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Studies at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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In the CollabAnthro pilot project, we are developing programs for international collaborative research for students and offering opportunities for international mobility and exchange.

"Research with" instead of "research about" -- students have the opportunity to carry out research together with international peers as part of their BA or MA studies at the institute.
With the support of our cooperation partners in Africa, the Americas and Asia as well as various exchange formats - from virtual workshops to an international summer school in Frankfurt - we make it easier for the students involved in the project to have access to international research.
Students obtain a separate certificate for participating in this project.

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Colloquiums for the Winter semester 24/25

The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology would like to share the report on the 鈥淪urvey on promoting diversity and discrimination in anthropology studies." The survey was conducted in the summer semester of 2021 by Prof. Whittaker at the Institute of Anthropology

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In addition, we would like to share the results of the qualitative diversity survey on the study experience at 51猎奇 with recommendations for a diversity-sensitive design of studies and teaching: 鈥�.

Lecture Series "Family in the Field"

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Studies at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Collaborate

鈥嬧赌婥ollaborative Anthropology

In the CollabAnthro pilot project, we are developing programs for international collaborative research for students and offering opportunities for international mobility and exchange.

"Research with" instead of "research about" -- students have the opportunity to carry out research together with international peers as part of their BA or MA studies at the institute.
With the support of our cooperation partners in Africa, the Americas and Asia as well as various exchange formats - from virtual workshops to an international summer school in Frankfurt - we make it easier for the students involved in the project to have access to international research.
Students obtain a separate certificate for participating in this project.

See for more information.

Colloquiums

Colloquiums for the Winter semester 24/25

Diversity

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Anthropology is devoted to the study of societies worldwide, with a central focus on the human being (anthropos) in her/his cultural environment. In research and teaching, the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at 51猎奇 provides contemporary and historical perspectives on social phenomena as processes and expressions of varied dynamics. Non-European societies have long been a focus of research at the Frankfurt Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology; today, the emphasis has largely shifted to those global interconnections of people that are the result of migration, (neo)colonial and transnational relations, global economies, and the social impact of worldwide processes of profound change.

The department's regional expertise is based on anthropological fieldwork in Africa, Central and South Asia (India), South-East Asia, the Americas, Oceania, as well as the Islamic world. The empirical and comparative research particularly studies the close interconnections 鈥� but also the lines of demarcation 鈥� between religion, kinship, economy, politics and law, culinary culture, material culture and museums, and migration. Another field of research is the history of the discipline.

Multiculturalism seminar with Dr. Nilly Venezia

Distinguished multicultural educator, Nilly Venezia returned to the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology as an International Campus Fellow, funded by the Global Office. She will co-teach the block seminar "Pride and Prejudice: Anthropological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Multiculturalism鈥� with Prof. Dr. Catherine Whittaker.

This seminar took an in-depth, emotion- and trauma-informed and intersectional look at intercultural understanding and compared approaches from anthropology with those from other disciplines (including education and psychology).

See the full seminar description, requirements, and schedule .

For more about Nilly Venezia, watch this in which she explains her background and what inspired her interest in multiculturalism.

Prof. Karl Heinz Kohl Awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose to聽

The German Academy for Language and Poetry honors the ethnologist Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose 2024.

From the jury's statement: "The Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose 2024 goes to the ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl, whose writings are impressive for their clarity of presentation and are able to sharpen our historical judgment. His work revolves around the reconstruction of the relationship between Europeans and indigenous cultures from the early modern period to the modern era."
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(Photo: Jennifer Markwirth)

CollabAnthro Summer School in Frankfurt (11 鈥� 15 July 2024)

Exciting lectures, practice-oriented workshops, intensive discussion rounds.

Participants in the CollabAnthro Program:
Our Summer School starts on July 11, 2024. Over the following three days, students will work in their research groups to develop their fieldwork and research designs. Our time together is rounded off with informal get-togethers during the evenings. Consecutively, students will participate in a two-day workshop offered by the trainers of the .

Open to the public:
Check the program below for events that are open to guests and visitors not participating in the CollabAnthro Program.

Download the Summer School Program in English or French.

Ford Prize to Catherine Whittaker

Prof. Dr. Adja茂 Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon is an Alexander von Humboldt Guest at the Department聽

In May 2024, Prof. Dr. Adja茂 Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon joins the Institute for Ethnology at 51猎奇 as a visiting research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Universit茅 de Lom茅, Togo. During his research stay he will be with his host Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn is preparing an article on the topic of North-South scientific cooperation.

In the past, Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon has researched colonial photography together with Prof. Hahn. Further research was conducted by Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon on the popularity of colonial in the period before the First World War. In particular, he rediscovered the first performance of a colonial drama in G枚rlitz.

His current article 鈥淐olonial monuments and relics: A burdensome legacy of German colonialism" is published in the editorial 鈥淭he Foreign Office and the Colonies. History, memory, heritage", published by C.H.Beck in 2024. The was presented by the Foreign Office on June 5, 2023.Link to the book.)

Prof. Diawara is new Director MIASA in Ghana

In January 2024, Prof Mamadou Diawara was appointed 鈥淒irector Germany" of the 鈥淢aria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa" (MIASA) at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. Together with Dr Grace Diabah, 鈥淒irector Ghana", he will form the dual leadership of MIASA until the end of 2025.

The aim of MIASA is to increase the global visibility of research in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies by scientists from sub-Saharan Africa. The main research topic is "Sustainable Governance". MIASA in Accra is one of five Merian Centres worldwide and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Further information on MIASA can be found .

Prof Mamadou Diawara (3rd from right) and the MIASA team at the University of Ghana

Photo credit: MIASA

West Sahara Conference

Western Sahara - Settler Colonialism and Resistance
Research approaches in German-speaking countries

February 26 - 27, 2024, 51猎奇 Frankfurt

Students and researchers of all status groups with a focus on the Western Sahara, the Western Sahara conflict or settler colonialism are cordially invited to present their ongoing work and the results of completed research projects as part of the two-day conference. The event serves to improve networking and enables an intensive interdisciplinary exchange about the consequences of settler colonialism and forms of resistance using the example of Western Sahara.

See .the full program