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Simone Pfeifer

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visual, digital, and media anthropology, (post)migration and religious-political contexts, #criticalanthropology @GoetheUniversity Frankfurt & Global South Studies Center @unicologne www.simone-pfeifer.de Photography: Jana Bauch//University of Cologne

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Hintergrund: Schwarz-Weiß Bild des Gedenkens auf dem Marktplatz in Hanau, Menschen halten Schilder mit den Gesichtern der Ermordeten. Darauf die Schrift: 
Wir gedenken:

Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov

Hintergrund: Schwarz-Weiß Bild des Gedenkens auf dem Marktplatz in Hanau, Menschen halten Schilder mit den Gesichtern der Ermordeten. Darauf die Schrift: Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov

Wir gedenken:

Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov

Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau.

Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

19.02.2026 06:15 👍 1905 🔁 833 💬 21 📌 21
Wozu Ethnologie? | DGSKA - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie

Heute ist World Anthropology Day. Wir fragen: Wozu Ethnologie – Why Anthropology Matters? In der Videoreihe sprechen Kolleg:innen aus unterschiedlichen Arbeitsfeldern über die Relevanz und Verantwortung unserer Disziplin, und feiern ihre Vielfalt! www.dgska.de/wozu-ethnolo... @easainfo.bsky.social

19.02.2026 11:41 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Beauty Beauty is an aesthetic value that is tied to embodied practices, affects, and the senses. Whereas philosophers have long discussed beauty as disembodied aesthetics, and scientists have searched for bo...

"The anthropological study of beauty requires a relational understanding of how it is constituted in specific contexts and how it comes to matter in everyday life", writes Claudia Liebelt, in OEA's brand new entry on Beauty! Read it now, read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/beauty

16.02.2026 13:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

16.02.2026 09:28 👍 15 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
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+++ Teilt und unterschreibt unseren offenen Brief an die Hessische Landesregierung! +++ Wir werden die bevorstehende katastrophale Verschlechterung unseres Hochschulsystems nicht hinnehmen und fordern eine Neuverhandlung des Hochschulpakts! #nocuts #nocutsinhessen cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...

03.02.2026 07:13 👍 57 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 12
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📢 DGSKA-Mentoring-Programm für mehr Diversität in Professuren der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026
👉 www.dgska.de/mentoring-pr...
🚀 Start: Frühjahr 2026
🔁 Bitte gern teilen! Auch Mentor*innen willkommen.
📎 The call is also available in English (attached)

06.01.2026 10:58 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

OUT NOW! Our reflections on "Composite Collaborations" - thanks to Cihan for the wonderful collaborative writing process!

05.01.2026 16:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Restitution and Reparation: A Collaborative Blueprint for Justice" by Valence Valerian Meriki Silayo boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

08.12.2025 10:19 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "The Intimate Relations of Creating Knowledge Together" by Alestine Andre & Franz Krause boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

08.12.2025 10:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Writing (Un)comfortably: Collaborating and Co-Producing Knowledge in Times of Crisis and Distance" by Cathrine Bublatzky boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

08.12.2025 10:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "’How Can your Research Benefit our Community?’: How a Multilingual Research Dissemination Booklet Emerged" by Julia Brekl boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

08.12.2025 10:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New on Co-Producing Knowledge: "Some Joys and Sorrows of Co-Producing Knowledge with Ethnographic Collections" by Gertrud Boden boasblogs.org/coproducingk... #DGSKA2025

08.12.2025 10:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung

Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...

Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!

16.12.2025 11:23 👍 32 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
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📣The call for papers and labs for EASA2026 Poznań is now open. Submit your abstracts until 26 January 2026!

More info in the comments.

#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist

09.12.2025 16:49 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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Der zweisprachige Band „Spuren Spüren | Sensing Traces: Knowledge Practices in Transformation“ ist erschienen 🥳Herausgegeben von Jochim Harst, Sandra Kurfürst und Simone Pfeifer.

Der Band ist Open Access 👉
🔗 www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...

11.12.2025 20:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Im Oktober erschien der Beitrag von Julia Willms und mir in der ZfM 33 im Themenschwerpunk "Aneignung Revisited: Memes" von Brigitte Weingart, Florian Schlittgen und Elena Meilicke.
"Common Violence: Memetische Aneignung von Gewalt- und Täterinszenierungen"
🔗 zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/co...

11.12.2025 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Webinar-Reihe „The Ethics of Academic Cooperation in Contexts of Human Rights Violations“ startet | DGSKA - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie

Auftakt der neuen Webinar-Reihe der DGSKA "The Ethics of Academic Cooperation":

"Academic Freedom, Silencing, and Scholasticide"
📅 28. November 2025, 17-19 Uhr
💻 Online, nach Registrierung (Zoom)

Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier: www.dgska.de/webinarreihe...

26.11.2025 12:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 Join us this Thursday: Europe's 'Muslim Question' and the politics of gender and sexuality (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam). A public presentation of the main findings of our research on how to better understand the systematic problematization and dehumanization of Muslims in Europe.

10.11.2025 23:27 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...

Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

01.10.2025 08:24 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Am 5.11. in Frankfurt!

28.10.2025 14:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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💡You have a brilliant panel idea? You have a fantastic group of scholars who should absolutely collaborate with each other? Send them this reminder and get together your panel for EASA2026 Poznań!

Further info below

See you in Poznań next year!

#EASA2026 #conferencetime #anthropologists

24.10.2025 09:27 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Who speaks for whom? And who do we (or should we) exclude from public discourse? A very timely event not to be missed - happening this WEDNESDAY.

Information on how to take part is in the comments.

#whospeaksforwhom #academia #anthropology #timely #freedomofspeech

27.10.2025 15:12 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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10 PhD positions OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416

07.10.2025 14:45 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world- sometimes openly, sometimes subtly. Basak Ertür, Ghassan Hage, Nandini Sundar & Martin Zillinger explore how we can teach, write & resist in repressive times 🎓🕊️🗣️ Chair: Julia Eckert, Lipin Ram. Thanks to all for your insights!
#dgksa2025

02.10.2025 12:23 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Grateful for this rich conversation. Thanks to Mario Krämer, Konstanze N’Guessan and Nitzan Shoshan for engaging in discussions about authoritarian publics!

01.10.2025 08:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Starting NOW!
Plenary III: Un/Commoning Anthropology

with Tamer Abd Elkreem, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mary Mbewe & Christiane Falge

What kinds of un/commoning do exist and what does it mean for anthropology?

Chaired by Nina ter Laan & Hauke-Peter Vehrs

01.10.2025 07:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome address by Martin Zillinger. #dgska2025 starting now!

29.09.2025 15:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coming soon!

21.09.2025 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check out the contributions to the exhibition “Out of Focus @ RJM Köln. 30 September - 2 October
#dgska2025

More coming soon!

21.09.2025 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read this in preparation of the roundtable of the task force anti-racism of the @dgska.bsky.social

By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social

Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm

19.09.2025 16:56 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0