Presentations/ Conferences/ Workshops
8. - 11. October 2015
Panel at the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) Conference, Zurich.
"What is non-traditional after all? Gender, sex and discrimination in Central Asia"
Programme of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) Conference
30. September - 3. October 2015
Panel at the German Anthropological Association (GAA), Marburg.
"The concept of crisis and the permanent state of exception"
24. July 2015
"Kochen auf dem Friedhof. Strategien urbaner Präsenz bei Shiiten in Yangon." Myanmar Forschung Tagung 2015, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz.
12. June 2015
"Zuhören als Methode. Oral history in der ethnologischen Feldforschung" At: Kolloquium Neuere Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte" (Osterhammel / Reichardt). University of Konstanz.
12. May 2015
"Work in progress. Performing the state in Central Asia." At: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione "R. Massa." Milan, Italy.
04. May 2015
"Den Staat verfassen. Ein rechtsethnologischer Blick auf Verfassungspolitik." Berliner Seminar 'Recht im Kontext'. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin.
30. April 2015
"Warum in der Ethnologie 'Kultur' nicht (mehr) untersucht wird." Kolloquium Kultursoziologie PD Dr. S. Figueroa-Dreher Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie und Kultursoziologie. University of Konstanz, Konstanz.
19. February 2015
"Anthropology between book and blog. Evaluation criteria and communication in contemporary academia." At: Finnland-Institut in Deutschland. Gemeinnütziges Forum finnischer Kultur, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft im deutschsprachigen Europa. Berlin.
13. January 2015
"Harmony and shame-anxiety. Practicing emotions in Kyrgyz mortuary gift exchange." Kolloquium Ethnologie Prof. Kirsch. University of Konstanz, Konstanz.
The correspondence of lives (June 17, 2015)
Prof. Dr. Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Ingold was invited to give a talk within the frame of a lecture series entitled “Nature and Culture as False Dichotomy” convened by anthropologist Dr. Raúl Acosta-Garcia and biologist Dr. Wolf Hütteroth. The series brought together experts from both natural and social sciences and explored approaches to an integrated view of human life from biological and anthropological perspectives.
Human lives are carried on alongside the lives of beings of manifold other kinds: we respond to them as they respond to us. Lives, in short, are bound in correspondence, and this is what makes them social. How come, then, that in the thinking of so many biologists, social life is understood to be confined to relations among conspecifics? And how come, conversely, that in the thinking of many social theorists, the non-human companions with which humans so often surround themselves are reduced to inanimate objects? I show that the answers to both questions lie in a lingering commitment to human exceptionalism that, despite strenuous denials, remains buried deep down in the arguments of both bioscience and social theory. To eradicate this exceptionalism does not mean confining all the world to objects, as the advocates of object-oriented ontology suggest. Instead, I propose an overarching theory of biosocial correspondence.