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
www.simone-pfeifer.de
Photography: Jana Bauch//University of Cologne
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📢 DGSKA-Mentoring-Programm für mehr Diversität in Professuren der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026
👉 www.dgska.de/mentoring-pr...
🚀 Start: Frühjahr 2026
🔁 Bitte gern teilen! Auch Mentor*innen willkommen.
📎 The call is also available in English (attached)
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026
👉 www.dgska.de/mentoring-pr...
🚀 Start: Frühjahr 2026
🔁 Bitte gern teilen! Auch Mentor*innen willkommen.
📎 The call is also available in English (attached)
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 AM
📢 DGSKA-Mentoring-Programm für mehr Diversität in Professuren der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026
👉 www.dgska.de/mentoring-pr...
🚀 Start: Frühjahr 2026
🔁 Bitte gern teilen! Auch Mentor*innen willkommen.
📎 The call is also available in English (attached)
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026
👉 www.dgska.de/mentoring-pr...
🚀 Start: Frühjahr 2026
🔁 Bitte gern teilen! Auch Mentor*innen willkommen.
📎 The call is also available in English (attached)
OUT NOW! Our reflections on "Composite Collaborations" - thanks to Cihan for the wonderful collaborative writing process!
New on Co-Producing Knowledge – Composite Collaborations: "Stories from a Digital Team Ethnography" by Cihan El Mentawi & Simone Pfeifer boasblogs.org/de/coproduci... #DGSKA2025
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
OUT NOW! Our reflections on "Composite Collaborations" - thanks to Cihan for the wonderful collaborative writing process!
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025
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Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung
Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...
Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!
Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...
Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!
December 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung
Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...
Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!
Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...
Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!
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📣The call for papers and labs for EASA2026 Poznań is now open. Submit your abstracts until 26 January 2026!
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣The call for papers and labs for EASA2026 Poznań is now open. Submit your abstracts until 26 January 2026!
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
Der zweisprachige Band „Spuren Spüren | Sensing Traces: Knowledge Practices in Transformation“ ist erschienen 🥳Herausgegeben von Jochim Harst, Sandra Kurfürst und Simone Pfeifer.
Der Band ist Open Access 👉
🔗 www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...
Der Band ist Open Access 👉
🔗 www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Der zweisprachige Band „Spuren Spüren | Sensing Traces: Knowledge Practices in Transformation“ ist erschienen 🥳Herausgegeben von Jochim Harst, Sandra Kurfürst und Simone Pfeifer.
Der Band ist Open Access 👉
🔗 www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...
Der Band ist Open Access 👉
🔗 www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...
Im Oktober erschien der Beitrag von Julia Willms und mir in der ZfM 33 im Themenschwerpunk "Aneignung Revisited: Memes" von Brigitte Weingart, Florian Schlittgen und Elena Meilicke.
"Common Violence: Memetische Aneignung von Gewalt- und Täterinszenierungen"
🔗 zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/co...
"Common Violence: Memetische Aneignung von Gewalt- und Täterinszenierungen"
🔗 zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/co...
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Im Oktober erschien der Beitrag von Julia Willms und mir in der ZfM 33 im Themenschwerpunk "Aneignung Revisited: Memes" von Brigitte Weingart, Florian Schlittgen und Elena Meilicke.
"Common Violence: Memetische Aneignung von Gewalt- und Täterinszenierungen"
🔗 zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/co...
"Common Violence: Memetische Aneignung von Gewalt- und Täterinszenierungen"
🔗 zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/co...
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Auftakt der neuen Webinar-Reihe der DGSKA "The Ethics of Academic Cooperation":
"Academic Freedom, Silencing, and Scholasticide"
📅 28. November 2025, 17-19 Uhr
💻 Online, nach Registrierung (Zoom)
Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier: www.dgska.de/webinarreihe...
"Academic Freedom, Silencing, and Scholasticide"
📅 28. November 2025, 17-19 Uhr
💻 Online, nach Registrierung (Zoom)
Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier: www.dgska.de/webinarreihe...
Webinar-Reihe „The Ethics of Academic Cooperation in Contexts of Human Rights Violations“ startet | DGSKA - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
www.dgska.de
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Auftakt der neuen Webinar-Reihe der DGSKA "The Ethics of Academic Cooperation":
"Academic Freedom, Silencing, and Scholasticide"
📅 28. November 2025, 17-19 Uhr
💻 Online, nach Registrierung (Zoom)
Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier: www.dgska.de/webinarreihe...
"Academic Freedom, Silencing, and Scholasticide"
📅 28. November 2025, 17-19 Uhr
💻 Online, nach Registrierung (Zoom)
Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier: www.dgska.de/webinarreihe...
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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...
boasblogs.org
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