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annikaschmeding.bsky.social
@annikaschmeding.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Senior Researcher at Netherlands Academy of Science and Lecturer at University of Amsterdam

Author: Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan & Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences
Looking forward to today’s workshop on #ethnographic research at GCU in Lahore.
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Looking forward Monday’s “Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority&Political Change in #Afghanistan” (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) Book Talk at Berlin’s Humboldt University‘s “Transregionale Gespräche”, 14. July 6pm.

free&open to the public. Please join us.

#Berlin #Sufism #CivilSociety #Afghanistan
July 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I look forward to today‘s talk at the @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social in #London celebrating the Norchi Prize for my book “Sufi Civilities”. It’s free, so please join us in person or online! @stanfordpress.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking forward to next week‘s @lorentzcenter.bsky.social / @niodamsterdam.bsky.social workshop on the impact of war on the environment, offering a combined social and natural scientific engagement with comparative cases from #Vietnam, #Afghanistan, #Iraq, and #Ukraine.
May 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Tomorrow! Looking forward to tomorrow's “Sufi Civilities” Book Talk at the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at @georgemasonu.bsky.social . It's a Hybrid Event and Open to all. So, please join us!

#afghanistan #sufism #civilsociety

islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/16721
February 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New #openaccess publication: “Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro-ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/peripatetic divide in #Afghanistan” Many thanks to the editors and interviewees who discussed the issues with me over the last decade. A short thread 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This looks promising! Conference on Colonial Encounters and challenges of religious minorities between #Afghanistan, Central Asia and #Iran

Deadline 14.March

orient.cas.cz/en/news/Call...
February 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join us for the Workshop next week “Politics of Manhood: Martyrs, mystics and merchants" at ISS of Erasmus University Rotterdam organised by Dr. Saad Ali to explore the construction of masculinities at the intersection of religion, violence, commerce, politics and power.

www.iss.nl/en/events/po...
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lovely to find a friend‘s book in our local bookstore. And while I want others to read it, too, of course I bought the German version the Joy of Consent by Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 3:16 PM