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 Theresa Elisabeth Thuß, theresa.thuss@fu-berlin.de

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

Program

October 29 - Carmen Ibáñez Cueto (Freie Universität Berlin): „Die Domestizierung der Zeit“ (in German language)

November 12 - Berkant Çağlar (University of Minnesota): “Breaking the Unwritten Siege: The Litigious State and Queer Politics in Turkish Courtrooms”

November 26 - Murtala Ibrahim (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient): “Algorithmic Religiosity: Social Media Algorithms and the Emergence of Salafi Digital Authority, Community, and Piety in Northern Nigeria”

December 10 - Anna Helfer (Freie Universität Berlin): “Friendship as institutional critique: Reflections on transcultural collaborations on Senegalese art collections in German Museums”

January 14 - Heike Becker (University of the Western Cape): “Towards new anthropological commons: Entanglements of decolonial memory activism and critical anthropology in southern Africa and in Germany”

January 28 - Mehdi Ayachi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient): “The Reading State and the ‘Omani Path’: Practices of Thought and Practices of Power in the Sultanate of Oman”

This is a hybrid event and participation will be possible under the following link:
https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m0ae58f835583310e5c077aa2ae3364f3