

Departmental Colloquium Series – Summer semester 2025
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Past events and workshops
Leture series 'Between stage and prayer room: 'Theological-Anthropological Perspectives on Music and Islam'
Emma Wendt (M.A.), Institut für Ethnologie Münster
Selma Durakovic (M.A.), Zentrum für Islamische Theologie
The lecture series deals with the connection between music and Islam from a theological and anthropological perspective. Being a much debated subject within Islamic discourses, we will deal with the variety of theological positions on the definition, permissibility and the forms of use of music, drawing on Islamic dogmas and the history of Muslim societies. Ethnographic research from around the world will help to highlight not only the religious function of music, but its social, political and identity-forming role for Muslims in Western and Muslim-majority countries around the world (UK, Senegal, Indonesia, MENA region) as well. To conclude, the lecture series offers the possibility to not only talk about but directly with Muslims practicing music during the panel discussion with scholars from Islamic theology and anthropology and with two German-speaking Muslim musicians.You can find the schedule here.
Writing as a Public Intellectual & Crafting the Ethnographic Voice
Workshop with Dr. Deborah Kapchan
You can find the event flyer here."Salon [anthro]metronom #1| Memories & Commemoration Practices"
In der ersten Ausgabe des "Salon [anthro]metronom" wird der Blog für Psychological Anthroplogy [anthro]metronom, durch eine Diskusion mit dessen Autorinnen und Autoren vorgestellt. Weitere Informationen zu der Veranstaltung finden Sie im Flyer und unter den aktuellen Terminen.
Past Departmental Colloquia
Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2025
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2024/25
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2024
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term2023/24
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term2023
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2022/23
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Departmental Colloquium Series 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 pandemicDepartmental Colloquium Series winter term 2021/22
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2021
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2020/21
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2019/20
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Departmental Colloquium Series 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
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2018
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2017/18
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2017
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2016/17
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2016
10. Mai 2016 um 18 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Abdul Shaban (Tiss University Mumbai)
Urban Space and Religious Minorities: A Case of Mumbai CityDepartmental Colloquium Series winter term 2015/16
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2015
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Departmental Colloquium Series winter term 2014/15
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 2014
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Departmental Colloquium Series summer term 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"
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, TanzaniaDepartmental Colloquium Series winter term 2012/13
14.11.2012, 14-16 Uhr Schlossplatz 2, Raum S2
Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann (Institut für Ethnologie München)
"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 Nordbenin16.01.2013, 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 ForschungsfeldesDepartmental Colloquium Series winter term 2011/12
03.11.2011, 14.00 Uhr, Room SCH 100.3
Prof. Dr. A. Fiedermutz
"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)"20.04.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4)
Dr. Aleksandar Bošković (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade and University of Belgrade)
De-centering anthropology: Three East European traditions in context: Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.27.04.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4)
Prof. Dr. Willem van der Molen (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies, Leiden)
The tale of Rama and Sita in Java04.05.2011, 14 – 16 Uhr, Raum STU 102 (2.4)
Pastor Johannes Hämmerle (OFMCap, Nias, Indonesia)
The impact of modernity on the oral traditions in Nias11.05.2011, 2pm – 4pm, Room STU 102 (2.4)
Jiri Jakl MA (University of Queensland, Australia)
Resurrection of Javanese pre-Islamic concepts of power in modern Indonesia23.05.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Anja Wagner, M.A. (WWU Münster)
Enacting the mountains: Ethnographic remarks on an anthropology of environment20.06.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Dr. Claudia Lang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Die lokale Aneignung der Depression in Kerala, Südindien04.07.2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room STU 105 (2.10)
Prof. Prof. Dr. Robert Parkin (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Relatedness as transcendence: on the renewed debate over the meaning of kinship