Category: Posts
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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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Anthropology Lecture Series #6: Wild boar – virus – human – pig relations – in the context of the African Swine Fever Pandemic in Brandenburg
14.06.2022 at 18:30, register here. by Laura Matt Description: My ethnographic research evolves around the African Swine Fever pandemic in North-Eastern Brandenburg. On September 10, 2020, the first African Swine Fever (ASF) infected wild boar was confirmed in Germany (Brandenburg). The ASF virus infects wild boars and domestic pigs and causes a viral haemorrhagic fever.…
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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 which students develop independent research projects in close conversation both with teaching staff and…
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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…
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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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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 recognition andaccess to resources and rights via the body. This special issue ofCitizenship Studies…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 