© Thomas Kundy Current lecture series
The next lecture will take place on 08.01.2025. For further information please click here.
Departmental Colloquium Series – Winter Semester 2024/25
You can find the complete schedule of the lectures here.
08.01.2025 The Practice of Affinity: Making Social Justice Work on Indonesia's Muslim Left - Dr. Sophia Hornbacher-Schoenleber
15.01.2025 Rereading the Colonial Library: Shaykh Bu Kunta and the Expansion of Islam in 19th-20th Century Senegambia - Dr. Maria Grosz-Ngate
Departmental Colloquium Series – Summer Semester 2024
You can find the complete schedule of the lectures here.
Departmental Colloquium Series – winter term 2023/24
Decolonizing Anthropology
Eine selbstkritische Standortbestimmung in Forschung und Lehre //
A self-critical appraisal of the current state of research and teachingThe lecture series is a digital joint event of social and cultural anthropological institutes in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany and will be screened online into our seminar room. After listening to the online-presentations for the first half of the session, we will switch off the screen and Arne Harms and Thomas Stodulka will moderate our in-house discussion.
You can find an overview by clicking here. You'll also find the upcoming events in our calendar.
The lectures start at 6 p.m. sharp.Link to all sessions: https://mpi-eth.webex.com/mpi-eth/j.php?MTID=mfd94a7602ab76b9a10972c6113220203
Past events & workshops
Past lecture series
Lectures in the winter term 2023/24
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Lectures in the summer term 2023
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Lectures in the winter term 2022/23
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Lectures in the summer term 2022
July 13th 2022, at 4p.m., Dr. Iain Walker (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle)
Creating self and other: discourses of inclusion and exclusion on MayotteJune 29th 2022 at 4 p.m., Dr. Nadine Rossol (University of Essex)
Police History in Germany: New Perspectives and Old ChallengesMay 30th 2022 at 4 p.m., Prof. Dr. Jean Comaroff (Harvard University)
“Vigilantism” and the Paradox of Popular Sovereignty in South AfricaApril 20th 2022 at 4 p.m., Prof. Dr. Bettina E. Schmidt (University of Wales)
Non-ordinary Experiences and COVID-19. Initial findings of a new research on spiritual experiences during the pandemic
Lectures in the winter term 2021/22
List of lectures in the winter semester 2021/22
Lectures in the summer term 2021
List of Lectures in the summer semester 2021
23.06.2021 at 4 p.m., Karim Zafer
Unaccompanied minor and youth refugees making a family and a future09.06.2021 at 4 p.m.,, Prof. Scott M. Youngstedt
Traditional Healing in Niamey, Niger
07.07.2021 at 4 p.m., Prof. Susan Rasmussen
Loneliness and Travel in Tuareg and Anthropological Perspective: Challenges and Insights in the Study of Emotions in Cultural Encounters
14.07.2021 at 4 p.m., Prof. Roberto Beneduce
Refugees and postcolony: foreign frontiers of truth and future
Lectures in the winter term 2020/21
List of Lecturers in the winter term 2020/21
Lectures in the winter term 2019/20
List of Lecturers in the winter term 2019/20
Lectures in the Summer Term 2019
26.06.2019 4-6pm, Dr. Markus Schleiter
(WWU Münster)
Producing Indigeneity in India – Colonial Ethnography, Media Infrastructures, and Romance Through the Lens of a Santali Music Video19.06.2019 4-6pm, Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann
(Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)
'The Seamen from Minicoy (Maliku), South-West India' Pioneers of early globalisation05.06.2019 4-6pm, Dr. Sharon Gabie
(Rhodes University, Grahamstown)
Reclaiming Indigeneity: Disrupting and Unsettling the Legacy of Categorisation and Naming in Southern Africa22.05.2019 4-6pm, Dr. Uroš Kovač
(University Cologne)
"The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon"08.05.2019 4-6pm, Dr. Patrick Desplat
(Georg-August-University, Göttingen)
"Dreads of Betrayal. Envy and Secrecy among Youth in Urban Madagascar"24.04.2019 4-6pm, Prof. Dr. Abdul Shaban
(Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
"Impact of Digital Technologies and Industries on Creative Industries and its Geographies in India"
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2018/19
List of Lecturers in the Winter Semester 2018/19
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2018
List of Lecturers in the Summer Semester 2018
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2017/18
List of Lecturers in the Winter Semester 2017/18
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2017
List of Lecturers in the Summer Semester 2017
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2016/17
List of Lecturers in the Winter Semester 2016/17
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2016
10. Mai 2016 um 18 Uhr, Prof. Dr. Abdul Shaban
(Tiss University Mumbai)
Urban Space and Religious Minorities: A Case of Mumbai City
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2015/16
List of lectures in the Winter Semester 2015/16
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2015
List of lectures in the Summer Semester 2015
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2014/15
List of lectures in the winter semester 2014/15
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2014
List of lectures in the summer semester 2014
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2013:
03. 07. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Frembgen (Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München):
"The Iconic Presence of the Qalandar: Aesthetics of Devotion in the Cult of the Sufi Saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Pakistan"
19. 06. 2013, 16-18 Uhr Gurvinder S. Kalra, MD, DPM, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, M.G.M. Medical College & Hospital, M.G.M. University of Health Sciences Campus
"Understanding the Hijra Identity through Bollywood Cinema"
05. 06. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Prof. Dr. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
(Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New York):
"Naming and Omission: Proverbs, Prayer and Possession in Suburban Gujarat"
29. 05. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Dr. Johannes Quack (The lecture turns out unfortunately.)
(Institut für Ethnologie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main):
"Formal, Informal, Formed, and (Ill-)Informed Consent: Ethical Challanges in Hospital Ethnographies"
15. 05. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Dr. Kristine Krause
(Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen):
"Abusua in London: Practicing Family and Creating Relatedness in Therapy Networks around a Ghanaian Pub"
24. 04. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
(Institut für Ethnologie, Freie Universität Berlin):
Religion and the Formation of “Unequal subjects” in an Urban Educational Market: Christian and Muslim Schooling in Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaThe lecture given by Professor had to unfortunately be canceled.
17. 04. 2013, 16 – 18 Uhr, Ekkehard Schröder
(Editor in chief of Curare Journal of Medical Anthropology and vice-chairman of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin AGEM e.V.):
"Georges Devereux, Eine Übersicht über sein Leben und Werk als Wanderer zwischen Orten und Diskursen."
Lectures in the Winter Semester 2012/13
14.11.2012, 14-16 Uhr, Schlossplatz 2, Raum S2, Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann
(Institut für Ethnologie München) Thema:
"Soziale Ästhetik als neue Perspektive für die Ethnologie"14.11.2012, 18 – 20 Uhr, Studtstraße 21, Raum STU 105 (2.10) Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber (Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Bayreuth): Im Dickicht der Geschwisterbeziehungen - eine Fallgeschichte aus Nordbenin
16.01.2013, 18 – 20 Uhr, Studtstraße 21, Raum STU 105 (2.10) Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher (Institut für Ethnologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): Ortschaften des globalen Hinduismus: Balinesische Pilger auf der Suche - wonach?
30. 01.2013, 18 – 20 Uhr, Studtstraße 21, Raum STU 105 (2.10) Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings (Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Kinoerzählen in Afrika: Skizze eines Forschungsfeldes
19.04.2012 Here you can find a listing of our guest lectures in the summer semester of 2012
03.11.2011, 14.00 Uhr, Room SCH 100.3:
"Ethnologie und Nationalsozialismus in Frankreich. Der Antisemitismus in Leben und Werk von George Alexis Montandon (1879 -1944) - ein Ethnologe, Prähistoriker, Anthropologe und Paläoanthropologe,
à la dérive´ (Knobel 1988)"
Prof. Dr. A. Fiedermutz20.04.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4):
De-centering anthropology: Three East European traditions in context: Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.
Dr. Aleksandar Bošković
Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade and University of Belgrade27.04.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4)
The tale of Rama and Sita in Java
Prof. Dr. Willem van der Molen
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies, Leiden04.05.2011, 14 – 16 Uhr, Raum STU 102 (2.4)
The impact of modernity on the oral traditions in Nias
Pastor Johannes Hämmerle
OFMCap, Nias, Indonesia11.05.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4)
Resurrection of Javanese pre-Islamic concepts of power in modern Indonesia
Jiri Jakl MA
University of Queensland, Australia23.05.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Enacting the mountains: Ethnographic remarks on an anthropology of environment
Anja Wagner, M.A.
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster20.06.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Die lokale Aneignung der Depression in Kerala, Südindien
Dr. Claudia Lang
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München04.07.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Relatedness as transcendence: on the renewed debate over the meaning of kinship
Prof. Prof. Dr. Robert Parkin
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford"Salon [anthro]metronom #1 | Memories & Commemoration Practices"
In the first edition of the "Salon [anthro]metronom", the blog for psychological anthroplogy [anthro]metronom will be presented through a discussion with its authors. Further information on the event can be found in the flyer and in the event calendar.
