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Knowing – Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads.
A new Open Access book edited by Katharina Schramm and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g.…
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“A Sufi is Someone who Breathes Well!”
Breathing Well in Suffocating Times. by Nasima Selim On Wednesday, July 3rd, the Berlin Anthropology Seminars, a joint initiative by anthropologists from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin, ZMO, and Ethnologisches Museum, hosts a festive book launch & Shared Breathwork (Universität Bayreuth) by Nasima Selim in conversation with Judith Albrecht (Universität Münster) Abstract: How can we breathe well on the brink of…
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ORDINARY DANGEROUS LIVING: EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER 30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY
Lecture by Dr Trevor Ngwane, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Wednesday 26 June, 14:00 – 15:30 in RW S 59, University of Bayreuth. The anti-apartheid movement was arguably one of the greatest international solidarity movements in history.It was driven by the dream of a world that could be free from all forms of oppression and…
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NO ONE CAN BE BORN TWICE. Website launch of born-twice.de
With a panel discussion of anthropologists (Uni Bayreuth) and activists (Together we are Bremen) on their joint research project. We cordially invite you to the launch of our website born-twice.de on June 28 at 6.30 pm, at the Lichtburgforum, Behmstraße 13, Berlin. Why and how does the eighteenth birthday make such a huge difference in the lives…
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Public Anthropology Lecture: “The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean”
Presentation by Timothy Raeymaekers (University of Bologna) online | June 17, 2024 | 6 p.m. We cordially invite you to the online presentation of our colleague Timothy Raeymaekers titled “The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean” on June 17th at 6 p.m. Abstract: The Anthropology of Global Inequalities research group (University of Bayreuth) invites you to…
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Operationalizing the Social Gaze. Doing Race in Affirmative Action Practices in Brazil – By Sarah Lempp
The dissertation of our member Sarah Lempp is now published online. The dissertation ethnographically examines a specific aspect of the Brazilian affirmative action policies: so-called hetero-identification commissions that have to decide whether candidates who applied for a quota vacancy for Black persons should be accepted as such. Drawing on field research conducted between 2016 and…
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Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin”
The Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin” took place on April 26, 2024 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This event was added last minute to the closing event and publication of the “Remembering Colonialism” (Kolonialismus erinnern). It was not originally part of the city-wide memory concept of “Colonialism” for Berlin, but…
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Why Cold Drinks Matter: Relieving Heat in South Africa – By Eileen Jahn
Imagine the moment you open the oven door to check on some freshly baked cookies. The whiff of warm, sweetly saturated air swiftly envelops you, leaving behind a lingering heat and a gradually fading smell throughout the room you are in. This sensory encounter vividly captures the essence of Slovo Park, where my research took…
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“Made in Bangladesh”. Film screening and discussion on 8 May at 7 p.m. CINEPLEX BAYREUTH
Dr. Nasima Selim, a member of the Working Group Anthropology of Global Inequalities will participate in the post-screening discussion about the film “Made in Bangladesh” (Rubaiyat Hossain, 2019, 95 Min.) to talk about the wider context of the film in relation to biosocial justice focusing on the suffocating working conditions if female garments factory workers…
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Saving sheep – On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming – by Eleanor Schaumann
The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara,…
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Anthroplogy Lecture Series: Antiracist Genomics (ANTIGEN): from ethnographic insights to speculative design
Speaker: Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin Lecturer in Sociology at University of Exeter Date and location: February 7, 6pm, in room S5 (in buildung GW II) Abstract: In 2003 the Human Genome Project claimed that race has no biological basis, since humanity shares 99.9% of its DNA. This led the acclaimed geneticist Francis Crick to state: “Under the skin, we…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #6: Sustainable Suburbanism in the American West – An Unlikely Site for the Production of Environmental Subjects
21.11.2023 Rachel Heiman | The New School New York This talk draws on five summers of fieldwork in an unlikely site for the production of environmental subjects and expertise: a massive master-planned community in Utah spearheaded by one the largest mining conglomerates in the world and developed with equal parts attention to sustainable suburbanism and…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 