Ursula Probst

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025

Roxana Barbulescu, Peter Birke, Anda Nicolae Vladu, Aleks Lewicki & Ursula Probst after their conference panel

Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!

Gestern protestierten unsere Studierenden bei einer Sitzung des akad. Senats gegen die Kürzungspläne der FU Berlin, die unser Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie unverhältnismäßig hart treffen würden. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich solidarisiert haben. It means a lot! 💜✊
(Photo: U. Probst)

Our institute, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is at risk due to budget cuts. In current times where we need more and not less critical social scientific perspectives, this is horrible, but also not entirely surprising news. Please spread the word!

So happy to finally see the result of this great collaboration with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social out in the world! For link and summary, see Aleks‘ thread below!

Thank you for the invitation, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social! Was a pleasure to present together, and also thanks to the respondents for their thoughtful comments on our paper!

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There’s a new paper in the pipeline- excited to present „Sex, Care and the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Racialisation as Eastern European” together with @probursula.bsky.social today @scmrjems.bsky.social at Sussex Uni - with responses from Rosie Cox & @karinschersch.bsky.social

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Last chance to submit your paper or roundtable to the hybrid medical anthropology conference „Re-definitons of Health and Wellbeing“ @univie.ac.at in September 2025 !

Deadline tomorrow - 15.1.2025 !
Submission Portal below 👇🏾

@easainfo.bsky.social @probursula.bsky.social

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CfP “Werk it! Expulsion, exploitation, and commoning among queer workers” by a fabulous trio (imho) @anothermilorad.bsky.social @probursula.bsky.social
at the upcoming DGSKA in Cologne in late September! DL 15.1.!!!
tagung.dgska.de/workshops-ro...

Als Reaktion auf Kritik: Bildungsministerium wollte Fördermittel streichen Dem NDR liegen Unterlagen vor, wonach das Bundesministerium für Bildung prüfen wollte, ob kritischen Hochschullehrenden ihre Fördermittel gestrichen werden können. Grundlage der Prüfung ist ein offene...

Das BMBF hat geprüft, ob es Hochschulangestellten der FU Berlin, die politische Erklärungen unterschrieben haben, deshalb Fördermittel entziehen kann. Der Mailwechsel dazu ist dokumentiert. Falls noch jemand Illusionen darüber hatte, was das Ministerium unter Wissenschaftsfreiheit versteht.

Ja. Die Veranstaltung selbst war total fein, aber das Ambiente eher nicht so.

Germany 2024: you’re giving a presentation about sex work, migration and the racialisation of „Eastern Europeans“ in a small venue, yet have to speak through a mic, because outside some right wing extremists are drumming very loudly. Läuft. 🫠

When scholars whose work you highly appreciate read and recommend your work 🥰

„Wer sich also eine Meinung in diesem Themenfeld bilden und sich im öffentlichen Diskurs positionieren möchte, sollte diese Studie auf jeden Fall gelesen haben“, schreibt M. Gutekunst in einer Rezension meines Buchs. Freue mich über die positive Resonanz und Anregungen zum Weiterdenken 🤩

📢 Working on „essential“ work, mobility and Covid? If so, consider joining Viktoria Adler, Alesandra Tatić, Silvia Wojczewski and me at the @EASAinfo conference in Barcelona in discussing feminist perspectives on mobile essential workers! Apply here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Please submit your paper for our EASA 2024 panel in Barcelona: "Collaboration as method in Medical Anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives". With
María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra & Lucia Mair & sponsored by
the EASA Medical Anthropology Europe network: easaonline.org/conferences/...

On Dec 5th, 14.30 CET, I’m presenting my book „Precarious Freedoms“ - for once, in English - at the colloquium of the Department of European Ethnology at HU Berlin.

The presentation will be streamed, it can also be watched from afar. 😉

Info/registration: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

Freue mich auf die Buchpremiere "Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten: Räume". Im Dialog mit dem Beitrag von Andrea Rottmann spreche ich über PrEP und schwule Häuslichkeit 💊 🏡

www.queere-zeitgeschichten.net/index.html

Ankündigungsgrafik zur Lesung, mit Infos: She Said Lesung “Intersektionalität und Gewalt”, am 3.11. um 20.00, mit Fabienne Mahwane und Ursula Probst, moderiert von Methu Thavarasa

Berlin! Am 3.11. um 20.00 lesen Fabienne Mahwane und ich aus unseren Beiträgen - zu Rassismus im Hilfesystem gegen Gewalt an Frauen (F.Mahwane) und Gewalt in der Sexarbeit (ich) - im Sammelband “Intersektionalität und Gewalt” bei She Said Books, moderiert von Methu Thavarasa. ❤️

And thanks again for having me, was great to engage with audiences and the cast around issues of sex work, capitalism and migration, as well as the the complicated processes of representing sex workers‘ complex lives.

„Happy Nights“ (by Lola Arias, full ensemble see link) is a collaboration between sex workers and dancers which addresses everyday (work) lives and imaginations around sex work in Bremen in beyond, through an immersive experience. 10/10 recommended!

www.theaterbremen.de/de_DE/progra...

Danke, Theater Bremen! Last week I was invited to the production of „Happy Nights“ (highly recommended!), to talk about my research with Bibiana Mendes from the production team and could also join a conversation between cast and audience afterwards.

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Link zu „Happy Nights“: www.theaterbremen.de/de_DE/kalend...

Link zum Gespräch: www.theaterbremen.de/de_DE/kalend...

Screenshot der Ankündigung der Veranstaltung (21.10., 16.00, Eintritt frei) von der Webseite des Theaters Bremen

When in the North… im Theater Bremen läuft gerade „Happy Nights“ zu Sexarbeit (und mit Sexarbeiter*innen). Am 21.10. darf ich davor an einem Gespräch zu Sex/Arbeit, Migration und Kapitalismus teilnehmen und nach der 20.30 Vorstellung bin ich auch beim Publikumsgespräch dabei!

Do you already know the economic anthro in Europe map over at the AOE Network page? easaonline.org/networks/eco... #anthrotwitter #aoe

Got invited to discuss my research on sex work and migration from „Eastern Europe“ today with social workers from the „Mobile Teams“ program which provides support in rural areas of Baden-Württemberg, online, as I’m at the other end of 🇩🇪 for fieldwork, interesting nevertheless!