This seminar series constitutes a joint initiative by anthropologists from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, and Ethnologisches Museum. It intends to shape and cultivate an inclusive platform and open regular meeting point for exchange and discussion on current research by Berlin-based anthropologists. This series will be held mainly in English.

The organizers of the series are Paola Ivanov, Claudia Liebelt, and Kai Kresse.

For further questions, please contact our student assistant Carolin Gantz Vargas, c.gantz.vargas@fu-berlin.de 

The event takes place bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 4.15 - 5.45 pm at Ihnestr. 21, lecture hall A.

Program

May 6: Dr. Shahar Shoham (BIM, HU Berlin): Social Reproduction of Sending Migration Communities: The Thailand-Israel Migration Regime in the Orbit of Isaan

May 20: Dr. Ramil Zamanov (FU Berlin): State violence and queer identities: experiences from the Azerbaijani military

June 3: Dr. Sana Chavoshian (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient): Dream-Realities: Dust and Other Micro-relics in Wartime Iran

June 17: Dr. Daniele Cantini: Book talk: Social Anthropology in the Arab World. The fragmented History of a contested discipline

July 1: Anna Szöke (HU Berlin): Implicated Collections: Counter-Cartography and the Traces of Ancestral Remains

This is a hybrid event and participation will be possible under the following link:

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m17f1ed284085e3ad247db1626ac2ca67