Anthropology of Global Inequalities Research Group

I had the pleasure of being part of the workshop *Commoning Solidarities beyond Differences* at #DGSKA2025, organised by @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social and Olaf Zenker, with contributions from the Claudia Briones, Philipp Naucke, Samira, Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne, Şeyma Saylak and me 🙏🏼 @dgska.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sabine Netz for being awarded 2nd place in the prestigious DGSKA Dissertation Prize!
Her dissertation explores the role of age in relation to the legal status and living conditions of asylum-seekers in Germany. We're proud to celebrate this outstanding achievement!
#DGSKA2025

(2/2) Other presentations include P059: "Un/Commoning Migration", P034: "Challenging Universal Rights with the Commons or Uncommons" and P011 "Common(ing) Values and Values In-Common".

See you in Cologne next week!

Looking forward to attend this year's German Social Anthropology Meeting in Cologne next week. Members of our working group participate in P057: "Who is afraid of anti-racism?", P061 "Beyond Condemnations", and P001: "Commoning Solidarities Beyond Differences?" (1/2)

Out of Focus – the exhibition of the DGSKA 2025 – is now online!
The individual projects are now accessible and explore curatorial practices through sound, video, and digital media.

Check them out here:
agmedien.de/events/out-o...

#dgska2025#outoffocus

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).

Hunderte feiern die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin Angekündigt, abgesagt, doch durchgeführt: Am Samstag wurde feierlich die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin eingeweiht. Kurz zuvor drohte die Umbenennung der ehemaligen Mohrenstraße an einem Eilantrag...

»Die Umbenennung ist ein Symbol dafür, dass eine rassistische Fremdbezeichnung für Schwarze Menschen, Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft, aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannt wurde.«

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193...

Racist Berlin street name changed after legal battle – DW – 08/23/2025 The renaming of a Berlin boulevard to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first Africa-born scholar, has finally happened despite a last-ditch legal attempt to stop it.

Racist Berlin street name changed after legal battle
www.dw.com/en/berlin-ra...

Our working group member Samira Marty is presenting her newest research on August 21 at the Ibero-American Institute. Her talk, "Poets in Times of WhatsApp: Nicaraguan Exile, Poetry and the Digital Sphere," will be hybrid.
Find more information via www.iai.spk-berlin.de/forschung/fo...

📣 @amanthro.bsky.social invites pitches for its new Highlights section, featuring creative, experimental, and critical work from early-career anthropologists.

Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF

New publication alert 📚📣📚: Anthropology in Action, latest issue, and #OpenAccess!

#DGEKWKongress2025 Die Anmeldung und das Programm finden sich auf der Webseite des 45. DGEKW Kongress 2025 "Zufall, Überraschung, Kontingenz – Zum Unbestimmten in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft".
🔗 www.evifa.de/de/assets/ne...

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, July 7, for the next lecture of "Matters of Life and Death":

"What’s a pauper’s death worth? Race, anatomy, and the fraught promise of immortality" by Katharina Schramm.

📅 Monday June 30
🕔 5–7 PM
📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio)
📍 Universitätsstr. 3

🖼️ Ongoing Exhibition | From Oblivion to Memory – Transatlantic Memorial Echoes
📍 Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth
🕒 Tue–Thur, 12–4 PM | Special opening: 5 July (12–5 PM)
📩 Visits by appointment: iwalewahaus@uni-bayreuth.de
🌐 Virtual exhibition: www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_2-Resea...

My conversation with dear @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social on his wonderful book, Racializing Caste (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social), is out on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

Check it out 👇

newbooksnetwork.com/racializing-...

Our "Public Anthropology" reader is out - and it has become such a beautiful book! 😍🌞 #openaccess

cover of the journal "anthropological theory"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happpy to share some insights on my new book, “Racializing Caste” ⬇️

The Cluster of Excellence "Africa Multiple" at the University of Bayreuth has secured renewed funding
#AfricaMultiple #UBT #UniBayreuth #ClusterOfExcellence
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press...

Happy publication day to Thiago P. Barbosa (@thiago-barbosa.bsky.social), the winner of of our 2023 Dissertation Prize! 🎉
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Congratulations to Eleanor Schaumann, our group member, for successfully defending her excellent PhD thesis supervised @ksch.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue

Out now: our conversation about Genetic Ancestry and the Colonial Legacies of Race. Thanks to Ernesto Schwartz-Marin for facilitating the discussion.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

Thanks BBC for this piece about our book on Irawati Karve 💫

Best of Books 2024: My Choice - Open The Magazine Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Political scientist and columnist This was another year with an embarrassment of riches. But here are some that engage the heart, mind and imagination. For sheer reading pleasure, ...

Our book “Iru” was recommended as BEST BOOKS of 2024 in Open Magazine by author KR Meera 🫶 “Reading Iru allows you to unlearn many misguided theories about the female brain and witness the power of a woman passionate about social sciences and humanity.” See: openthemagazine.com/cover-storie...

WE'RE HIRING

Fulltime Postdoctoral Research Position

Apply online by January 10th, 2025
More infos:
* www.ls-ska.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
* anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com

ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES Visit the post for more.

We conduct research, write, and teach about critical analyses of categories of difference and their political effectiveness.
www.anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com
@Uni Bayreuth, Germany

Events — Patchwork Ethnography

🎉We have a contract! @uchicagopress.bsky.social will publish the Patchwork Ethnography textbook. If you're an Early Career scholar, please consider applying to our workshop. We're looking for contributors who can help advance our theorization. Deadline 6 Dec: patchworkethnography.com/events.

On the ethics of talking about illegalized routes with potential migrants: an interview with Viola Castellano

Great interview by @violacas.bsky.social on her recent article in anthropological theory. #anthropology #globalinequalities

www.at-commons.com/pub/tnlxpxyc...

Sabine Netz holding her prize together with the university president and the mayor of Bayreuth

We are proud to announce and congratulate🎉 Sabine Netz for receiving the prestigious Preis der Stadt Bayreuth for her PhD thesis „Staatsbürgerschaft als Ideal und Fiktion" @anthroglobineq.bsky.social

www.universitaere-preise.uni-bayreuth.de/de/stadt-bay...

ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES Visit the post for more.

We conduct research, write, and teach about critical analyses of categories of difference and their political effectiveness.
www.anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com
@Uni Bayreuth, Germany