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tulieren ganz herzlichzu ihrer Auszeichnung mit dem Beatrice-Primus-Forschungspreis für Transfer der Philosophischen Fakultät !
Sie erhalten den Preis für ihr Projekt "We are not Carpets! I tell you my story" - das vom 27.Sept. 2024 bis 5. Jan. 2025 im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert wurde .Wir freuen uns mit Ihnen!
German Association of Social and Cultural AnthropologyConference 2025 | Universität of Cologne | 29.9. to 2.10.2025
on “Un/Commoning Anthropology“
+++ Call for papers closes on 15 January 2025 +++
Out of Agriculture: The 1850s – 2010s Java and Southern Germany compared
Teilnehmende Initiativen: Allmende Emscherlippe; KKT - Kölner Künstler:innen Theater; Machbarschaft Petershof; Solidarische Landwirtschaft Köln; Umsonstladen "Die Teilerei"
Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds
Wie sieht der Wald der Zukunft aus? Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Vorlesung Einführung in Politik- und Stadtethnologie, Prof. Kurfürst
The Embodied Pilgrim: A Pakistani-German Muslim’s Journey Through Taiwan’s "Muslim-Friendly Environment"
Epistemic violence in a world of objectification: The modern slavery framework in the clothing industries ...
Film Premiere
at the Off-Broadway
on 23 June 2025, 5-7pm
Mtu ni Watu explores the often unacknowledged role of research assistants in anthropological fieldwork. >>> read more and watch the trailer on youtube
For a Blue Planet: water commons and ‘commoning’ in the climate crisis.16 June 2025 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST) | Online Event:
A Dialogue between Andrea Pia (LSE) und Andrea Mühlebach (Bremen)
The initial image of Earth, seen from space, resonated deeply with the early environmental movement, crystallising in the iconic "blue planet" metaphor: a cosmic treasure we are entrusted to protect in common. Yet, are we truly fulfilling this stewardship? The climate predicament has dramatically shifted our perception of the planet, highlighting ecological tipping points and boundaries we are reluctant to cross, alongside the anxiety of lacking the planetary institutions needed to bring global climate change under control. Read more >>
Museum-Community Relations in Transforming the Museum: The Moto Moto Museum Chisungu Female Initiation Collectio
Dilemmas of Decoloniality: Anti-Racism and the Challenge of Deconstructing "Race"
Aktionsethnologische Bildungsarbeit in Deutschland? Praxisbeispiele aus der Arbeit des INFOE
GSSC Seminar Series
13 May 2025,12:00-13:00
Seminarraum 3.03, Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24
Gerda Kuiper (University of Cologne)
This seminar will briefly introduce the topic and will discuss the example of the DAAD Global Climate and Environment Center AFAS, a cooperation between two African and two German universities. >>> read more
28 Apr 2025 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST) | Online Event: A Dialogue between Anna Tsing (Univ California, Santa Cruz) and Thomas Widlok (UoC).
Mobilizing for the Marginalized: The Emergence of Romani Humanitarianism in Assisting Ukrainian Romani Refugees
Awkward Alignments: Towards Empathetic Scepticism and Agonistic Confrontation in Anthropological Knowledge-Making
Futures Beyond Extraction: Toward Regenerative MethodologiesKeynote by Dr. Rosalia Engchuan (Kunsthalle Bangkok and founder of the Futures Observatory)
Friday, March 28, 3-6 pm at the Machbarschaftshof Petershof in Köln Lövenich
Please join our public tour and key note ! Contact: m.benz@uni-koeln.de
Kinderuni: Mehr als Menschen in der Stadt Workshop mit Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst
Termin: Mo., 17.03.2025, 15.30-17.00 Uhr
Zielgruppe: Schülerinnen und Schüler der Klassenstufen 3 bis 4
Veranstaltungsort: S221, Weyertal - Modulbau 1, Geb.-Nr. 911, Weyertal 119a, 50931 Köln
Wed 29.1. 2025 | Weiterbildung zu geschlechtlicher Vielfalt ! Anmeldung per E-Mail bitte an: a.benz@uni-koeln.de
5 February 2025 at 12:00 p.m. s.t. Online via Zoom
08.01.205, 5 pm | with good company, great food, andlive music: Luis Gimenez Amoros and Amir Hussein: "The Unknown Spanish Levant series"
Wed 15.01. & 29.1. 2025 | Weiterbildung zu geschlechtlicher Vielfalt ! Anmeldung per E-Mail bitte an: a.benz@uni-koeln.de
Thur 16.01.2025 18:00 | Shared Commemoration – Polyphonic Memory? On Solidarity and Belonging in the Postmigrant Present
Fr-Sa 13-14 Dec 2024| Exploring Cultural Mediation and Spatial Research with Luciana Serrano | Cologne-Siegen Masterclass of Media Ethnography
17.12.2024, 20 Uhr | Wissenschaftskommunikation: Unsichtbare Verflechtungen erfahrbar machen
Mo 2.12.2024 | Online via Zoom. Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices" (GSSC) and DGSKA.
Di 03.12.2024, 20 Uhr Online |Naturschutz durch Bildung: Potential ethnologischer Perspektiven am Beispiel Ugandas
Wed 11.12. 2024 | Caring for future life chances in highly diverse kinship networks: changing inter-generational responsibilities in the republic of Benin
We warmly invite all members of the department and especially all students of our BA and MA programmes to join us in an open dialogue and exchange perspectives on the field of anthropology. While enjoying coffee and Christmas cookies, we would like to talk about the following topics above all:
We will use English and German in the talks and support each other in translating.
Di 26.11.2024 | 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.
Wed 27.11.2024 | Shaping the Future - Chances and Challenges of a Student-Organized Summer School
28.-29.11.2024 | Final Conference
Di 12.11.2024, 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.
Fri 15.11.2024 | Reflections on Research with the Gwich'in of Canada’s North | Workshop org. by Franz Krause
Mo 25.11. 2024 | Online via Zoom. Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices" (GSSC) and DGSKA.
Online Workshop | Nov 15, 2024 10:00-17:00
Im Fokus dieses Workshops stehen die unterschiedlichen Zukunftsvisionen, Interessen und Sorgen von lokalen Akteur:innen, Praktiker:innen und Wissenschaftler:innen, die sich aus den aktuellen ökologischen, kulturellen, und soziotechnischen Transformationen ergeben. Mehr dazu >> https://umweltethnologie.com/aktuelles/
05.11.2024, 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.
Wed 06.11.2024 | Reconsidering Multimusicality through the making of "The Unknown Spanish Levant series" in Cologne
13 – 15 Nov 2024 at University of Siegen
Oct 14–19, 2024 | A Graduate School on Multispecies Conviviality (EUniWell - MESH - BRIDGES)
Oct 17–19, 2024 | Multispecies Conviviality - programme & registration online!
24.Okt.2024 12:30 | als Studierende mitarbeiten bei der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
Anmelde-Deadline 15.10.2024 !in Kooperation mit dem Kompetenzzentrum Fairer Handel. Erforschen Sie die Wahrnehmung der Bildsprache von Fairtrade Produkten in der BIPoC Community und untersuchen Sie, ob & inwieweit policy Dokumente, Gesetzgebungen und Handelsabkommen postkoloniale Strukturen reproduzieren >> anmelden in KLIPS
Begrüßung zum Wintersemester 2024/25 und Vorbesprechung des Veranstaltungsprogramms
Wed. 09.10, 2 p.m.| Screening of the Video Installation RE|DES|PAIR – Painful Encounters in German Museums
Wed 09.10., 3 p.m. following the 60 min kick off | Gallery Tour on Current Research Projects
AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield)
Lecture 02.10. 2024, 17:00 pm
Room S26, Seminargebäude, University of Cologne
The lecture is part of the program of the GSSC-Thematic Area South-South Relations: Engaging with New Constellations and Dynamics in the Global Souths. Read more >>
GSSC Seminar Series | 1 Oct, 12:00 – 13:00 Physical Identity of Women in the Persian Gulf on Instagram: A study on Baloch Women in Iran and Oman
Atiyeh Azarshab (University of Cologne)
Location: Room 3.03, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 50931, Köln
Book Launch | 28 Aug 2024, 15:30 – 17:00 Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
A Volume edited by Gerda Kuiper, Eric Kioko and Michael Bollig
Location: Room S251, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 50931, Köln
| 04.07.24 | Rosalind Morris (Columbia Univ. – Univ. Lüneburg)
| 10.07.24 | Annika Benz (UoC)
| 10.07.24 | Deadline - Call for papers für Online Workshop "Umwelt(en) im Wandel"
| 11.07.24 | Shalini Randeria (Central European Univ., Wien)
| 12.07.24| Symposium der 8. Forschungsklasse Welterbe
| 26.06.24 | Gerda Kuiper and students (DoSCA, UoC)
| 27.06.24 | S.B. Debele (Univ. Bayreuth), S. Lämmert (MPI, Berlin) & Y.K. Serunkuma (Univ. Halle-Wittenberg)
| 04.07.24 | Juno Salazar Parreñas (Cornell University)
Dear students and members of the Department of Social and Cultural AnthropologyWe kindly invite all students and faculty to the summer roundtable “utopian seminars” on Wednesday July 3rd 16:00-18:00h. Leaving infrastructural constraints of seminar rooms as well as audit concerns behind, we would like to invite you to dream together about seminar utopias. What do we aspire the ideal seminar to look like?
The roundtable will be held in English and German. We are aware that for many this is not the native language, and we support each other in translating.
>> read more
In summer semester 2024, you are warmly invited to the following events organised as part of our Buddy Programme:of the past: 6 June 2024: WDR Lunch Concert (departure 11 am at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
29 June 2024: Hiking Trip (further details to be announced)
The Buddy Programme is an exchange platform that allows first-semester students to exchange ideas with senior students >> read more
Benjamin Baumann, Philipp Zehmisch (both Univ. Heidelberg) & Visisya Pinthongvijayakul (Chandrakasem Rajabhat Univ.)
Thur June 13, 2024 at 6pm International House UoC, Kringsweg 6
| 20.06.24 | George Steinmetz is author of: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, 2023
| 23.05.24 | Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia Univ.) in Dialoge with Tyler Zoanni (Univ. Bremen)
Master Class on Camera Ethnography with Bina Elisabeth Mohn
with Anna-Louise Milne || 03.06.24 | 16:00 - 18:00 | GSSC, 3.03,
Film Screening: A King in China Wed, 29 May 2024, 16:00-18:00 | Hörsaal XIb (Hauptgebäude)
The director, Paul Harris, will be present to introduce his film and discuss the film-making process. Paul worked in production and then as a sound and camera operator to gain experience before venturing out to make his own films. He will touch on aspects of film-making such as directing, producing and rights, as well as about his experiences as a film-maker in China >> read more
04.06.24 | 12.00 – 13.00 | Nsah Mala and Prof Dr Franz Krause (UoC)
| 06.06.24 | Léa Lacan (Universität zu Köln), Denisha Anand (University of the Western Cape), Moderation by: Mihir Sharma (Universität Bayreuth)
Wed 12.6.24 | Julia Brekl and Wisse van Engelen (UoC, ERC Rewilding)
Tuesday | May 15, 2024 | 6 p.m.. International House UoC, Kringsweg 6
Conference 16.-17.05.2024 | FOR 5183
| 16.05.24 | Otto Habeck (Universität Hamburg)
Fri 26. April 2024, 10 - 18.00 h Gronewaldstr. 2, Hörsaal 123 3. OG
Thur 02.05.24 | Ricardo F. Macip (Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico), Host: Dorothy Zinn, Free University of Bolzano
Wed 15.5.2024, 15:00 DoSCA Library
2. Session | 18.04.24 | Richard Kuba & Katja Geisenhainer
Tue, April 23, 2024 at 6pm International House UoC, Kringsweg 6
3. Session | 25.04.24 | Michaela Schäuble (Universität Bern) & Zainabu Jallo (Universität Basel)
Book Launch, April 16th, 2024, at 18:00, GSSC building, Room S.253
17.04.2024 , 14:00 DoSCA Library
Wed 17.4.2024, 15:00 DoSCA Library
Events from Past Semesters: Winter 2023-24 | Summer 2023 | Winter 2022-23