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• Winter semester 2023/24

  • 18.10.2023 Sahana Udupa
    Porn Politics: Sexism and Political Violence on Social Media
  • 22.11.2023 Filmscreening Evelyne Puchegger-Ebner
    "WHAT'S UP/WhatsApp? Media Framing and Everyday Practice of the Virtual Community": Student Short Films
  • 29.11.2023 Anna Jabloner
    California: Histories of the Future at the Technological Frontier
  • 06.12.2023 Sarah Mazouz
    The Unspoken and the Speakable: Race in a Colorblind Context
  • 13.12.2023 Philipp Schorch
    Indigenous Multiplicities: Collecting, Filming, Exhibiting
  • 10.01.2024 Roberta Raffaetà
    The Microbiome and Its Technology: An Ethnographic Exploration
  • 17.01.2024 Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung
    Derivative Life: Scenes from a War to Become Human
  • 31.01.2024 Mirco Göpfert
    On cockroaches: Or, everything is fine! Cartooning in dislocation and the story of M.
• Summer Term 2023

  • 15.03.2023 Eva Nisa
    When the Islamic Cultural Industry Call: Lee Kum Kee in Malaysia
  • 29.03.2023 Felipe Fernández
    Violent Flows: State and Water Infrastructures in the Port City of Buenaventura, Colombia
  • 19.04.2023 Sita Hidayah 
    Decolonizing Anthropology in Indonesia

  • 26.04.2023 Franz Krause
    

    Sharing life: Inuvialuit whaling and the politics of respecting animals
  • 17.05.2023 Ayşe Seda Yüksel-Pecen
    Wealth and War: Local Context of Urban Entrepreneurialism in Southeastern Turkey 
  • 24.05.2023 Ashley Carse
    Logistics, place & the racialization of nature
  • 14.06.2023 Cameron Hu
    The Earth Explicated: Representing and Intervening in West Texas
  • 21.06.2023 Sune Haugbølle
    Researching Entangled Revolutions: Palestine's transformation into a global leftist cause
• Winter Term 2022/23

  semster program

  • 12.10.2022 Johanna Markkula
    What is a Ship?

  • 16.11.2022 Lana Salman
    Nomadism: The Racialization of Peripheral Life in Colonial Tunisia

  • 23.11.2022 Gwen Burnyeat
    The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia

  • 30.11.2022 Özgün Eylül İşcen
    Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Logistical Capitalism

  • 07.12.2022 Stefan Tarnowski
    The Logics and Logistics of Stabilisation: Beyond the Borders of Humanitarian Reason

  • 19.01.2023 (Donnerstag) Jonathan Fine (SR-D)
    What are ethnographic museums good for in the 21st century?

  • 25.01.2023 Jaanika Vider
    On the Tracks of Maria Czaplicka: An Ethnography of a Collection
• Summer Term 2022

  • 09.03.2022 Shahram Khosravi
    Doing Migration Studies with an Accent.

  • 06.04.2022 David Shankland
    On the Historiography of Malinowski, or Thoughts Provoked by the Centenary of Argonauts of the Western Pacific.

  • 27.04.2022 María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
    When a Pandemic Hits Peace: Forensic Practice, Victim Identification, and Transitional Justice in (Post)Conflict Colombia.

  • Donnerstag, 28.04.2022 Ståle Knudsen
    How to Account for Patterns, Trends and Shifts in Political Ecology? Mobilizing Critical Realism to Enable Analysis beyond Diffuse Actor-Networks.

  • 04.05.2022 Jessica Greenberg
    From Compromise to Complicity: Managing the Crisis of Rule of Law at the Council of Europe. 

  • 11.05.2022 Grazyna Kubica-Heller
    Intersubjectivity of Siberian Ethnography of Maria Czaplicka (1916) and Its Recent Artistic Representation.

  • 18.05.2022 Agnieszka Pasieka
    Fascisms of our Time.

  • 25.05.2022 Veronika Siegl
    When Birth and Death Coalesce: Prenatal Medicine, Pregnancy Termination and Un/Born Life.

  • 01.06.2022 Till Mostowlansky
    Road's End: Pathways and Spaces across a Divided High Asia.

  • 08.06.2022 Stefan Leins
    The Work of Financial Market Experts: A Cultural Approach.

  • 15.06.2022 Chandana Mathur
    A Strike to Remember: Ethnographic Reflections on the Conditions of Possibility for Labour Resistance in the U.S. Heartland.
• Winter Term 2019/20

  • 29.01.2020 Peter Geschiere
    The ‘Witchcraft of the House’ Is Going Global - Occult Threats and Transcontinental Migration

  • 30.10.2019 Krisztina Fehervary
    Retro-branding and the Re-mattering of National History in Hungary

  • MO, 21.10.2019 Andrea De Antoni
    The Beginning is the End is the Beginning - Embodied Memories, Imagination and Ontogensesis in Spirit Possession and Healing in Contemporary Japan and Italy

  • 09.10.2019 Susan McKinnon
    The Work of the Eugenics Record Office in the United States: Technologies for Pathologizing and Terminating „Degenerate“ Family Lines and „Purifying“ the Nation

  • 02.10.2019 Monica Heller
    Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: A Critical Genealogy
• Summer Term 2019

  semester program

  Critique In/Of Anthropology - A subseries (Programme)

  • THU 13.06.2019 Helena Wulff
    Ambiguous Arrival: Emotions, Emplacement and the Migrant Encounter with Sweden

  • 12.06.2019 Janet Carsten
    Imagining and Living New Worlds: The Dynamics of Kinship in Contexts of Mobility and Migration

  • 05.06.2019 Ratna Saptari
    Kartini and Beyond: Unity and Diversity in the Indonesian Women's Movement

  • 29.05.2019 Stephen Reyna
    Streetcars Named Frohe Zukunft: Through Streets of Climate Change and Political-Economy

  • 22.05.2019 Ruth Mandel
    Memories at the margins: Stolpersteine and grievability in Norway and beyond

  • 15.05.2019 Dinah Rajak
    Empowering the Third Billion: Corporate Patronage and Clientelism through Inclusive Markets 

  • CANCELLED: 03.04.2019 Julia Eckert (part of the series "Critique In/Of Anthropology")
    The truth in our politics, the politics in our truths

  • 27.03.2019 Didier Fassin (part of the series "Critique In/Of Anthropology")
    Blow Up. A Critical Approach to Ethnographic Exposures

  • TUE 19.03.2019 Ghassan Hage (part of the series "Critique In/Of Anthropology")
    The critique of tone and the tone of critique
• Winter Term 2018/19

  Semsterprogramm

  Critique In/Of Anthropology - A subseries (Programme)

  • 30.01.2019 Lisa Lehner
    Good Diagnostics? Caring for “Good Health” in the Case of Hepatitis C Testing

  • MO, 16:30 Uhr 21.01.2019 Birgit Meyer
    Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen. ‘Idolatry’ Beyond the Second Commandment

  • 12.12.2018 Jeanette Edwards (part of the series "Critique In/Of Anthropology")
    The body, beauty and botox: revisiting the 'awkward relationship' between feminism and anthropology

  • 28.11.2018 Cristiana Giordano
    Exceeding Crisis: The Psychic Life of Drawings

  • 21.11.2018 Elisabeth Huber
    Affective Efforts of Research Data Management

  • 24.10.2018 Richard Rottenburg (part of the series "Critique In/Of Anthropology")
    Critique, post-foundationalism and the need to do the right thing

  • MO 15.10.2018 Valery Tishkov
    Russia's cultural diversity and its perceptions

  • MO 01.10.2018 Alan Mabin
    ‘Southern theory’ and the tricky question of comparing cities across the world
• Summer Term 2018

  semester program

  • 20.06.2018 18:30 Johannes Neurath
    Die Ambivalenz der Gabe in einer komplexen Gesellschaft gegen den Staat: Ritual und Autonomie der Wixarika West-Mexikos

  • 13.06.2018 Stan Frankland
    The paradox of the performing ‘Pygmy’

  • DI 12.06.2018 Pamila Gupta
    Balcony, Shutter, Door: Baroque Heritage Making in Stone Town (Zanzibar)

  • 06.06.2018 Tereza Kuldova
    On the Rise of Popular Support of Outlaw Bikers: When Fictions and Weakening States Collude

  • 30.05.2018 Paul "Jim" Roscoe
    Climate Change and the End-Times: Anticipating Apocalyptic Responses to Climate Change

  • DO 24.05.2018 Tony Crook
    Climate Change Cosmologies

  • 23.05.2018 Dominique Casajus
    The Tuareg alphabets, their contemporary use and their history: an overview

  • 16.05.2018 Cora Bender
    Sovereign Health: Native North American Medical Practices in a Globalized World

  • 09.05.2018 Ethnocineca (https://www.ethnocineca.at/home/)
    Sondertermin im Rahmen der Ethnocineca 2018
    Angela de Souza Torresan
    Guto and Graça: Ethnographic Films and Storytelling

  • 02.05.2018 Steffi Grundmann
    Haut und Haar im klassischen Griechenland

  • 18.04.2018 Justin Stagl
    Karl Czoernigs 'Ethnographie der Oesterreichischen Monarchie" (1855-57), der 'Funktionalismus' und die Schranken des 'ethnographischen Blicks'

  • 11.04.2018 Graham Roberts
    Queering the Stitch: Fashion, Masculinity and the Post-Socialist Subject

  • 21.03.2018 Tony O'Brien
    Cultural challenges in health systems and improvement of health care. Employing anthropological findings in the diverse social environment of the Irish Health Sector

  • DO, 18:30 Uhr 15.03.2018 Sarah Strauss
    Energy, Culture, and the AnthropoScene

  • 14.03.2018 Peter Rohrbacher
    „Personalrochaden“: Die Wiener Völkerkunde und der „Anschluss“ 1938

  • 07.03.2018 Jaka Repič
    The Impact of Mobilities on Visual Arts in the Slovene Diaspora in Argentina
• Winter Term 2017/18

  semester program

  • 24.01.2018 Dominik Schieder (in Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Südpazifischen Gesellschaft)
    (Multi-)ethnic sociality in context: Fiji Islander Migrant organisations in Japan and the United Kingdom

  • 17.01.2018 Georg Gappmayer (in Kooperation mit den Wiener Dialogen der Medizinanthropologie)
    Die Herstellung von Differenz in der Wertigkeit von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung 

  • 10.01.2018 Philipp Mitteröcker
    An evolutionary model of human childbirth: Mathematics in-between biology, medicine, and society

  • 13.12.2017 Mario Biagini
    The Politics of Community. What is the political potential of art? What is the political responsibility of artists?

  • DO 07.12.2017, 16:30 Ole Wittmann
    Tätowierungs- und Professionalisierungsgeschichte

  • 29.11.2017 Paschalis M. Laksono (in Kooperation mit der Austrian-Indonesian Society)
    The 2006 Yogakarta Earthquake: A Case Study of Media and the Power of Representation

  • 22.11.2017 Cati Coe (in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Afrikawissenschaften)
    Beyond Kin Care? Inscriptions on Aging in Southern Ghana

  • 08.11.2017 Robert Rotenberg
    Landscape and Power, Revisited

  • FR 03.11.2017, 09.45, HS A, KSA Erich Kasten (im Rahmen der RV "Mehr als nur Haut")
    Körper - Körperwahrnehmung - Körperwahrnehmungsstörungen

  • 25.10.2017 Wiedereröffnung des Weltmuseums
    Wir sehen uns dort!

  • DI 17.10.2017 Joost Fontein (am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften)
    Political accidents and unfinished death in Zimbabwe

  • 11.10.2017 Stephan Hochleithner
    Displacement as Enclosure. Socio-economic transformation amidst ongoing armed conflict in eastern DR Congo
• Summer Term 2017

  semester program

  • 28.06.2017 Bettina Beer
    Changing social inequalities under the impact of large-scale capitalist projects: Non-Wampar (yaner) workers in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea

  • 21.06.2017 Georg Klute
    Political Orders in the Making: a comparative study of emerging forms of political Organisation from Libya to Northern Mali

  • 18.00 14.06.2017 Katja Geisenhainer
    Zur Person: Marianne Schmidl

  • 18.30 07.06.2017 Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
    Towards an Anthropology of Culpability? Ethnographic Reflections on the Formation of Violent Subjects.

  •  31.05.2017 Sveta Yamin-Pasternak und Igor Pasternak
    Gastronomy at Higher Latitudes: Lessons and Conversations with the Bering Strait Epicures

  • 24.05.2017 Patrick Plattet
    Teaching ethnographic methods online trough multimedia examination of human/animal Relations in Alaskan dog-mushing 

  • DI 23.05.2017, 17.00 Pamila Gupta (am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften)
    Blue Johannesburg

  • 17.05.2017 Elena Trubina
    Comparing the cities across the global regions: between the Global South and the Global East

  • 10.05.2017 Cindy Clark
    Two-eyed seeing:  How age relativism adds to our understanding of ritual and enculturation

  • 03.05.2017 Peter Rohrbacher
    Wiener Völkerkunde in der NS-Zeit: Pater Wilhelm Koppers, 1938–1945

  • 29.03.2017 Lina Masana
    Living with an invisible chronic illness: body, conflicts and resistance

  • 22.03.2017 Herta Nöbauer
    Von der Goldmine zum Gletscherskigebiet: All Weather Snow als multiples Frontier-Phänomen

  • 15.03.2017 Andrew Brandel
    Knowledge of Labor: SW Mintz and the Legacy of Ethnographic Theory

  • 08.03.2017 Aníbal G. Arregui
    Embodying Climate Change: Some Thoughts from Amazonia