📣 OUT NOW: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur, guest edited by Lydia Arantes and Sarah Nimführ

The issue 01/25 contributes to the ongoing dialogue on what it means to decolonize knowledge and practice in meaningful, transformative ways.

#decolonialidad #decoloniality #newissue #decolonizeknowledge

CFA: Island religions and sacred isles for ISISA 2026

We're seeking interdisciplinary papers on how small islands become sites of religious, spiritual, and sacred meaning.

Submit abstract (max 250 words) & short bio by 30 Sept 2025 to:
sarah.nimfuehr@kunstuni-linz.at & agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org

In Sosúa, Herbert met Ruth Arnoldi, who was training to be a nurse at Sosúa Hospital. In 1947, they were the first couple to marry in Sosúa's newly built synagogue. The Kohns worked together at Sosúa Hospital and lived in a house close to the hospital in Batey.

At this time, he tried to bring his father Ludwig Kohn and stepmother Gertrud Kohn (nee Salzberger) to Sosúa, but unfortunately this failed due to a name mistake. His parents were deported to the Maly Trostinec death camp south of Minsk in May 1942 and murdered.

On December 7, 1940, Dr. Kohn arrived in the Dominican Republic as part of the “Swiss Group”. He initially worked on the Bombita farm, but then began practicing as a doctor at the Sosúa Hospital.

He studied medicine and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Graz, now the @medunigraz.at, in 1937. In August 1938, he emigrated to Switzerland, where he met a recruiter from the Joint who told him about a settlement project in Sosúa.

Last week I was in Graz for a teaching assignment. In the street where my accommodation was located, I noticed a memorial stone to a former Sosúa settler. Herbert Kohn was born in Graz in 1912 and lived with his family on the second floor of Strauchergasse 19 in the early 1930s.

#8Mai #WeRemember

Tuvalu's climate deal with Australia offers special visas for Tuvaluans but raises concerns—does it secure meaningful climate mobility and sovereignty support, or is it a rebranded neo-colonialism? Join John Connell’s guest lecture to explore these questions. Today at 5pm CET at @oeaw.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary, versatile and practice-oriented, this volume brings together 14 contributions on the production of power and space in rural, urban and insular contexts. Each chapter shows how theory and empiricism can be combined in research practice.

Out now 🤩

Raum - Theorie - Empirie. Ein Arbeitsbuch

Edited by Cornelia Dlabaja, Sarah Nimführ und Nicolas Goez.

This practice-oriented handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the application of spatial theory approaches in empirical research.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Today at 10am EST I‘m presenting my project on transgenerational memory work in the Jewish-Caribbean diaspora as part of the Spring Seminar 2025 in Jewish History at the Center for Jewish History.

Please email fellowships[at]cjh.org to register and to receive the Zoom-Link.

Am 23.01.25 um 17h halte ich mit Raisel Tejeda Martínez einen Vortrag am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der @univie.ac.at

DIE ORISHAS IN DIR. AFROKUBANISCHE EINBLICKE IN DIE VERBUNDENHEIT VON KÖRPER UND NATUR

Online & vor Ort im Institutskolloquium „Körper“:
shorturl.at/Gid8b

Schaut vorbei!

I‘m thrilled to announce that I will be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish History this academic year. I look forward to an inspiring time with outstanding scholars and the wonderful team at the Center.

👉🏼 lnkd.in/es7w_k-V

#InstituteForAdvancedResearch #AcademicCommunity #JewishHistory

As an editor to receive the galley for a 400-page anthology on December 24 is one thing, but then setting the deadline for resubmission on December 29 reflects the conditions of the current academic life very well…

#AcademicMentalHealth #HappyChristmas #HappyChanukka #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

¡Hola nuevos y viejos seguidores! Tras despedirme de X, que ya no encaja con mi ethos, ahora publicaré aquí. Escribo sobre #antropología participativa, #IslandStudies, diáspora judeo-caribeña, #migraciones forzadas globales, #womeninscience y mi vida como #academicmom. Vea mis 2 últimos libros abajo

Hello new and old followers! After saying goodbye to X, which no longer fits my ethos, I’ll now be posting here. I post about engaged #anthropology, #IslandStudies, Jewish-Caribbean diaspora, global forced #migration, #womeninscience and my life as an #academicmom. See my two recent books below.