Institute of Anthropology
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Institute of Anthropology, Leipzig University
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Accompanied by artworks created during an A2E workshop in Mozambique (2024), the manifesto reflects on uncertainty, imagination, and the value of not-knowing — inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative vision.
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Accompanied by artworks created during an A2E workshop in Mozambique (2024), the manifesto reflects on uncertainty, imagination, and the value of not-knowing — inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative vision.
A collective of academics and artists developed a propositional manifesto exploring alternatives to extractivism (A2E). It invites new ways of thinking and collaborating across human and more-than-human worlds, with a special focus on (sub)soils.
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A collective of academics and artists developed a propositional manifesto exploring alternatives to extractivism (A2E). It invites new ways of thinking and collaborating across human and more-than-human worlds, with a special focus on (sub)soils.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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- Prof. Stefanie Mauksch, together with Dr. Lukas Ley and Dr. Alba Valenciano-Mañé, is organizing the workshop “Upcycling, in an Extended Sense – Revaluing Stuff, Building New Imaginaries”.
Paola Kirchhof is organizing the lab session “Un/Commoning the Classroom?”.
Paola Kirchhof is organizing the lab session “Un/Commoning the Classroom?”.
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
- Prof. Stefanie Mauksch, together with Dr. Lukas Ley and Dr. Alba Valenciano-Mañé, is organizing the workshop “Upcycling, in an Extended Sense – Revaluing Stuff, Building New Imaginaries”.
Paola Kirchhof is organizing the lab session “Un/Commoning the Classroom?”.
Paola Kirchhof is organizing the lab session “Un/Commoning the Classroom?”.
- Lucilla Lepratti, together with Dr. Viola Castellano, is organizing the workshop “Beyond Condemnations: The Responsibility of Anthropology towards Palestine”.
September 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
- Lucilla Lepratti, together with Dr. Viola Castellano, is organizing the workshop “Beyond Condemnations: The Responsibility of Anthropology towards Palestine”.
- Dr. Sina Emde and Dr. Thiago Barbosa, together with Dr. Mihir Sharma and Dr. Catherine Whittaker, are organizing the roundtable “Who is afraid of anti-racism? Intersectional justice and inclusive futures in anthropology”.
September 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
- Dr. Sina Emde and Dr. Thiago Barbosa, together with Dr. Mihir Sharma and Dr. Catherine Whittaker, are organizing the roundtable “Who is afraid of anti-racism? Intersectional justice and inclusive futures in anthropology”.
With the main theme “Un/Commoning”, members of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology will gather in Cologne from September 29 to October 2, 2025, for their biennial conference. Our institute will be represented in various workshops and roundtables:
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
With the main theme “Un/Commoning”, members of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology will gather in Cologne from September 29 to October 2, 2025, for their biennial conference. Our institute will be represented in various workshops and roundtables:
📍 Where: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, 10999 Berlin
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
🛜 Online viewing is possible via the link: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/j/8290140539...
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
🛜 Online viewing is possible via the link: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/j/8290140539...
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August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📍 Where: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, 10999 Berlin
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
🛜 Online viewing is possible via the link: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/j/8290140539...
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
🛜 Online viewing is possible via the link: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/j/8290140539...
This book reading will be followed by a discussion with Lisette Jong and moderated by Manuela Bauche.
An event by Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leipzig University, and FHXB-Museum. Funded by Wenner Gren Foundation, DFG and HOAN/EASA.
An event by Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leipzig University, and FHXB-Museum. Funded by Wenner Gren Foundation, DFG and HOAN/EASA.
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This book reading will be followed by a discussion with Lisette Jong and moderated by Manuela Bauche.
An event by Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leipzig University, and FHXB-Museum. Funded by Wenner Gren Foundation, DFG and HOAN/EASA.
An event by Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leipzig University, and FHXB-Museum. Funded by Wenner Gren Foundation, DFG and HOAN/EASA.
Written by novelist Urmilla Deshpande and anthropologist Thiago Pinto Barbosa, “Iru” weaves archival records and intimate personal stories to recount Irawati’s remarkable life, starting with her formative but difficult relation to German anthropology.
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Written by novelist Urmilla Deshpande and anthropologist Thiago Pinto Barbosa, “Iru” weaves archival records and intimate personal stories to recount Irawati’s remarkable life, starting with her formative but difficult relation to German anthropology.
Lesser known is the fact that she was trained in an infamous institute for eugenics and racial anthropology in the late 1920s in Berlin, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Here, she learnt—and challenged—racial theories and practices.
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Lesser known is the fact that she was trained in an infamous institute for eugenics and racial anthropology in the late 1920s in Berlin, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Here, she learnt—and challenged—racial theories and practices.
Irawati Karve (1905-1970) is known in India as the first woman to become a professor of sociology and anthropology, and for her feminist writings on culture and philosophy.
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Irawati Karve (1905-1970) is known in India as the first woman to become a professor of sociology and anthropology, and for her feminist writings on culture and philosophy.
This workshop is organized by Dr. Manuela Bauche (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe University Frankfurt), and Dr. Thiago Pinto Barbosa (Leipzig University). It is funded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and HOAN/EASA.
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This workshop is organized by Dr. Manuela Bauche (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe University Frankfurt), and Dr. Thiago Pinto Barbosa (Leipzig University). It is funded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and HOAN/EASA.
Departing from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin (KWI-A), this workshop discusses these questions and traces the transnational entanglements of racial knowledge in science and politics since the twentieth century.
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Departing from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin (KWI-A), this workshop discusses these questions and traces the transnational entanglements of racial knowledge in science and politics since the twentieth century.
How did racial anthropology take shape—and spread—through global scientific networks? How should we confront the enduring legacies of racism in science?
August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
How did racial anthropology take shape—and spread—through global scientific networks? How should we confront the enduring legacies of racism in science?
The special issue offers timely and critical insights at the intersection of medical anthropology, disability studies, and the anthropology of work. The contributors unravel ethnographically how people navigate and reshape the shifting boundaries between labor, care, and recognition.
August 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The special issue offers timely and critical insights at the intersection of medical anthropology, disability studies, and the anthropology of work. The contributors unravel ethnographically how people navigate and reshape the shifting boundaries between labor, care, and recognition.
