Sarah Nimführ

10 exciting articles in German, English and Spanish and an art contribution by Katia Koohestani.

Individual orders and subscriptions at: www.kuckucknotizen.at/kuckuck/inde...

📣 OUT NOW: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur, guest edited by Lydia Arantes and Sarah Nimführ

The issue 01/25 contributes to the ongoing dialogue on what it means to decolonize knowledge and practice in meaningful, transformative ways.

#decolonialidad #decoloniality #newissue #decolonizeknowledge

Presenters are also encouraged to later submit papers to a special section that will appear in the non-fee charging, open access journal Folk, Knowledge, Place (folkknowledgeplace.org).

#isisa2026 #ISISA #IslandStudies #religion #ethnography #spirituality #CFA #religiousstudies #SacredSites

Session at the ISISA - 20th Islands of the World Conference, Jaeundo, South Korea, 7–11 July 2026

Accepted contributors will be asked to formally submit their abstracts via the conference website (www.2026isisa.kr) after which they will be reviewed by the conference’s scientific committee.

CFA: Island religions and sacred isles for ISISA 2026

We're seeking interdisciplinary papers on how small islands become sites of religious, spiritual, and sacred meaning.

Submit abstract (max 250 words) & short bio by 30 Sept 2025 to:
sarah.nimfuehr@kunstuni-linz.at & agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org

Together with their son Daniel they emigrated to the US in May 1951. They settled in New Jersey and their sons David and Frank were born. Herbert worked as a child psychiatrist and his wife Ruth as a psychiatrist. Herbert passed away in March 1992 and Ruth in November 2022.

#NieWiederIstJetzt

Credit: Sarah Nimführ

In Sosúa, Herbert met Ruth Arnoldi, who was training to be a nurse at Sosúa Hospital. In 1947, they were the first couple to marry in Sosúa's newly built synagogue. The Kohns worked together at Sosúa Hospital and lived in a house close to the hospital in Batey.

Credit: Sarah Nimführ

At this time, he tried to bring his father Ludwig Kohn and stepmother Gertrud Kohn (nee Salzberger) to Sosúa, but unfortunately this failed due to a name mistake. His parents were deported to the Maly Trostinec death camp south of Minsk in May 1942 and murdered.

Credit: Frank Kohn/Verein für Gedenkkultur Graz

On December 7, 1940, Dr. Kohn arrived in the Dominican Republic as part of the “Swiss Group”. He initially worked on the Bombita farm, but then began practicing as a doctor at the Sosúa Hospital.

Credit: Juli Wellisch 2025: 637

He studied medicine and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Graz, now the @medunigraz.at, in 1937. In August 1938, he emigrated to Switzerland, where he met a recruiter from the Joint who told him about a settlement project in Sosúa.

Credit: Sarah Nimführ

Credit: Sarah Nimführ

Last week I was in Graz for a teaching assignment. In the street where my accommodation was located, I noticed a memorial stone to a former Sosúa settler. Herbert Kohn was born in Graz in 1912 and lived with his family on the second floor of Strauchergasse 19 in the early 1930s.

#8Mai #WeRemember

ISA Regional Guest Lecture: John Connell TUVALU: NOT DROWNING BUT WONDERING

Zoom-Link can be found here: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isa/event...

Tuvalu's climate deal with Australia offers special visas for Tuvaluans but raises concerns—does it secure meaningful climate mobility and sovereignty support, or is it a rebranded neo-colonialism? Join John Connell’s guest lecture to explore these questions. Today at 5pm CET at @oeaw.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary, versatile and practice-oriented, this volume brings together 14 contributions on the production of power and space in rural, urban and insular contexts. Each chapter shows how theory and empiricism can be combined in research practice.

Out now 🤩

Raum - Theorie - Empirie. Ein Arbeitsbuch

Edited by Cornelia Dlabaja, Sarah Nimführ und Nicolas Goez.

This practice-oriented handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the application of spatial theory approaches in empirical research.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Today at 10am EST I‘m presenting my project on transgenerational memory work in the Jewish-Caribbean diaspora as part of the Spring Seminar 2025 in Jewish History at the Center for Jewish History.

Please email fellowships[at]cjh.org to register and to receive the Zoom-Link.

Spannendes Tagungsprogramm mit einem Vortrag von Raisel Tejeda Martínez und mir zu den Herausforderungen und dekolonialen Perspektiven religiöser Wissensproduktion am Beispiel der afrokubanischen Regla de Osha und der jüdisch-karibischen Diaspora.

#Religionsethnografie #decolonialmethodologies

„Erinnern heißt verändern … ohne konsequente Aufarbeitung, ohne Verantwortung derjenigen, die versagt haben – seien es Behörden oder Po­li­ti­ke­r*in­nen –, bleibt das Erinnern, wie es am heutigen Tag in #Hanau gemacht wird, eine leere Geste.“

Auf den Punkt, wichtiger Kommentar von Yağmur Ekim Çay

…und rechtspopulistische Parteien und Personen enormen Zuspruch erhalten. Es liegt an uns allen Haltung zu zeigen und sich entschieden gegen Antisemitismus und Hass in all seinen Formen zu stellen, damit #niewieder nicht zu einer leeren Worthülse verkommt.

#nuncamasesahora #neveragainisnow #HMD2025

#Niewiederistjetzt und heißt, dass es keinen Tag mehr geben sollte, an dem Jüdinnen*Juden ihre jüdische Identität verstecken müssen, um sicher leben zu können. Die traurige Realität ist allerdings, dass in den vergangenen Monaten auf der ganzen Welt antisemitische Gewalt angestiegen ist..

Am 23.01.25 um 17h halte ich mit Raisel Tejeda Martínez einen Vortrag am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der @univie.ac.at

DIE ORISHAS IN DIR. AFROKUBANISCHE EINBLICKE IN DIE VERBUNDENHEIT VON KÖRPER UND NATUR

Online & vor Ort im Institutskolloquium „Körper“:
shorturl.at/Gid8b

Schaut vorbei!

I‘m thrilled to announce that I will be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish History this academic year. I look forward to an inspiring time with outstanding scholars and the wonderful team at the Center.

👉🏼 lnkd.in/es7w_k-V

#InstituteForAdvancedResearch #AcademicCommunity #JewishHistory

As an editor to receive the galley for a 400-page anthology on December 24 is one thing, but then setting the deadline for resubmission on December 29 reflects the conditions of the current academic life very well…

#AcademicMentalHealth #HappyChristmas #HappyChanukka #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

Estoy deseando explorar nuevas timelíneas y establecer conexiones.

Visite también mi sitio web www.sarahnimfuehr.com y sígame en LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-nim...

¡Hola nuevos y viejos seguidores! Tras despedirme de X, que ya no encaja con mi ethos, ahora publicaré aquí. Escribo sobre #antropología participativa, #IslandStudies, diáspora judeo-caribeña, #migraciones forzadas globales, #womeninscience y mi vida como #academicmom. Vea mis 2 últimos libros abajo

I look forward to exploring new timelines and making connections.

Also check out my website www.sarahnimfuehr.com and follow me on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-nim...

Hello new and old followers! After saying goodbye to X, which no longer fits my ethos, I’ll now be posting here. I post about engaged #anthropology, #IslandStudies, Jewish-Caribbean diaspora, global forced #migration, #womeninscience and my life as an #academicmom. See my two recent books below.