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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:

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- 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.

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📍 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.

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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).

The special issue offers timely and critical insights at the intersection of medical anthropology, disability studies, and the anthropology of work. The contributors unravel ethnographically how people navigate and reshape the shifting boundaries between labor, care, and recognition.

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Issue on Labor and Disability, guest-edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch in Anthropology of Work Review.

The special issue “Laboring from Ex-centric Sites: Chronicity, Disability, and Work” explores the entanglements of health and labour from a cross-cultural perspective.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed, and of course to everyone who joined us, thought along, danced, discussed, and celebrated!

Here, research becomes visible, not in a seminar room or museum, but in a Späti, a semi-public space where everyday life, encounters, and exchange happen. The exhibition became a place where science and art, research and the public came together.

The exhibition was curated by Paola Kirchhof, a research assistant at the institute. It emerged from a methods seminar in which students ethnographically explored urban Leipzig, not only aiming to analyse it academically, but also to make their findings artistically accessible.

“Fragments of Leipzig – Visual Ethnographies in Urban Space” was the title of the student exhibition that opened on July 10 with a well-attended vernissage at Späti Bar Makan. The vernissage also served as the summer party of the Institute of Anthropology.

This special issue aims to investigate the meeting points between entrepreneurship studies and anthropology to advance our understanding of entrepreneurship as a field of practice. A further investigation of these meeting points will foster novel and innovative interpretations of entrepreneurship.