Berlin Anthropology Seminar Series, summer term 2025
This seminar series is a joint initiative of anthropologists from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the FU Berlin, the ZMO and the Ethnological Museum. It is intended to create and cultivate an inclusive platform and an open, regular meeting place for the exchange and discussion of current research by Berlin anthropologists. Please inform interested colleagues, young and old. This series will be held mainly in English.
Für weitere Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an Carolin Gantz Vargas, c.gantz.vargas@fu-berlin.de
The organizers of the series are Paola Ivanov, Claudia Liebelt, and Kai Kresse. The events take place bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 4.15 - 5.45 pm in Ihnestr. 1, lecture hall A
14.05. Patrick C. Hege (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin). Book Launch „Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920” (Event in collaboration with the Institute of Asia and Africa Studies at Humboldt University and the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
04.06. Arpan Roy (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin): Badaliya and Atonement: Father Paolo Dall’oglio and Dying for the Other
18.06. Esra Özyürek (University of Cambridge): Subcontractors of Guilt (tbc)
02.07. Ferdinand de Jong (Freie Universität Berlin; Guestprofessor of Art History in Afrika): Decolonizing the Archive: Photographs Lost and Found in Senegal
16.7. Andrea Behrends (Universität Leipzig), Buchvorstellung “Lifeworlds in crisis: making refugees in the Chad–Sudan borderlands”
This is a hybrid event and participation will be possible under the following link:
https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mf6567731b9d89b015f90863e42eff5c4