Events | Anthropology | University of Basel

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

The Weight of Waiting: Aluminum Pans, Contemporary Coloniality and Porter Labor in Ghana

Presentation by Laurian Bowles, Davidson College, USA

14 Oct 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheisprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Atmospheres of Climate Change

Presentation by Michael Schnegg, University of Hamburg

21 Oct 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

When liberal anti-racism is not enough: thinking from UK's slavery laws about authoritarian state making across the metropole

Presentation by Insa Lee Koch, HSG St. Gallen

28 Oct 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

MA Thesis presentation

Anthropology students present their ongoing MA theses

04 Nov 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Taste as Infrastructure: hunting, landscape and human-animal relations in Greenland

Presentation by Janne Flora, Aarhus University

11 Nov 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

What Anthropology Cannot Hold: Black Feminist Thought and the Writing of Black Life

Presentation by Aimee Meredith Cox, New York University

18 Nov 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Behind the Scenes: Researching Art and (the Aftermath of) Armed Struggle: Feminist Ethnographies in and Beyond Kurdistan

Presentation by Isabel Käser, University of Bern, coordinated by FG Ethnologie Basel

25 Nov 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: TBA

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Book Launch: Basel Anthropology Papers 3 - Reading

02 Dec 2026

Time: 18:00 - 21:00

Location: Neues Kino Basel

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event

Film Screening: Apolo (Brazil, 2025)

Discussion with Yv Nay (Humboldt University), Kaue Crima Bellini and Serena Dankwa (University of Basel),

09 Dec 2026

Time: 16:15 - 18:00

Location: Rheinsprung 9, seminar room -201

Organizer:
Institute of Social Anthropology

Public event, Colloquium

Fieldwork Course Presentation

Presentation by students from the fieldwork course, coordinated by Michelle Engeler, University of Basel