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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?”.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · 10d

- Lucilla Lepratti, together with Dr. Viola Castellano, is organizing the workshop “Beyond Condemnations: The Responsibility of Anthropology towards Palestine”.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · 10d

- 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”.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · 10d

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:

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · 10d

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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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

📍 Where: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, 10999 Berlin
📅 When: Friday, 12 September, 18:30
✅ Admission: Free and open to all.
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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Workshop 11.09-13.09. : “Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and legacy”

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 26

How did racial anthropology take shape—and spread—through global scientific networks? How should we confront the enduring legacies of racism in science?

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 26

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).

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 8

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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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 28

“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.

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Institute of Anthropology @anthro-leipzig.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.