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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".

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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".

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.

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.

New edited volume in 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…

Harmony Ideology at The Hague

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke discuss the hearings of the ongoing international legal dispute over genocide accusations, The Gambia vs Myanmar, at the International Court of Justice on Dec. 10-12, 2019.

They address in detail the role of Myanmar’s “Agent”, Aung San Suu Kyi, who left the more legalistic arguments to the specialists, and challenged the legitimacy of the case on the basis of "harmony ideology".

'Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice'

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke on the upcoming hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.

First MA-student from Myanmar

As part of a new bilateral agreement between the University of Konstanz and the University of Yangon in Myanmar, Myo Thitsar Khine is enrolled in the MA-programme “Anthropology and Sociology” at the Department of History and Sociology.

Current news

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".

Read more

 

 

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".

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.

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.

New edited volume in 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…

Harmony Ideology at The Hague

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke discuss the hearings of the ongoing international legal dispute over genocide accusations, The Gambia vs Myanmar, at the International Court of Justice on Dec. 10-12, 2019.

They address in detail the role of Myanmar’s “Agent”, Aung San Suu Kyi, who left the more legalistic arguments to the specialists, and challenged the legitimacy of the case on the basis of "harmony ideology".

'Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice'

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke on the upcoming hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.

First MA-student from Myanmar

As part of a new bilateral agreement between the University of Konstanz and the University of Yangon in Myanmar, Myo Thitsar Khine is enrolled in the MA-programme “Anthropology and Sociology” at the Department of History and Sociology.