17/06/2025: 6:00 PM
Amerikas Kolloquium: Auf verlorenem Posten? Ethnologische Forschung, Antropologia Indígena und dekolonialer Anspruch
Wolfgang Kapfhammer (LMU Munich)
Bei einem Forschungsaufenthalt in Manaus im Rahmen des Projektes „Nosology and Sustainability. Indigenous healing knowledge and sustainable human-environment relations in Northwestern Amazonia“ (angeschlossen an das Planetary-Healing-Projekt) bestand eine Herausforderung darin, als Vertreter einer westlichen Ethnologie mit Vertreter*innen einer Antropologia Indígena zusammenzuarbeiten und in dieser Konstellation eine sinnvolle Rolle zu finden. Eine Antropologia Indígena, also eine von Indigenen selbst erstellte Ethnologie, geht über mittlerweile etablierte Partizipationsmodelle hinaus und dezentriert / dekolonisiert – um nicht zu sagen: delegitimiert – die Außenperspektive westlicher Forscher*innen.
Im Kolloquium soll die Frage diskutiert werden, welche Konstellationen der Zusammenarbeit in Forschung und Lehre möglich sein werden. In dieser Sitzung werden auch die Indigenen Kolleg*innen aus Manaus ihren Input zum Thema beisteuern.
*Hybrid Session in German and Portuguese
*This lecture is part of the Colloquium Wissen verflechten: „Planetary Healing“ im Dialog, chaired by Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr and will be presented in hybrid format.
Location: Institut für Ethnologie, LMU München. Oettingenstr. 67. Raum L-155
More info here: https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2025-06-17-america_koll/index.html
04/08/2025 – 06/08/2025
The Agency of Other-than-Humans in the Context of Fasting: The Perspectives of Napo Runa Healers
Markos Panayiotou (LMU Munich)
Participation in the 23rd Panel of the XV Salsa Conference: „Engaging with Others in More-Than-Human Worlds: Conceptualizations, Relations, and Interactions“, organized by Francesca Mezzenzana, Jan David Hauck, and Alejandro Erut.
Location: University of Helsinki
More info here: https://salsa-tipiti.org/salsa-conferences/2025-helsinki/
29/09/2025 – 02/10/2025
Conference: “Un/Commoning Anthropology“
The 2025 biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology invites you to critically examine the possibilities and politics of un/commoning in the face of multiple crises, as they are currently being discussed for the sustainable and just treatment of our planet and each other. In light of current ethnographic research, the conference calls for new discussions about questions of what can be common – and to whom – as part of local, situated struggles that may also have global implications. At a minimum, this includes critical reflections on whether, how, and by whom anthropological knowledges, methods, and theories can or should be used to solve boundary-crossing challenges.
Location: University of Cologne.
More info here: https://tagung.dgska.de/en/
30/09/2025: 11:00 – 12:30 & 2:00 – 3:30 pM
Commoning as a Healing Practice? Potentials, Challenges and Promises
The Panel “Commoning as a Healing Practice? Potentials, Challenges and Promises” at GASCA’s conference, explores Indigenous practices of healing as commoning to address the planetary crises. Healing, as well as commoning, is a relational practice linking different scales, such as individual wellbeing, collective rights, and environmental justice.
Location: University of Cologne.
More info here: https://tagung.dgska.de/en/