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Upcoming Events | Summer 2024

April 2024

A. Datta: "Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany"

Book Launch, April 16th, 2024, at 18:00, GSSC building, Room S.253

Sixty Minutes | Sandro Simon (DoSCA, UoC): Freedom within Unfreedom

17.04.2024 , 14:00 DoSCA Library

Reception of Master Students, Lecturers and Researchers

Wed 17.4.2024, 15:00 DoSCA Library

"Wir eingebildeten Europäer" – Debatten, Verstrickungen ...

2. Session | 18.04.24 | Richard Kuba & Katja Geisenhainer

Insights into Myanmar’s Conflict-Induced Displacement

Tue, April 23, 2024 at 6pm International House UoC, Kringsweg 6

Decolonizing and/or Re-Appropriating the Archive

3. Session | 25.04.24 | Michaela Schäuble (Universität Bern) & Zainabu Jallo (Universität Basel)

Studientag ISKIW "Nahostkonflikt"

Fri 26. April 2024, 10 - 18.00 h Gronewaldstr. 2, Hörsaal 123 3. OG

Past Events | Winter 2023

Wed 17/01/2024 Erella Grassiani (Univ. Amsterdam)

The Tree as Weapon: (non) state securitization of trees in the Negev/Naqab

Thur 18.01.24 Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka & Tobias Werron, mod. Minh Nguyen | Bielefeld

Decolonising social sciences - decolonising universities: What it might mean and how it could work

Thur, 25.01.24 Magnus Gielge & AG Intersektionale Diskriminierung und Rassismus | Wien

Anti/Rassismus in der Lehre. Von Studierenden des IKSA Wien kuratierte Session

Wed, 31/01/2024 Christelle Gramaglia (Univ. Montpellier)

Collaborative Sensing of Industrial Pollution in the Gulf of Fos (Marseille) - A Return to Common Sense?

Thur, 01.02.24 Dominik Mattes with students | FU Berlin

Decolonizing Anthropology? Students’ perspectives from Berlin

Thur 14.12.23 Antony Pattathu, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo & June Rubis

Critical Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis – Current Debates?

Wed 10.1.2024, 2pm: Francis Pope

Air of the Anthropocene | CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

Thur 11.01.24 Mirco Göpfert with students | Frankfurt/Main

Rassismus in der Wissenschaft

Do 07.12.23 Carla Jaimes Betancourt | Bonn

Kollaborative Methoden für die Erforschung von Heritage

Mo 11.12.2023: Anna Wanetschek

War Child | Arbeitsorte für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen,

Di 12.12.2023, 20 Uhr: Dr. Viola Schreer

Ethnografie und Naturschutz: Chancen und Herausforderungen

Di 05.12.2023: Dr. Joh Sarre

Von der kulturwissenschaftlichen Promotion in die Selbständigkeit – Wissenschaftscoaching und Schreibworkshops als kulturanthropologische Praxisfelder

Wed, 06/12/2023 Giovanni Gugg (Université Paris-Nanterre)

Magmatic lives around Vesuvius (Naples). Risk, scotomization and urban crisis

Wed, 06/12/2023: Bénédicte Savoy (Berlin) & Ciraj Rassool (Kapstadt)

1. Cologne Crossroads Conversation 2018-2023. 5 Years of Making and Debating Restitution

Wed 29/11/2023: Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

A landscape of War

Do 30.11.23: Anna-Maria Brandstetter | Mainz

Ethnografische Sammlungen an Universitäten dekolonisieren - aber wie?

30. Nov. – 01. Dez. 2023: GRK Jahrestagung

Spuren | Spüren - Wissenspraktiken in der Transformation. Eröffnung: Sandra Kurfürst et al.

Thur 16.11.23 Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni | Bayreuth

Meanings of Decolonialism

Di 21.11.2023: Dr. Anett Schmitz, | Trier

wischen Agency und Ohnmacht: Eine Ethnographie der Beschwerdepraktiken geflüchteter Menschen in Aufnahmeeinrichtungen

Do 23.11.23 Richard Tsogang Fossi | TU Berlin

Atlas der Abwesenheiten. Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland. Wie steht es mit der Dekolonisierung ethnologischer Museen?

Di 14/11/2023, 19:30 |Film Screening and Discussion “Solidarity Crime”

Location: Filmclub 813 e.V. in co-operation with Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Universidad de Sevilla)

Di 14.11.2023, 20 Uhr | Dr. Rainer Hatoum

Weit mehr als eine Frage vergangener „kolonialer Gewalt“ – Facetten und Ansätze der Provenienzforschung und des Fortschreibens von Geschichte am Städtischen Museum Braunschweig

Wed 15/11/2023, 14h | Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena (Sevilla)

Sensing and Sensemaking across Borders – Spain/Morocco:

Fr 3./Sa 4. und Fr 17./Sa 18.11.2023 Köln-Siegener Meisterklasse

In Bildern dokumentarisch erzählen. Mit Sebastian Eschenbach, mehr Info >> click on image

Mi 8.11.2023, Beginn 10 Uhr | Mit der Öffentlichkeit erinnern

Symposium der Köln International School of Design (KISD), Ubierring 40, 50678 Köln. Mit Beiträgen von Sandra Kurfürst und Martin Zillinger

Do 09.11.23 Lars Kraume u.a.

Discussion of the film "Measures of Men"

Di 05.12.2023: Dr. Joh Sarre

Von der kulturwissenschaftlichen Promotion in die Selbständigkeit – Wissenschaftscoaching und Schreibworkshops als kulturanthropologische Praxisfelder

Wed, 06/12/2023 Giovanni Gugg (Université Paris-Nanterre)

Magmatic lives around Vesuvius (Naples). Risk, scotomization and urban crisis

Wed, 06/12/2023: Bénédicte Savoy (Berlin) & Ciraj Rassool (Kapstadt)

1. Cologne Crossroads Conversation 2018-2023. 5 Years of Making and Debating Restitution

Thur 26 – Fri 27 Oct.2023 | Decolonial Cultural Ecologies

MESH Symposium 2023. To register for the symposium >> click here

Fri 27.10.2023,14-18h | Buddy Programme Kick Off

Intercultural Skills Workshop for Master's Students of CEA and SCA >>> more info

Thur 02.11.23 Film-Screening: "The measures of men"

R: Lars Kraume/ D: Girley Charlene Jazama, Leonard Schacher/ D 2023, 116’

Di 24.10.2023, 18-20 Uhr |

Dekolonialität und Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Cancel Culture oder Rechtsruck an deutschen Universitäten?

Di 24.10.2023, 20 Uhr | PD. Dr. Christine Avenarius

Mit ethnologischen Methoden Nachhaltigkeit in Handwerksbetrieben stärken: ein Praxisbericht

Thur 26.10.2023,6:15 pm | Decolonizing Anthropology - Kick Off

Introduction by Ursula Rao, Martin Zillinger, Anna Lisa Ramella & Michi Knecht

16.-20. Oct- 2023 | DiaMiGo - Autumn Research Academy

with Workshops in Cologne (Autumn 2023) and Cairo (2024)

16.10.2023, 16h | Dr. Oliver Lueb, RJM

Arbeitsorte für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen, Mo 16-17.30 Hörsaal B

18.10.2023, 2 pm | Johara Berriane

Religious Place, Presence, and Sense-Making in African Migrant Trajectories within and beyond Morocco

10.10.2023, 20 Uhr: Prof. Dr. Georg Klute

Eine andere Art von Entwicklungshilfe |Online-Vortragsreihe des Bundesverbandes für Ethnolog*innen e.v. (bfe)

10.10.2023, 12h: Abdallah Ounour Hassan Ounour

The camera is working. Making the migration infrastructure in Sudan

11.10.2023, 2 pm | Khalid Mouna

When the margins produce their sound. Drug users in Tangier, Morocco >> more 60 Minutes-Programme

Past Events Summer 2023

Seminar "Ethics in Anthropological Research" - Gallery Tour

Wed June 28th, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

Simon Peter Longoli – Uganda

Guest lecture as part of the seminar Indigenous communities and global environmental change - open for anyone interested !

Pastoralism Today

INFOE invites you to two events on June 29 and June 30, 2023! Register until 26th of June 2023!

Current Contributions to Urban Lives from Cities in the South

Workshop 28-29 June 2023. Seminar Room 3.03 GSSC

The Diaspora Experiment

06.07. 18:00h | Forum Unser Ebertplatz, Cologne

Master Class on Media Ethnography

14. - 15.7.2023 | Creating Web Pages for Multimodal Ethnography

Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in the Construction of Socialist Vietnam

Prof. Dr. Olga Dror | 12. Juni 12:oo Raum S23 (Seminargebäude)

Jonathan DeVore on "Dilemmas of Decoloniality"

Wed June 14th, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

Popular Visual Media beyond "The West"

Time: June 14–16, 2023 Location: Library Erich Auerbach Institute, Weyertal 59

MESH Green Shoots: Jonathan DeVore

June 6, 2023 | 12.00 – 13.00 | GSSC, 3.03

Intervention: re|despair. Schmerzhafte Begegnungen in Deutschen Museen

31. Mai bis 11. Juni 2023 | Videoinstallation im RJM

Intervention: Alter Voices - Covid Stories

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum 28.05.2023 to 11.06.2023

Sarah Mund on Navigating Salmon Worlds

Wed June 7th, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

The Counter Museum

31.05. 20:30h | RJM: Masello Motana’s Vocal Museum

ECAS Conference

31 May - 3 June 2023

ECAS Panel Anth33 : Global-African entanglement

Thur 1 June, 9:00-10:45, Thur 1 June, 15:00-16:45 | Philosophikum, S66

The Transforming Museum And Its Publics - Roundtabel

RJM: Forum VHS am Neumarkt | Fri 2 June, 20:00

Amévor Amouzou-Glikpa

Wed May 17th, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

Michael Bollig & Clemens Greiner

Wed May 3rd, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

Pedro Cona Caniullan - Chile

Wed May 10th, 10:00 | Guest lecture as part of the seminar “Indigenous communities and global environmental change”

E. Fuhrmann, L. Satur & S. Kurfürst (SEA Group)

Wed May 10th, 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

THE ONLINE CULTURE WARS: A FORMATION STORY with John Postill

Public Evening Lecture Wed 12 Apr | 06.00 pm | Neuer Senatssaal (main building)

CMC Master Class: Digital ethnography as a flat methodology

Thur, 13 Apr, at 10.00 am S22. Register by email to info-memo@uni-koeln.de

Anna Ramella: Research Ethics – Code or Conduct?

19 April 14:00, DoSCA Library | more on "60 min ..." click here

Past Events Winter 2022/23

60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology

Winter 2022/23: De/Coloniality in Anthropological Research

Von Kolonialen Vergangenheiten

und ihren Kontinuitäten an Kölner Universitäten. Ringvorlesung des Forums Decolonizing Academia

Decentering Epistemologies for Global Well-Being

EUniWell Small Private Online Course (SPOC) from 6 February to 31 March 2023

Masterclass for Media Ethnography

(Post)Digital Ethnography | 24.Nov - 26. Nov 2022

Erfassen - Vermitteln - Gestalten

Ethnologische Impulse verändern! Online-Vortragsreihe des Bundesverband für Ethnolog_innen e. V. (bfe) vom 11.10. – 13.12.2022

Arbeitsorte für Geisteswissenschaftler_innen

Vortragsreihe in Kooperation zw. Career Service und Instituten der Phil. Fakultät beginnt am 11.10. um 17:45

Application Deadline - extended ! 10. Oct

Workshop on Safety in Field Research at the RTG "anschließen-ausschließen"

Vietnamesisch lernen an der Uni Bonn

Anmeldung bis 10. Okt. hier >>

Buddy Programme 2022

starts with Workshop "Intercultural Skills" on the 28.10. 12-16.30 in room 222 (Modulbau Weyertal)

Past Events Summer 2022

"Computational Correspondence"

Meisterklasse vom 22.4. - 29.4.2022 | Leiterinnen: Franziska Weidle, PhD und Judith Schein, MA

Environmental Justice in Action

Monday, June 13 2022 @ 5 PM | organized by a student initiative FU Berlin in cooperation with M. Haug

Generation Kunduz

Filmscreenig mit Diskussion | Dienstag 14.6.2022 von 18.30-20.30

The Golden Harvest

Filmscreening mit Diskussion | Mittwoch, 13.07.22, 12.00-13.30 Uhr

Summer 2022 After Lunch Lecture - Programme

60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology, organised by Sandra Kurfürst

Lecture Series, Thursdays 6-7.30 p.m. (via Zoom)

Perspectives on Climate Change Communication

Book launch "Delta Worlds"

at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum on April 7th, 2022 at 6 pm

Book Launch: African Futures (Brill 2022)

Webinar 22.04.2022. Registration: gssc-webinar@uni-koeln.de

EUniWell Open Lecture Series, recorded on 28 April, 2022, access on YouTube

Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig about "Africa the Conservation Continent"