2020

Mitteilungen

16.11.2020

Benedict Mette-Starke publishes on AllegraLab

Benedict Mette-Starke reports about his ethnographic perceptions and analysis of payment methods in Myanmar in the light of COVID-19 considering the anthropology of techniques.

The article is published on AllegraLab.

02.11.2020

Benedict Mette-Starke ist neuer Mitarbeiter in der AG von Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer

Im Wintersemester 2020/2021 unterrichtet er im BA-Seminar das Projektseminar "Anthropologie und Technik" und unterstützt Prof. Beyer bei der Betreuung des Forschungskolloquiums "Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie". Willkommen, Benedict!

29.10.2020

Seminaranmeldung im WS 2020/21

Alle Studierende, die im Wintersemester 2020/21 Seminare bei Prof. Dr. Beyer belegen wollen, melden sich unbedingt vor Vorlesungsbeginn auf ILIAS im jeweiligen Kurs an. Die Kommunikation wird ausschließlich per Email via ILIAS stattfinden.

19.10.2020

Prof. Suyarkulova Teaches on Activism

The Working Group Social and Political Anthropology is excited to announce that Prof. Mohira Suyarkulova (American University in Central Asia) will be teaching two Master courses on the topic of ‘activism’ this winter term as part of our Master programme “Anthropology and Sociology”.

Prof. Mohira Suyarkulova (American University in Central Asia) is a political scientist with ethnographic training. She currently teaches at the Department of Psychology at the American University in Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan. She has a long-standing interest in the anthropology of activism, infrastructure and feminism. This winter term, she offers two (online) Master courses: one introductory course for all Master students interested in the topic of activism and one advance Master course for Master students already carrying out their own research on this topic, as well as our PhD candidates working on activism in South Africa and Myanmar. Welcome Prof. Suyarkulova!

30.09.2020

"Recht als soziale Praxis"

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer spricht in einem Interview für den Berliner Arbeitskreis Rechtswirklichkeit (BAR) über Recht, Politik und Gesellschaft in der Lehre.

Das vollständige Interview finden Sie auf der Homepage von BAR.

14.09.2020

Interview mit Judith Beyer

Die Interviewreihe "Sprechstunde" stellt ProfessorInnen aller Fachbereiche der Universität Konstanz persönlich vor – als WissenschaftlerIn und als Lehrperson.

Alle Videos der Reihe „Sprechstunde“ finden Sie in dieser Playlist.

29.07.2020

Judith Beyer on Central Asia

Judith Beyer has been interviewed by "Voices on Central Asia", a collaboration between the Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Central Asian Analytical Network (CAAN).

Both, the CAP and the CAAN, are part of The George Washington University‘s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES). Click here to access the article.

23.07.2020

Judith Beyer schreibt in der TAZ

Warum Prävention und Integration mehr sein sollten als nur Kontrollinstrumente des Staates. Ein Kommentar zur sogenannten „Stuttgarter Krawallnacht“.

Klicken Sie hier, um auf den Artikel in der TAZ zuzugreifen.

02.07.2020

Sarah Riebel joins Working Group

Since April 2020, Sarah Riebel, MA has joined the Working Group Political Anthropology. She will begin an anthropological PhD project with a regional focus on Myanmar: "Harmonious Coexistence? Interfaith dialogue between (ethno-)religious communities, NGOs and the state in Myanmar".

In her project she investigates the interfaith dialogue in Myanmar as a particularly prominent example of ‘harmony ideology’ (Nader 1990). Sarah is scheduled to carry out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar, critically examining the entanglement of religion and ethnicity in the field of the interfaith movement.

To learn more about Sarah Riebels PhD project click here.

05.06.2020

Interview mit Carolin Hirsch

Unsere Doktorandin Carolin Hirsch wurde kürzlich in einem Artikel des Musikmagazins "Vinyl Keks" vorgestellt. Unter der Rubrik "Frauen im Musikbusiness" spricht sie über ihr Projekt "Activist becomings in contemporary Myanmar", ihre Initiative "#AskForZarni" und gibt Einblicke in ihre Arbeit mit der burmesischen Punkband "Rebel Riot".

Den vollständigen Artikel finden Sie hier.

24.04.2020

Vortrag im Rahmen ihrer Endevaluation

Universitätsöffentlicher Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer über den "Entwurf einer Anthropologie der Staatenlosigkeit".

Ankündigung: Im Rahmen der Endevaluation von Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer wird ihr Vortrag "Entwurf einer Anthropologie der Staatenlosigkeit" aufgrund des Notbetriebes der Universität Konstanz als Audio-Mitschnitt am Freitag, 24.4. von 12.00h-14.00h zugänglich gemacht.

02.04.2020

WICHTIGE INFO

Alle Studierende, die im Sommersemester 2020 Seminare bei Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer belegen wollen, melden sich unbedingt vor Vorlesungsbeginn auf ILIAS im jeweiligen Kurs an. Die Kommunikation wird ausschließlich per email via ILIAS stattfinden.

26.03.2020

On Being Voices of Prudence

In her blogpost "On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic", Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer discusses what anthropologists can do in the current Covid-19 crisis.

Judith Beyer argues that "[t]he role of anthropologists in times such as these is to observe diligently." She furthermore elaborates that "[our] task in the case of COVID-19 is to be voices of prudence, questioning the TINA principle, casting doubts at hasty consensus, and demanding specific reasons for specific measures that impact us all."

The article is published on Allegra Lab.

With the following link you can access the image source .

09.03.2020

Routledge's Central Asian Studies series by Prof Judith Beyer and Prof Peter Finke

In this volume Judith Beyer and Peter Finke regard tradition as a practice that needs to be explored in its institutional and interactional context at a particular time, rather than as a reliable guide to the past: tradition can only be judged from the present; it is an interpretative concept, not a descriptive one. While the scholarly debate has so far centered on what tradition entails and what it does not, including the question of invention and ownership, less attention has been devoted to investigating how tradition is enacted, enforced, or motivated – in short, how it ‘gets done.’ In Central Asia, practices of traditionalization are closely related to the transformation of the socialist order and the emergence of highly stratified societies. This volume asks: When does tradition emerge as a line of argumentation, who are the actors invoking it and how is it being (materially) manifested?

https://www.routledge.com/Practices-of-Traditionalization-in-Central-Asia-1st-Edition/Beyer-Finke/p/book/9780367893965

Vorträge

Beyer, Judith: Entwurf einer Anthropologie der Staatenlosigkeit. (online). 24.04.2020

Hirsch, Carolin: Becoming rebel -Performing social minority through a punk collective. At: Myanmar Conference 2020. Minorities in Myanmar, Stuttgart, Germany. 06.10.2020

Mette-Starke, Benedict: Activist knowledge production through digital rights acitivsm in Myanmar. EASA Conference 2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Panel015: Engaged media anthropologiy in the digital age (Media Anthropology Network). Lisbon, Portugal (online). 24.07.2020
 

Publikationen und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit  

Beyer, Judith

 

Hirsch, Carolin

Interview auf "Vinyl-keks.eu - Das independent-Musikmagazin": Frauen im Musikbusiness – Carolin: Anthropologin, Aktivistin und EU-Tour-Managerin von “Rebel Riot”. 02.06.2020

 

Mette-Starke, Benedict

Panelorganisation

Beyer, Judith (jointly with Prof. Julie Billaud and Dr. Agathe Mora): Webinar Series in honour of Sally Engle Merry. For Allegra Lab.  December 2020 - May 2021