Ethnologisches Seminar: Institute of Social Anthropology Basel

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A warm and beautiful launch for the inaugural volume of the Basel Anthropology Papers | Volume I | Drawings 📖
Congratulations to the team! 👏🏻

Please note that this event will take place at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, Basel, 4051.

It is with great pleasure that we, the Ethnologisches Seminar: Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel invite you to the launch of the inaugural issue of the Basel Anthropology Papers, “Drawings”. 📜

Celebrate with us over an apéro at Münsterplatz on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024, at 6pm. 🥂

Book Roundtable: “Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya”. George Paul Meiu (University of Basel) in conversation with Anne Lavanchy (Haute École de Travail Social Genève) and Serena Dankwa (University of Basel).
*Note - the event will take place at the Kollegienhaus, Seminar room 212.
16:15 - 18:00 P.M.

“Data, Facts, Materiality”, a talk by Alex Balasescu from Royal Roads University, this Wednesday at our institute.

This week’s event is organised by the anthropology student association (FG Ethnologie) and concerns the topic of writing in a practical approach.
Organised in the format of a “World Café”, students are invited to bring in their questions about the process of writing and its challenges.
Staff members like Lesley Nicole Brown, Nadja Bellardi, Sandra Burri and Piet van Eeuwijk will join us and share some of their personal tips and tricks. See you tomorrow 🙌

New week, new colloquium on Wednesday | With Michaela Schäuble (University of Bern) | “Are Spiders Good to Think with?” 🕷️

3rd colloquium session - Book Roundtable | Material Culture in Transit. Theory and Practice | Edited by Zainabu Jallo in conversation with George Paul Meiu and Paul Basu (Oxford University)

The podcast On Diaspora is now available on all major digital platforms 👉 https://linktr.ee/baselsocialanthropology?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=24c7a76f-8826-4301-8355-dbc781e29e72

See you tomorrow at our 2nd colloquium session, when Sandra Calkins from University of Twente will give a talk entitled “On Plants and Wholes: Plant Agency in Ugandan Genomic Research.”

2nd session - Sandra Calkins | University of Twente 📚

📌 The schedule for the spring colloquium 2024 of the Institute of Social Anthropology is here.
📚 We are delighted to have fascinating guests and stories to be inspired by 📌

Join us for today's lecture with Alexander Brust!
https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/

Don't miss today's lecture on "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration, Identity Documents and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" with Apostolos Andrikopoulos!
(https://linktr.ee/baselsocialanthropology | events)

Join us for an inquiry into "minoritarian liberalism" with Moisés Lino e Silva!
https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/

Curious about the intricacies behind fieldwork in anthropology? Join us for today's lecture with Zainabu Jallo and Theres Inauen – co-organised by the student associations (FGs) Cultural Anthropology and Social Anthropology! https://linktr.ee/baselsocialanthropology

Reminder: The lecture will take place at Bernoullistrasse 14/16 in Room 2.004

Join us for the topic of 'Surveillance Societies in a Once-Bipolar World' in our virtual lecture today with Katherine Verdery!
https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/surveillance-societies-in-a-once-bipolar-world-virtual-talk/

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Come join our lecture today with Tyler Zoanni on Human Conditions: On Disability and Christianity in Uganda. See you there! (https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ )

Join us today for an exciting virtual talk with our guest Inderpal Grewal on Postcolonial Security States! https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/postcolonial-security-states-a-research-agenda-virtual-talk/

We highly recommend today's event «Circulating Things» organized by and .ch

We are happy to announce the first lecture of this semester's colloquium with Ghassan Hage! https://ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/

How do we approach listening, as a mode of perception? How can we be attentive to what others say? Not so much to respond, but in order to understand. In this episode, On Listening, our guest is Mwenda Ntarangwi, a cultural anthropologist who has taught in the USA, in Kenya and is currently working with the National Defense University in Kenya.

Ntarangwi has explored questions of listening, perception, and its engagement in knowledge production across his work in Kenya and the USA. Some of his publications include Gender Identity and Performance: Understanding of Swahili Cultural Realities Through Songs (2003); East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization (2009), Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology (2010), and The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya (2016). Our conversation focuses on his article “Listening to Disrupt Ethnographic Representations” (2021), published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory .https://linktr.ee/baselsocialanthropology

This episode hosts two guests in a conversation about how dancing encompasses the elements of our changing worlds and allows us to act upon that world.

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Associate Professor of African Anthropology at University College London. Her research has focused on the lives and works of dancers and musicians on migration and effective relationships by national and transnational families in Senegal and France. Kringelbach is author of Dance Circles: Movement Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal (2013).

Lesley Braun, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel and has worked among women concert dancers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Braun's research explores dance, gender, transnational mobility in women's sexuality and trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is author of Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa (2023).

https://linktr.ee/baselsocialanthropology

This episode "On Birth/ing" features Stephen Okumu Ombere, Professor of Anthropology at Maseno University in Kisumu, Kenya. Ombere has researched birth in relation to medicalization, social assistance programs, and various cultural practices related to giving birth and motherhood. He is author of two monographs: Socio-cultural Context of Circumcised Men's S*xual Behaviour in Kenya (2015) and Local Perceptions of Social Protection Schemes in Maternal Health in Kenya: Ethnography in Coastal Kenya (PhD dissertation at the University of Bern, 2018). Stephen has also authored and co-authorered articles applying a medical anthropology perspective to a wide variety of topics, including circumcision, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and children’s vulnerability to sexual abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6nxkxyctpECQQSD8KT9KQ

How and why are some things remembered and forgotten in different social and political contexts? Joining us on this episode, On Memory, is Jennifer Cole, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Human Development and Chair, Committee on African Studies, University of Chicago. Her work on Colonialism, rituals and ancestors in rural Madagascar has been centered on individual and collective memories. Some of her publications include Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar (University of California Press 2001), S*x and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Anthropological Crossroads today from 16h15-18h

Don't miss out on Anthropological Crossroads today from 16h15-18h with Claudine Rakotomanana and Kaue Felipe Nogarotto Crima Bellini

Anthropological Crossroads today from 16h15-18h with Anna Schmid

Today's colloquium is a joint session organised with the Center for African Studies taking place at Basler Afrika Bibliographien from 16h15–18h

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The Challenges of Decolonising African Studies

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel
Time: 16h15–18h