Category: Events
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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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Anthropology Lecture Series #5: The Genetic origins of the Cosmic Race: The constitution of time, blackness, and indigeneity in the Universe of Mexican Mestizaje
by Dr. Ernesto Schwartz-Marin 31.05.2022 at 18:30 CET In genomic science, ethno-racial distinctions are intimately tied to the construction of temporality and genetic diversity. The ways in which the construction of time and genetic diversity destabilise, challenge —and sometimes reinforce—notions of demographic history, and nationhood brings forth relationships between race and genetics that move beyond […]
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Anthropology Lecture Series #4: Decolonizing the Study of the State: Max Weber, Colonialism and African Studies
by Aharon De Grassi Register here: https://t.co/xC6zf2Obao 24.05.2022 at 18:30 CET Conceptualizing the state, corruption, and patronage is crucial to understanding and pursuing justice and liberation, so how are we to grapple with problematic aspects of these concepts’ genealogies involving colonial, racist, and sexist thought and practice? Especially important is the prominent comparative political sociologist […]
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Anthropology Lecture Series #3: : Right-wing xenophiles? : discourses on diversity in European far-right communities
by Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka Register here: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ysc–rrD8pEtQhOLinorPUPr8x5huuAZaE Drawing on ethnographic research with Italian and Polish far-right movements, in my talk I aim to shed light on the ways in which members of these movements deploy the notions of “difference” and “sameness” to promote their activism and appeal to broader population. First, I show that far-right […]
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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 […]
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 