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Winter 2024-25 | 60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology

60 minutes ... Programme in Progress

WEDNESDAY 2pm – 3pm
DoSCA LIBRARY | Mainbuilding, Part 6, 1st floor 

Organised by:
Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst (s.kurfuerst@uni-koeln.de)

Wed. 09.10.2024 | Fabian Lueke et al. (Univ. of Cologne) |

Screening of the Video Installation RE|DES|PAIR – Painful Encounters in German Museums

A collaborative project by MA students from the University of Cologne, Bremen and Western Cape on ethnographic collections and colonial heritage in German museums

 

Wed 06.11.2024 | Luis Gimenez Amoros (Humboldt PostDoc Fellow (Univ. of Cologne) |

Reconsidering Multimusicality through the making of “The Unknown Spanish Levant series” in Cologne

“The Unknown Spanish Levant series” covers the compilation of nine albums recorded in Spain, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and Egypt from 2021 to 2024. The album series entails the author´s compositions inspired by the revitalization of the “cancionero popular Villenense” (Soler 2006) - awarded by the Institute of Musicology of Spain in 1949 as one of the most extensive musicological documentations of southeastern Spanish popular music- and its historical coexistence with certain musical cultures across the world. Specifically, this presentation focuses on the making of “The Unknown Spanish Levant series” in Cologne in 2024. In this album, there are musical collaborations with German nationals and migrant communities from Cuba, Iran, Spain, and Greece residing in Cologne, as well as with two musicians residing in Alicante. In so doing, this presentation further develops the notion of “recording multimusicality” – a concept previously used by the author to reconsider musical practices of Saharawi music moving between refugee camps in Algeria, Mauritania and Europe (2004-2015) or during the revitalization of the African sound archive in southern African countries (2011-2019). This presentation considers how the notion of recording multimusicality is perceived differently across continents where the series was composed and by reconsidering the above-mentioned research.

Luis Gimenez Amoros is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Global South Studies Center and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology both  located at the University of Cologne. Previously, he has been an Ethnomusicology lecturer at the University of Cologne (Germany), Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil), Rhodes University (South Africa), Sultan Idris University (Malaysia), and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Center for Humanities research.

His academic research focuses on music and refugees in the Sahara Desert (doctoral dissertation), sound repatriation and revitalization of historical recordings from African sound archives, and the historical circulation of Iberian music within an Afro-Asian context and in Latin America. His publications include the monograph ´Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe´ (Routledge, 2018) and the awarded album series ´The Unknown Spanish Levant´ (recorded in Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Turkey and Spain). 
[ https://luisgimenezamoros.com/ ]

Contact: worldmusicspirit@gmail.com

Keywords: Intercultural music practices, Multimusicality, Cultural Circulation, Musicians´ mobility, Revitalisation of cancioneros, Cancionero Villenense, The Unknown Spanish Levant series.

Wed 27.11.2024 | Merle Ellersiek (Univ. of Cologne), Rakai Michelia and Fiona Sastrit (Universitas Pembangunan Jaya, Jakarta)
"Shaping the Future - Chances and Challenges of a Student-Organized Summer School".

Abstract:

Following a 2023 Summer School in Jakarta, Indonesia, where students from Cologne participated together with Indonesian students, some were not satisfied with letting this exchange be one-sided. Thus, we worked on creating a follow-up visit. In August of 2024, ten Indonesian students were invited to Cologne for the first-ever student-organised Cologne Summer School. The interdisciplinary programme, which was named "Shaping the Future – Sustainability, Cooperation and Culture" included a dynamic agenda of workshops, lectures and site visits. In this lecture, one of the co-organizers reflects on the process that led to the Summer School, from the initial idea to the realisation of the event, with many challenged along the way.

Wed 11.12. 2024 | Erdmute Alber (Univ. Bayreuth)
Caring for future life chances in highly diverse kinship networks: changing inter-generational responsibilities in the republic of Benin

Abstract:
It is a truism that children can never expect from their parents what these received when being young. Societal and economic change provides new necessities which need to be balanced with parents´economic positionality. In this sense, moralities of care are highly shaped by economic and societal change.
In my contribution, I exemplify this by looking at the republic of Benin in which the introduction of schooling for all, as well as changing demands of labour markets and the need of care workers within families is re-shaping what children can expect from their parents, what they need to give and what others could expect from them. Looking at two case studies of children situated in hinghly differentiated families helps to unpack how care is realized in a societies in which membrs of a kinship network are highly uneven positioned.

Shortbio:
Erdmute Alber investigates processes of social change regarding the interdependencies and mutual entanglements of politics and kinship, primarily in West Africa. To this end, a relational perspective towards concepts such as "family", "state", "learning", or "work" is the guiding principle.

Current research topics are generational relations, ageing, kinship epistemologies, the emergence and dynamics of new middle classes, the global production of illiteracy, and processes of making a living. The work is based on many years of field research in the Republic of Benin, on field research in the Andean region, and on the supervision and support of field research in Togo, Ghana, and Kenya.

Wed 15.01.& 29.01.2025 | 60 minutes goes Weiterbildung! >> Weiterbildung zu geschlechtlicher Vielfalt

Kurze Anmeldung per E-Mail bitte an: a.benz@uni-koeln.de

In einer zweiteiligen Weiterbildungsreihe wird die Relevanz von geschlechtlicher Vielfalt für pädagogische Angebote und Bildungsräume verdeutlicht. Das Wissen, die Erfahrungen und die Bedarfe von trans*, inter*, agender und nicht-binären Menschen sind dabei die Grundlage. Die Weiterbildung richtet sich an Menschen aus Weiterbildungseinrichtungen aller Funktionen (Studierende, Angestellte und Dozierende). Es sind Menschen aller Geschlechtsidentitäten angesprochen und es ist kein Vorwissen nötig.

Teilnahme auf Spendenbasis: Spenden gehen in vollem Umfang an die Dozierenden und deren Einrichtungen.
Es dozieren: Vertreter:innen von rubicon e.V. Köln, Vertreter:innen von kubiq - Raum für queere Bildung und Sonja Debicki (sie/ihr) von der UzK.

Key Infos:

Teilnahme an einzelnen Terminen möglich
Offen für Dozierende, Angestellte und Studierende der UzK
Keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig

Das Projekt wird unterstützt durch den Lehrstuhl Prof. Kurfürst, Institut für Ethnologie, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität zu Köln und ist Teil der After Lunch Lecture Series "60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology".

 

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