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Anthropology Lecture Series #5: Exceptional Intimacy and the Ordinary Life of Crime in Burkina Faso
14.11.23 Melina C Kalfelis | University of Bayreuth This talk examines vigilante practices of restructuring of crime and violence in urban Burkina Faso. Focusing on the way koglweogo self-defense groups run prisons and mediate conflicts surrounding crime, I analyze vigilantes attempts to disrupt and reconcile criminal violations in everyday life. Moving the focus away from…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #4: Making Sense with Rats: Transgressing Species in East Africa
07.11.2023 Jia Hui Lee | University of Bayreuth In English, the phrase ‘to make sense’ has several meanings. When something makes sense, it is considered intelligible or comprehensible; it can also refer to something that is wise or reasonable, “the right tools for the job” (Clarke and Fujimura 1992). These definitions, however, assume implicit understandings…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #3: Building shared knowledge of and through the border regime. A first reflection on a collaborative ethnography of migration policies with Gambians returnees
31.10.23 Viola Castellano | University of Bayreuth The presentation will discuss some preliminary observations on an ongoing collaborative project called “Gambian Returnees as Knowledge Producers on the Border Regime”, which focuses on the experiences and visions of migrants who returned to Gambia through EU and IOM sponsored programs. The project is interested in the recent…
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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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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…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 