05/06/2025: 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Healing in the Damage: Novel Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements
International symposium with Libertad Chávez-Rodríguez (CIESAS México), Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich), Jutta Gutberlet (University of Victoria, Canada), Adrienne Johnson (Wilfrid Laurier University), Alexii Sigona (University of California, Berkeley), Cristián Simonetti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
With this symposium, we start the Reinhart Koselleck-Project on Planetary Healing: Transformation, (De)colonization and Climate Change conducted by the planetary healing group at LMU Munich.
Venue: IBZ, Amalienstr. 38, 80799 Munich
03/06/2025: 6:00 PM
Amerikas Kolloquium: Ethnologische Perspektiven auf Heilung
Markos Panayiotou (LMU Munich) & Jhesmin Peña (FLACSO Ecuador)
In this session, we aim to open up a space for bringing past anthropological insights on healing into conversation with our current ethnographic research. Healing practices have occupied a central role in anthropology since the beginning of the discipline. However, the anthropological focus on (medical) systems (cf. Rivers 1915; Leslie 1978; Kohn 2013) has contributed to the reproduction of apolitical, romanticized depictions of non-Western communities and their relationship to the non-human environment. In doing so these perspectives tended to freeze Indigenous communities in an idealized past, ignoring the socioeconomic and sociopolitical changes they have undergone.
By offering recent ethnographic examples from Abya Yala, we aim to illuminate the social transformations of these practices in the context of increased urbanization, environmental changes and catastrophes. Reflecting on anthropology’s past, we will also discuss the new roles and responsibilities of anthropologists within the framework of the “decolonial turn.” (Bejarano Alonso et al. 2019)
*Hybrid Session in English and Spanish
*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
02/06/2025: 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Transformation, (De)Kolonisierung, Klimawandel – Einblicke in das Projekt „Planetares Heilen“
Eveline Dürr, Valeska Díaz Soto, Meret Haack, Wolfgang Kapfhammer, Markos Panayiotou (LMU München)
Wir verstehen die mit dem Anthropozän in Verbindung stehenden Umweltfolgen als planetare Krise, die Fragen nach der Zukunft menschlicher Existenz und Bewohnbarkeit des Planeten eine neue Dringlichkeit verleiht. Statt sich jedoch auf Resilienz und Anpassung zu fokussieren, will dieses Projekt einen neuen Ansatz des „planetaren Heilens“ entwickeln. Es rückt indigene und lokale Praktiken des Heilens in den Mittelpunkt, welche verschiedene Ebenen miteinander verbinden und sowohl individuelle wie kollektive und umweltbezogene Dimensionen adressieren. Diese werden explizit zu den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels und zu andauernder Kolonialität, aber auch zu Dekolonisierung in Beziehung gesetzt. Darüber hinaus will das Projekt Potenziale für sozio-ökologische Transformationsprozesse ausloten
*Präsentation im Rahmen des Oberseminars, eine Vortragsreihe des Instituts für Ethnologie unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Martin Sökefeld
Ort: Institut für Ethnologie, LMU München. Oettingenstr. 67. Raum L-155
02/06/2025: 2:30 PM
Ponencia: Danza indígena como elemento de transformación social en Latinoamérica
Valeska Díaz Soto (LMU Munich)
Presentación en el panel „05.04 La búsqueda de la justicia social y medioambiental en América Latina representada en las diversas expresiones culturales: literatura- periodismo- cine- música- artes plásticas“ del Congreso CEISAL 2025 en torno al tema de la justicia social, medioambiental y climática en America Latina y el Caraibe.
Location: Nation Campus of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
More info here: CEISAL 2025
13/05/2025: 6:00 PM
Amerikas Kolloquium: Nature revisited – diálogos transformativos medioambientales en y desde Chile
Meret Haack (LMU)
-> Evento en idioma español
*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
13/05/2025: 6:00 PM
Amerikas Kolloquium: Scales and Temporalities of Planetary Healing
Eveline Dürr (LMU), Martín Fonck (LMU), Lijuan Klassen (Rachel Carson Center, LMU)
In this presentation, we will explore the concept of “planetary healing” from a conceptual perspective, particularly focusing on the relationship between the planetary and healing through the lens of temporality and scaling practices…
*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
07/05/2025: 6:00 PM
Keynote Lecture: Touristifizierung von Tepito: Ambivalente Transformation und methodische Praxis in Mexiko-Stadt
Prof. Eveline Dürr (LMU) held a keynote lecture on “Touristifizierung von Tepito: Ambivalente Transformation und methodische Praxis in Mexiko-Stadt” at the annual conference of the „Arbeitskreis Tourismusforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG) e.V.”
More info here: https://www.ak-tourismusforschung.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AKTF-JT-Programm-20250319.pdf
07/05/2025 – 09/05/2025
Umgang mit Ambivalenzen im Tourismus: Jahrestagung des AK Tourismusforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie
Die Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Tourismusforschung vom 7. bis 9. Mai 2025 in Freiburg.
More information and registration here: https://www.ak-tourismusforschung.org/veranstaltungen/jahrestagungen/
29/04/2025: 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Being Watched: Migrants Returning from the USA to Mexico
Prof. Eveline Dürr (LMU) talked about the (un)told stories of migrants who have returned from the USA to Mexico to a small-town environment. The focus is on the returnees’ strategies to achieve (or not) (re)integration into their community.
Location: Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zürich, AND 4.06
More info here: https://www.isek.uzh.ch/en/thedepartment/events/ISEK-Agenda.html?event=61765
23/04/2025
Vortrag: Entre dois campos. Fazendo antropologia como caipira
Vortrag von Dr. Wolfgang Kapfhammer
Ort: Programa de Pós Graduação em História (PPGH), UFAM, Manaus
11/04/2025: 2:00 PM
Seminario: Nosologia e Sustentabilidade: Conhecimento de Cura Indígena e Relações Homem-Ambiente no Noroeste da Amazônia
O Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kapfhammer (Universidade de Munique) apresento como os conhecimentos indígenas sobre cura influenciam a sustentabilidade e as relações entre humanos e não humanos. O evento integra um projeto interdisciplinar entre antropologia e medicina, em parceria com pesquisadores da UFAM e da LMU Munique.
Organização: NEAI | PPGAS/UFAM | LMU München.
10/04/2025: 09:30 AM
Vortrag: Dereitos da Naturaleza
Vortrag von Wolfgang Kapfhammer, organisiert von Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social/PPGAS e o Núcleo de Estudos da Amazônia Indígena/NEAI.
10/04/2025: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Do You Care?: Film Screenings and a Discussion About Multispecies Care
Filmmakers and Guests: Sophie Renard, Antonia Kreutzer, Johanna Löffler, Salome Fritz, Anna-Lena Friedl, and Katharina Kröner
In our sensory-multimodal research project, we explore multispecies—care relationships between humans, forests, and urban trees in and around Munich, following the stories of our protagonists through different perspectives and contexts.
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society – LMU Munich. Leopoldstr. 11a.
More info here: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_seminars/calendar/documentary-screening/index.html
13/03/2025 – 14/03/2025
Symposium “Martius Revisited III: Global Health in a Planetary Age”
The symposium addressed the intersection of Global Health, climate change, and planetary thought. It featured lectures by the climatologists Christoph Schneider (HU Berlin) and Paulo Artaxo (USP) and brought together experts from various disciplines, as well as artists and policymakers. Highlights included panels on planetary health, multispecies cities, and decolonial ecologies -with contributions by João Paulo Tukano (UFAM), Antonio Saraiva (USP) and Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich), amongst others, as well as an interactive exhibition on planetary health and intersectional perspectives.
13/02/2025
Nosology and Sustainability: Indigenous healing knowledge and sustainable human-environment relations in Northwestern Amazonia (some preliminary thoughts)
Dr. Wolfgang Kapfhammer talks about the new project at the Center for International Health CIHLMU / LMU-Klinikum, München
24/01/2025
Lateinamerika im Fokus: Potenziale einer Weltregion
Eveline Dürr (LMU) and Benjamin Loy (LMU) moderated the round table „Lateinamerika im Fokus: Potenziale einer Weltregion“ with the participation of Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González (Juniorprofessorin für “Migration and the Americas”, Universität Heidelberg), Ariel Magnus (Schriftsteller, Berlin/Buenos Aires), Jessica de Pleitez (Foreign Trade Specialist für Lateinamerika, IHK München) and Dr. Wilfredo Bernardo Ticona Cuba (Botschafter des Plurinationalen Staates Bolivien in Deutschland).
This event was organized by the LMU-Lateinamerika-Netzwerk in cooperation with the Amerikahaus München.
13/12/2024
Workshop Planetary Healing Group – CIESAS (Mexico)
Meeting between the Planetary Healing Group and Libertad Chávez Rodríguez from CIESAS, Mexico, discussing current research projects and exploring further forms of collaboration and networking.
12/12/2024
Escaping the Heat: Global Scenarios of Migration and Inequality.
Eveline Dürr (LMU) chaired the session on “Escaping the Heat: Global Scenarios of Migration and Inequality” and discussed these issues from a social sciences perspective with Libertad Chávez Rodríguez (CIESAS, Mexico) and Silja Klepp (University of Kiel).
This lecture was part of the Lecture Series “Extreme Heat. The Planetary Future” of the CAS Research Focus Planetary Health.
12/11/2024
FokusLMU: „Welt im Wandel: (De)Globalisierung heute und gestern“
Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr talked from an anthropological perspective and provided examples of endeavors made by different societies to reverse the impacts of globalization.
Video Recording of the Event
8/11/2024 – 9/11/2024
DGSKA – Regional Working Group South America, Workshop at LMU Munich
Meret Haack: “Political Practices Revisited – Dimensions of Planetary Healing in the Context of Climate Change in Chile”
Markos Panayiotou: “Healing the Planet: The Perspectives of Kichwa Healers in Napo”