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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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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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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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What Happens to Race When Empires Crumble?
Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network Meeting, 15-16 December 2021 Our two-day event seeks to connect social and cultural anthropology to the crucial activism surrounding heritage, museums, and public culture in Europe today. The event will gather together activists such as Berlin Postkolonial, the District Six Museum in Cape Town, and scholars such as Professor…
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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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WORKSHOP
„Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” „Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” will take place from 8th to 11th July 2021 on campus of the University of Bayreuth. The workshop is organised by Prof. Dr. Katharina…
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Wissenschaftsfreiheit / Academic Freedom
,,Wir verstehen Wissenschaftsfreiheit als einen Prozess der Erweiterung von Teilhabe an Wissenschaft, und damit bedeutet Wissenschaftsfreiheit auch Ermöglichung: von Forschung, von Lehre und von Räumen kritischer Auseinandersetzung über jenes System Wissenschaft, dessen Funktionieren auch auf Diskriminierung, Prekarisierung und Ausschluss beruht. ” Wir sind ein Zusammenschluss von Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich aktiv für Wissenschaftsfreiheit einsetzen. Wir verstehen…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 