Join us on Monday, 4 May, for our fourth lecture “Green Energy Production Beyond the Double Bind? The Example of Geothermal in Kenya.” Clemens Greiner (University of Cologne) will present as part of the lecture series “Extractivism, Conflicts, and Desired Futures.”

Join us on Monday, 27 April, for our third lecture “Along the Seams of Extractivism: Tracing the Circuits of Post-Cyclone Reconstruction in Beira.” Jon Schubert (University of Basel) will present as part of the lecture series “Extractivism, Conflicts, and Desired Futures.”

Join us on Monday, 20 April, for our second lecture, “Labor on the Line: Justice at Work on Assam Tea Plantations.” Anna-Lena Wolf (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) will present as part of the lecture series “Extractivism, Conflicts, and Desired Futures.”

Monday, 13 April, marks the start of our new lecture series "Extractivism, Conflicts, and Desired Futures"! The first lecture, "Mapping Petromodernities and beyond: Towards a Geoanthropological Understanding of Multi-Extractive Cultures", will be given by Benjamin Steininger (MPI Jena).

The Institute of Anthropology and the Institute of African Studies cordially invite you to our upcoming lecture series “Extractivism, Conflicts, and Desired Futures” at Leipzig University. ⏰ Mondays, 5-7 PM 📌 Lecture Hall 12 (Universitätsstraße 3) 💻 and live-streamed on Zoom

BOOK PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION: "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon" by Daniela Ruß and Thomas Turnbull The book presentation is followed by comments by Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose. The session is chaired by Andrea Behrends.

OPENING RECEPTION January brings two special occasions to celebrate: Firstly, our institute is changing its name from “Ethnology” to “Cultural and Social Anthropology,” and secondly, we are honoring the project work of our students, which was created as part of the new degree program structure.

(New Publication Alert) 🧬❗ In this chapter, I discuss the intricate relationship between population genetics and politics in India, focusing on the making of the categories "Ancestral North Indian" (ANI) and "Ancestral South Indian" (ASI).

I highlight how recent population genetic research, while aiming to separate science from politics, can inadvertently reinforce existing inequalities and (Hindu) nationalist ideologies, urging for a more thoughtful engagement with these complex issues.

You can see the chapter in the open access book "The Order of People: Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications" here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

JOB ADVERTISEMENT: 2 research assistants (doctoral candidates) 🔍To find out more about the available positions, please visit the following link: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/2...

If you want to read the full essay, follow this link: allegralaboratory.net/alternatives...

JOB ADVERTISEMENT:

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.

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.

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).

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.

“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.

*Call for Papers* Submit a manuscript to the journal “Entrepreneurship & Regional Development” for a special issue on “Entrepreneurship meets Anthropology: investigating the intersections” ⏱️ Manuscript deadline: 01 July 2026

Vernissage & Summer Party of the Institute of Anthropology With performances, DJ sets & talks with researchers and artists. Vernissage & Summer Party: Thu 10th July 2025 | 6pm | Späti Bar Makan, Wurzner Str. 3, Leipzig Opening hours exhibition: Thu 6pm-01am | Fri & Sat 2pm-3am | Sun 11am-10pm

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

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, June 30, for the next lecture of "Matters of Life and Death": "Capitalism's Grotesque Life" by Andrea Muehlebach (University of Bremen). 📅 Monday, June 30 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio) 📍 Universitätsstr. 3

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, June 16, for the next lecture of "Matters of Life and Death": "Practices of Care from Birth to Death in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" by Mariam Sharif and Loes Lijnders. 📅 Monday, June 23 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio) 📍 Universitätsstr. 3

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, June 16, for the next lecture in our series "Matters of Life and Death": "Remembering Eugenics: Ihnestrasse Memorial at Freie Universität Berlin" by Manuela Bauche. 📅 Monday, June 16 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio) 📍 Universitätsstr. 3

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, June 2, for the sixth lecture of "Matters of Life and Death": "Sense of an ending: Extinction, vegetal vitality and survivalist science in Uganda" by Sandra Calkins. 📅 Monday, June 2 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio) 📍 Universitätsstr. 3

We cordially invite you to participate in the upcoming Empowerment Workshop! This workshop is intended for university members who have experienced racism. Date: Friday, 13 June 2025 Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (admission from 9:00 AM) Venue: Leipzig University, Schillerstraße 6, Room S102

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, May 26, for the fifth lecture of "Matters of Life and Death": "Resource scramble to the end? Struggles over recognition and survival in South Africa" by Jasper Finkeldey. 📅 Monday, May 26 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 + Zoom (link in bio) 📍 Universitätsstr. 3

We are looking for a student assistant (10 hours/week, starting July 1, 2025) to support our team! If you are interested, please send an expression of interest (by email by May 23) to [email protected].

Interested in a research-based Master in Anthropology? Apply for the MA Anthropology at Leipzig University before 31 May!

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, May 19, for the fourth lecture of "Matters of Life and Death". 📅 Monday, May 19 🕔 5–7 PM 📍 Lecture Hall 12 (Universitätsstr. 3) + Zoom (uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/6920070169...)

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

We warmly invite you to join us on Monday, May 12, for the third lecture of "Matters of Life and Death": "A Refusal to Go Quietly" by Dr. Melody Howse of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Lecture "Echoes of Ebola: Infrastructure and Insecurities in Bat Sampling for Epidemic Preparedness". Dr. Emmanuelle Roth (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society) discusses the human-animal labor behind disease surveillance in post-Ebola Guinea.

Call for papers extended until May 10th :)

📣 Invitation: Lecture Series – Matters of Life and Death 🕔 Mondays, 5–7pm 📍 Lecture Hall 12, Leipzig Uni + Zoom Hosted by the Institutes of Anthropology & African Studies, the series explores how boundaries of life/death are made, challenged & lived. See: www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/institute...

🔦 Highlights | In this critical fabulation piece, Urmilla Deshpande & Thiago Barbosa blend history and creativity to explore Irawati Karve’s life—from challenging racist science in 1920s Berlin to shaping Indian anthropology. Read the excerpt here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

We are happy to congratulate our former Master student Olga Bostan for receiving the SOE Research Award by @sudosteuropa.bsky.social for her Master thesis ‘One drop at a time: Waterways in rural Moldova’.

Book launch: Join us for a conversation with Agnieszka Pasieka @agadarancia.bsky.social and Lucilla Lepatti about Agnieszka's new book "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe". This 10 Dec 2024, 5PM, Hörsaal 10, Uni Leipzig. [1]

Zeitgenössische spirituelle Praktiken, wie z.B. Meditations- und Yogapraktiken oder alternative energiebasierte Heilmethoden, erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit unter Frauen der gebildeten Beiruter Mittelschicht. univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isb...

Andrea Behrends published her new book "Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands". #anthropology