Institute of Anthropology
anthro-leipzig.bsky.social
Institute of Anthropology
@anthro-leipzig.bsky.social
Institute of Anthropology, Leipzig University

Website: https://t.co/geLbfdA9CE
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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...
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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.
August 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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).
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
August 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“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.
July 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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
July 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
July 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
June 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
June 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
May 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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
May 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
May 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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].
May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Interested in a research-based Master in Anthropology?
Apply for the MA Anthropology at Leipzig University before 31 May!
May 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...)
May 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.
May 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣 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...
April 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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’.
December 17, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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]
December 17, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Andrea Behrends published her new book "Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands".

#anthropology
December 17, 2024 at 12:52 PM