Author: Anthropology of Global Inequalities
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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 Global South, where such studies are incipient. In this lecture, I play with Augmented […]
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Anthropology Lecture Series: #1: Breathing Hearts: The Politics and Practices of Sufi Healing in Berlin (An Ethnographic Book Project)
by Dr. Nasima Selim, University of Bayreuth Organized by Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm 03. May 2022, 6:30 P.M. How do we let go of a Ph.D. dissertation written for the doctoral committee and transform it into an anthropologically informed book for a wider audience? Breathing Hearts is the first book-length, ethnographic account of the practices […]
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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, newly commissioned by SAVVY Contemporary and shown in the framework of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded […]
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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. We follow a transparent review process. No blinding of author or reviewer information is […]
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The Contradictions of Irawati Karve: A Conversation
Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Urmilla Deshpande An excerpt: Thiago: Umi, how did your interest in writing about Karve come about? Umi: Iru died when I was seven. The idea of a novel based on Irawati’s time as a young woman in (Weimar) Berlin is irresistible. But, how to be clear-eyed about a woman who is […]
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RfM-Jahrestagung: Körper und ‚Rasse‘. Konjunkturen von Rassismus in Europa.
Katharina Schramm spricht auf dem Panel „Technologien; Rassismen, Körper“ am Donnerstag um 10.00 Wann: 24. 11.- 26.11.2021 Anmeldung zum Online-Livestream hier: http://www.rfm-jahrestagung.de/#Anmeldung Die Geschichten von Rassismus und Antisemitismus ziehen sich wie ein rotes Band durch die europäischen Gesellschaften. Rassistische Zugehörigkeitsordnungen sind konstitutiv für die Geschichte Europas und fanden ihren materiellen Ausdruck nicht nur in den kolonialen Unterwerfungen […]
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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. Fast zwei Jahre später wurde auf der Website der Kontaktstelle für Sammlungen aus kolonialen Kontexten eine […]
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Positive irritations, creative approaches and spaces for discussion – a student project on post- and decolonial theories
Background and Motivation In the summer semester of 2020 we, Vanessa and Semina (BA students at the University of Bayreuth), attended the seminar “Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies”, offered at the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thiago Pinto Barbosa. In the last session of the seminar, we discussed different possibilities to engage with social […]