Author: Anthropology of Global Inequalities
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An interview with Thiago Pinto Barbosa, recipient of the 2023 Prize of the German Historical Institute London and the Frobenius research promotion award 2023
An interview with Thiago Pinto Barbosa, recipient of the 2023 Prize of the German Historical Institute London and the Frobenius research promotion award 2023 Dr. Thiago Pinto Barbosa was awarded with the 2023 Prize of the German Historical Institute London and the Frobenius research promotion award 2023 for his dissertation titled “Science and Human Difference…
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Public Anthropology Lecture : „In defence of sovereignty: When history is stranded between law and fact“
The Anthropology of Global Inequalities research group (University of Bayreuth) invites you to the fourth event of its Public Anthropology Lecture series, in collaboration with the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. Speaker: Prof. Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of OsloDate: 29.11.2023Time: 18:00location: Iwalewahaus, Foyerdescription: The Anthropology of Global Inequalities research group (University of Bayreuth) invites…
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Research Colloquium
Winter 2023/24 Social and Cultural Anthropology Organizer: Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm The department of Social and Cultural Anthropology is proud to present its Anthropology Lecture Series.
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Encountering Precarities: Ethnography, Spurious Solidarity and Neoliberal Academia
The thematic thread, curated by Viola Castellano and Olivia Casagrande and published on Allegra Lab, critically engages with a specific triangulation happening in contemporary anthropology: the shrinking of academic employment; the political and epistemic crisis of (European) anthropology; precarity as a generational condition affecting both ethnographers and research participants. Dialoguing with the EASA Report ‘The…
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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 with a lot of explanatory weight on biology and heredity—has circulated to all corners…
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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 precisely anthropology. “How dare you?”, I would comment on such statements in my head,…
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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 problem of the twentieth century is the color line. Du Bois explicitly addresses racism…
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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 Jodi Rios, Keona Ervin, and Barbara Ransby, I conducted fieldwork in St. Louis Missouri…
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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 necessarily exemplify the heterogeneous field of antiracist activism in Germany, this demonstration accumulated a…
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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 around museum practices and colonial collections (in ethnographic as well as natural history museums)…
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From Bayreuth to New York: Interview with Katharina Schramm
(Excerpt from Interview with Christian Wißler) Since October 2022, you have held the Theodor Heuss Professorship at the New School in New York, a U.S. university with a special tradition: founded in 1919 as the New School for Social Research, after 1933 it gave numerous persecuted social and political scientists who had emigrated to the…
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NSSR Welcomes Anthropologist Katharina Schramm as the 2022-2023 Heuss Professor
For the 2022-2023 academic year, The New School for Social Research is excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm as the Distinguished Theodor Heuss Professor in the Anthropology department. She will give the annual Heuss Lecture on November 2; register here. Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth and Member of…
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