Dr. des. Helmar Kurz
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Ethnologie
Studtstraße 21 Raum 2.8
48149 Münster
Tel.: +49 251 - 83-27311
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Office hours: Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m., online, appointment by mail: helmar.kurz@uni-muenster.de
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Teaching in the summer semester 2023
082875 Ethnografische Methoden
Einzeltermin, 06.04.23, Do 10-15, F 153
Einzeltermin, 20.04.23, Do 10-15, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 27.04.23, Do 10-15, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 04.05.23, Do 10-15, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 11.05.23, Do 10-15, STU 105 (2.10)Teaching in the winter semester 2022/23
088877 Transatlantic Health and Healing
17.10.22 - 30.01.23, Mo 16-18, SRZ 116
in cooperation with: Prof. Dr. Dorothea SchulzTeaching in the summer semester 2022
088877 Translocal Relationships
06.04.22 - 13.07.22, Mi 12-14, SRZ 115Teaching in the winter semester 2021/22
086882 Media - Aesthetic Negotiation & Anthropological Approaches
14.10.21 - 03.02.22, Do 14-16, Cont BH-4Teaching in the summer semester 2021
084879 Care & Well-Being in Forschung & Praxis
Einzeltermin, 16.04.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 23.04.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 07.05.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 11.06.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 25.06.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 02.07.21, Fr 14-18
Einzeltermin, 23.07.21, Fr 14-18Teaching in the winter semester 2020/21
082875 Spiritual and Mental Aspects of Health: Approaches in Cultural & Social Anthropology
02.11.20 - 08.02.21, Mo 14-16Teaching in the summer semester 2020
080879 Spirits, Selves & Societies: Global Mental Health from an Anthropological Perspective 080888 (Mental) Health & Wellbeing in Social Anthropology Teaching in the winter semester 2019/20
088875 Global Mental Health 15.10.19 - 28.01.20, Di 14-16 ULB 201
Einzeltermin, 13.12.19, Fr 14-18 ULB 1
Einzeltermin, 14.12.19, Sa 09-17, ULB1in cooperation with: José-Marie Koussemou
Teaching in the winter semester 2017/18
081068 Spirit, Healers and Spirit-Healers . Trans/Cultural Psychiatry as Method of Cultural and Social Comparison at the Intersection of Religious and Medical Anthropology
19.10.17 - 01.02.18, Do 14-16, SCH 109.6Teaching in the summer semester 2017
089078 "Are You Nuts?!" - Mental Health in Social & Medical Anthropology
EntfälltTeaching in the summer semester 2016
085105 Transcultural Psychiatry (Master)
13.04.16-01.06.16, Mi 14-16, F 030
Einzeltermin, 29.04.16, Fr 14-18, F 030
Einzeltermin, 30.04.16, Sa 10-16, ULB 1
Einzeltermin, 09.07.16, Sa 10-16, ULB 101in cooperation with: José-Marie Koussemou
085104 Transcultural Psychiatry (Bachelor)
13.04.16-01.06.16, Mi 14-16, Fürstenberghaus - F 030
Einzeltermin, 29.04.16, Fr 14-18, Fürstenberghaus - F 030
Einzeltermin, 30.04.16, Sa 10-16, ULB 1
Einzeltermin, 09.07.16, Sa 10-16, ULB 101in cooperation with: José-Marie Koussemou
Teaching in the summersemester 2015
088780 BA 088851 MA
Trans/Cultural Psychiatry II: Research Areas, Methods and Project Design in Interdisciplinary Medical Anthropology
Einzeltermin, 10.04.15, Fr 16-18, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 24.04.15, Fr 14-18, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 25.04.15, Sa 10-18, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 25.04.15, Sa 10-18, STU 104 (2.1)
Einzeltermin, 09.05.15, Sa 10-18, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 09.05.15, Sa 10-18, STU 104 (2.1)
Einzeltermin, 27.06.15, Sa 10-18, STU 105 (2.10)
Einzeltermin, 27.06.15, Sa 10-18, STU 104 (2.1)in cooperation with: José-Marie Koussemou
088775 Training Course: Introduction to Empirical Research Procedures
Einzeltermin, 10.04.15, Fr 14-16, ULB 201
Einzeltermin, 27.04.15, Mo 08-12, S 9
Einzeltermin, 11.05.15, Mo 08-12, S 9
Einzeltermin, 01.06.15, Mo 08-12, S 9
Einzeltermin, 10.07.15, Fr 10-17, SCH 100.05
Einzeltermin, 11.07.15, Sa 10-17, ULB 101Teaching in the winter semester 2014/15
088868 BA 088872 MA
Transcultural Psychiatry in cooperation with: José-Marie Koussemou
088930 Culture - Corpus - Complaint: Aspects of Medical Anthropology 088853 Training Course: Scientific Practices Teaching in the summer semester 2014
088826 Transcultural Psychiatry
in cooperation with: José-Marie KoussemouTeaching in the winter semester 2013/14
088722 Transcultural Psychiatry 088832 Training Course: Scientific Practices 088866 Body and Practice in Cultural and Social Anthropology Teaching in the summer semester 2013
088733 Illness and Cure in Brazil Teaching in the summer semester 2012
088636 Tutorial Course Teaching in the winter semester 2010/11
087917 Religion - culture - identity of Afro-Brasilians Projects and research
Regional: Brazil, Germany, Transatlantic
Topical: Trans/Cultural Psychiatry, Psychological Anthropology, Medical and Religious Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body & the Senses, Ritual Theory, Performance
2006 – 2007: Field Research in Brazil on „Performativity & Modernity in Braszilian Candomblé“ (6 months)
2015 – 2017: Field Research in Brazil and Germany within the DFG-Project „Diversification of Mental Health – Therapeutic Spaces of Brazilian Spiritism“ (18 months)
2019: International, interdisciplinary & intersectoral conference „Aesthetics of Healing: Working with the Senses in Therapeutic Contexts” in cooperation of the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology with the Association for Anthropology & Medicine (AGEM, http://agem.de/?lang=en)
2021: International, interdisciplinary & intersectoral conference „Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care & Anthropology of the Good” / 24.-27 June 2021 in cooperation of FU Berlin with AG Medical Anthropology of DGSKA and AGEM (http://agem.de/events/agem-annual-conference-33-radical-health/?lang=en)
Curriculum Vitae
2022 Ph.D on the topic "Voices of Good Sense: Diversifiaction of Mental Health & the Aesthetics of Healing in Brazilian Spiritism"
since 2021 Research associate, Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology WWU Münster since 2020 Programme Coordinator of the Masters Visual Anthropology 2020 Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Grahamstown, South Africa as a part of the DAAD-ISAP Programm (Honours Class: Transcultural Approaches to Wellness & Wellbeing) 2020 Visiting Lecturer at the Seminar for General Religious Studies, WWU Münster (Seminar: Religion & Medicine in Non-European Cultures: Aspects of Religious Aesthetics & Medical Anthropology) 2018-2020 Third-party funding administration at the Institute of Ethnology 2017 - 2018 Advisor of the MA Social Anthropology/Sozialanthropologie 2016 NRW Certificate "Professional Teaching Competence for Higher Education Institutions" 2015-2018 Research associate in the third-party funded project of the German Research Foundation (DFG): "Diversification of Mental Health - Therapeutic Sites of Brazilian Spiritism". 2014-2015 Lecturer at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the WWU Münster 2013-2014 Research assistant at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at WWU Münster 2010-2013 Lecturer at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the WWU Münster 2009 Awarded the academic degree of Magister Artium by the Dean of the WWU Münster (topic of the thesis: Performanz und Modernität. Eine Studie des brasilianischen Candomblé) 2006-2007 Self-organised and -financed field research stay in Brazil to investigate the performativity of rituals in the Candomblé of Bahia 2003 Start of the Master's programme at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Major: Ethnology. Minor: General Religious Studies, Pre- & Early History) Memberships in scientific societies
since 2020 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA, https://www.easaonline.org/) since 2018 Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE, http://abre.eu/);
AG Environmental Anthropology of DGSKA (https://umweltethnologie.com/)
RG South America of DGSKAsince 2016 AG Medical Anthropology (AGMA, https://www.medicalanthropology.de/english/)
RG Afro-America of DGSKAsince 2015 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA,
https://en.dgska.de/);
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC,
https://www.issrnc.org/) (until 2020)since 2010 Association for Anthropology & Medicine (AGEM, http://agem.de/uber-uns/?lang=en);
Board member since 2016; Treasurer since 2018; Co-Editor of the affiliated journal
CURARE (http://agem.de/curare/about-curare/?lang=en) since 2018Publications
Monographs
2013 Performanz und Modernität im brasilianischen Candomblé. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. Editorships
2019 Aesthetics of Healing: Working with the Senses in Therapeutic Contexts. Curare 42(3+4) Articles in Anthology (peer-reeview)
2022 Politics and Aesthetics of Care: Chronic Affliction and Spirituality in Brazilian Kardecism. In: Hatala, A.R. & K.S. Roger [eds.]: Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity: An Exploration of Mental Wellness in Global Context. London: Routledge. 76-99. Open Access 2021 Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Aesthetics of Brazilian Spiritist Practices in Well-Being and Healing. In: Pierini, E., A. Groisman & D. Espirito Santo [eds.]: Other Worlds, other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing. In review. 2021 Voices of Spirits, Patients and Healers: Skill and Scale of Kardecist Mediumship as Transnational Therapeutic Practice. In: Muscari, M., E. Voss & M. Zillinger [eds]: Skill and Scale of Transnational Mediumship. Springer: in press. 2018 Affliction and consolation: mediumship and obsession as explanatory models within Brazilian Kardecist mental health care. In: Nunes, Mônica & Tiago Pires Marques [eds]: Legitimidades da loucura: sofrimento, luta, criatividade e pertença. Salvador: EDUFBA. 129-154. Articles in Anthology (non-peer-review)
2019 Geist, Heilung und Geistheilung – Spirituelle Obsession und Mediumismus als Erklärungsmodell und Therapieansatz im Schnittfeld religiös-spiritueller und psychiatrischer Heilpraxis: Spiritismus in Brasilien und Deutschland. In: Krebber, C.E.H. [ed]: Ganzheitsmedizin IV: Der Weg zu einem neuen Bewusstsein der Heilung. München: Institut für Ganzheitsmedizin. 205-243. 2018 c/o Annika Strauss: Framing Experiences: Diagnosing and Explaining Dissociative Phenomena in Indian and Brazilian Mental Health-Care Institutions. In: Greifeld K., W. Krahl, H-J. Diesfeld & H. Stubbe [eds]: Grenzgänge zwischen Ethnologie, Medizin und Psychologie. Für Ekkehard Schröder zum 75. Geburtstag. Festschrift. Berlin: VWB / Curare 41(3+4): 159-168. Articles in Journals (peer-review)
2018 Transnational and Transcultural Transfer of Therapeutic Practice: Healing Cooperation of Spiritism, Biomedicine, and Psychiatry in Brazil and Germany. Curare 41(1+2): 39-53. 2017 Diversification of Mental Health Care: Brazilian Kardecist Psychiatry and the Aesthetics of Healing. Curare 40(3): 195-206. 2015 „Depression is not a Disease. It's a Spiritual Problem.“ Performance and Hybridization of Religion and Science within Brazilian Spiritist Healing Practices. Curare 38(3): 175-193. Book reviews
2019 Caldwell, Kia L. (2017): Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy. Urbana: University Press of Illinois Press. Curare 42(1+2): 153-154. 2019 Rocha, Cristina (2017): John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing. Oxford: University Press. Curare 42(1+2): 156-159. 2019 Wirtz, Ursula (2018): Stirb & Werde: Die Wandlungskraft traumatischer Erfahrungen. Ostfildern: Patmos. Curare 42(1+2): 165-168. 2017 Chirly dos Santos-Stubbe & Hannes Stubbe (2014): Kleines Lexikon der Afrobrasilianistik. Eine Einführung mit Bibliographie. Göttingen. In: Curare 40(4): 362-363. 2015 Julia Thiesbonenkamp-Maag (2014): “Wie eine Quelle in der Wüste“: Fürsorge und Selbstsorge bei der philippinisch-charismatischen Gruppe El Shaddai in Frankfurt. Berlin. In: Curare 38(4): 303-308.
Researchgate.net: Rezension_Julia_Thiesbonenkamp Maag_2014 Wie eine Quelle in der Wüste Fursorge und Selbstsorge bei der philippinisch-charismatischen Gruppe El-Shaddai2014 Wielant Machleidt (2013): Migration, Kultur und psychische Gesundheit. Stuttgart. In: Curare 37(1): 337-343.
Researchgate.net: Rezension Wielant_Machleidt_2013 Migration Kultur und psychische Gesundheit Dem Fremden begegnen2014 Godula Kossack (2012): Magie – Die Kraft zum Schaden oder zum Guten. Bad Schussenried. In: Curare 37(1): 77-78.
Researchgate.net: Rezension Godula Kosack 2012 Magie - Die Kraft zum Schaden oder zum Guten