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On Tuesday, 28th of January, from 8:15 to 9:45 am, Olcay Miyanyedi is giving a guest lecture in PD Dr. Viola Thimm’s course “Islam and queer: Reframing the narrative on LGBTQIA+”. Olcay Miyanyedi comes from the third generation of a family of guest workers from Turkey. After graduating from high ...

On Tuesday, 21st of January, from 8:15 to 9:45 am, Marco Linguri is giving a guest lecture in PD Dr. Viola Thimm’s course “Islam and queer: Reframing the narrative on LGBTQIA+”. Marco Linguri is a trans man with a romeiko-Turkish background. He is a certified non-directive writing consultant, has...

On Wednesday, January 15th of 2025, from 12:15 to 15.00 CET, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on What is Southeast Asia hosts Oleg Vasilchenko M.A‘s guest lecture. Oleg Vasilchenko is a doctoral researcher at the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlange...

Ferdiansyah Thajib, together with Benjamin Hegarty, Amalia P. Handayani, Rully Mallay, and Arum Marischa, has recently published a paper in Medical Anthropology titled "Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History."The study challenges the do...

On Wednesday, December 11th of 2024, from 12:15 to 13:40 Ct, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on What is Southeast Asia hosts Dr. Victoria K. Sakti’s guest lecture. Dr. Victoria K. Sakti is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow with the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobi...

A new paper co-authored by Maria Bondes with Danqi Guo, Genia Kostka, and Wiebke Rabe in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning explores citizen action in Chinese environmental governance between institutional and extrainstitutional channels of participation. Based on an original online ...

On Monday, November 18th 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Dr. Maria Bondes' "Contentious Politics" seminar will host Fengshi Wu, who is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Based on her influential 2015 paper "In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China," co-authored with Christoph Steinhardt from the University of Vienna, she will discuss the main features of environmental activism in today's China and reflect what has changed in recent years under the Xi Jinping administration.

PD Dr. Viola Thimm is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Heidelberg University and Senior Lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has held leadership roles in cultural anthropology and has authored several books on Islam, gender, and mobility. Her current research examines queer ...

We are excited to announce the success of our recent summer school program, “Malaysia: Social Inequality through the Lens of Area Studies.” This program was a collaborative effort between SDAC / FAU – Ferdi, Oleg, Viola, Prof. Giovanni Maltese from the Theology Department, and Albukhary Internati...