Tag: Public Anthropology
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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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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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“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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BREATHING HEARTS: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany – By Nasima Selim
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular…
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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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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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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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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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Positive irritations, creative approaches and spaces for discussion – a student project on post- and decolonial theories
Background and Motivation In the summer semester of 2020 we, Vanessa and Semina (BA students at the University of Bayreuth), attended the seminar “Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies”, offered at the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thiago Pinto Barbosa. In the last session of the seminar, we discussed different possibilities to engage with social…
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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…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 