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Planetary Healthy Publics: Who Is This 'We' And What Can They Do?

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:29:08 +0200

In this short talk and discussion, Steve Hinchliffe will ask what is a public? And what can they do? He will use a case study or work in Bangladesh and elsewhere on the issue of rising antimicrobial resistance, to demonstrate why it is important to raise a public, and why we should never assume that the 'we' of global change is already constituted. Hinchliffe is interested in how the social sciences and humanities can assist the formation of and joining together of collectives that can raise questions. In the discussion, we can open this out to see if there are some lessons in terms of other global issues that relate to climate and socio-ecological transformation.

Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. His books include Pathological Lives (2016, Wiley Blackwell) and Humans, animals and biopolitics: The more than human condition (2016, Routledge). He currently works on a number of interdisciplinary projects on disease, biosecurity and drug resistant infections, focusing on Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at Exeter, and sits on the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Exotic Diseases and on the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Science Advisory Group’s Social Science Expert Group.

Please register for this lecture via email at seasriseprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de. Registration will be possible until November 1st, 8pm CET. A Link for the meeting will follow shortly after.

Flyer Planetary Healthy Publics: Who Is This 'We' And What Can They Do?

Program "The Sea Is Rising And So Are We"

"The Sea is Rising and so are we?"

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:15:12 +0200

"The Sea Is Rising and So Are We" stellt die globale Umweltkrise ins Zentrum der sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatte. Wie ist diese Krise aus sozialer, kultureller, politischer und geographischer Perpektive zu verstehen und welche Rolle können die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften spielen angesichts der monumentalen Herausforderungen, die vor uns liegen?

Die Veranstaltungsreihe "The Sea is Rising and so are we?" geht am 26.10.2021 mit der Eröffnungsveranstaltung "A Sea of Oil Palm is Rising: Who can turn back the tide?" in den Auftakt. Sie findet im Wintersemester 2021/22 immer Dienstagabends (18:00-20:00 Uhr) statt - zum Teil als Hybridveranstaltung an der Uni Bremen und zum Teil digital. Die Anmeldung zu den einzelnen Veranstaltungen kann bis zum Vorabend des jeweiligen Vortrags bis 20:00 Uhr über seasriseprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de getätigt werden.

Das Abstract zur Veranstaltungsreihe finden Sie hier.

Plakat "The Sea is Rising and so are we"

Young International Scholars Autumn Research School

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:13:58 +0200

October 2021, University of Bremen
Venue: online

Extractivism – traditionally understood as the over-exploitation of natural resources – has led to irreversible environmental damage and the destruction of livelihoods across the globe. While these forms of primitive accumulation have historically been key to colonial exploitation of the Global South, we are currently witnessing an expansion of multiple forms of extractivism. Reimagined as a developmental and even emancipatory strategy, extractivism has increasingly been implemented by states, private firms, local and traditional authorities, and networks of experts in order to capture and distribute high rents, while in fact deepening legacies of colonial dependencies. However, extractivism has also extended beyond the plundering of raw materials to cultural or non-material resources, e.g. in the form of extensive tourism, or “data-mining”. Hence, today, extractivism has come to signify a global logic of current capitalist accumulation and valorisation which differs decisively from industrial capitalism. To secure the appropriation of rent, these different forms of extractivism are flanked by various violent and authoritarian state practices, often reinstating racist and (settler) colonial orders, erasing indigenous claims to land, large-scale dispossession and displacement, severe human rights violations, unsafe labour conditions, surveillance, and forced migration.

The six-day interdisciplinary Autumn Research School taking place on 8-9, 15-16 & 29-30 October 2021 aims at mapping the different forms of extractivist capitalism across transnational spaces and emerging relational geographies including current developments in finance, logistics and digital economies. Such a mapping requires a “retooling” of theories, analytical frameworks, and methodologies that help us engage with the multiple contradictions of this particular logic of capitalism – in particular to rethink the Global South into this logic. To do so, the Autumn School will address the political economy of extractivist accumulation, its ecological and social implications, the attendant transformations of (post-)colonial knowledge, juridical and political re-orderings and authoritarian tendencies, discursive and cultural practices of legitimation, and ultimately questions of dissent, protest and resistance.

The Autumn School offers participants an outstanding programme with faculty members including Deval Desai, Hannah Franzki, Michi Knecht, Sandro Mezzadra, Martin Reisigl, Shalini Randeria, Ranabir Samaddar, Klaus Schlichte, Ingo H. Warnke and Ruth Wodak. It is composed of six content modules including lectures, interactive small-group roundtable sessions, micro-group sessions, and plenary debate plus a research workshop module on funding opportunities and research stays abroad.

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University of Bremen collaborates with Off-University

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:33:55 +0200

The Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research (IfEK) continues to collaborate with the Off-University to support academic freedom. The Off-University stands up for persecuted and repressed scientists and against the repression of academic freedom. It is part of the network “New University in Exile Consortium”, which supports the concerns of persecuted scientists worldwide. The Off-University establishes and tests new digital learning and teaching formats with and for scientists and students who live in exile or have to work under repression in various regimes. We are happy to host the seminar on „Conflicts and Struggles for Peace“ by Dr. Ali Yalçın Göymen in the wintersemester 2021/2022. The course is a cooperation among Off-University, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Bremen University. It will start on 22 October 2021 and take place every Friday from 12- 14 (CEST).

Please click here to register: https://bit.ly/3AG2idS. Students of University Bremen please register both via link and via StudIP for General Studies (GS).

Information in Türkçe
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Frederike Oberheim & Amanda Harvey-Sanchez: Reports From The Frontline Of Climate Activism

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:53:16 +0100

This session of "The Seas are Rising" features two experienced activists from the climate / environmental justice movements from Canada and Germany, respectively. They discuss what climate activism looks like from within the specificity of their two locations, asking what kinds of work can one do - or not - within university or local political institutions. What does climate justice look like in these two places and what has it come to mean/what work is to be done? The goal is to juxtapose the two activist worlds of Canada and Germany and to understand differences but also commonalities. This event will be largely discussion-based and organized around a practical imaginative exercise as well.

Amanda Harvey-Sanchez is a mixed-race Mexican-Canadian settler born and raised in Toronto, within the territory covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. An organizer, researcher, and educator, Amanda works primarily at the intersection of applied anthropology and grassroots activism on creative solutions to the climate crisis. She has wide-ranging experiences carrying out community-based and justice-focused work in India, France, the US, and Canada. Amanda is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto, where her research explores climate justice, social movements, and political economy/ecology in Canada. You can find her writing in Canadian Dimension, ricochet, rabble.ca, The Puritan and more, and follow her on twitter @amanda_hsanchez.

Frederike Oberheim has been involved in the climate justice movement Fridays for Future since the beginning of 2019. She has been active both locally in organising large demonstrations, developing demands and public relations, and at the national level, where she co-founded Students for Future, helped plan events and organised educational activities. Frederike also represents Fridays for Future in the Enquete Commission for a Climate Protection Strategy 2030 in the state of Bremen. In 2020, she was awarded Bremen's Woman of the Year for her commitment. She is currently studying Photo taken by Benedict Neugebauer for a Master's degree in Social Psychology in Amsterdam.

Please register for this lecture via email at seasriseprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de. Registration will be possible until November 15th, 8pm CET. A Link for the meeting will follow shortly after.

Flyer: Reports From The Frontline Of Climate Activism

Program "The Sea Is Rising And So Are We"

Solidarity, Contradiction, and Care in Athens

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:55:10 +0100

Contradictions were often at the heart of solidarity’s capaciousness in austerity-laden Athens. Heath Cabot draws on her research (since 2015) with grassroots healthcare initiatives in Greece that provided care and medicines via horizontally organized modes of labor and redistribution. Pensioners, unemployed people, and even refugees and migrants assisted equally diverse groups of beneficiaries—some of whom were themselves participants in solidarity work. This talk centers on dominant repertoires through which volunteers theorized the meaning and practice of solidarity. These different repertoires often came into conflict, signaling misrecognitions and ambivalences in the field of collective action; yet they also accommodated diverse interactional contexts and needs, enabling participants to manage dilemmas of hierarchy and access to care. These flexible repertoires of solidarity—often through their very contradictions—enabled solidarity work to engage diverse sets of participants and beneficiaries. Contradictions thus served to make collective action possible, forming the ground for social repair and healing.

Heath Cabot (PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz 2010) teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is interested in the question of what it means to flourish, and what enables – and precludes – flourishing. She has conducted research in Greece since 2004 on displacement, human rights and humanitarianism, exclusion and racialization, and more recently health, healing, and solidarity. She is the author of On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014) and is currently completing a second monograph on grassroots healthcare activism in Greece.

Registration with: Anja Binkofski (binkofanprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de)
Zoom Link will be announced after registration

For more Information visit: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/camus4solidarity/termine/zukuenftiges/

Program Coordinators:
Prof. Michi Knecht (IfEK, WoC)
Anja Binkofski (IfEK)

The lecture is supported by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT-Stiftung and the Klaus Tschia Stiftung, as well as by the interdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) and the Department of Anthropology and Cultura Research (IfEK) at the University of Bremen.

Energy: A Geo-Theology Of Work

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:35:30 +0100

Energy and work are intertwined, both in the scientific definition of energy (the ability to do work), and in the political manifestation of human-fuel practices. The energy-work connection continues to haunt attempts to divest from fossil fuels. In this talk, I will trace the historical emergence of the relationship between energy and work, focusing upon how work came to be understood and valued as a site of energy transformation. With the ‘discovery’ of energy in the nineteenth century, energy physics fed a geo-theology of work that advanced British industrial imperialism. This energy-work ethos informed the emergent fossil fuel culture, wherein technical categories of work and waste intersected with racialized, and gendered, judgments of productivity and sloth. Thinking about energy historically suggests that shifting our fuel cultures will require a corresponding shift in (post)-industrial cultures of work.

Cara New Daggett holds a bachelor’s degree on biochemical science from Harvard University and a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Cara Daggett is currently assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research explores the politics of energy and the environment in an era of planetary disruption. She is interested in questions that lie at the nexus of human well-being, science, technology, and the more-than-human world. Her work often draws upon feminist approaches to power in order to understand how global warming emerged, as well as how it might be mitigated. Cara Daggett’s book, The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Duke, 2019), was awarded the Clay Morgan Award for best book in environmental political theory.

Please register for this lecture via email at seasriseprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de. A link for the meeting will follow shortly after.

Flyer "Energy: A Geo-Theology Of Work"

Program "The Sea Is Rising And So Are We"

Tidal Cities: Contested Speculative Futures Of Urban Shorelines

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:55:48 +0100

Urban coasts in face of sea level rise are the subject of contested speculative futuring practices in which visualizations in the form of design studies, blueprints and the like play a major role. Those visualizations of coastal transformation often evoke similar images of a coastal urbanity in which infrastructures for sea level rise adaptation are easily combined with high-end living quarters, futuristic working spaces and sites of leisure, tourism etc. The seminar will be divided into two parts. During the first half, the speakers will offer two case-study overviews crosscutting Indonesia, the Netherlands and Singapore. During the second and more practice-led and interactive half, participants will collaboratively work with common visualizations of modular art assets, many of which relay pervasive imaginaries of coastal futures and their blind spots in coastal placemaking in urban Southeast Asia and Europe. We will address not only established expectations, but also provoke refractions together with perspectives on multiple possibilities of design innovation and transformation across urban coastlines.

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa is a marine social scientist at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany. She holds a D.Phil in Development Anthropology from the University of Bonn. As a postdoctoral member of ZMTs Development and Knowledge Sociology working group, she co-leads a German Science Foundation funded research project (BlueUrban), within which her ethnographic work on the cultural politics of urban seacoasts in archipelagic Southeast Asia broadly rests.

Johannes Herbeck studied geography, political science and sociology in Munich. He is senior researcher at the Sustainability Research Centre University of Bremen and works as lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Bremen. His research interests include coastal adaptation policies and technologies, policy mobilities, and political ecology. In 2014, he defended his PhD thesis entitled “Geographies of climate change: vulnerability, security and translocality”. Since then, he has worked as scientific coordinator and currently co-leads the BlueUrban-project.

Please register for this lecture via email at seasriseprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de. Registration will be possible until December 6th, 8pm CET. A link for the meeting will follow shortly after.

Flyer "Tidal Cities: Contested Speculative Futures Of Urban Shorelines"

Program "The Sea Is Rising And So Are We"

Ethnography as Counter-Investigation?

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:43:32 +0100

In his last book, Didier Fassin examines a blatant case of police violence and institutional racism. A young man, belonging to the Traveller community, fails to return to prison after a temporary release. The search operation of a special unit of the French gendarmerie ends with the fugitive shot dead on his parents’ farm. Afterwards contradictory accounts of the fatal event are given. The gendarmerie speaks of inevitable self-defense; the family reports of a sequence of exaggerated brutality that culminates in the execution of their relative. During the following judicial investigation, the family’s account is marginalized and eventually disregarded; the officers’ version prevails.

Based on interviews as well as a careful reading of official documents and judicial reports, Didier Fassin carries out a counter-investigation. Giving each version of the narrative the same credit, he exposes the inconsistencies that the court ruling, finally discharging the officers, had ignored. As a result, Fassin counters the authoritative “judicial truth” with an alternative “ethnographic truth” that aims at re-opening a legally closed story and hereby returning respectability to the victim and his family.

In this online meeting Didier Fassin will discuss with members of the commission “Ethnographies of the Political” about the particular genesis of the book, its main concepts, arguments and textuality. A specific emphasis will be put on counter-investigation as a methodology to intervene into political and judicial processes via ethnography. We will explore the characteristics and potentials of counter-investigation in relation to further approaches and strategies of a Public Anthropology.

Please register by sending an email to Natasha Deasy: deasyprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de. You will receive a zoom-link the day before the event.

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
For further information about the book “Death of a Traveller”, please consult this recent review (in German): https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95501.

This event is organized by the commission “Europeanization_Globalization: Ethnographies of the Political” (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) in cooperation with the U Bremen Excellence Chair Research Group “Soft Authoritarianisms”: https://softauthoritarianisms.uni-bremen.de

Congratulations

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:50:50 +0200

The MA programme Transculutral Studies has been evaluated successfully by the System Accreditation organized by University of Bremen and has been officially prolongued until September 2029.

University of Bremen collaborates with Off-University and the New University in Exile Consortium

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:47:56 +0200

We, the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research (IfEK) and the Institute of Political Science (IPW), continue to cooperate with the Off-University and the New University in Exile Consortium. The Consortium and Off-University stand up for persecuted and repressed scientists and against the repression of academic freedom. The Off-University establishes and tests new digital learning and teaching formats with and for scientists and students who live in exile or have to work under repression in various regimes. We are happy to host the seminar on “Decolonizing and Deconstructingthe MENA/SWANA” by Dr. Mabruk Derbesh and Dr. Teoman Aktan in the summer semester 2022.

The course will start on April 20th, 2022 and take place every Wednesday from 12:00pm - 2:00pm (CET). Please click here to register: https://off-university.com/ Students of University of Bremen please register via StudIP for General Studies (GS).

The course is co-sponsored by The New University in Exile Consortium and organized with the support of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Information in Turkish.
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Clandestine Publics got invited to the FUSION Festival!

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:05:02 +0200

Clandestine Publics

KuWi BA, M8/9
Blockseminar on the 27./28.5 and 3./4.6. as well as several Thursdays at 10:oo-14:00
Language: English

This course is a 4 SWS course and gives you access to 9CP.

This course explores secret publics, using ideas from ethnography and art! It is practical, meaning: you will develop your own projects. NEW: Some of you will present the course's ideas on the FUSION Festival.

What are clandestine publics? Here is an example: In 2015, the American TV series 'Homeland' featured a secret art project, unknown to the makers of the series and most of the viewers. Some of the scenes were set in a Syrian refugee camp, covered for decorative purposes in Arabic graffiti. Inaccessible by non-arabic-speaking viewers, this background graffiti said things like "HOMELAND IS RACIST" and "#BLACKLIVESMATTER". This was the work of artist Heba Y. Amin and The Arabian Street Artists, who had been asked to help out as set designers, and used this possibility for a clandestine public.

In this course, we will look at many more examples of such clandestine and often subversive publics, and conduct experiments into how to set them up. Clandestine Publics can be an important means to spread messages in places where they are not supposed to be; they can be a way of allowing and protecting secret communication; they can be an important part of activism; thesy can be part of everyday life; they can also add to a new forms of Public Anthropology that leaves the university and addresses new audiences ... and they can be fun!

Artists have explored such clandestine public with cunning creativity. In the course you will discuss artworks, explore theories, conduct inquiries and experiments, and, most importantly, develop your own clandestine public with your fellow students. The course is taught by London-based artist Simon Farid, who has developed many clandestine publics, as well as Götz Bachmann from Bremen. Together, we will embark on an adventure of experiment, ethnography, theory and art!

Example: https://www.hebaamin.com/arabian-street-artists-bomb-homeland-why-we-hacked-an-award-winning-series/

Fusion Festival: https://www.fusion-festival.de/de/2022/start

Continuation of the event series Diversity @ Uni Bremen in the summer semester 2022 on the focus "Social Origin & Educational (In)Equity".

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 01:12:50 +0200

Kick-off with a lecture and discussion:
Classism - a taboo of higher education
27.04.2022, 18.00 - 20.00, Building SFG, Room 0140

Discrimination based on class origin and class affiliation is omnipresent and can also be found in the field of education. Despite the promise of equal opportunities and educational justice, the education system reinforces class differences instead of levelling them out, as various studies point out. The academic and teaching sector is also characterised by classism. A closer look reveals this: Higher education promotes and perpetuates class-based differences flanked by a performance narrative that hides the structural dimension and the effectiveness of classist discrimination.

The aim of this article is to examine higher education from a class-critical and intersectional perspective. The focus is on the taboo of higher education institutions to deal with the effects of classism and its significance for education and qualification processes - although as a place of knowledge production and transfer, it has a special responsibility to reflect on its own structures and practices and to counteract discrimination. All interested parties are invited to discuss what suitable approaches look like and what measures are necessary during the subsequent exchange.

Speaker: Ayla Satilmis, University of Bremen, responsible for the e n t e r s c i e n c e programme, main areas of work: Antidiscrimination, diversity & intersectionality, critique of racism in teaching-learning spaces, democratisation of academia; contact: satilmis@uni-bremen.de

For more information, see the flyer!

Summer Semester 2022 Colloquium

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:31:14 +0200

All events will take place either in the Rotunda, Cartesium Building, University of Bremen, online or in a hybrid format. For those who would like to attend one of the online or hybrid events virtually, please contact xiaolingprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de to register.

All events will take place from 18:15-20:00.

Click here for the full programme!

The Geopolitics of Small Things

Mon, 02 May 2022 10:20:58 +0200

Not a day goes by without a new event being announced in which academics and commentators gather to discuss the war in Ukraine and its global implications. Not surprisingly, the questions they respond to are posed in terms of familiar abstractions and sweeping generalizations, or the psychology of individual men and national collectives - all grand analytic frameworks, many of which are inherited from the Cold War.

Anthropologists are often absent from such meetings because the value of our method and analysis lies precisely in our resistance to such abstraction, generalization, and psychologization. This session seeks to seize upon anthropology’s strengths - those which lie in our discipline's capacity to see the large in the small, to linger on detail in order to give definition to the abstract, and to focus on the concrete and its implications at different scales. In this panel discussion, four anthropologists will do so by considering “the geopolitics of small things” - an exploration that starts with single objects (or phrases, signs, feelings, etc.) as dense sites for the contemplation, interpretation, evocation, and immanent understanding of our disorienting present.

Date: Tuesday, 3 May
Time: 18:15 - 20:00. Note that this is an online event.
Registration: Please email xiaolingprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de to register.
Event Language: English

Come join us in Bremen for a Masters in Transcultural Studies! Application deadline: June 15.2022!

Wed, 25 May 2022 19:09:33 +0200

MATS_Flyer_german_english

Find more information to the application process.

Reading Workshop

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:11:04 +0200

Please email xiaolingprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de to register.

Bremen Days of Ethnografic Film 2023

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:15:00 +0100

For the eleventh time the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at Uni Bremen is inviting you to join the Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film - this year with 15 contemporary international filmscreenings. The event is organised by students of the Cultural Studies programme and is aimed not only at a professional audience, but also at the general public.

The films selected by the students use different narrative strategies and document a wide range of cultural and social phenomena from around the world. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the film screenings take place on the campus of the University of Bremen. Thursday evening is the culmination and conclusion of the Ethnographic Film Days. Culture enthusiasts from Bremen are then invited to Kino City 46 for stories on the subject of migration.

Highlights from three days of Filmfest
To kick off on Tuesday evening (24 January), the Filmfest will feature works by students. These include refugees from Ukraine and the daily lives of inland waterway boaters. A film by two Bremen students creates queer-feminist utopias together with the protagonists.
On Wednesday, January 25th. it is about the decolonization of museums and archives.
Closing on Thursday, January 26th. the Ethnographic Film Days will be a guest at Kino City 46 with the focus on migration. The film “Dea” tells the story of an Indonesian migrant worker in Hong Kong in an ethnofiction format. “Unwritten Letters” is filmed in collaboration with a refugee from Syria and tells the story of his arrival in Europe.

Hybrid event – numerous filmmakers on site
Although the Ethnographic Film Days 2023 will be held in hybrid mode for the second time, many of the filmmakers will come to Bremen to answer questions from the audience – more guests will be available online for discussions.

Guests who are unable to attend in person can also participate online via Zoom. The link will be made available at short notice via the website: blogs. uni-bremen. de/ethnofilmtage/

Notice of appointments – all information at a glance
Ethnographic Film Days Bremen
24 to 26 January 2023

24. and 25 January: 6. 15 p. m. on the campus of the University of Bremen (free admission)
26 January: 8 pm, Kino City 46, Birkenstraße 1, 28195 Bremen, admission 9 euros, reduced 4 euros

Further information:
Website of the Ethnographic Film Festival Bremen: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/ethnofilmtage/
The Ethnographic Film Days Bremen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethnofilmtagebremen/

Contact
Would you like to attend the Ethnographic Film Days or are you interested in an interview? We would be happy to arrange a conversation with the filmmakers or the organisers of the Film Days. If you have any questions, please contact: filmtageprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research presents: Minh Nguyen (University of Bielefeld)

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:15:00 +0100

Colloquium
Title: Transnational Mobility, Kinship, and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Vietnam

Tuesday, January 17, 18:15-19:45
Rotunde, Universität Bremen

This is a hybrid event. Please register with muehlebaprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research presents: Jens Adam (University of Bremen) and Sabine Hess (Universität Göttingen)

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:15:00 +0100

Colloquium
Title: "Abwehr, Rassifizierung, Solidarität: Ein Reisebericht zum EUropäischen Grenzregime"

Tuesday, January 31, 18:15-19:45
Rotunde, Universität Bremen

This is a hybrid event. Please register with ufladerprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research presents: Maka Suarez and Jorge Nuñez

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:15:00 +0100

Colloquium
Title: "Decolonial praxis: experimental methods and ethnographic collaborations"
Tuesday, 10.1.2023, at 18:15 in the Rotunde
Mara Suarez and Jorge Nuñez have come to the University of Olso via Princeton and Cuenca in Ecuador, where they led a well-known Ethnography Lab called KALEIDOS. At Kaleidos, they produced ethnographic and quantitative data through collaborations (including EthnoData, Map against State Repression and Brutality, Prison Observatory), worked with different social movements and collectives, including the Spanish PAH (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) and the Alliance against Prisons in Ecuador; worked multi-modally through documentaries and visualizations (including an ethnographic panel on "Contours of Disability" for Distribute2020), and thought deeply about decoloniality, collaboration, critical pedagogy, and experimental methods.

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the Universität Bremen presents Xenia Cherkaev

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:15:00 +0100

Tuesday, December 6, 18:15-19:45
Rotunde, Universität Bremen

This is an in-person event.

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the Universität Bremen presents Bernd Kasparek

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:00:03 +0100

November 15, 2022, 18:15-20:00
Rotunde, Universität Bremen

This is a hybrid event, please register with s_ia8bazprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Invitation to a "last-minute" Zoom Info Call

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0100

Invitation to the "last-minute" Erasmus Zoom Talk on Wednesday 1. 2. 2023 15:00

Perhaps you are currently applying to study abroad at one of our European or international partner universities, or are still thinking about it? Because the clock is ticking: the application portal (mobility online) is still open until February 15th 2023. This is a good time for a "last-minute" Erasmus Zoom Discussion on all outstanding questions about Erasmus and studying abroad

Wednesday, 31. 1. 2023 / 15:00
ZOOM Erasmus consultation: https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/64964731326?pwd=U1d2dVJTclNsNVdnNG9hMVI4VFZZUT09
Feel free to join us and bring your questions with you.

On behalf of the IfEK Erasmus team,
Martina Grimmig

Announcement: new boasblog "Undoing Race and Racism"

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Undoing Race and Racism – der neue boasblog
https://boasblogs.org/undoingraceandracism/

Die multimodale Internetplattform boasblogs geht am 21. Februar 2023 mit dem Blog „Undoing Race and Racism“ online. Wöchentlich diskutieren hier Sozial- und Kulturanthropolog:innen neueste Perspektiven auf Rassismus, Rassifizierung und Antirassismus, wobei sie dezidiert auf Debatten in Deutschland eingehen. Den Anfang machen drei Beiträge von Nasima Selim, Sahana Udupa und Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, die sich mit Fragen der akademischen, pädagogischen und institutionellen Praxis im Hinblick auf die Thematisierung von Rassismus beschäftigen. Wie in den anderen boasblogs werden Folgebeiträge immer dienstags hochgeladen.

Auf den boasblogs (https://boasblogs.org/) werden bereits seit 2016 von unabhängigen Redaktionen aktuelle Debatten in eine interdisziplinäre und zunehmend internationale Öffentlichkeit getragen. Der Austausch ist dabei weder auf bestimmte geographische Regionen, noch auf bestimmte Fachdisziplinen beschränkt. Vielmehr wollen die boasblogs als Medium der Kooperation gesellschaftliche Fragen in ihrer politischen, sozialen, akademischen und alltäglichen Relevanz mitgestalten.

So existieren unter anderem bereits Blogs über die Frage der Restitution und Dezentrierung ethnologischer Museen (https://boasblogs.org/dcntr/), sowie mehrere Foren, in denen die Corona-Pandemie aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet wird (https://boasblogs.org/witnessingcorona/, https://boasblogs.org/curarecoronadiaries/, https://boasblogs.org/fieldworkmeetscrisis/), aber auch ein Blog zur Umbenennung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (https://boasblogs.org/de/whatsinaname/).

Der Name boasblogs geht auf den deutschstämmigen Ethnologen Franz Boas (1858–1942) zurück, der als einer der Begründer der US-amerikanischen Cultural Anthropology gilt und ein ‚Public Anthropologist‘ avant la lettre war. Seine kulturrelativistischen Thesen, nach denen jede Kultur eine eigene Geschichte und Entwicklung ausbilde, die eine Hierarchisierung von Kulturen unmöglich machen, waren Anlass für den ersten boasblog, der den Artikel „Dschungelmärchen“ in der Süddeutschen Zeitung zum Ausgangspunkt nahm, um das Verhältnis von „Kulturrelativismus und Aufklärung“ zu diskutieren (https://boasblogs.org/de/kulturrelativismus/).

Im Ausgang dieser Kontroverse haben die boasblogs seither weitere aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Themen aufgegriffen, interdisziplinär erweitert und öffentlich gemacht. Dabei werden neueste und niedrigschwellige Formen der multimodalen wissenschaftlichen Kooperation ausgelotet, besonders im internationalen Kontext außerhalb des transatlantischen Wissenschaftsbetriebs. Ausgewählte Diskussionen zu einem bestimmten Thema werden außerdem in Form von boasblogs papers online und in gedruckter Form zur Verfügung gestellt (https://boasblogs.org/papers/).

Die boasblogs sind ein zentraler Bestandteil des Forschungsprogramms des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB) 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“. Sie sind bereits in der ersten Förderphase des SFB (2016–2020) aus der Kooperation mit dem Global South Studies Center Köln, der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction der Universität Bremen und der Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften hervorgegangen.

Herausgeben von Christoph Antweiler (Bonn), Michi Knecht (Bremen), Ehler Voss (Bremen/Siegen) und Martin Zillinger (Köln) werden die boasblogs durch den DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“ der Universität Siegen, der Verbundforschungsplattform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) an der Universität Bremen, und dem Global South Studies Center der Universität zu Köln (GSSC) finanziert.

Vorschläge für neue Themen und Redaktionsteams sind jederzeit herzlich willkommen.

Kontakt: infoprotect me ?!boasblogsprotect me ?!.org

Ausschreibung

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Das Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft sucht eine studentische Hilfskraft für das Projekt “Datenpolitiken und Autoritarismus: Digitale Verflechtungen und demokratische (Un-)Möglichkeiten“

(Dr. Nurhak Polat, im Rahmen des Bremen-Fonds „Gesellschaft und Individuum im digitalen Wandel - Folgen und Gestaltung der digitalen Transformation“)

Ihre Aufgaben:

Begleitung und Unterstützung der Fertigstellung des Projektantrags
Organisatorische Unterstützung des Projektes bei der Vorbereitung/Durchführung von Treffen, Vorträgen, Workshops und Lehrveranstaltungen
Forschungs-/Literaturrecherchen, Erstellen von kleineren Recherchen und Dossiers
Korrektur- und evt. Übersetzungstätigkeiten
Kommunikations- und Organisationsaufgaben

Beginn: März oder April 2023
Umfang: 37 Stunden / Monat
Ort der Tätigkeit: sowohl Home Office als auch vor Ort im Institut in Bremen möglich

Bewerben können sich: Studierende kultur- oder sozialwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge bzw. Studierende anderer Fächer, die sich für das Themenfeld des Projektes interessieren und die voraussichtlich bis Ende 2023 mitarbeiten können. Bewerbungen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte sind willkommen.

Benötigte Bewerbungsunterlagen: Tabellarischer Lebenslauf und kurzes Schreiben zu Ihrer Motivation, warum Sie mitarbeiten wollen (und, falls es aus dem CV nicht hervorgeht, welches Vorwissen zu gefragten Tätigkeiten Sie mitbringen).

Bitte Bewerbungsunterlagen bis spätestens zum 19.3.2023 einreichen – in digitaler Form (eine einzelne PDF)
an: arabellaprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de oder npolatprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Gespräche werden voraussichtlich ab Mitte März auf Zoom stattfinden. Bei weiteren Fragen kontaktieren Sie bitte Arabella Walter oder Nurhak Polat unter den oben angegebenen Email-Adressen.

Ausschreibung: Planspieltutor*innen gesucht!

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

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Ihre Aufgabe als Tutor*in:
Das Modul 3 „Kultur und Wirtschaft“ setzt sich aus einer Vorlesung, sechs begleitenden Seminaren und einem E-Tutorium zusammen. In dem Modul werden die Zusammenhänge von Kultur, Wirtschaft, Politik, Sozialem und Religion im Kontext der zentralen Fragestellungen des Faches systematisch aufgearbeitet. Dabei bereiten die Studierenden in den Seminaren Beiträge zu einem Planspiel vor, das parallel während des Semesters und an einem gesonderten Planspieltag (30.06.2023) stattfinden wird. Die Aufgabe der Tutor*innen ist es, diesen Prozess zu begleiten. Im Begleitseminar unterstützen Sie die Lehrenden und beteiligen sich an der Vorbereitung und Durchführung des Planspiels. Sie arbeiten mit den Studierenden, Lehrenden und weiteren Tutor*innen im Modul eng zusammen und werden durch die Lehrenden unterstützt.

Einstellungsvoraussetzungen:
Sie sind fortgeschrittene Studierende (BA ab dem 4. Semester oder MA) und haben idealerweise das Modul 3 selbst durchlaufen, Sie interessieren sich für „Kultur und Wirtschaft“, haben Spaß am Kommunizieren mit Menschen und am kreativen Arbeiten. Etwas Erfahrungen im Umgang mit Online-Blogs und Stud.IP sind von Vorteil. Die Uni Bremen erwartet, dass Tutor*innen an einer kostenlosen Tutorenschulung der Studierwerkstatt teilnehmen.

Bewerbungsfrist: ab sofort am liebsten bis zum 02.03.2023.
Wir freuen uns aber über alle Bewerbungen noch bis zum 20.03.2023!

Stundenumfang:
56 Stunden im Semester, Vergütung nach Tarif.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!
Für Rückfragen stehen wir gerne zur Verfügung.

Bitte richten Sie formlose Bewerbungen und Rückfragen möglichst zeitnah per mail an:
Jan Oberg u. Oliver Hinkelbein
Email: jcoberg@uni-bremen.de, hinkelbeinprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Ethnogeeks sucht neues studentisches Team: Hilfskraftjob!

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Für das Team ethnogeeks im Bachelorstudiengang Kulturwissenschaft (https://www.uni-bremen.de/kultur/ethnogeeks) suchen wir studentische Hilfskräfte / E-Tutor*innen für das Sommersemester 2023!

Ethnogeeks beraten und unterstützen Studierenden, vor allem die Studienanfänger*innen, bei verschiedenen Anliegen, Problemen und Herausforderungen per E-Helpdesk und Hotline. Hierfür soll das Team neue Formate entwickeln und die bereits existierenden Social-Media Kanäle pflegen (z.B. durch Produktion von Kurzbeiträgen: Video, Audio, Text).

Profil / Anforderungen:
Sie studieren im BA KUWI oder im MATS und haben Vorkenntnisse in der Handhabung von digitalen Plattformen und Online-Tools (StudIP, PABO, Zoom, social media u.ä.).
Sie haben Spaß am Entwickeln und Erproben neuer (digitaler und analoger) Formate der Informationsvermittlung, Beratung und Vernetzung, auch am Erstellen kleiner Beiträge über das Studium.
Sie haben Interesse an peer-to-peer-Beratung, eventuell sogar Vorerfahrungen.

Für die Einarbeitung steht zur Unterstützung das aktuelle Team der Ethnogeeks bereit. Die Einarbeitung des neuen E-Tutoren-Teams sollte spätestens zu Semesterbeginn starten.
(Arbeitszeit: 56 Stunden im SoSe 2023, Vergütung nach Tarif)

Ansprechpartner*in: Nurhak Polat und Jan Oberg

Wenn Sie Interesse an diesem Job haben, wenden Sie sich gerne möglichst zeitnah an Jan Oberg (jcobergprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de).

Artikel: Forschen zwischen Küche und Computer

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Backen und Programmieren haben mehr gemeinsam, als man denkt, sagt Jan Dittrich, Doktorand am Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft. Denn in beiden Bereichen lernen viele Menschen autodidaktisch mithilfe von Anleitungen. In seiner Forschung untersucht er, wie sie dabei vorgehen.
Zum Artikel in der Up2date geht es hier.

Announcement: Institute Colloquium in SoSe 23

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:15:00 +0200

There are exciting lectures and events for you at the Institute Colloquium this summer semester!
You can download the program as a PDF here.

All events take place from 18:15 - 20:00, either in the Rotunde, Cartesium Building, of the University of Bremen (always hybrid) or online. Those who would like to participate virtually in one of the online or hybrid events, please contact yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de in advance.

All welcome!

Institut Colloquium: The (Un)Democratic Disease: Changing Epistemologies, Plastic Bodies, and the Other in Dementia Care

Tue, 02 May 2023 18:15:00 +0200

On Tuesday 2.5. there will be an exciting lecture by Annette Leibing (Université de Montreal and HWK Delmenhorst) as part of the Institute Colloquium.

All events will take place from 18:15 - 20:00, either in the Rotunde, Cartesium building, of the University of Bremen (always hybrid) or online. Those who would like to participate virtually in one of the online or hybrid events, please contact yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de in advance.

All welcome!

Martin Gruber reviews "Sharing the Camera"

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:32:29 +0200

Martin Gruber's recently published book „Sharing the Camera“ was reviewed in the Anthropological Book Forum.

“The innovation of Rastafari dancehall music in isiXhosa language in Cape Town”

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:56:41 +0200

Donnerstag 15.6.2023, 4-6 pm , SFG 1040, Universität Bremen

Prof. Dr. Tuomas Järvenpää, lehrt regulär an der University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu-campus) Cultural Studies mit Fokus auf Popular Music & Religion. Grad ist er als Fellow zu Gast bei uns am IfEK: Aus seinen ethnografischen Forschungen in Cape Town, Südafrika stellt er am kommenden Donnerstag, 15.6.23, ab 16 Uhr zentrale Ergebnisse vor.

Herzliche Einladung an alle Studierenden und Lehrenden: SFG 1040 im Rahmen des Regional-Seminar “Südliches Afrika”, Leitung Dr. Cordula Weißköppel

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The Rastafari language, or ‘Dread talk’, has been essential in the spread of reggae music across ethnic and national borders as a marker of transgressive and global blackness.

In this talk I examine why and how Rastafari vocalists in Cape Town have started to incorporate vernacular isiXhosa language into their music and what social negotiations this innovation has entailed in their music careers.

Both for the Rastafari movement and Xhosa speakers in general, oral culture is linked to gendered and generational power. I examine how the innovation of isiXhosa lyrics into reggae music is formed in contradistinction to the masculinities of both the earlier generations of reggae music in and the wider Xhosa society.

The research material of the article consists of artist interviews with different generations of male musicians as well ethnographic observations from the life world of the artists in Cape Town. The material was formed during three-months of fieldwork in Cape Town in the autumn of 2013 with a short revisit in 2015.

Author details

Tuomas Järvenpää is a cultural anthropologist, whose research interest are in the field of religion and cultural study of music. His current research project looks at the various intersections and influences between Christianity and hip hop in Finland. His past projects have looked at evangelical rap music in Namibia and reggae and Rastafari movement both in Finland and in South Africa.

https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/tuomas.jarvenpaa/

The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:17:20 +0200

*English below*

Liebe Alle,

am 13.06 findet unsere IfEK Kolloquium im SoSe 23 statt, als auch immer Dienstags Abend, und wir haben folgende Veranstaltung zugänglich für alle:

13. Juni 2023

Dear All,

On 13.06 our IfEK Colloquium in SoSe 23 will take place again, as also as every Tuesdays evening, and we have the following event open to all:

Banu Karaca
(Forum Transregionale Studien EUME Berlin)

The National Frame:
Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany

13. June , 6.15 until 8 p.m. Cartesium Uni Bremen (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5)

Please contact this mail address: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de with the subject ONLINE IfEK to get the access of online participation.

We look forward to seeing you in our IfEK Colloquium.

Warm regards
IfEK Team

Solidarity as a Practice of Anti-Discrimination

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:21:43 +0200

Solidarity as a Practice of Anti-Discrimination.

"It is not enough to oppose discrimination. We need anti-discrimination."
(paraphrased from Angela Davis)

A Workshop from Students for Students

SFG ground floor (0150)
Thursday 29th June 23
4-6pm (room reserved until 8pm)

Where, when and how are we exposed to discrimination at university and what can we do against this?

What does solidarity mean for us at the university? Together, we would like to discuss these questions and invite everyone interested to reflect upon them and to network with each other in the context of a workshop. Our aim is to highlight alliances between students and to strengthen as well as create further connections.

A common engagement of students through solidary actions at university. Which forms can it take? Where do we need more? What can we do?

Check out our Flyer.

Book Launch. Blackness as Universal Claim (University of California Press, 2022)

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:38:04 +0200

Dear All,

On next Tuesday, 20.06, our IfEK Colloquium in SoSe 23 will take place again, as also as every Tuesdays evening, and we have the following event open to all:

20. Juni 2023

Damani Patridge (University of Michigan)

Book Launch. Blackness as Universal Claim (University of California Press, 2022)

20. June 2023, 6.15 - 8 pm, Cartesium Uni Bremen (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5)

Please contact this mail address: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de with the subject ONLINE IfEK to get the access of online participation.

We look forward to seeing you in our IfEK Colloquium.

Warm regards
IfEK Team

Antrittsvorlesung – Toward an Anthropology of the Ocean Floor

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:22:31 +0200

Dear All,

on Tuesday, 27.06, our IfEK Colloquium in SoSe 23 will take place again, as also as every Tuesdays evening, and we have the following event open to all:

27. Juni 2023

Andrea Muehlebach (Universität Bremen)

Antrittsvorlesung – Toward an Anthropology of the Ocean Floor

27. June 2023, 6.15 - 8 pm, Cartesium Uni Bremen (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5). Please join us for a wine and cheese after the talk!

Please contact this mail address: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de with the subject ONLINE IfEK to get the access of online participation.

We look forward to seeing you in our IfEK Colloquium.

Warm regards

IfEK Team

On the Moral Fetishism of the Cosmopolitan Left and its Consequences

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:56:22 +0200

Dear All,

Next Tuesday, 04.07, our IfEK Colloquium in SoSe 23 will take place again, as also as every Tuesdays evening, and we have the following event open to all:

4. Juli 2023

Ghassan Hage (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle and the University of Melbourne)

On the Moral Fetishism of the Cosmopolitan Left and its Consequences

04. July, 2023, 6.15 - 8 pm, Cartesium Uni Bremen (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5).

Please contact this mail address: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de with the subject ONLINE IfEK to get the access of online participation.

We look forward to seeing you in our IfEK Colloquium.

Warm regards

IfEK Team

SECURITY AND JUSTICE BEYOND STATE AND POLICE - Abolitionist Perspectives on and from Rojava.

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:24:57 +0200

via Zoom: https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/64396967513?pwd=TDZhMUFUS0djSVppNEt1dXgwMTNFdz09

THE SPEAKERS

Daniel Loick is professor of political and social philosophy, co-editor of "Abolitionismus - Ein Reader" and member of the "Abolition Beyond Borders Collective."

Nazan Üstündağ is sociologist, a founding member of the Women for Peace Initiative, and author e.g. of "Self-defense as a Revolutionary Practice in Rojava."

Muhammad Omar is a member of the Asayîş in Rojava. He will talk about aspects of the security system and prisons in Rojava.

Umm Rodi has been working for 10 years at a "Mala Jin." She will talk about her work and aspects of community accountability and transformative justice in Rojava.

For some time now, debates and practices around abolitionism have been attracting more and more attention in Germany. Police, prisons and other "security" institutions are seen as repressive towards progressive social change. We are increasingly asking questions like, "What would a world without police and prisons look like?" or, "What are the alternatives?".

In north-eastern Syria (Rojava), on the other hand, a revolution has been underway for several years. Many areas of society have changed. But the revolution is attacked again and again - be it by the so-called Islamic State (IS), by the Turkish state, or by people who are not ready to give up their power and privileges (e.g. men resisting the emancipation of women). Notions and practices of security and self-defense play a role at all levels of society in the revolution. The social revolution strives for a non-state model of society - what implications does this have for the way security is organised?

Together with experts on the theory of abolitionism, representatives of the security and legal system in Rojava, students of the University of Bremen and the University of Rojava (Qamishlo), and all other interested parties, we will talk about abolitionism, as well as legal and security policy before and during the revolution.

Regarding ABOLITIONIST PERSPECTIVES we will be asking:

What is abolitionism? What (revolutionary) perspectives lie in this approach? How can there be justice without a state? How can there be security without police?

...ON AND FROM ROJAVA

How does policing work in Rojava? Are there alternatives? What role do community accountability and transformative justice play in the security and justice system in Rojava? What approaches to abolitionism can be found in the autonomous self-government in north-eastern Syria?

The event is organized by "Initiative of Mutual Studies of the Students of Rojava and Bremen" (IMS) in cooperation with the "Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft" (IfEK) and is supported by Zanîngeha Rojava / University of Rojava and AStA of Bremen University.

The event will be translated into English and Kurdish (Kurmancî).

You can find more information in the flyer.

JOIN US!

Decolonizing Anthropology: Race, Emotions and Transformative Potentials

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:15:00 +0200

Dear All, next Tuesday, 11.07, our IfEK Colloquium in SoSe 23 will take place again, as also as every Tuesdays evening, and we have the following event open to all:

11. Juli 2023

Antony Pattathu (Universität Tübingen)

Decolonizing Anthropology: Race, Emotions and Transformative Potentials.

11. July, 2023, 6.15 - 8 pm, Cartesium Uni Bremen (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5).

Please reply this mail OR contact this mail address: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de with the subject ONLINE IfEK to get the access of online participation.

We look forward to seeing you in our IfEK Colloquium.

Warm regards

IfEK Team

IfEK Summerparty "Keep it simple and let's have a party!"

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0200

We´re having a super simple end-of-the-year summer party and will organize it in the most low-key fashion possible - meaning that we will rely on the power of mutualism and self-organization. Everyone adds whatever they can bring or manage - food, drinks, music, decorations, or piknik blankets !
Where? SfG, Room 0150 - indoor and outdoor
When? 8pm -10pm on the 11.07.
What we need from you:
(1) Please come to Dr. Patthatu´s colloquium lecture! Title: "Decolonizing Anthropology: Race, Emotions, and Transformative Potentials" - at 6pm in the Cartesium.
(2) Please check out this pad and see whether / what you can contribute!
Questions or comments? Please contact the organizing team: Oliver, Martina and Andrea

Job offer: (Senior) Researcher - Critical Diversity and (Anti)Racism

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:58:39 +0200

We are looking for a junior researcher (f/m/d) with the potential to develop an ethnographic-collaborative research and teaching profile addressing social and global inequality, shaped by public anthropology practices, with a focus on critical diversity and (anti)racism research.

Applicants (f/m/d) should have thematic expertise in the field of diversity & inequality and methodological expertise in contemporary ethnography and collaborative forms of knowledge production. The diversity & inequality focus can be developed in different fields (urban anthropology, everyday life and politics in post-migrant societies, bureaucracy research, medicine and science, NatureCultures and environmental (in)justice, media, etc.) Participation in interdisciplinary research collaborations such as the interdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) or the Bremen NatureCultures Lab (BNCL), the acquisition of third-party funding as well as collaboration in the BIK - Bremen Institute for Cultural Research - are expected. The willingness to participate in the expansion of doctoral training is a prerequisite.

The post holder (f/m/d) will teach in the degree programmes of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Studies (IfEK) and be responsible for the research-related development of thematically relevant modules in the BA programme in Cultural Studies and the MA programme in Transcultural Studies.

more information

SCIENCE GOES PUBLIC

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:30:00 +0200

WIE UND WESHALB WERDEN MENSCHEN ALS „FREMD" WAHRGENOMMEN UND WAS BEDEUTET DIES FÜR MENSCHEN IN BREMEN?

Die Vortragenden berichten von einem kooperativen Studienforschungsprojekt der Universität Bremen mit dem Bremer Rat für Integration. Dabei haben Studierende mit Menschen gesprochen, die in Bremen Rassismuserfahrungen gemacht haben. Anschließend soll diskutiert werden, wie Menschen im öffentlichen Raum besser geschützt werden können.

Weitere Infos zur Veranstaltung:
sciencegoespublic.de

Weitere Infos zum Projekt:
hingehört.de
Bericht_Sichtbarmachung_Maerz_22_Endfassung.pdf

Every Thursday: Decolonizing Anthropology: Digital Lectures and Discussion

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:15:00 +0200

Thursdays, 6.15 – 7.45 pm

Webex Link to all sessions:
https://mpi-eth.webex.com/weblink/register/r19490e9e1c5c8ec3e41eda9c2e2f9c40

26.10.23
Ursula Rao, Martin Zillinger, Anna Lisa Ramella & Michi Knecht | Halle/Köln/Bremen Introduction/Einführung

02.11.23
Film Holiday-/Feiertag-Screening of the film “The measures of men”/ “Der vermessene Mensch”, R: Lars Kraume/ D: Girley Charlene Jazama, Leonard Schacher/ D 2023, 116’

09.11.23
Lars Kraume u.a. Discussion of the film “Measures of Men“/ “Der vermessene Mensch”

16.11.23
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni | Bayreuth Meanings of Decolonialism

23.11.23
Richard Tsogang Fossi | TU Berlin Atlas der Abwesenheiten. Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland. Wie steht es mit der Dekolonisierung ethnologischer Museen?

30.11.23
Anna-Maria Brandstetter | Mainz Ethnografische Sammlungen an Universitäten dekolonisieren - aber wie?

07.12.23
Carla Jaimes Betancourt | Bonn Kollaborative Methoden für die Erforschung von Heritage

14.12.23
Antony Pattathu, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo & June Rubis | Tübingen; City of Heidelberg/ Bremen/ Sarawak: BiiH and ICCA Consortium Critical Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis – Current Debates

11.01.24
Mirco Göpfert with students | Frankfurt/Main Rassismus in der Wissenschaft

18.01.24
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka & Tobias Werron, mod. Minh Nguyen | Bielefeld Decolonising social sciences - decolonising universities: What it might mean and how it could work

25.01.24
Magnus Gielge & AG Intersektionale Diskriminierung und Rassismus | Wien Anti/Rassismus in der Lehre. Von Studierenden des IKSA Wien kuratierte Session

01.02.24
Dominik Mattes with students | FU Berlin Decolonizing Anthropology? Students’ perspectives from Berlin

Everyone is welcome!

Elephants in the Room: Autumn/Spring School on post/colonial memory politics

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0200

'The elephant in the room' is a common metaphor around the world, symbolizing an uncomfortable truth that is too ubiquitous to ignore but too difficult to address. Elephants can inspire awe and fear, and have historically inspired covetousness in those who sought to rule. As guardians of collective memory, they also represent caring, stability, and resilient communities. This year's Autumn/Spring School addressed memory politics as we followed the many layers of the elephant metaphor and explored how dominant and singularizing narratives can be decentred by situating them within specific time frames and assemblages of an interconnected post/neo-colonial world.

The study tour took place in cooperation with the Research Training Group of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Connect - Exclude: Cultural Practices Beyond Globalization (University of Cologne, Academy of Media Arts and Cologne University of Applied Sciences) and the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies at WCU, University of Western Cape. The organizers are Martin Zillinger, Anna Brus, Ciraj Rassool, Fabian Lüke, Carla Tiefenbacher, Amelie Greefe, Katrin Antweiler, and Michi Knecht. Using the example of different sites of memory in Cape Town and Johannesburg and the contested histories associated with them, we discussed the potentials of different curatorial and ethnographic research practices. How can new relationships between institutionalized cultures of memory and the 'communities of struggle’ or ‘communities by implication’ (Erica Lehrer) involved be imagined and made visible? Museums as sites of memory produce narratives and imaginaries through specific material and discursive practices, each situated in the contradictions of post/colonial boundary drawing. In South Africa, selective openings to social collectives and desires are also still resonating with the racialized and violent politics of the apartheid regime. The Autumn/Spring School brought together researchers and students from diverse political, geographic, and social contexts. We aim at "doing difference in good faith together" (Helen Verran). Learning, sharing, arguing, working to decentre, irritating ingrained perceptions as well as realities, and opening up new imaginaries, spaces of possibility for museum and research practices.

The study visit builds on the curatorial project of the GRK Connect - Exclude The Entire Story Starts Where - Connections and Exclusions of Translocal Positionings and a cooperation Decentering the Museum between the universities in Cape Town, Bremen and Cologne that has been in place since 2020. After two joint online seminars "Decentering the Museum: Resist! - Repair! - Restitute! - Reimagine!", MA students and PhD students from the three universities came together in Germany in April 2022 for a study tour of anthropological museums and mission archives. Their intensive exchange with museum staff and curators and the critical examination of the exhibition practices of the visited institutions was accompanied by the filmmakers Britta von der Behrens and Sebastian Eschenbach. The resulting video installation created in cooperation with students from Bremen, Cologne, and Cape Town re|despair - Painful Encounters in German Museums was shown in May/June 2023 as part of the European Conference on African Studies at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre during the Spring-/Autumn-School. From the MA Transcultural Studies Jana Schäfer & Teresa Ellinger participated for the re|despair project.

Beekeeping in the End Times

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0100

Bremen is cordially invited to join us!

Two sisters, struggling beekeepers, travel cross-country to film the story of honeybees weathering climate change. Bees in Bosnia and Herzegovina forage in the wilds, far from modern industry and agriculture, on the overgrown frontlines of the 90s war. And yet, their Muslim beekeepers describe a profound ecological disaster, quietly unfolding. Honey is vanishing. What keeps the beekeepers going are Islamic wisdom tales that treat plants and animals as the signs of the times and teach how to care for the world, even on the eve of apocalypse. The sisters’ journey starts from the hives in their mountaintop village and takes them across wilderness and wastelands that stand for the present state of the world at large: beautiful and battered, at once. Ever more unhoneyed.

Beekeeping in the End Times
Dr. Larisa Jašarević
Film Screening and Book Reading
November 22, 2023. 18:00
Universität Bremen, Raum HS 1010, Kleiner Hörsaal

If you like to read two chapters of the book in advance, please send an email to: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de
We recommend to read those chapters if you are coming to visit.

We are looking forward to welcome you at our event #Film Screening and Book Reading Beekeeping in the Ende Times#

Study Visit "Decentering the Museum: Resist! - Repair! - Restitute! - Reimagine!"

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0200

A program of the research platform Worlds of Contradiction, the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht), the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Art History at the University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Martin Zillinger and Dr. Anna Brus), and the African Program in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape (Prof. Dr. Ciraj Rassool)

In recent years, colonial collections and the colonial past of ethnographic museums have become a focus of the debate on (post)colonial heritage. Museums are faced with the challenge to decenter or “decolonize” their exhibition practices and to examine the history of their collections for looted art, violent entanglements, and systematic exclusions. This is where the teaching cooperation “Decentering the Museum” of the Universities of Bremen, Cologne, and the Western Cape comes in. It aims at enabling future researchers and curators from Southern Africa and Germany to deal with the transformations of colonial collections, museums, archives, curatorial strategies, and the politics of memories and positionings in an interconnected world.

From March 30 to April 10, 2022, 40 Master's students from Bremen and Cologne as well as Master's and PhD students from Cape Town came together in Germany for a tour de force through missionary and ethnographic collections and museums. The exchange program built on previous joint online seminars in the winter semester 2020 and summer semester 2021, in which students from the three universities had already discussed critical perspectives on museums and archives and conducted their own small collaborative research projects on individual holdings of German collections.

During the 12-day study visit, the participants visited various museums, collections, and archives in Germany, including the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, the Vereinte Evangelische Mission in Wuppertal, the Haus Völker und Kulturen in Sankt Augustin (Steyler Missionaries), the Überseemuseum Bremen, the MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt in Hamburg, the exhibition "zurückgeschaut / looking back. The first German colonial exhibition" at the Museum Treptow Berlin, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. In discussion rounds and lectures, the group critically analyzed these institutions and their curatorial practices.

They investigated forms of resistance, the challenges and limits of restitution, museum spaces of reconciliation, and radical new forms of collaboration. The group engaged in intensive dialogues with museum staff, curators, and academics at the locations they visited. They discussed different narratives and positions on the responsibilities of museums in light of restitution claims and their colonial past. A key observation was that emotional aspects in the institutional handling of colonial history and objects as well as the perspectives of visitors from former colonies and countries of the “Global South” were often not considered. This was also a constant challenge within the very heterogeneous group, in which participants were unequally affected by racism and colonial violence. Spaces of dissension emerged, opening up prospects for a critical contemplation of the traces and connections between colonial pasts and present conditions. Ongoing reflection on forms of collaboration in academia, museum studies, and curatorial practices in the context of dominant epistemic regimes accompanied the encounters.

Through the program, a more long-term exchange between the participating institutions has been initiated. In summer 2022, students from the University of Cologne travelled to Cape Town, where the critical examination of colonial collections and museum practices was continued. In autumn 2022, students from all three universities reconvened to work with the film material recorded by filmmakers Britta von der Behrens and Sebastian Eschenbach during the study visit. The result of this work, the video installation re|despair - Painful Encounters in German Museums documents the difficulties of co-operative research from various positionalities. It tells of silences, shame, anger, and grief in the face of epistemic violence. How can forms of knowledge be decentered in a politically heated debate? What does it "cost" - emotionally, individually, institutionally, politically - to make "unheard" voices heard in Germany? The video installation was shown in May/June 2023 as part of the European Conference on African Studies at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and in September 2023 at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. During the conference “The Elephant in the Room: Confronting Bremen’s Colonial Legacy”, the installation will be shown at the House of Science in Bremen on November 30and December 1^st. The group will present their project on December 1^st between 3:30 and 4:30pm in the small hall of the House of Science. Please register here to participate in the conference.

Workshop "Engaging with Data - Ideologies, Methods and Challenges"

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0100

Join us for an insigh-ul lecture by Lindsay Poirier on the concept of "data ideologies" (Poirier et al. 2020) and a workshop as we explore the possibiliAes that data, including Big Data, offer for criAcal research. The workshop will take a parAcular insight and look into the analyAcal and poliAcal power of data. We will discuss how to engage with data, as well as dominant and alternaAve data ideologies in various contexts and research fields. This will involve an exploraAon of anthropological approaches and perspecAves related to the role of data at the intersecAon of research, acAvism, and poliAcs. The workshop will equip parAcipants with pracAcal methodological tools for working with data and specific data sets. It provides a shared space for the development, discussion, and sharing of data projects.

Lindsay Piorier is Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Sciences in Smith College and a cultural anthropologist of data advocacy, governance and infrastructure. She is the lead platform architect for the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE; worldpece.org) and co-editor of the book Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibility–New Challenges.

Tim Schütz is PhD candidate at University of California Irvine’s Department of Anthropology and currently visiting scholar at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He works on the role of data in environmental politics with a focus on ways data are mobilized across scientific fields, social movements and activism.

The workshop is organised as part of the research project "Data Poli8cs and Authoritarianism: Digital Entanglements and Democra8c (Im)Possibili8es" in the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research and the WoC (World of Contradictons) at the Bremen University.

Please register until 10.12.2023 via email datapolprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

ECOLOGIES OF WAR

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0100

Ecologies of War is a collection of short essays that extends our ethnographic attention beyond “war itself” to include forms of war that are often unrecognized as such—in everyday experiences, material effects, and affective resonances of violence that have penetrated and contaminated the environments and ecologies of places.

All welcome! Please come prepared having read as much or as little as you manage.

When: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 18:30.
Where: SFG 3070
What: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/ecologies-of-war
Registration: yichunprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

John Holloway: Hoffnung in hoffnungslosen Zeiten

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100

John Holloway (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexiko) ist international renomierter Politikwissenschaftler, Soziologe und Philosoph und als Professor für Soziologie Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexiko, tätig. Er ist bekannt für seine einflussreichen Schriften zur Erneuerung marxistischer Theorie, zum Verhältnis von Staat und Kapitalismus und Formen anti-kapitalistischer Kämpfe. Dazu gehören die Bücher Die Welt verändern, ohne die Macht zu übernehmen (2002), das international großen Anklang fand und mittlerweile in elf Sprachen übersetzt wurde, sowie Kapitalismus Aufbrechen (2010). Gemeinsam mit seinem neusten Buch Hope in Hopeless Times (2022) sind diese nun zu einer Trilogie geworden.

Mit seinem neusten Buch widmet sich John Holloway der Formulierung eines Verständnisses von Hoffnung gegen die scheinbar unaufhaltsame Zerstörung unserer Welt, auf die wir zurasen. Dabei versteht er diese Hoffnung in unserem "Reichtum" begründet; ein Reichtum, der sich nicht auf Geld und Profit reduzieren lässt, sondern als "überfließende" [overflowing] Kreativität verstanden werden soll, die radikale gesellschaftliche Veränderungen ermöglichen kann und daher eine Quelle der Hoffnung ist. "Reichtum gegen Geld: dieser Kampf wird über die Zukunft der Menschheit entscheiden".

Der Vortrag wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Worlds of Contradiction (WoC), dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Contradiction Studies und dem Fachbereich 09 veranstaltet und findet im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Herausforderung Klimawandel – kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf das Leben in einer bedrohten Welt“ und als Teil des Kolloquiums für Politische Theorie "Wilde Theorie" statt. Der Vortrag wird in deutscher Sprache gehalten, mit Q&A auf Deutsch und Englisch.

Die MATS Module für das kommende Semester zur Übersicht

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:00:00 +0100

09-74-M4 : PROFILBILDUNG (GRIMMIG)

09-74-M5 : POSTKOLONIALE RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE (SUARSANA)

09-74-M6-1: METHODEN: ETHNOGRAPHIE UND QUALITATIVE VERFAHREN DER

KULTURANALYSE (WEISSKOPPEL)

09-74-M6-2 : METHODEN: ETHNOGRAPHIE UND QUALITATIVE VERFAHREN DER

KULTURANALYSE (KLINKHAMMER)

09-74-M7 : TBA (ANGELOVA)

09-50-M89-A5 : DECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY II. EINE SELBSTKRITISCHE

STANDORTBESTIMMUNG - RINGVORLESUNG PER ZOOM (KNECHT)

09-70-B.2-1 : SEMINAR 1: DIGITAL GAMES AND COMMUNITY (FORD)

09-70-B.2-2 : SEMINAR 2: "A SHOCKINGLY PROLIFIC FAMILY". DIE KONSTRUKTION VON FAMILIE

UND FAMILIENWERTEN IN TV-SERIEN (TRATTNER)

09-74-M8910-1 : ERINNERUNGSKULTUR (ANTWEILER)

09-74-M8910-2A : DIVERSITY THEORIE (KAUFMANN)

09-74-M8910-2B : DIVERSITY PRAXIS (KAUFMANN)

09-74-M8910-3 : ROJAVA !!! (FLADER UND KAYA)

09-74-M8910-4 : TBA (GRIMMIG)

09-74-M8910-5 : VIOLENCE AND PROTEST: LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AESTHETICS (CASTILLO)

09-74-M8910-6 : ANTHROPOLOGY OF FASCISM AND ANTIFASCISM (FLADER, MUEHLEBACH)

09-74-M8910-7 CRITICAL DIVERSITY ZERTIFIKAT (KAUFMANN)

09-74-M8910-8 : FANON: LEBEN - AUSGEWAHLTE SCHRIFTEN - REZEPTION (BOUBA)

09-74-M8910-9 : PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY (CASTILLO)

GASCA: Statement on Academic Freedom in Germany

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0100

The Executive Board of the association published a statement, urging universities to maintain spaces for open, differentiated and respectful discussions:

"If universities and research institutions do not succeed in cultivating spaces for discussion, including also discussions where we might disagree with each other, and if they cannot counter hasty condemnations with open debates, they contribute to destroying trust in democratic publics and play right into the hands of extremist populism."

The full statement is accessible on the website of the GASCA.

W2-Professur, tenured, for the field Anthropology and Cultural Research, Culture in Practice and Transfer

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200

All information about the vacant position can be found here.

The events organized by the BNCL are now online!

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200

7.5.2024 „Foragers.“ A Film by Jumana Manna.

21.5.2024 Ercan Ayboga. “The Dams at Euphrates and Tigris: On the manifold grave impacts on nature and people.”

28.5.2024 Janna Weseloh. Anthropologie, Universität Bremen. „Nutria Netzwerke. Eine multimodale Ethnografie zu Multispezies-Beziehungen.“

4.6.2024 Eray Cayli. Geographie, Universität Hamburg. „Extraktivismus als Ästhetik“

25.6.2024 Surabhi Ranganathan. Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Cambridge. “Blue Resources for the Green Transition: What is Left Out of the Frame”

2.7.2024. The Art of Living on a Damaged Planet. A Student Film.

Prof. Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo as panelist at United Nations Session

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200

Together with Mo Box Philippines, Desinstitute Brazil, Open Society Foundation, Kuza Trust Kenya, Whare Tukutuku New Zealand, Instituto AMMA Psique e Negritude Brazil, and Hayat Malaysia, the bilingual panel "Treatment of Trap? Tratamento ou Armadilha" raised crucial issues on the current dominant drugs treatment paradigm - its racist, colonial, and punitive logics - and proposed a model for genuine and compassionate care with insights coming especially from global South perspectives that are often side-lined in such discussions. They closed the panel with an emphasis on why this matters for our collective efforts in global policy reform.

Institute for Anthropology and Cultural Research (IfEK) collaborates with Off-University

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0200

The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies is once again cooperating with the Off-University in support of academic freedom and hosting the conversation series and course “Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts” by Veli Başyiğit.

The Off-University is a self-organization of politically persecuted academics looking for new strategies to continue academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes. Since 2020, IfEK has hosted the courses of the Off-University, which offers scholars from different countries a virtual network and opportunities for teaching and research.

The conversation series “Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts” is open to students of the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Studies (IfEK) and can be taken for 3 ECTS in specialization modules. It is also open to General Studies students. To find out more, you can attend the information event/first session organized by Off University on 16 October at 16:00 (CET).

Students of the University of Bremen can register via StudIP.

Further information can be found under the link https://offuniversity.org

Unlearn the Ivory Tower: Decolonizing Minds, Challenging Racism and Sexism in Academia

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0100

These lectures and workshops will address oppression, racism and sexism in academia. These events aim to raise awareness, empower, and make these issues visible within university structures.

They are intended for women, trans, inter and non-binary researchers, as well as those in science management or with a general interest.

Please find the details to the lectures and workshops on: Website Unlearn the Ivory Tower

We would not only like to warmly invite you all to these events but also rely on you to spread the word in your networks.

Please feel free to send the link and registration information to all those in your networks plus friends and acquaintances who you think would have a general interest in these topics.

Website Unlearn the Ivory Tower

Registration Unlearn the Ivory Tower

We look forward to seeing many of you at the events either online or offline.

“Livin Right - What attracts right-wing extremist youth activists?”

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0100

When? Monday, 09.12.2024, 6:15pm - 8:00pm

Where? GW2 B3.009 at the University of Bremen

The number of right-wing voters is rising across Europe, and while politicians are at loggerheads, the big question remains as to why fascism is reaching so many people, especially young people. The author and researcher Agnieszka Pasieka also deals with this topic in her newly published book: “Living Right - Far -Right Youth Activist in Contemporary Europe”. From an ethnographic perspective, she deals with the transnational networking of right-wing extremist groups in Europe and their increasing appeal to the “middle class”.

The lecture will be very interactive. In addition to an informative exchange, there will also be room for questions, discussions and comments. The event will be held in German and English.

We look forward to seeing you and to a lively exchange.

Here you can find the site plan for GW2. Under “Building information” and the tab “Additional building information” you will find information on the accessibility of the respective building: Campus map

If you have any questions, please contact us at (coppolaprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de)

Ocean Worlds Conference

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:10:25 +0100

Last October, the BremenNatureCulturesLab (BNCL) and the Bremen Department of Anthropology, together with the German Maritime Museum and the Leibniz Institute for Maritime History, hosted "Ocean Worlds" - a conference that sought to think our present from the vantage point of the oceans and seas. Please take a look at our conference movie, posted on the BremenNatureCultureLab website:

http://naturenkulturen.de/ocean-worlds-conference-september-2024/

MATS Info Session

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:00:00 +0200

To join the session, please contact noellenprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de for the Zoom link!

Exhibition opening: “Solidarity in (Post-)Colonial Spaces”

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0200

Dear friends and colleagues,

We warmly invite you to the opening of the poster exhibition “Solidarity in (Post-)Colonial Spaces” on July 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM in the entrance area of the Bremen State and University Library (SuUB), Bibliotheksstraße 9, 28359 Bremen.

The exhibition was curated by students of Cultural Studies (BA) and Public History (MA). On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the “Bremer Afrika Archiv e.V.”, it explores solidarity in (post-)colonial contexts — particularly focusing on the Namibia Project and its collaboration with the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO.

Taking this initiative as its starting point, the exhibition explores how solidarity-based alliances were formed in Bremen, the challenges they faced, and their contributions to critically engaging with Germany’s colonial past. What did practical solidarity look like? What blind spots or pitfalls are visible from today’s perspective?

We look forward to your visit, stimulating conversations, and a shared reflection on postcolonial possibilities of remembrance. After a few introductory remarks, the exhibition team will be available to answer questions and share insights regarding the content and creation process of the poster exhibition.
You are warmly invited to share your own stories of solidarity.

Program

5:00 PM – Reception
5:15 PM – Official Opening
5:30 PM – Exhibition Talks

For further information and background, please visit our exhibition blog: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/solidaritaetimquadrat

With kind regards,
The Exhibition Team

How to improve education on German colonialism?

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:43:04 +0200

From the 2nd to the 4th of July 2025, experts from the humanities, civil society, and institutions for education gathered at IfEK/bik in order to have their first exchange. Colleagues from Namibia and Cameroon emphasised how important it is in this field to follow a collaborative approach between the Global South and North.

Organisation: Lars Müller & Cordula Weißköppel

The Ifek would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Claudia González Marrero!

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:39:21 +0200

Dr. González Marrero received her doctorate from Justus Liebig University, where she examined the relationship between social imaginaries and cultural policy within the framework of normative totalitarianism in the Cuban revolutionary state. Since 2020, she has headed the Food Monitor Program, an academic observatory that documents and critiques food policy in authoritarian regimes in Latin America and analyzes its impact on governance and the spatial dimension of everyday life. Her most recent research focuses on mechanisms of autocratic adaptation, including currency adjustment, transnational governance, the informal economy, and everyday forms of resistance in contexts of crisis and coercion.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. González Marrero as a new member of the Ifek team! If you would like to learn more about Dr. González Marrero, her research, and her working methods, you can do here.

The orientation week for the Transcultural Studies and Cultural Studies programs is coming up!

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:17:47 +0200

Click here for the O-Week program for Transcultural Studies:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/uni-start-portal/owoche/week/events/124

Click here for the O-Week program for Cultural Studies:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/uni-start-portal/owoche/week/events/40

The IfEK wishes all students a great start to the semester!

The IfEK would like to extend a warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Nasima Selim!

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:02:12 +0200

Prof. Dr. Nasima Selim is a writer, educator, and researcher. Creative writing (nonfiction and fiction), reflexive and non-hierarchical didactics, and interdisciplinary collaborations shape her scientific and literary goals. As an interdisciplinary scholar in anthropology, medicine, and public health, she works in the fields of public anthropology, planetary health, environmental humanities, and Islamic anthropology, with a focus on Western Europe and South Asia.
She is currently working on a transnational research project that examines “breathing intelligence” across species, elements, and technologies in South Asia. Her most recent publications include Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany (Berghahn 2024) and a co-edited volume, Ways of Breathing and Knowing: The Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body (together with Judith Albrecht, Routledge, in preparation).

If you would like to learn more about Prof. Dr. Nasima Selim's career and research, you can do so here.

Call for Films Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0200

We are pleased to announce that, after a three-year break, the Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film will return in January 2026. The Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen invites film submissions to be screened at the 12th edition of the Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film.

The Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film have been an integral part of the Department´s focus in the field of visual anthropology and ethnographic film. The festival is curated and organized by students and teaching staff. On three consecutive days international ethnographic films are screened alongside the latest works of the Department’s students. Film screenings and discussions with international filmmakers are taking place on campus and at the local cinema City46. The films are aimed at both anthropological audiences and the general public. The Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film thus enjoy popularity beyond the University. Further information on the Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film and the programmes of the past years can be found here:

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kultur/bremen-days-of-ethnographic-film

https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/ethnofilmtage/en

https://www.instagram.com/ethnofilmtagebremen/

We are inviting films addressing cultural and societal issues of any length and genre that were produced in 2020 or later. Student films and films that were made as part of ethnographic or anthropological research are particularly welcome. The films need to be in German or English or have German or English subtitles.

Special focus:

There will be a special focus section of the program in which we think about issues of ecology and futures in the face of human-made effects on the environment and climate. Please let us know if your submission should be considered for this special part of the program. We also accept general submissions for the remaining part of the program. Submissions should be made until October 3rd 2025 via email to filmtageprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de and should include:

a synopsis of 250 words maximum, filmmakers’ CVs, as well as information on length in minutes, country of production and shooting location(s)
a streaming-link to the completed film
indication of whether you will be able to attend the screening and discussion between January 20th to 22nd 2026 either in Bremen or online

● Please use the attached form to fill in the required information and send it back to us.

Please note that no screening fee can be paid and that by submitting your film, you authorize the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen to screen your film without a screening fee. We will however provide travelling expenses for a number of filmmakers who would like to join us in Bremen.

Contact: Dr. Isabel Bredenbröker & Jana Schäfer: filmtageprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Form Film Submission: Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film 2026

PDF Form Film Submission: Bremen Days of Etthografic Film 2026

Invitation to bik e.V. OPEN SPACE XII

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:40:39 +0100

Monday, 3 November 2025, from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. via Zoom

Zoom-link:

https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/67718500990?pwd=iCSRTeGbb9PplecK2Jx1i1bDogl6YK.1

In the OPEN SPACE format, bik members and interested parties meet primarily for information, communication and networking. The events begin with a thematic impulse followed by discussion, opening up space for substantive and personal exchange between the cooperation partners and the various fields of work.

In cooperation with the joint research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC), the network "Profs gegen Rechts" (Professors Against the Right) is organising a series of lectures entitled "Democracy Under Threat".

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:26:42 +0100

For some time now, anti-democratic tendencies and forces have been gaining strength in Germany and many other parts of the world. These are intricately intertwined with racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, virulent sexism, climate change denial, neoliberal austerity policies and a profound anti-intellectualism and nationalism. Academic freedom is also increasingly under threat from politicians (see, for example, the so-called funding scandal at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

Against this backdrop, the lecture series examines the vulnerability of democratic principles from various disciplinary perspectives and aims to strengthen the university as a place of open dialogue in times of such threats. The lecture series is aimed at all members of the University of Bremen as well as interested members of the non-university public and focuses on the vulnerability of democratic forms of society and the types and reasons for their endangerment.

Part II – Winter semester 2025/26
DATES | 6:15–7:45 p.m. | Cartesium U Bremen & online

Wednesday | 5 November 2025 Prof. Dr. Alana Westwood (Halifax) & Prof. Dr. Robert Püstow (Dresden): The Politics of (Climate) Science
Wednesday | 19 November 2025 Dr Max Steinbeis (Berlin): The Justice Project
Wednesday | 17 December 2025 Prof. Dr Heike Radvan (Tübingen): Affected by extreme right-wing dominance in the community – experiences, options for action, counter-strategies
Wednesday | 14 January 2026 Prof. Dr Rahel Jaeggi (Berlin): Regressive Democracy – Regressive Modernity

This lecture is hybrid. For the Zoom link, please contact noellen@uni-bremen.de.

Do authoritarian and illiberal governments reinforce traditional gender roles?

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:20:02 +0100

Specifically, she examines how authoritarian and illiberal governments, using the example of Hungary under Viktor Orbán, politically reinforce traditional gender roles. The focus is on pro-birth policies that closely link social rights to parenthood, thus creating a new ‘gender regime’ known as ‘carefare.’ This policy, combined with the suppression of so-called ‘gender ideology’ in academia and civil society, threatens gender equality. Based on the specific history of Eastern Europe, the lecture also aims to initiate a broader discussion on the impact of the global rise of authoritarian politics on gender equality.

Eva Fodor is Professor of Gender Studies and Pro-Rector for Teaching and Learning at the Central European University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California and taught at Dartmouth College (USA) before joining the CEU. She has published extensively in the field of comparative social inequalities and gender differences in the labor market, on state socialism and post-state socialism. Her recent book, „The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary“ describes the introduction of what she calls a „carefare“ regime in Hungary after 2010 (open access with Palgrave Pivot, 2022). Her ongoing research seeks to further develop a gendered political economy of illiberalism.

Location: Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen

Start: 6:30 p.m.

CALL FOR APLICATIONS Postdoctoral Research Associate (f/m/d)

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:38:12 +0100

Here you can find the link to the full job advertisement.

A Digital Archive of Alternative Genders in Africa and Africa(n) Collections

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:58:20 +0100

Together with other alumni of the DAAD programme TheMuseumsLab – Tshidy Kamogelo Ngoma (Gaborone), Nneoma Angela Okorie (Lagos) and Noam Gramlich (Berlin), as well as IfEK team member Isabel Bredenbröker, are launching a one-year collaborative project that aims to make female, queer, inter* and trans* narratives visible in African museum collections. The project is one of the selected projects of TheMuseumsLab CollabFund, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The project team shares insights into their work:

Who is involved in the project? Would you like to introduce yourselves?

We are an interdisciplinary and transcontinental project team based in Europe and Africa, consisting of four alumni of the TheMuseumsLab programme. The project team consists of Thsidy Kamogelo Ngoma (Gaborone), Nneoma Angela Okorie (Lagos), Noam Gramlich (Berlin) and Isabel Bredenbröker (Bremen).

What exactly is behind the title A Digital Archive of Alternative Genders in Africa and Africa(n) Collections? Could you introduce the project?

The Digital Archive of Alternative Genders in Africa and Africa(n) Collections provides a digital participatory platform to foster knowledge exchange on alternative genders between European and African colleagues. The archive highlights female, queer, inter*, and trans* stories in Africa(n) museum collections and beyond. Colonialism, Christianity, and Western science have enforced binary hierarchical gender systems and the normativity of heterosexuality. Yet, plural gender expressions existed long before colonization. Cultural belongings and their protocols attest to the presence of marginalized sexualities.

How did the idea for the project come about?

The idea was born during the TheMuseumsLab programme 2024. During the modules, that took place online, in Berlin and in Ghana, several discussions among the fellows addressed the challenge of integrating feminist and female perspectives into postcolonial practices and memory culture. Carrying the theme into the alumni group, we finally became a team of four curators and researchers based in European and African countries.

What are your goals with A Digital Archive of Alternative Genders in Africa and Africa(n) Collections?

We want to create a digital archive that is alive and growing. It will research historical knowledge relating to ‘ethnological’ collections and represent contemporary positions and knowledge practices. The archive focuses on alternative gender identities, which often play no role in ethnological historical collections. Knowledge about the provenance of interesting artefacts is also mostly incomplete. We are working together with collaborating museums, artists, curators and people from queer communities to track things down and see where lost knowledge can be rediscovered or where contemporary artefacts and bodies can help to fill these gaps.

What significance does the project have for society as a whole? (What else would you like to draw attention to with this project?)

By engaging with this little-researched knowledge, museums can promote understanding and inclusivity for queer people in diverse societies while strengthening queer communities. At the same time, the historical-ethnographic collections (in small parts) are being dusted off and connected to the present. This is being done digitally, thus offering accessibility beyond the walls of the museum. At the same time, we are developing a zine that can also be present in places where digital technologies are not a given.

Who else is involved in the project and why?

We will collaborate with individuals, whom we will soon be seeking through an open call and group research, as well as with partner museums that are either part of the TheMuseumsLab network or where team members currently work. The University of Bremen and the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies serve as academic partner institutions. Museums that will be involved in terms of content include the MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, the Botswana National Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, and the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, which is signing the funding agreement with us as a contractual partner. The project is one of the Selected Projects of the initiative by TheMuseumsLab CollabFund, which is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

How do you organize collaboration with your partners?

We will hold an internal team workshop at pIAR (perfoCraze International Artist Residency) in Kumasi, Ghana, to meet in person, review work results, and receive important insights into queer life and activism in Ghana from the residency's operator, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi. In addition, the project attaches great importance to climate-neutral collaboration, and we will often network digitally with partners and contributors. At the end, there will be a launch of the digital archive, currently planned to take place at MARKK in Hamburg. The project will run throughout 2026.

An initiative by TheMuseumsLab CollabFund. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

You can find more information on TheMuseumsLab website

DAY OF STUDIES in the BA Cultural Studies and MA Transcultural Studies on December 3, 2025

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:01:53 +0100

"Troubled Times, Troubled Studies, Troubled Everyone"
Wednesday, 3 December, SFG 2010, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Bringing everyday life, study, and teaching together: How do we study and teach?
Dealing with emotionally and politically challenging course content
Knowledge transfer and public anthropology

All students and faculty are warmly invited!

You can download the full poster further down.

Information on the 2026 Semester Abroad: Zoom Information Session on 12 December

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:40:43 +0100

Dear students of the BA Cultural Studies and the MA Transcultural Studies,

As the end of the year approaches, so does the time to plan a potential semester abroad in the coming academic year. Whether you would like to spend a semester at one of our European partner universities through the ERASMUS programme, or prefer to study at a university of your choice worldwide, now is the perfect moment to gather information.

On 15 January 2026, the International Office will open the digital application portal mobility-online. You can submit your application there until 15 February 2026.

To help you prepare, we warmly invite you to our Zoom information session on Friday, 12 December, from 12:00–14:00. In this session, we will provide information on:

the most important steps in preparing for a stay abroad
selecting a suitable partner university
the application process

In addition, 2–3 students will share their personal experiences abroad and offer practical tips. Short reports are planned on stays in:

Essex, United Kingdom
Prague, Czech Republic
Istanbul, Turkey
Windhoek, Namibia

Zoom link for participation:
https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/67137412630?pwd=BamaDtyy4GD2b38TMgVtRCxwowQ6fU.1

Please feel free to pass this information on and join us on Friday, 12 December, between 12:00 and 14:00.

If you are unable to attend, you are very welcome to come to our consultation hours:

Martina Grimmig

Wednesdays, 14:30–16:00
Registration via Stud.IP on the profile page under “Terminvergabe”
Also available via Zoom

Cordula Weißköppel

Wednesdays, 15:00–17:00
Registration via Stud.IP on the profile page under “Terminvergabe”
Also available via Zoom

We wish you a pleasant Advent season,
Cordula Weißköppel and Martina Grimmig

Recognizing and preventing radicalization based on masculine ideology – but how? A lecture and workshop by Markus Theunert

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:03:16 +0100

In this event, Markus Theunert offers both theoretical and practical insights into the factors driving masculinity-ideological radicalization: How can it be recognized? Most importantly, how can it be prevented?

When?

Wednesday, 17.12.2025

10:00 – 12:00 Uhr ONLINE

The online event takes place as part of Prof. Dr. Nurhak Polat’s course “Masculinities: Authoritarian Resonances, Alliances, and Networks” in the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Studies and the MATS (Master’s Program in Transcultural Studies), but it is open to everyone.

To participate and receive the link, please register by email at Nurhak Polat

The event will be held in German. If you need English-language translation or support, please get in touch.

Bio

Markus Theunert is a researcher, publicist and psychologist. As the director of männer.ch, he is working in counseling men on issues radicalization, right-wing extremism and prevention. Theunert is the first governmental Commissioner for Men’s Affairs in the German-speaking world.

Download the entire poster:

Are you interested in Erasmus?

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:46:16 +0100

It's almost time! The application period for Erasmus begins on January 15. In this zine, Lotta Mia Bökler gives you personal insights into her stays in Istanbul and Budapest. In addition to city portraits, you will also find other helpful information: from Erasmus bureaucracy to the question “Which country suits me best?” to tips on finding accommodation abroad.

It's worth taking a look!

The zine can be downloaded here.

Lecture: Masculinities: Diaspora, Racialization, and Rights Radicalization by Dr. Sertan Batur

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:48:36 +0100

Using the example of the right-wing extremist organization “Grey Wolves,” the event explores how notions of masculinity are politicized in diasporic realities. The focus is on the interrelationships between masculinity politics, right-wing authoritarian patterns of radicalization, racializing structures, and prevention approaches.

Masculinities: Diaspora, racialization, and radicalization of rights

Dr. Sertan Batur

Lecture + Workshop

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (online)

The online event is part of the course taught by Prof. Dr. Nurhak Polat at the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies and MATS (Master's Program in Transcultural Studies) entitled “Masculinities: Authoritarian Resonances, Alliances, and Networks,” but is open to everyone.

To participate and receive the link, please register by emailing Nurhak Polat: npolatprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

The event will be held in German. Please let us know if you require English translation/support.

Bio
Dr. Sertan Batur is a critical psychologist and works for the Vienna Men's Counseling Association. As an expert, he has been active for many years in men's counseling, youth work, violence counseling, radicalization, and right-wing extremism.

Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film 2026

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:25:07 +0100

For the twelfth time, the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen invites you to the Ethnographic Film Days Bremen. Thirteen current and international productions from the field of ethnographic film will be presented. The festival is organized as part of a seminar by students of cultural studies and is aimed at all Bremen residents interested in film and culture.

This year's film selection covers a wide range of narratives and highlights cultural and social phenomena from different regions of the world. From films about confronting colonial history and social exclusion in urban areas to personal questions of memory and origin. A special thematic focus of this year's festival on the second and third days is on the topic of Ecologies and Futures in light of the human impact on the environment and climate.

Over three evenings, the festival offers exciting insights into global lifestyles and invites you to immerse yourself in inspiring, thought-provoking, and captivating cinematic narratives.

January 20 and 21: 6 p.m. each day in the Small Lecture Hall (HS 1010) at the University of Bremen (free admission)

January 22: 8 p.m., Kino City 46, Birkenstraße 1, 28195 Bremen (admission €10, reduced €5); online tickets available here: www.city46.de/programm/januar-2026/ethnografische-filmtage

Further information and the detailed program can be found on our website or on our Instagram channel.

You can download the press release and poster for the Ethnographic Film Days in full view below.

Apply now for your semester abroad!

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:52:23 +0100

You can find all information and the Mobility Online application portal here.

Update:
Currently, “last-minute” application consultations are only available with Cordula Weisskoeppel (Wednesdays 3–5 pm, SFG 3110; please book in advance via Stud.IP). Martina Grimmig is currently unavailable due to illness.

The art of intervention

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:49:01 +0100

Workshop discussion "The tension between equality: experiences, challenges and strategies" with Prof. Dr. Victoria Hegner and the AG Academic Age working group, as well as a lecture on "Recognising equality practices in appointment committees".

When? 27 January 2026 | University of Bremen

Workshop discussion:

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. (To register for the workshop discussion, please email Linda Krenz-Dewe)

Lecture:

6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Room: SFG 1010

The complete poster can be found below.

Statement of Academic Solidarity with the Universities of Rojava

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:26:07 +0100

Our Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research has been holding joint seminars with the University of Rojava (Qamishlo) since 2021. This digital teaching format has been extremely enriching for all the students and lecturers both in Bremen and Rojava. We have learnt so much from one another, have listened, debated and laughed together. We have been deeply moved by our partners' commitment for emancipatory education in the spirit of radical democratic and feminist learning, peaceful inter-ethnic co-existence, ecological regeneration, and life. This collaboration has shaped the thinking of all of us and allowed us to widen our perspectives on the world.

We are deeply shocked about the relentess attacks on Northeast Syria by the army of the interim government and islamist mercenaries, and the mass violence and humanitarian crisis that this has brought about. Our colleagues report that the universities are now closed. All public buildings have become schelters for the hundred thousands of displaced people who have fled with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. The students have either taken up arms in self-defence or are supporting the refugees. The University of Raqqa has been looted, while our colleagues in Qamishlo are bringing materials and equipment to safety. Our colleagues are not only fearing for their lives, but also for the educational system that they built up amidst the ruins of the war to counter the decades of repression against the Kurds, their language and identity and enable an alternative education. This attack by the fundamentalist forces is therefore also an attack against these academic institutions, their efforts to establish a peaceful, democratic society, the importance they give to scholarly knowledge, and the fundamental role of women in them.

We stand by our colleagues in their struggle for freedom and peace. We reaffirm our unwavering solidarity with the universities of Rojava/Northeast Syria and call for the immediate protection of civilian populations as well as educational and academic institutions.

In this context, we refer to the statement of our partner university EHESS, which likewise affirms academic solidarity with the universities in Rojava. The full statement is available here.

Information event: Master's programme in Transcultural Studies

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:37:12 +0100

Information event: Master's in Transcultural Studies

When? 7 May 2026

Time? 4 p.m.

Where? Online via Zoom

Find out about course content, application and career prospects. We look forward to seeing you there!