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Symposium „Transnational mobility, transnational social work?”
Thursday, 10. June 2021, 0930-1700 CEST Transnational mobility has become one of the key issues in the 21st century. It intersects the theme of migration which is a major policy theme in the African Union, European Union and beyond. Yet, while migration looks predominantly at the points of departure or arrival of migrating persons and…
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Workshop “Neoliberalism and the Global South” by the Decolonisation Group, Utrecht University
27-28 May 2021, Online For the full program, click here. Digital Walk-in DAY 2 (2:00-2:30 PM Amsterdam-Brussels time – 30 MIN) A time to double check technical issues, have a chat and get to know each other a bit already before the workshop begins. You can drop in at any time. Panel III – Green…
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Call for Papers: Migrant and Minority Activism: Between protest movements and everyday engagement
30 September – 1 October 2021, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin Co-organised by ZOiS and the EASA Anthropology of Social Movements Network, Mihir Sharma & Piotr Goldstein At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world (Polish women’s, Belarusian, Palestinian, Roma…
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Wissenschaft und Universität zwischen kolonialer Vergangenheit, postkolonialer Gegenwart und dekolonialer Zukunft
Online Workshop, 19-21 June, University of Tübingen This 3-day workshop at the University of Tübingen featured a range of formats (lectures, panel discussions, labs, and presentations) around issues of epistemology, knowledge production, and the university as they concern colonial continuities and decolonial futures. The keynote lecture and other recorded events are available as livestream recordings…
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15 JUNE: Public Anthropology Talk: “Invaluable Enmeshments in Pedagogy – Some Autoethnographic Reflections on Pedagogies of Care”, with Annie McCarthy
The Anthropology of Global Inequalities research group (University of Bayreuth) invites you to the second event of its Public Anthropology Talk series In this talk Annie McCarthy will build on a series of reflections she shared in a recent paper in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2020) to explore questions about pedagogies of care in…
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Collaboration in Times of a Pandemic: Reflections on a Student Exchange between the University of Namibia and the University of Bayreuth
Excerpt from BOASBLOGS Fieldwork meets Crisis: At the University of Bayreuth (UBT), all MA students in anthropology and African Studies have a unique opportunity to do fieldwork abroad, preferably in a country in Africa. This way, they are encouraged to practically engage with specific problems, to improve their research skills and to develop close collaborations…
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„Rassismus, Fachgeschichte und akademische Praxis: Warum sich der ethnographische Blick nach innen lohnt“
27.05.2021: Institutskolloquium an der Universität Göttingen Vortrag: Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm Die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (SKA) steht im Feuer der Kritik: zu kolonial, zu weiß, zu liberal. Ein Fach, das sich „als Wissenschaft für die Fernkompetenz“ (Bierschenk et al. 2013: 20) oder als „Wissenschaft vom kulturell Fremden“ (Kohl 2012) begreift, erscheint zunehmend anachronistisch – und…
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Public Anthropology talk: “From hope to hate: The rise of conservative subjectivity in Brazil”, with Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
09 June 2021, 6 p.m. CEST The Anthropology of Global Inequalities research group (University of Bayreuth) invites you to the first event of its Public Anthropology Talk series. Rosana Pinheiro-Machado will present and discuss her research on political subjectivity and the rise of Bolsonarism in Brazil. Following her talk, we will discuss modes and challenges…
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Book Launch
Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States. Edited By Fiona Anciano and Joanna Wheeler. On 9 June 2021, 3pm – 5pm (SAST)/ 2pm – 4pm (UCT) About the book This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 