednesday, July 3rd, the Berlin Anthropology Seminars, a joint initiative by anthropologists from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin, ZMO, and Ethnologisches Museum, hosts a festive book launch & Shared Breathwork (Universität Bayreuth) by Nasima Selim in conversation with Judith Albrecht (Universität Münster)
Abstract:
How can we breathe well on the brink of suffocation? Nasima Selim’s recent book Breathing Hearts discusses what it means to engage Sufi healing practices and politics in breathing otherwise in the context of anti-Muslim racism in Germany. The upcoming book talk weaves the question of breathing otherwise with the here-and-now of encroachment upon academic freedom.
Nasima Selim is a writer and an interdisciplinary scholar trained in medicine, public health, and anthropology. She works as a senior research associate of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Her current research is about sensing air quality, examining breathing inequality, imagining human-tree relation, and sharing breathwork in South Asia and beyond.
The event will take place at 4.15 pm:
in presence at the Seminarzentrum of Freie Universtät, room L115, Berlin, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
online on Webex:
Meeting ID: 2731 889 2689, password: BAS_summer_2024
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 