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 (University of Bayreuth)
"'Sex for Budeena': (Infra)structures of Addis Ababa's Sex Economy"
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27.10.2026
Sophia Ertlmaier (University of Bayreuth)
"'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 (University of Bayreuth)
"'The worst is to go from up to down': Renegotiating class positions in the transnational context of Somali forced migration."
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17.11.2026
Maribel Graf (University of Tübingen)
"Doing Poly by Doing Ethics? Polyamor leben und fühlen als moralisches Projekt"
24.11.2026
Nikolaus Schareika (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Ethnographic Collection University of Göttingen)
"Steers in Town. Livestock and rurban practice in wider Accra, Ghana"
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01.12.2026
Julia Pauli (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology University of Hamburg)
"A Safe House? Feeling Home in Transnational, Rural Mexico"
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08.12.2026
Lisa C. Cliggett (University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology)
"Longitudinal Research in Southern Africa and the Decolonial Transition."
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12.01.2027
Tilman Musch (University of Bayreuth)
"From climate change to human impact: Landscape transitions in the Sahara"
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19.01.2027
Antje Daniel (Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna)
"Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia. Prefiguration and Change in South Africa"
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26.01.2027
Karen Wells (Birbeck College London)
"Makers: how children learn agency"
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02.02.2027
Claudia Liebelt (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin)
"Embodied Transitions: Beauty, an Ethnographic Approach"