Anthropology Research Seminar

Program of the Anthropology Research Seminar at the Spring Semester 2024

Seminarraum S221, Lerchenweg 36

• 05. März    Book Talk: Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine. Dr. Emanuel Schäublin, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich CH; Chair: Prof. Stefan Leins
• 12. März    More than human approaches in nature conservation. Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan PL; Chair: Prof. Tobias Haller
• 19. März     Photographic Affordances: Re-engagements with a (Colonial) Visual Anthropological Archive. Prof. Paul Basu, University of University of Oxford UK; Chair: Prof. Michaela Schäuble
• 26. März    Mittelbaugespräch
• 09. April    Who cares about the public? Ethnographic insights into a Public Anthro Lab in the making. Dr. Rohit Jain, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern CH
• 16. April    Entangled Connectivities and Disconnectivities in Contraband Mobility in Iran. Moslem Ghomashlouyan, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern CH; Chair: Prof. Sabine Strasser
• 23. April    Conspiratorial Style, Agency, and Politics: Ethnographic Reflections from Contemporary Turkey. Dr. Erol Saglam, Istanbul Medeniyet University TR; Chair: Prof. Sabine Strasser                                          
• 30. April     Metamorphic transformation through arbitration: Chevron vs the Republic of Ecuador. Prof. Suzanna Sawyer, University of California USA; Chair: Dr. Matthieu Bolay
• 07. Mai    Resistant Breathing: Ruined and Decolonial Ecologies in a Middle Eastern Heritage Site. Prof. Umut Yildirim, Graduate Institute Geneva CH; Chair: Dr. Isabel Käser
• 14. Mai    Workers to Capitalists: Repositioning Berlin’s Middle Class. Dr. Hadas Weiss, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin DE; Chair: Prof. Stefan Leins
• 21. Mai    Intervening Temporalities: Aesthetic of (lost?) Relations at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Prof. Dr. Silvy Chakkalakal, Universität Zürich CH; Chair: Prof. Michaela Schäuble
• 28. Mai    Institutsfeier (kein Kolloquium)