Join us on Wed., June 18th, for Esra Özyürek's talk on her book "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Post-War Germany" at FU Berlin or online. Much looking forward to a timely debate!

Last week’s Queer Pharma workshop in Berlin brought together scholars, artists, and activists to explore experimentation as a queer practice. Grateful for all who made this gathering so intellectually and affectively rich. www.linkedin.com/pulse/queer-...

"Deutschland biete 'garantierte Wissenschaftsfreiheit'", damit will Dorothea Bär US-Wissenschaftler*innen nach Dtl. locken. Gut! 👉Aber nicht ohne Ironie, dass dieser Satz gerade aus dem Ministerium kommt, das u Stark-Watzinger diesen Grundsatz beschädigte /2 www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Amazing turnout at the opening of our workshop on "Queer Pharma", which is about to begin with a keynote speech by @kanerace.bsky.social on "Queer Psychoactivity: Switching Frameworks", at the Schwules Museum in Berlin tonight! @mxschnepf.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Last week, we learnt that our university management is planning to cut our 3rd professorship in Social & Cult. Anthropology. This would have fatal consequences for our Institute at the FU Berlin and our discipline in the German speaking countries. We will struggle against this and hope for support!

Our institute is at risk due to the severe funding cuts affecting Berlin’s universities. It’s no coincidence that, in a time of the alarming rise of the far right, it’s the already underfunded critical social sciences that are being hit hardest. Now is the time to stand up ✊

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!

My home institution is under threat: The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social needs your solidarity. Planned budget cuts by the city and university leadership threaten the vital, critical work coming out of this space #SaveBerlinAnthropology

The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social needs our solidarity. Planned budget cuts by the city and university leadership threaten the vital, critical work coming out of this space. Let’s not let it go quiet. #SaveBerlinAnthropology

At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...

quote of the day: life style drug

quote of the day: trust in biomedicine

quote of the day: nostalgia (?)

quote of the day: Berlin imaginaries

Als erfahrener Drückeberger erkläre ich in meiner neuen Kolumne auf @ndaktuell.bsky.social , warum ich für ein Land wie Deutschland – das Kriegsverbrechen unterstützt, die Umwelt zerstört und Austerität propagiert – nicht einmal Überstunden machen würde.

quote of the day: cost and benefit

quote of the day: moralization

quote of the day: carelessness From my latest publication "Care, and the less of it: Haunted gestures and the affective economy of pharmaceutical HIV prevention" doi.org/10.1002/fea2...

quote of the day: revival

quote of the day: 'sterile sexuality'

Quote of the day: Performing gay masculinity through PrEP

As part of the workshop "Queer Pharma," @kanerace.bsky.social will give a public keynote at the Schwules Museum: "QUEER PSYCHOACTIVITY: switching frameworks" June 4, 6 PM, Schwules Museum Berlin, free entry Organized by @hdilger.bsky.social and yours truly, funded by @dfg.de

Deadline TOMORROW! 💫 Submit a paper to @zraunig.bsky.social's and my panel at the Medical Anthropology Europe-conference (Vienna, Sept 16-19): mae.univie.ac.at/scientific-p... #41 Care Unsettled: Queer in Medical Anthropology Discussant: Harris Solomon (Duke University) @harrissolomon.bsky.social

How does PrEP stir both hope and worry in Germany? In this #OpenAccess article, @mxschnepf.bsky.social explores the mixed emotions around PrEP, care, and “carelessness” in Berlin’s sexual cultures and prevention landscape. doi.org/10.1002/fea2... #anthropology

Finally my article is out with Feminist Anthropology! 💃💊 Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I analyze HIV/AIDS hauntings and the temporal politics of PrEP: "Care, and the less of it: Haunted gestures and the affective economy of pharmaceutical HIV prevention" doi.org/10.1002/fea2...

Zusammenbrechen des Wissenschaftsstandorts USA als Chance für D zu rahmen, weil man glaubt, Leute abwerben zu können: Weiß nicht, was mich daran am Meisten erstaunt. Zynismus? Kurzsichtigkeit? Ausblenden, was das für Leute vor Ort bedeutet? Ignorieren schlechter Bedingungen in D? All of the above?

cache.ch/radicalhealth What a joy to see this out! My warmest thanks to the authors of the excellent contributions, my wonderful co-editors, and the entire team at intercom for their tireless support! And lots of inspiration for the readers to radically think and do health otherwise!!

Submit a paper to @zraunig.bsky.social's and my panel at the Medical Anthropology Europe-conference (Vienna, Sept 16-19): mae.univie.ac.at/scientific-p...  Care Unsettled: Queer in Medical Anthropology Discussant: Harris Solomon (Duke University) @harrissolomon.bsky.social Deadline: April 15

tomorrow is World Anthropology Day! There is a great number of events, among them our "Queer in Anthropology Lunch meet-up" @isbelb.bsky.social @lenamgr.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social easaonline.org/resources/eu... www.easaonline.org/networks/enq...

here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social econanthro.org/meet/

I now have an autograph from TikTok-famous PrEP researcher @curtisxchan.bsky.social 🥰

My friends @thrasherxy.bsky.social and Afeef Nessouli penned this piece via @theintercept.com about a Queer Palestinian in Gaza living in HIV who has continuously run out of HIV meds due to Israel's genocide and bombardment of Gaza. Please read, please share: theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Still accepting submissions! ☺️

How can we remember and confront the legacies of scientific racism and eugenics? I wrote a review about the new exhibition “Science and Injustice” of the Memorial Site Ihnestraße at the FU Berlin and its community-based participatory process: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/11/28/a...

Are you following @amanthro.bsky.social? 👀

So ein Feedback von Studierenden darf gerne Romanlänge haben 😻

+++ Stellenausschreibung: stud. Beschäftigte*r +++ Im DFG-Projekt "PrEP-Intimitäten in/aus Berlin" suchen @hdilger.bsky.social und ich ab Feb 2025 ein*n stud. Mitarbeiter*in. Bewerbungsende: 02.12.2024 www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

My masters thesis is up online to read!! If you're interested in gay stuff, AIDS memory, sex, HIV anxiety and big feelings about inaccessible/imagined histories, have a look 🙂 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

This is a very start of a list of queer scholars working in and/or on Germany. Honestly started this for selfish reasons to get to know ppl, but thoughts this could also help others. Let me know who I forgot, and/or of you wanna be added! #queergermany #queerscholars go.bsky.app/B1w45fL

One week left to submit your abstract for our workshop 'Queer Pharma' with @kanerace.bsky.social . @hdilger.bsky.social and I are excited to read your contribution!

The Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham is offering scholarships for PhD students to attend the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities International PhD school - do check it out and share with your grads, esp. if from low- and middle-income countries: medhumsplatform.org/queer-method...

QueerAnthros of the world, unite🧚‍♂️

More zine pages from my class on 'Queer Ethnography' - responding to work by Martin Manalansan, Naisargi Davé, @cymene.bsky.social, Rudolf Gaudio and the question of the life of queer after/beyond gender and sexuality

I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social

Teaching 'Queer Ethnographies' in the company of Tom Boellstorff and @margotweiss.bsky.social. The students prepared some cute zine pages exploring the relationship of Queer Studies/Theory and Anthropology 😻🧚‍♂️