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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.

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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…

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…

VEUK-Preis für Ole Brüggemann

Ole Brüggemann wurde am 7. Februar mit dem VEUK-Preis für herausragende Leistungen im Studium ausgezeichnet. Die Preisverleihung fand im Rahmen des Neujahrsempfangs des Vereins der Ehemaligen der Universität Konstanz e.V. statt.

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24. bis 25. Januar 2020 – What challenges from anthropotechnics?

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".