Our book has a cover! Jürgen Zimmerer Friederike Odenwald Koloniales Erbe De Gruyter Brill

You can now read Laibor Kalanga Moko and my reflections on our visit to Oxford and the Pitt Rivers Museum at the blog of Affective Societies affective-societies.de/2024/aus-der-f…

Herzliche Einladung zur Buchvorstellung von "Stadt der Kolonien" am 15.8. im Haus der Wissenschaft (Bremen). Mit dabei sind Roy Karadag, Eva Schöck-Quinteros, Harald Ginzky und andere. Am Ende mit kleinem Empfang. Weitere Infos zu Buch und Veranstaltung unter bch.uni-bremen.de/projekte/stadt…

Dr. Laibor Kalanga Moko, der seit 2019 als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am SFB Affective Societies arbeitet, erhält den Promotionspreis der Berliner Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! sfb-affective-societies.de/veranstaltunge…

Incredibly honored to receive the 2024 Doctoral Prize from Berliner Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (BWG) & Erhard Höpfner Stiftung (EHS) for my dissertation "Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums". This recognition means a lot to me.

German colonialism in Africa has a chilling history – new book explores how it lives on theconversation.com/german-colonia… via The Conversation Africa

My text "Sensing the political: Activist sentiment in the European long summer of migration" is finally out (pm me for text if you don't have access). My take on the concept of the political and the pitfalls of "alternative humanitarianism" literature: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️ Asanteni sana Nashukuru and I am very touched hadi chozi limenitoka 🥲 Mjue ninashambuliwa sana kwa kusimama nanyi ila SITAKUBALI KURUDI NYUMA WALA KUNYAMAZISHWA na watesi wetu! Mashambulizi dhidi yangu ni MADOGO sana nikilinganisha mnayoyapitia! Haki yenu lazima

Finally, after decades of fighting by African diaspora and Black German civil society, former Petersallee in Berlin is renamed Maji-Maji-Allee! Now not longer honouring colonial criminals but anti-colonial resistance. Today, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro inaugurated the new street sign.

Inspiring community workshop yesterday with my wonderful colleagues Laibor Kalanga Moko and Paola Ivanov. Together with Maasai representatives we discussed colonial violence and restitution regarding the collections in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. sfb-affective-societies.de/en/teilprojekt…

Wizara ya Maliasili na Utalii Samia Suluhu Sami Suluhu (commentary) MFA Tanzania naomba mafuvu ya mababu yarudi kwa familia zao! Please let the ancestors return to their families!

Die neue Folge unseres Podcasts "More Than a Feeling" ist da! Wir gehen in die dritte Staffel, yay! open.spotify.com/show/23wBLEGTY…

I'm advertising a position as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg with the opportunity to pursue a PhD in anthropology. Application deadline: October 25, 2024. uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebot…

Join us on 10 Oct. 2024 at 4.30pm when Christine A. Hastorf UC Berkeley will give a (hybrid) keynote lecture on "Andean chthonic powers and long-lived worldviews" in our research network "Pluralizing the Value of Things". ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-inst…

It’s been a busy week of discussions, laughter and mourning with the 2024 Maasai delegation Pitt Rivers Museum and this BBC Oxford bit gives such a lovely insight into the reasons why Maasai families decided to leave the objects in the care of University of Oxford bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

With Jonas Bens at #vad2024 in #bayreuth . It rains nonstop, but luckily there’s cake and loads of interesting panels! Most happy to present a paper on the Ugandan classroom as a space of political contestation this evening!

our member Yann LeGall has co-edited a book on the history of colonial plunder that features 15 scholars and 12 artists from Africa. Check it out! Pluto Press KuK TU Berlin Ciraj Rassool Chigozie Obi GRINGHANA Decolonize Berlin e. V. Sindiso N. Fergus Nicoll Felwine Sarr

My dear friend Saitabau (Saitabau Lulunken) received an admission offer for an MA programme ("Culture and Environment in Africa") in Germany but struggles with the visa requirements. Please consider supporting him on his journey. gofund.me/f2a64deb

Join us on October 21, 2024 at 6:30 pm at Refugio, Berlin for PAID TO CARE: Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction and Paid Care Work organized by Eva Kocher @cillas.bsky.social with super interesting speakers! #carework #labourlaw

New sign! I couldn’t be happier to now be a permanent member of this inspiring department Universität Hamburg with all these wonderful colleagues – as Heisenberg Professor of Anthropology.