7. November 2024
According to latest news (including in Der Spiegel), a resolution on the protection of Jewish life in Germany is to be passed in the Bundestag on 9 November 2024. This resolution is an important signal in view of the rise in anti-Semitism in Germany and worldwide. In...
20. November 2024
The call for papers for the next GASCA conference ‘Un/Commoning Anthropology’ is now open. The conference will take place from 29 September – 2 October 2025 at the University of Cologne. Proposals for workshops, films, exhibition projects and interventions can...
15. November 2024
The German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology launches its fourth dissertation prize. This prize is intended to recognise outstanding academic achievements in the context of a social and cultural anthropological doctorate based on ethnographic research....
30. August 2024
The GASCA board has co-signed an appeal to the members of the German Bundestag regarding the planned resolution on the protection of Jewish life in Germany. The appeal, which has been signed by numerous organisations and individuals from the academic and cultural...
15. November 2024
In preparation for the next GASCA conference ‘Un/commoning Anthropology’, the GASCA, in collaboration with Global South Studies, is organising a series of ‘Commoning Dialogues’ (webinar/ hybrid), each Monday 16:00-17:30 in irregular order. Each ‘Commoning Dialogues’...
15. April 2024
As the GASCA board is currently based at Cologne University, and in light of the disinvitation of Nancy Fraser from the Albertus Magnus Professorship, we refer to our statement on academic freedom dated February 12, 2024.
27. March 2024
The board supports the position paper of academic mid- level faculty, which was drafted by the working group “Public Anthropology” and the status group “non-professoral research and teaching” of the DGEKW. The background to this is the planned...
27. March 2024
JSCA 148 (2023) Issue 1+2 The Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology is now online in Open Access format – you can find the two current issues from 2023 at: https://zfejsca.org/ojs/index.php/jsca/index We thank the German Research Foundation for supporting...
