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This seminar took an in-depth, emotion- and trauma-informed and intersectional look at intercultural understanding and compared approaches from anthropology with those from other disciplines (including education and psychology).

See the full seminar description, requirements, and schedule here.

The German Academy for Language and Poetry honors the ethnologist Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose 2024.

From the jury's statement: "The Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose 2024 goes to the ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl, whose writings are impressive for their clarity of presentation and are able to sharpen our historical judgment. His work revolves around the reconstruction of the relationship between Europeans and indigenous cultures from the early modern period to the modern era." 
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(Photo: Jennifer Markwirth)

Exciting lectures, practice-oriented workshops, intensive discussion rounds.

Participants in the CollabAnthro Program:
Our Summer School starts on July 11, 2024. Over the following three days, students will work in their research groups to develop their fieldwork and research designs. Our time together is rounded off with informal get-togethers during the evenings. Consecutively, students will participate in a two-day workshop offered by the trainers of the Safer Fieldwork Project.

Open to the public:
Check the program below for events that are open to guests and visitors not participating in the CollabAnthro Program.

Download the Summer School Program in English or French.

In May 2024, Prof. Dr. Adjaï Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon joins the Institute for Ethnology at Goethe University as a visiting research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Université de Lomé, Togo. During his research stay he will be with his host Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Hahn is preparing an article on the topic of North-South scientific cooperation.

In the past, Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon has researched colonial photography together with Prof. Hahn. Further research was conducted by Prof. Oloukpona-Yinnon on the popularity of colonial in the period before the First World War. In particular, he rediscovered the first performance of a colonial drama in Görlitz. 

His current article “Colonial monuments and relics: A burdensome legacy of German colonialism" is published in the editorial “The Foreign Office and the Colonies. History, memory, heritage", published by C.H.Beck in 2024. The book was presented by the Foreign Office on June 5, 2023.Link to the book.)