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Our colleague Dr Jon Schubert has just been awarded an Eccellenza research professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to carry out his new project PRECURBICA — Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa.

Nickey Diamond co-wrote an article in „Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide” together with Ken MacLean. In their chapter “Dangerous Speech Cloaked in Saffron Robes. Race, religion and anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar”, the authors discuss how religious and political spheres in the country become diffused. They investigate anti-Muslim violence against, the ethnic group of Muslim Rohingya is committed in Myanmar.

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer is the new co-convenor of the EASA network "Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance" (LAW NET) together with Prof. Julie Billaud (Geneva) and Dr. Agathe Mora (Sussex).

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke published an article on Gerd Spittlers "Streitregelung im Schatten des Leviathans. Eine Darstellung und Kritik rechtsethnologischer Untersuchungen“ [Dispute settlement in the shadow of Leviathan. An account and critique of legal anthropological investigations] (1980).

The online magazine of the University of Konstanz “campus.kn” reported about Nickey Diamond. After the military coup in Myanmar in February the life of the human rights activist and his family was in constant danger. After the situation worsened, his family flew. With the Hilde Domin Programme “Students at Risk” he received a stipend and now is a PhD-candidate at the working group of Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer. He will do his doctorate on “Anti-Muslim Hate Speech in Myanmar”.

Am 15. Juli 2021 endet der Bewerbungszeitraum für den Masterstudiengang Ethnologie und Soziologie an der Uni Konstanz für das Wintersemester 2021/2022.

The doctoral candidates Carolin Hirsch and Benedict Mette-Starke talked about the repercussions, the coup on February, 01 2021 has on the societal and political situation in Myanmar in the podcast “9B” that is produced by the KIM [Communication, Information, Media Centre] at the University of Konstanz. The Myanmar experts spoke about how the coup affects the further implementation of their PhD-projects and the everyday lives of their research partners.

Carolin Hirsch published the paper “Religious Gift-Giving Turned Upside Down. On Monks and Punks in Myanmar”. In it, she explores and analyses the practice of gift-giving in the Buddhist characterized country Myanmar and how the practice is taken up and newly contextualised as socio-political protest by punks in the “Food not Bombs”-movement.

Stellen Sie Ihre Fragen zum Studiengang in unserer Informationsveranstaltung und lernen Sie einige DozentInnen kennen.

Die Veranstaltung findet am Donnerstag, 17.06.2021 von 19 bis 20 Uhr auf zoom statt (Link, siehe unten).

Our colleague Dr Jon Schubert has just been awarded an Eccellenza research professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to carry out his new project PRECURBICA — Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa.

Nickey Diamond co-wrote an article in „Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide” together with Ken MacLean. In their chapter “Dangerous Speech Cloaked in Saffron Robes. Race, religion and anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar”, the authors discuss how religious and political spheres in the country become diffused. They investigate anti-Muslim violence against, the ethnic group of Muslim Rohingya is committed in Myanmar.

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer is the new co-convenor of the EASA network "Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance" (LAW NET) together with Prof. Julie Billaud (Geneva) and Dr. Agathe Mora (Sussex).

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and Dr. Felix Girke published an article on Gerd Spittlers "Streitregelung im Schatten des Leviathans. Eine Darstellung und Kritik rechtsethnologischer Untersuchungen“ [Dispute settlement in the shadow of Leviathan. An account and critique of legal anthropological investigations] (1980).

The online magazine of the University of Konstanz “campus.kn” reported about Nickey Diamond. After the military coup in Myanmar in February the life of the human rights activist and his family was in constant danger. After the situation worsened, his family flew. With the Hilde Domin Programme “Students at Risk” he received a stipend and now is a PhD-candidate at the working group of Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer. He will do his doctorate on “Anti-Muslim Hate Speech in Myanmar”.

Am 15. Juli 2021 endet der Bewerbungszeitraum für den Masterstudiengang Ethnologie und Soziologie an der Uni Konstanz für das Wintersemester 2021/2022.

The doctoral candidates Carolin Hirsch and Benedict Mette-Starke talked about the repercussions, the coup on February, 01 2021 has on the societal and political situation in Myanmar in the podcast “9B” that is produced by the KIM [Communication, Information, Media Centre] at the University of Konstanz. The Myanmar experts spoke about how the coup affects the further implementation of their PhD-projects and the everyday lives of their research partners.

Carolin Hirsch published the paper “Religious Gift-Giving Turned Upside Down. On Monks and Punks in Myanmar”. In it, she explores and analyses the practice of gift-giving in the Buddhist characterized country Myanmar and how the practice is taken up and newly contextualised as socio-political protest by punks in the “Food not Bombs”-movement.

Stellen Sie Ihre Fragen zum Studiengang in unserer Informationsveranstaltung und lernen Sie einige DozentInnen kennen.

Die Veranstaltung findet am Donnerstag, 17.06.2021 von 19 bis 20 Uhr auf zoom statt (Link, siehe unten).