Simone Pfeifer
@simonepfeifer.bsky.social
visual, digital, and media anthropology, (post)migration and religious-political contexts, #criticalanthropology @GoetheUniversity Frankfurt & Global South Studies Center @unicologne
www.simone-pfeifer.de
Photography: Jana Bauch//University of Cologne
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Photography: Jana Bauch//University of Cologne
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📣 Join us this Thursday: Europe's 'Muslim Question' and the politics of gender and sexuality (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam). A public presentation of the main findings of our research on how to better understand the systematic problematization and dehumanization of Muslims in Europe.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
📣 Join us this Thursday: Europe's 'Muslim Question' and the politics of gender and sexuality (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam). A public presentation of the main findings of our research on how to better understand the systematic problematization and dehumanization of Muslims in Europe.
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Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology
This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
Am 5.11. in Frankfurt!
#Workshop #PECE #Ethnography
Im November findet unter dem Titel "Forschungsdaten gemeinsam denken und gestalten" eine Workshop Tour zur Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) mit Stopps in Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen und Bochum statt.
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Im November findet unter dem Titel "Forschungsdaten gemeinsam denken und gestalten" eine Workshop Tour zur Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) mit Stopps in Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bremen und Bochum statt.
🔗 www.evifa.de/de/assets/ne...
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Am 5.11. in Frankfurt!
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💡You have a brilliant panel idea? You have a fantastic group of scholars who should absolutely collaborate with each other? Send them this reminder and get together your panel for EASA2026 Poznań!
Further info below
See you in Poznań next year!
#EASA2026 #conferencetime #anthropologists
Further info below
See you in Poznań next year!
#EASA2026 #conferencetime #anthropologists
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
💡You have a brilliant panel idea? You have a fantastic group of scholars who should absolutely collaborate with each other? Send them this reminder and get together your panel for EASA2026 Poznań!
Further info below
See you in Poznań next year!
#EASA2026 #conferencetime #anthropologists
Further info below
See you in Poznań next year!
#EASA2026 #conferencetime #anthropologists
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Who speaks for whom? And who do we (or should we) exclude from public discourse? A very timely event not to be missed - happening this WEDNESDAY.
Information on how to take part is in the comments.
#whospeaksforwhom #academia #anthropology #timely #freedomofspeech
Information on how to take part is in the comments.
#whospeaksforwhom #academia #anthropology #timely #freedomofspeech
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Who speaks for whom? And who do we (or should we) exclude from public discourse? A very timely event not to be missed - happening this WEDNESDAY.
Information on how to take part is in the comments.
#whospeaksforwhom #academia #anthropology #timely #freedomofspeech
Information on how to take part is in the comments.
#whospeaksforwhom #academia #anthropology #timely #freedomofspeech
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10 PhD positions OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
10 PhD positions OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416
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Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world- sometimes openly, sometimes subtly. Basak Ertür, Ghassan Hage, Nandini Sundar & Martin Zillinger explore how we can teach, write & resist in repressive times 🎓🕊️🗣️ Chair: Julia Eckert, Lipin Ram. Thanks to all for your insights!
#dgksa2025
#dgksa2025
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world- sometimes openly, sometimes subtly. Basak Ertür, Ghassan Hage, Nandini Sundar & Martin Zillinger explore how we can teach, write & resist in repressive times 🎓🕊️🗣️ Chair: Julia Eckert, Lipin Ram. Thanks to all for your insights!
#dgksa2025
#dgksa2025
Grateful for this rich conversation. Thanks to Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan and Nitzan Shoshan for engaging in discussions about authoritarian publics!
With a fully packed aula, plenary II has started: “Authoritarian Publics. Anthropological Perspectives on the New Right in Germany” Chair: Simone Pfeifer. Speakers: Nitzan Shoshan, Mario Krämer, Konstanz N’Guessan
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Grateful for this rich conversation. Thanks to Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan and Nitzan Shoshan for engaging in discussions about authoritarian publics!
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Starting NOW!
Plenary III: Un/Commoning Anthropology
with Tamer Abd Elkreem, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mary Mbewe & Christiane Falge
What kinds of un/commoning do exist and what does it mean for anthropology?
Chaired by Nina ter Laan & Hauke-Peter Vehrs
Plenary III: Un/Commoning Anthropology
with Tamer Abd Elkreem, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mary Mbewe & Christiane Falge
What kinds of un/commoning do exist and what does it mean for anthropology?
Chaired by Nina ter Laan & Hauke-Peter Vehrs
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Starting NOW!
Plenary III: Un/Commoning Anthropology
with Tamer Abd Elkreem, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mary Mbewe & Christiane Falge
What kinds of un/commoning do exist and what does it mean for anthropology?
Chaired by Nina ter Laan & Hauke-Peter Vehrs
Plenary III: Un/Commoning Anthropology
with Tamer Abd Elkreem, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mary Mbewe & Christiane Falge
What kinds of un/commoning do exist and what does it mean for anthropology?
Chaired by Nina ter Laan & Hauke-Peter Vehrs
Welcome address by Martin Zillinger. #dgska2025 starting now!
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Welcome address by Martin Zillinger. #dgska2025 starting now!
Coming soon!
🔵Check out more contributions of the DGSKA Exhibition🟣
"Is Sharing Caring?"
by Luca Bruls
52 Stones
by General Assn. Art/Anthropology Collective
Contemporary Archaeology
by Selen Göbelez & Yann le Crouhennec
Santu Paulu Meu Falla Guarire
by Anja Dreschke
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
"Is Sharing Caring?"
by Luca Bruls
52 Stones
by General Assn. Art/Anthropology Collective
Contemporary Archaeology
by Selen Göbelez & Yann le Crouhennec
Santu Paulu Meu Falla Guarire
by Anja Dreschke
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
September 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Coming soon!
Check out the contributions to the exhibition “Out of Focus @ RJM Köln. 30 September - 2 October
#dgska2025
More coming soon!
#dgska2025
More coming soon!
Check out the contributions of the DGSKA Exhibition💫
Living on the Edge: the Koli Community and the Chimbai Jetty
by Sarica Robyn
Empathy for Concrete Things
by Gregory Gan
Bodies of Water
by Félicie Kertudofile
Enmeshed and Entwined
by Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
Living on the Edge: the Koli Community and the Chimbai Jetty
by Sarica Robyn
Empathy for Concrete Things
by Gregory Gan
Bodies of Water
by Félicie Kertudofile
Enmeshed and Entwined
by Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Check out the contributions to the exhibition “Out of Focus @ RJM Köln. 30 September - 2 October
#dgska2025
More coming soon!
#dgska2025
More coming soon!
Read this in preparation of the roundtable of the task force anti-racism of the @dgska.bsky.social
By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social
Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm
By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social
Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm
September 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Read this in preparation of the roundtable of the task force anti-racism of the @dgska.bsky.social
By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social
Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm
By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social
Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm
✨ Out of Focus – Un/Commoning Curatorial Practices through Multimodal Engagements✨
30.09–02.10.2025
Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Full program: agmedien.de/events/out-o...
30.09–02.10.2025
Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Full program: agmedien.de/events/out-o...
September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
✨ Out of Focus – Un/Commoning Curatorial Practices through Multimodal Engagements✨
30.09–02.10.2025
Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Full program: agmedien.de/events/out-o...
30.09–02.10.2025
Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Full program: agmedien.de/events/out-o...
Excited to announce the launch of our blog "Co-Producing Knowledge" on boasblogs,
together with Ute Dieckmann, Gerda Kuiper and Hauke Peter Vehrs.
📖 Read the introduction here:
👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...
#CoProducingKnowledge #boasblogs #Collaboration #KnowledgeProduction
together with Ute Dieckmann, Gerda Kuiper and Hauke Peter Vehrs.
📖 Read the introduction here:
👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...
#CoProducingKnowledge #boasblogs #Collaboration #KnowledgeProduction
September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excited to announce the launch of our blog "Co-Producing Knowledge" on boasblogs,
together with Ute Dieckmann, Gerda Kuiper and Hauke Peter Vehrs.
📖 Read the introduction here:
👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...
#CoProducingKnowledge #boasblogs #Collaboration #KnowledgeProduction
together with Ute Dieckmann, Gerda Kuiper and Hauke Peter Vehrs.
📖 Read the introduction here:
👉 boasblogs.org/coproducingk...
#CoProducingKnowledge #boasblogs #Collaboration #KnowledgeProduction
Exhibition reception with movement activation on 1 Ocotber, 6-8 pm at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Come and join us if you are in Cologne!
#dgska2025
#dgska2025
Moving bodies – moving relationships: Practices of un/commoning
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Exhibition reception with movement activation on 1 Ocotber, 6-8 pm at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Come and join us if you are in Cologne!
#dgska2025
#dgska2025
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Moving bodies – moving relationships: Practices of un/commoning
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Moving bodies – moving relationships: Practices of un/commoning
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Kathrin Schilbach,Sebastian Ritter Choquehuanca,Viola Cantù, and Sevi Bayraktar (University of Music and Dance Cologne)
Dance Activation on 1 October 2025, 6:30 pm as part of the exhibition reception at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Join us for Out of Focus!!! 22 projects are part of the exhibition intervention! Don’t miss out 30.09-2.10!!! #dgska2025
Out of Focus – the exhibition of the DGSKA 2025 – is now online!
The individual projects are now accessible and explore curatorial practices through sound, video, and digital media.
Check them out here:
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
#dgska2025#outoffocus
The individual projects are now accessible and explore curatorial practices through sound, video, and digital media.
Check them out here:
agmedien.de/events/out-o...
#dgska2025#outoffocus
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Join us for Out of Focus!!! 22 projects are part of the exhibition intervention! Don’t miss out 30.09-2.10!!! #dgska2025
Co-curated at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum with Anja Dreschke, Anna Lisa Ramella, Beatrice Hoffmann-Ihde and with Nanette Snoep, Kristina Hopp and Romy Berthold! Thanks for the wonderful collaboration!!! More coming soon! 30 September - 2 October.
Keep an eye on “Out of Focus,” an exhibition on curatorial un/commoning through film, sound, installation & more!
Curated by AG Medien(anthropologie) with help from N. Snoep, K. Hopp, B. Hoffmann-Ihde & R. Berthold at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Sept 30–Oct 2, event Oct 1, 6–8 PM.
#dgska2025
Curated by AG Medien(anthropologie) with help from N. Snoep, K. Hopp, B. Hoffmann-Ihde & R. Berthold at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Sept 30–Oct 2, event Oct 1, 6–8 PM.
#dgska2025
Ausstellung · Interventionen · Filme | DGSKA Tagungswebsite
tagung.dgska.de
August 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Co-curated at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum with Anja Dreschke, Anna Lisa Ramella, Beatrice Hoffmann-Ihde and with Nanette Snoep, Kristina Hopp and Romy Berthold! Thanks for the wonderful collaboration!!! More coming soon! 30 September - 2 October.
New!!! The Journal of Social Media. Read the introduction by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Kim Viljoen.
aosis.co.za/news-introdu...
Sumbit your work now: thejournalofsocialmedia.org/index.php/js...
aosis.co.za/news-introdu...
Sumbit your work now: thejournalofsocialmedia.org/index.php/js...
August 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New!!! The Journal of Social Media. Read the introduction by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Kim Viljoen.
aosis.co.za/news-introdu...
Sumbit your work now: thejournalofsocialmedia.org/index.php/js...
aosis.co.za/news-introdu...
Sumbit your work now: thejournalofsocialmedia.org/index.php/js...
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📢 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠!
We’re looking for a Communications Officer (start: 1 Sept 2025) to lead our social media + comms strategy.
🕐 ~5 hrs/week
💶 €500/month
⏰ Apply by 15 Aug
📧 secretary@easaonline.org
🔗 buff.ly/i7DdBav
#Anthropology #EASA #JobAlert
We’re looking for a Communications Officer (start: 1 Sept 2025) to lead our social media + comms strategy.
🕐 ~5 hrs/week
💶 €500/month
⏰ Apply by 15 Aug
📧 secretary@easaonline.org
🔗 buff.ly/i7DdBav
#Anthropology #EASA #JobAlert
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
📢 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠!
We’re looking for a Communications Officer (start: 1 Sept 2025) to lead our social media + comms strategy.
🕐 ~5 hrs/week
💶 €500/month
⏰ Apply by 15 Aug
📧 secretary@easaonline.org
🔗 buff.ly/i7DdBav
#Anthropology #EASA #JobAlert
We’re looking for a Communications Officer (start: 1 Sept 2025) to lead our social media + comms strategy.
🕐 ~5 hrs/week
💶 €500/month
⏰ Apply by 15 Aug
📧 secretary@easaonline.org
🔗 buff.ly/i7DdBav
#Anthropology #EASA #JobAlert
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Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...
Join Our Team: Call for New Contributing Editors
Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthr...
www.culanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...
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📽️ RAI FILM Festival 2025 Ethnomusicology Award: Beyond Tradition by Lea Hagmann & Rahel von Gunten.
A moving, self-reflective film on young singers, culture, identity & modern life.
Watch this and 85+ others online now : festival.raifilm.org.uk
A moving, self-reflective film on young singers, culture, identity & modern life.
Watch this and 85+ others online now : festival.raifilm.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📽️ RAI FILM Festival 2025 Ethnomusicology Award: Beyond Tradition by Lea Hagmann & Rahel von Gunten.
A moving, self-reflective film on young singers, culture, identity & modern life.
Watch this and 85+ others online now : festival.raifilm.org.uk
A moving, self-reflective film on young singers, culture, identity & modern life.
Watch this and 85+ others online now : festival.raifilm.org.uk
Reposted by Simone Pfeifer
📖 @anthroencyclo.bsky.social is a peer-reviewed and #OpenAccess resource for teaching and learning.
Check it out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/article-brow...
Check it out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/article-brow...
July 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📖 @anthroencyclo.bsky.social is a peer-reviewed and #OpenAccess resource for teaching and learning.
Check it out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/article-brow...
Check it out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/article-brow...
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Join us on 7 July from 16:00 - 17:30 for this fascinating webinar exploring how practices of commoning can foster healing in fractured worlds, with Eveline Dürr, Karla Garcia, Meret Haack, Wolfgang Kapfhammer, and Markos Panayiotou (Planetary Healing Group, LMU Munich).
July 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Join us on 7 July from 16:00 - 17:30 for this fascinating webinar exploring how practices of commoning can foster healing in fractured worlds, with Eveline Dürr, Karla Garcia, Meret Haack, Wolfgang Kapfhammer, and Markos Panayiotou (Planetary Healing Group, LMU Munich).