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Hansjörg Dilger
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Social and Cultural Anthropologist @ FU Berlin, Director of Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies", Head of Research Area Medical Anthropology | Global Health, Co-speaker of DFG Network "Public Anthropology" & Co-PI @ MoRePPaR .. more

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Sociology 19%
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At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
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Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts
At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...
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Dekolonial Erinnern im Botanischen Garten Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Großartige Initiative zur Aufarbeitung der kolonialen Verflechtungen👇

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Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung

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Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief - Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung - ISD
Mehr als 40 Vereine bundesweit, darunter auch die ISD sowie 140 Personen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Forschung unterstützen den Offenen Brief, der
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Ab Mai 2026 übernimmt Henrietta Lidchi die Direktion der ethnologischen Sammlungen im Humboldt Forum. Die international erfahrene Anthropologin will das Forum als offenen „Erzählraum“ weiterentwickeln und neue Perspektiven sowie Zielgruppen ansprechen.
#HumboldtForum #SPK #Museen #Kultur
Henrietta Lidchi wird ab Mai 2026 neue Direktorin der Sammlungen im Humboldt Forum
Neue Impulse fürs Humboldt Forum: 2026 tritt Henrietta Lidchi die Museumsdirektion an. Die Anthropologin bringt langjährige internationale Museumserfahrung mit und will im Humboldt Forum einen offenen...
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Congratulations, Carna, that's amazing news!! 🎉🎉

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🥳 Glückwunsch an Dr. Philippe Faist @phfaist.bsky.social und Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner von der #FUBerlin zu ihren #ERCGrants! 🎉

Der @erc.europa.eu fördert die Projekte mit je 2 Mio. Euro 👏

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🗣️ Con-SA (Dr. Schaflechner): tinyurl.com/ercgrant-fu-2

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The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣

349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG!

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#FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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In addition, colleagues from the editorial board & Meredith Keffer, responsible for the series at Palgrave Macmillan, will also be there. We look forward to seeing you!
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Then please join this online workshop on Thursday, December 11, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. (CET), where we as series editors will introduce the book series and answer your questions
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Are you interested in learning more about the book series "Transformations in Medical Anthropology" published by Palgrave Macmilan? Or do you have an idea for a project that you would like to publish with us?
Rückführung der Ahnen: Tolles Interview mit Larissa Förster, Weltkulturenmuseum Frankfurt, über Provenienzforschung zu ancestral remains aus kolonialen Kontexten.

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Koloniale Aufarbeitung: Weltkulturenmuseum identifiziert menschliche Überreste
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Radiobeitrag zu Familie Kiwelu. Es ist zwei Jahre her, dass wir den Kopf ihres Ahnen Sindato Kiutesha in Berlin identifizieren konnten. Bis heute ist er nicht zurückgekehrt. Unsere Ausstellung "Mangi Meli Remains" in Old Moshi kommt auch vor.
Eine Familie aus Tansania kämpft über 40 Jahren um die Rückführung des Schädels ihres Urgroßvaters
Eine Familie aus Tansania kämpft über 40 Jahren um die Rückführung des Schädels ihres Urgroßvaters. Eigentlich wäre nun alles bereit für Wiedergutmachung.
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Kürzlich erschienen in Heft 02/2025 die von Hansjörg Dilger verfasste #rezension von Andreas Reckwitz „Verlust: Ein Grundproblem der Moderne" (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2024). Im Open Access online zu lesen unter:
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DOI: 10.28937/9783787350483_6

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Samia Suluhu Hassan rose from Zanzibari technocrat to Tanzania’s presidency as a calming consensus-builder. But after consolidating power, her first electoral test ended in brutal repression and deadly unrest, putting the nation at its most dangerous crossroads in decades.
From Mama Samia to the mad king
Six cartoons that explain the presidency of Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Looking forward to collaborating on this exciting project! 🎉🎉

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Happy to be part of this new collaborative research project on Technologies in Global Health: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202... together with many partners in Berlin and academic institutions in Uganda, Ghana & Tanzania, e.g. @hdilger.bsky.social
Einstein Research Unit for Global Health Technologies Launched
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Tanzania has charged more than 200 people with treason, a lawyer and judicial sources told AFP, with the country's opposition saying on Saturday that yet another one of their leaders had been arrested ➡️ u.afp.com/Sn4z

"Hundreds of people have been killed in Tanzania during three days of protests following Wednesday's general election, the country's main opposition party has said. The death toll varies, and a nationwide internet shutdown is making it difficult to verify the numbers." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tanzania election: Hundreds feared dead in crackdown on protests - BBC News
A diplomatic source tells the BBC there is credible evidence that at least 500 people have been killed.
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🎧 Mixed Feelings – der neuer #Forschungspodcast!
Forschende des SFB #AffectiveSocieties sprechen über den Umgang mit widersprüchlichen Gefühlen und teilen wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über #Emotionen, die aus Konflikten entstehen.
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"Lawmakers from the European Parliament said in a statement Thursday that the elections in Tanzania were 'neither free nor fair' and urged democratic partners to 'stand firm in the defense of democracy and human rights.'": www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Protests in Tanzania spread after a disputed election, with the military on the streets
Protests have erupted in Tanzania following a disputed election
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"The so-called 'election' in Tanzania is a sham. The outcome was fixed the moment Suluhu strangled all opposition, silenced the media, and shut down political space" (Kenya Human Rights Commission and other CSOs): khrc.or.ke/press-releas...
Tanzania doesn't have an election but a crackdown disguised as democracy
Fellow East Africans,  We stand here as East African Citizens, mandated by the fact that Jumuiya ni yetu. We continue to witness human rights violations and the degradation of democracy across the reg...
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"Election day: Tanzania restricts internet as chaos erupts" (The East African): www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/eas...
Election day: Tanzania restricts internet as chaos erupts
There is a nationwide disruption of internet services in Tanzania, with users reporting being unable to share multimedia content.
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"Police fire tear gas as protests erupt during Tanzania election" (BBC): www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tanzania election: Police fire tear gas as protests erupt in Dar es Salaam - BBC News
Opposition supporters accuse the government of undermining democracy, and say the elections are not free and fair.
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The DFG Emmy Noether Research Group ,Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor' is looking for 3 Doctoral Students (m/f/d) for an ethnographic study of peer support work across the German speaking countries.
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„Das Online-Portal ,Sammlungsgut aus Kolonialen Kontexten’ von @ddbkultur.bsky.social - Wie kann der Nutzen für Herkunftsgesellschaften erhöht werden?“
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