Events from Past Semesters
Futures Beyond Extraction: Toward Regenerative Methodologies
Keynote 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

60 minutes goes Weiterbildung!
Wed 29.1. 2025 | Weiterbildung zu geschlechtlicher Vielfalt ! Anmeldung per E-Mail bitte an: a.benz@uni-koeln.de

Information event on Tandem Research Training in Summer 2025
5 February 2025 at 12:00 p.m. s.t. Online via Zoom

New Year's Get-Together
08.01.205, 5 pm | with good company, great food, andlive music: Luis Gimenez Amoros and Amir Hussein: "The Unknown Spanish Levant series"

60 minutes goes Weiterbildung!
Wed 15.01. & 29.1. 2025 | Weiterbildung zu geschlechtlicher Vielfalt ! Anmeldung per E-Mail bitte an: a.benz@uni-koeln.de

2. Cologne Crossroads Conversation
Thur 16.01.2025 18:00 | Shared Commemoration – Polyphonic Memory? On Solidarity and Belonging in the Postmigrant Present

Community and/in Collaboration:
Fr-Sa 13-14 Dec 2024| Exploring Cultural Mediation and Spatial Research with Luciana Serrano | Cologne-Siegen Masterclass of Media Ethnography

Constanze Illner M. A. | Ethnologin
17.12.2024, 20 Uhr | Wissenschaftskommunikation: Unsichtbare Verflechtungen erfahrbar machen

Common/ing Concerns
Mo 2.12.2024 | Online via Zoom. Organized by the Thematic Area "Commoning: Visions, Resources, Practices" (GSSC) and DGSKA.

Dagmar Sawistowsky M. A. | Anthropologin
Di 03.12.2024, 20 Uhr Online |Naturschutz durch Bildung: Potential ethnologischer Perspektiven am Beispiel Ugandas

Erdmute Alber (Univ. Bayreuth)
Wed 11.12. 2024 | Caring for future life chances in highly diverse kinship networks: changing inter-generational responsibilities in the republic of Benin
On Wednesday, 4 December, from 16:00-18:30, the department's roundtable of this winter semester will take place in our department's library.
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:
- How to reconnect students to act as "Fachschaft" ?
We will use English and German in the talks and support each other in translating.

PD Dr. Viola Thimm | Ethnologin
Di 26.11.2024 | 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.

Merle Ellersieck, Rakai Michelia and Fiona Sastrit
Wed 27.11.2024 | Shaping the Future - Chances and Challenges of a Student-Organized Summer School

Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience
28.-29.11.2024 | Final Conference

Dr. Lisa Johnson | Ethnologin
Di 12.11.2024, 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.

Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation
Fri 15.11.2024 | Reflections on Research with the Gwich'in of Canada’s North | Workshop org. by Franz Krause

On Commoning as Labor for Socioecological Transformation
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
Die AG Umweltethnologie der DGSKA lädt ganz herzlich zum Online-Workshop „Umwelt(en) im Wandel“
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/

Dr. Nikolas Schall | Kulturanthropologe und Erlebnispädagoge
05.11.2024, 20 Uhr ONLINE | Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v.

Luis Gimenez Amoros (Humboldt PostDoc Fellow (UoC)
Wed 06.11.2024 | Reconsidering Multimusicality through the making of "The Unknown Spanish Levant series" in Cologne

SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation | Annual Conference 2024
13 – 15 Nov 2024 at University of Siegen

Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing (MESHWell)
Oct 14–19, 2024 | A Graduate School on Multispecies Conviviality (EUniWell - MESH - BRIDGES)

Annual MESH Symposium 2024
Oct 17–19, 2024 | Multispecies Conviviality - programme & registration online!

Informationsveranstaltung zur DGSKA Tagung 2025 in Köln!
24.Okt.2024 12:30 | als Studierende mitarbeiten bei der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
Anmelde-Deadline 15.10.2024 !
Projektseminar „Forschungslücke schließen: Repräsentation und Dekolonialisierung im Fairen Handel”
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

Mo 07.10.2025, 10 Uhr in S23
Begrüßung zum Wintersemester 2024/25 und Vorbesprechung des Veranstaltungsprogramms

Kick Off Lecture | 60 minutes ...
Wed. 09.10, 2 p.m.| Screening of the Video Installation RE|DES|PAIR – Painful Encounters in German Museums

Master's Students - Meet & Greet
Wed 09.10., 3 p.m. following the 60 min kick off | Gallery Tour on Current Research Projects

How Does Black Life Matter to How We Understand Urban Life
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
Past Events | Summer 2024
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

Other Anthropologies and Anthropology’s Otherness
| 04.07.24 | Rosalind Morris (Columbia Univ. – Univ. Lüneburg)

(Re)Searching for Collaboration/Embracing Academic Discomfort
| 10.07.24 | Annika Benz (UoC)

AG Umweltethnologie der DGSKA
| 10.07.24 | Deadline - Call for papers für Online Workshop "Umwelt(en) im Wandel"

Beyond Eurocentrism. Reflecting Postcolonial Perspectives Then and Now
| 11.07.24 | Shalini Randeria (Central European Univ., Wien)

Heritage around the World
| 12.07.24| Symposium der 8. Forschungsklasse Welterbe

The institute library: A decolonizing examination
| 26.06.24 | Gerda Kuiper and students (DoSCA, UoC)

Rethinking Knowledge Production in German African Studies
| 27.06.24 | S.B. Debele (Univ. Bayreuth), S. Lämmert (MPI, Berlin) & Y.K. Serunkuma (Univ. Halle-Wittenberg)

Animals and Global Racial Capitalism in an Age of Misanthropy
| 04.07.24 | Juno Salazar Parreñas (Cornell University)
Dear students and members of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
We 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

13.06.24 | The Epistemological Decolonization of Anthropology
Benjamin Baumann, Philipp Zehmisch (both Univ. Heidelberg) & Visisya Pinthongvijayakul (Chandrakasem Rajabhat Univ.)

Nira Liberman | Can poor access to internal states explain Obsessive-Compulsive tendencies?
Thur June 13, 2024 at 6pm International House UoC, Kringsweg 6

George Steinmetz (Univ, Michigan): TBA
| 20.06.24 | George Steinmetz is author of: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, 2023

Possibilities and Limits of a Decolonized Anthropology
| 23.05.24 | Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia Univ.) in Dialoge with Tyler Zoanni (Univ. Bremen)

Extended registration deadline: May 31, 2024!
Master Class on Camera Ethnography with Bina Elisabeth Mohn

Common names / Proper names
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

Sublime Landscape, Carbon Sink and Marginal Environment
04.06.24 | 12.00 – 13.00 | Nsah Mala and Prof Dr Franz Krause (UoC)

Decolonizing Ecologies
| 06.06.24 | Léa Lacan (Universität zu Köln), Denisha Anand (University of the Western Cape), Moderation by: Mihir Sharma (Universität Bayreuth)

Sixty Minutes | The (re)vitalization of herding ...
Wed 12.6.24 | Julia Brekl and Wisse van Engelen (UoC, ERC Rewilding)

FILM SCREENING: Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau
Tuesday | May 15, 2024 | 6 p.m.. International House UoC, Kringsweg 6

Theory-Making and Methodologies at the Intersection of Mobility and Institutions
Conference 16.-17.05.2024 | FOR 5183

Eight Answers to the Question if Ethnographic Research in Asian Russia ...
| 16.05.24 | Otto Habeck (Universität Hamburg)

Studientag ISKIW "Nahostkonflikt"
Fri 26. April 2024, 10 - 18.00 h Gronewaldstr. 2, Hörsaal 123 3. OG

Decolonizing What Was Known as Mexican Anthropology
Thur 02.05.24 | Ricardo F. Macip (Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico), Host: Dorothy Zinn, Free University of Bolzano

Sixty Minutes | Atiyeh Azarshab (UoC, Humboldt Scholarship)
Wed 15.5.2024, 15:00 DoSCA Library

"Wir eingebildeten Europäer" – Debatten, Verstrickungen ...
2. Session | 18.04.24 | Richard Kuba & Katja Geisenhainer

Insights into Myanmar’s Conflict-Induced Displacement
Tue, April 23, 2024 at 6pm International House UoC, Kringsweg 6

Decolonizing and/or Re-Appropriating the Archive
3. Session | 25.04.24 | Michaela Schäuble (Universität Bern) & Zainabu Jallo (Universität Basel)

A. Datta: "Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany"
Book Launch, April 16th, 2024, at 18:00, GSSC building, Room S.253

Sixty Minutes | Sandro Simon (DoSCA, UoC): Freedom within Unfreedom
17.04.2024 , 14:00 DoSCA Library

Reception of Master Students, Lecturers and Researchers
Wed 17.4.2024, 15:00 DoSCA Library
Events from Past Semesters: Winter 2023-24 | Summer 2023 | Winter 2022-23
