Updates from CARMAH
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New CARMAH Colleageus & Guests
Isabel Bredenbröker is a social and cultural anthropologist working between academia and art. As DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow, Isabel's research project Queering the Museum? – An anthropological toolkit for intersectional relations in the arts is based at CARMAH and HZK. Jenny Chio is a cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. As a Humboldt Research Fellow at CARMAH, Jenny is extending her research interests on Chinese development and modernization into the German context, beginning with a case study of the impacts and affects of China's Belt and Road infrastructural investments in the port city of Duisburg.
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Book Launch | Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland
June 6th, 2023 | 6 pm | Room 408 at CARMAHBy Magdalena Waligórska ( Cambridge University Press, 2023) with the author and the commentators: Dr. Karolina Wigura (Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Felix Ackermann (FernUniversität Hagen), followed by a reception in CARMAH's library room.
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Book Launch | Terribly Close: The Holocaust in Polish Folk Art
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A Series of Museum Visits | Exhibiting Music
Margareta von Oswald (CARMAH/CMB) and Serge Reubi (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle/CMB) will organize a series of museum visits dedicated to exhibiting music. May 3rd, 2023 | 10h-12h Hamburger Bahnhof | Broken Music Vol. 2The visit will be followed by a talk and Q&A with the curator Sven Beckstette. June 7th, 2023 | 10h-12h Musical Instruments Museum | visit to the permanent exhibition The visit will be followed by a talk and Q&A with a curator (tbd). July 5th, 2023 | 10h30-12h30 Humboldt Forum | Sounds of the World & Listening Space in the Ethnological Museum and Entertainment in the exhibition BERLIN GLOBALThe visit will be followed by a group discussion moderated by Margareta von Oswald and Serge Reubi. If you are interested, please write to Margareta von Oswald ( margareta.von.oswald@hu-berlin.de), as the number of participants is limited and free tickets will be available.
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Call for Fellows
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Call for Papers
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CARMAH Reflection
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Publications
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin by Magdalena Buchczyk (2023). London: Bloomsbury. Decolonial Museology in East-Central Europe: A Preliminary To-Do List by Erica Lehrer & Joanna Wawrzyniak (2023). Europe Now Journal. Immersion, impersonation and engagement in dangerous pasts. Limits, effects and ethics of immersive heritage experiences by Sharon Macdonald (2022). In Agiati Bernadou & Anna Maria Droumpouki (eds) Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences, London: Routledge. Sighting the dust. Attending to the museum through its residues by Sharon Macdonald (2022). In Nina Samuel & Felix Sattler (eds) Museale Reste, Bildwelten des Wissens, Band 18. Berlin: De Gruyter. Awkward Archives. Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Volume 1) by Margareta von Oswald & Jonas Tinius (eds) (2022). Haus der Kulturen der Welt / archive books. 'Goodbye Mshatta': Connections and Disconnections on Berlin’s Museum Island by Katarzyna Puzon (2023). Review of Middle East Studies. Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland by Magdalena Waligorska (2023). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. On Behalf of Silence, Seeking Sacturary ed. by Shura Dogadaeva & Andrei Zavadski (2023). The February Journal, 01-02: 1–310. Public History in Russia and Its Failed Struggle against Putin’s Historical Politics by Andrei Zavadski (2023). De Gruyter Conversations. Public history in Russia: The past, the present, and (thoughts about) the future by Andrei Zavadski (2022). International Public History, 5(2): 143–156.
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Upcoming Events, Talks, Workshops....
April 19th, 2023Together with Thomas Sieber, Christine Gerbich will moderate the Making Museums Matter online discussion on Klimakatastrophe und Klimaschutz. Museen zwischen Verantwortung und/oder Aktivismus. April 24th, 2023Julia Leser and Astrid Klinge will present the Netzwerk Halt!ung at the Jahrestagung des Sächsischen Museumsbundes in Leipzig: Gesellschaftliche Diskurse in Museen. April 27th–28th, 2023Magdalena Buchczyk will coordinate an interdisciplinary, hybrid workshop on Tracing Temporalities // Unearthing Archives. The workshop is funded by TRACTS COST Action and co-hosted by Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam. May 1st, 2023Together with Damani Partridge, Jenny Chio will be a participant and speaker at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Experimental Ethnography CARNIVAL. May 5th, 2023Magdalena Waligórska will give a guest lecture on The Shtetl after 1945: Explorations of Lost Towns in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands at Universität Gießen. May 7th, 2023Together with Jonas Tinius, Margareta von Oswald will launch their book Awkward Archives. Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum at SAVVY Contemporary. May 12th, 2023Magdalena Buchczyk will present on (Un)homely waterscapes – tracing the changing ecologies of making, dwelling and protection during Home/Making Symposium at Concordia University in Montreal. May 13th, 2023Magdalena Waligórska will attend the podium discussion on Querdenker oder Selbstdenker: Demagogie und Populismus at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. May 22nd–23rd, 2023Magdalena Waligórska will participate in the workshop Beyond Nationalism at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. May 25th–26th, 2023Julia Leser will co-organize the workshop Ethnography & Epistemic Hierarchies at Erfurt University together with the DVPW theme group Political Ethnography. June 2nd, 2023Alice von Bieberstein will attend a conference on Past and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan at the University of Oxford. June 7th, 2023Margareta von Oswald will give a talk on Towards curatorial work beyond exhibitions. Modes of representing 'Africa' in Berlin and the collection’s potential futures at a conference on Museumisation in Central Europe: Opportunities and Challenges at the Central European University's Institute for Advanced Study in Vienna. June 8th, 2023Magdalena Buchczyk will give a paper on Woven waterscapes beyond regimes of heritage, conservation and sustainability during the 16th SIEF Congress in Brno. June 26th–27th, 2023
Alice von Bieberstein will attend a conference on More-than-human memory at the University of Cambridge. July 14th, 2023 Magdalena Buchczyk will present a paper on Salvaging Wetlands, Safeguarding Heritage during the Folklore, Geography and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape and Climate in the Anthropocene Folklore Society Conference in Hull. July 26th–29th, 2023Habiba Insaf will co-convene a panel called South Asian Collections in European Museums: Examining their acquisition, display, and futures and present a paper called Biography of a Naga Object: Movements, Transformations and Continuities at the European Conference of South Asian Studies in Turin. For more information about past and upcoming events, please visit our website!
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Images included in this email have been provided by: Zuzanna Lakuzna, Jenny Chio, Cambridge University Press, Michelle Mantel, Bloomsbury, De Gruyter, archive books, Bonnefanten Maastricht.
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