​​Events

07.02.2024, 18:00-20:00 | SH 4.104

Lindsay Poirier (Smith College, USA), Infrastructuring Collaborative Hermeneutics: Databasing Double Bind while Pursuing PECE. In this talk, I will narrate the tensions of designing the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) - a software distribution for supporting multi-sited and multi-perspectival ethnographic research. In particular, I will discuss the architectural challenges to designing data storage systems, interfaces, and workflows that foster collaborative analysis while leaving ethnographic data open to productive reinterpretation. NOTE: The colloquium organisers are going to host a workshop with Lindsay Poirier around her talk, to learn more about PECE from her perspective and practically engage with the functions and options of PECE. Check out our website for updates on this workshop. (To participate online, please send an email to our student assistant Sarah-Lisa Beck: Sa.Beck@em.uni-frankfurt.de We will then send you the link shortly before the event.)

17.01.2024, 14:00-16:00 | SH 4.104

Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Tangled Threads of Heritage and Care in Southern Europe. By integrating critical heritage studies, and environmental anthropology, the paper aims to challenge the foundational frameworks of safeguarding cultural and natural heritage. Drawing on research conducted with weavers in Sardinia, the talk explores how heritage vitality serves as a lens through which we examine various approaches to caretaking and environmental justice.

20.12.2023, 14:00-16:00 | SH 3.105

Franziska Mucha (Historisches Museum Frankfurt), Museum knowledge digital - from open access to socio-affective spaces. The digitization and publication of museum collections is accompanied by the promise of enabling 'open access' to these otherwise inaccessible collections of knowledge. In reality, however, access does not necessarily mean use. The POEM research project shows which socio-affective spaces are needed for critical negotiation and creative re-use of museum knowledge. 

6.12.2023, 16:00-18:00 | SH 4.104

Işıl Seçil Yıldırım (Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt), "Nobody remains unchanged." In conversation with urban lab workers. An individual and collaborative confrontation with Nazi history. An increasingly diverse society demands a socially inclusive public memory that is shaped by all sections of the population. This approach was the starting point for the remembrance work on Nazi history as part of the Stadtlabor at the Historisches Museum. Part of the inclusive remembrance work is also the participation of people with a history of migration. What does this work mean for social actors who come together as part of the project and talk about their family history? Some of them talk about specific experiences in Frankfurt during the Nazi era, while others have only recently arrived in Frankfurt as refugees or migrants and have had nothing to do with the Nazi era.

Judith Blume (Collections of Goethe University / University Library, University of Frankfurt), Matthias Harbeck (FID Social and Cultural Anthropology / University Library, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Ingmar Lippert (Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt), Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst: Wissenspolitik digitaler Infrastrukturen.(I see something you don't see: the knowledge policy of digital infrastructures.), How do digital and digitizing infrastructures make knowledge visible or invisible, what is known through them, what is not, and with what consequences? We will discuss these questions using three cases: a wild museum between industry and autochthonous people in Germany, the presentation of collections and objects in various portals and databases of the Frankfurt University Collections and the examination of the digitization of "difficult" materials (including those from colonial contexts) in the Specialized Information Service for Social and Cultural Anthropology. What visions of digital infrastructures can be developed from these three examples?

8.11.2023, 18:00-20:00 | Braubachstraße 7

You are kindly invited to attend a public lecture on disasters, offered by Dr. Malka Older from Arizona State University on Tuesday, 17. October, 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 2G.107. 

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. After working in international assistance and disaster response for more than a decade, she completed her doctorate in the sociology of organizations at Sciences Po. Her academic writing focusses primarily on disaster response, temporality, and geopolitics. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post, while her latest book, The Mimicking of Known Successes, was a most anticipated pick for Today.com, Buzzfeed, Polygon, Book Riot, and Ms. Magazine. 

The lecture will address disaster presents and disaster futures, focussing on how disasters, with their compressed time frames and often intense documentation and scrutiny, offer clues for better collaboration and the pitfalls of desperation. No registration is required. We are looking forward to your numerous attendance.