Anthropology Lecture Series
Wintersemester 2026 / 2027
Every semester, we invite various speakers from in and out of the University of Bayreuth to present exciting topics to students, fellow researchers and everyone else who is interested. Please feel free to join us!
Students welcome!
TRANSITIONS
Organizer: Erdmute Alber
When: every Tuesday at 6.15 p.m.
Where: FZA, S145/146
Accessibility: FZA is wheelchair accessible.
Join via ZOOM
20.10.2026
Serawit Debele (Professor for Gender, Sexuality and Religion with a focus on Africa at the UBT)
"tba"
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27.10.2026
Sophia Ertlmaier (PhD Student UBT)
"'Being a working mother in this Lagos is madness!' Women balancing their hustle across education, careers, and (future) motherhood"
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03.11.2026
Tabea Scharrer (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin DFG Projekt UBT)
"To go the (un)straight line." Migration regimes, legal capital and classed experiences of Somali forced migrants in Europe."
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17.11.2026
"tba"
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24.11.2026
Nikolaus Schareika (Institut für Ethnologie und Ethnologische Sammlung Universität Göttingen)
"Steers in Town. Livestock and rurban practice in wider Accra, Ghana"
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01.12.2026
"tba"
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08.12.2026
Lisa C. Cliggett (University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology)
"tba"
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12.01.2027
"From climate change to human impact: Landscape transitions in the Sahara"
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19.01.2027
Antje Daniel (Institut für internationale Entwicklung, Universität Wien)
"Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia. Prefiguration and Change in South Africa."
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26.01.2027
Karen Wells
"tba"
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02.02.2027
Claudia Liebelt (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin)
"Embodied Transitions: Beauty, an Ethnographic Approach"