Anthropology Lecture Series

The department of Social and Cultural Anthropology is proud to present its Anthropology Lecture Series.
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!

Anthropology of Global Inequalities

Organizer: Samira Marty
When: every Tuesday at 6.15 p.m.
Where: FZA, S145/146
Accessibility: FZA is wheelchair accessible.

Join via TEAMS: comming soon

21.04.2026
Johanna Tunn (University of Vienna):
"Climate coloniality and political ecologies of climate finance: insights from Vanuatu"

28.04.2026
Gabriel Gyang Darong (Rhodes University, Makhanda):
“Medical Pluralism in South Africa: a solution to holistic care?” 

05.05.2026
Michelle Pfeiffer (Dresden University of Technology):
"The Sonic Border Regime"

12.05.2026
Anna Madeleine Ayeh (University of Bayreuth):
"Parenting in/with Institutions: Bureaucracy, Morality, and Unequal Politics of Care in German Academia"

19.05.2026
Lukas Ley (Max Planck Institute Halle):
"Stirring up Marseille: managing 'legacy sediments' in the Mediterranean"

02.06.2026
Ellen Moodie (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign):
"Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador"

09.06.2026
Viola Castellano (Humboldt University of Berlin)
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16.06.2026
Alice Wilson (University of Sussex):
"'What happened to the women from the revolution?'
Contested inequalities and the retrieval of revolutionary agency in post-war Oman"

23.06.2026
Valentina Zagaria (University of Manchester):