If you weren’t able to participate in ReCentGlobe’s Globe Colloquium event on “Energy’s History. Toward a Global Canon”, here’s the link to the recorded event on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irdg...
BOOK PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION:
"Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon" by Daniela Ruß and Thomas Turnbull
The book presentation is followed by comments by Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose. The session is chaired by Andrea Behrends.
When? - 15 January 2026 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Where? - at Radtanke, Bautzmannstraße 2, 04315 Leipzig
More information: www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fue...
OPENING RECEPTION
January brings two special occasions to celebrate:
Firstly, our institute is changing its name from “Ethnology” to “Cultural and Social Anthropology,” and secondly, we are honoring the project work of our students, which was created as part of the new degree program structure.
(New Publication Alert) 🧬❗ In this chapter, I discuss the intricate relationship between population genetics and politics in India, focusing on the making of the categories "Ancestral North Indian" (ANI) and "Ancestral South Indian" (ASI).
I highlight how recent population genetic research, while aiming to separate science from politics, can inadvertently reinforce existing inequalities and (Hindu) nationalist ideologies, urging for a more thoughtful engagement with these complex issues.
You can see the chapter in the open access book "The Order of People: Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications" here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
JOB ADVERTISEMENT:
2 research assistants (doctoral candidates)
🔍To find out more about the available positions, please visit the following link: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/2...
Accompanied by artworks created during an A2E workshop in Mozambique (2024), the manifesto reflects on uncertainty, imagination, and the value of not-knowing — inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative vision.
A collective of academics and artists developed a propositional manifesto exploring alternatives to extractivism (A2E). It invites new ways of thinking and collaborating across human and more-than-human worlds, with a special focus on (sub)soils.
If you want to read the full essay, follow this link:
allegralaboratory.net/alternatives...
🔍To find out more about the available positions, please visit the following links:
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...
JOB ADVERTISEMENT:
- Prof. Stefanie Mauksch, together with Dr. Lukas Ley and Dr. Alba Valenciano-Mañé, is organizing the workshop “Upcycling, in an Extended Sense – Revaluing Stuff, Building New Imaginaries”.
Paola Kirchhof is organizing the lab session “Un/Commoning the Classroom?”.
- Lucilla Lepratti, together with Dr. Viola Castellano, is organizing the workshop “Beyond Condemnations: The Responsibility of Anthropology towards Palestine”.
- Dr. Sina Emde and Dr. Thiago Barbosa, together with Dr. Mihir Sharma and Dr. Catherine Whittaker, are organizing the roundtable “Who is afraid of anti-racism? Intersectional justice and inclusive futures in anthropology”.
With the main theme “Un/Commoning”, members of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology will gather in Cologne from September 29 to October 2, 2025, for their biennial conference. Our institute will be represented in various workshops and roundtables:
Our Staff at the DGSKA Conference
An overview of the activities of our institute’s staff members at the conference of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology, taking place in Cologne from September 29 to October 2, 2025.
📍 Where: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, 10999 Berlin
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
🛜 Online viewing is possible via the link: nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/j/8290140539...
This book reading will be followed by a discussion with Lisette Jong and moderated by Manuela Bauche.
An event by Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leipzig University, and FHXB-Museum. Funded by Wenner Gren Foundation, DFG and HOAN/EASA.
Written by novelist Urmilla Deshpande and anthropologist Thiago Pinto Barbosa, “Iru” weaves archival records and intimate personal stories to recount Irawati’s remarkable life, starting with her formative but difficult relation to German anthropology.
Lesser known is the fact that she was trained in an infamous institute for eugenics and racial anthropology in the late 1920s in Berlin, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Here, she learnt—and challenged—racial theories and practices.
Irawati Karve (1905-1970) is known in India as the first woman to become a professor of sociology and anthropology, and for her feminist writings on culture and philosophy.
BOOK DISCUSSION | Friday, 12. September, 18:30 | FHXB-Museum (& online)
A Reading and Discussion of the Book “Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve” (2024), with authors Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, in conversation with Lisette Jong.
This workshop is organized by Dr. Manuela Bauche (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe University Frankfurt), and Dr. Thiago Pinto Barbosa (Leipzig University). It is funded by: Wenner-Gren Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and HOAN/EASA.
Departing from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin (KWI-A), this workshop discusses these questions and traces the transnational entanglements of racial knowledge in science and politics since the twentieth century.
How did racial anthropology take shape—and spread—through global scientific networks? How should we confront the enduring legacies of racism in science?
We cordially invite you to the workshop “Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy”, which will take place in Berlin and online on September 11-13, 2025.
See program, more information and online attendance links in our institute’s website (link in bio).
