Public lecture – Prof. Michael Bollig​

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6. April 2022

Public lecture – Prof. Michael Bollig​

7th April 2022, UNAM Windhoek (Namibia)

TOPIC: “Social and Cultural Anthropology – challenges and options for interdisciplinary engagement: Perspectives from Germany”

by Michael Bollig, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. 

Time: 09:00-11:00

Venue: Big Video Conferencing Room, UNAM Library, Main Campus.

About the presentation

Social and Cultural Anthropology has been taught at Universities in the Global North since the late 19th century and in southern Africa since the 1920s. Through one hundred years of academic development it has liaised with different disciplines. This paper tries to capture the role of social and cultural anthropology in Germany in the early 21st century in the interdisciplinary concert of academic disciplines. It focusses on interdisciplinary entanglements in teaching and research. Due to the broad interests of the discipline ranging from livelihood studies and household economies to religion and spirituality anthropologists are capable to communicate into different directions. 

Prof. Bollig talk will argue that based on BA courses that provide for sound methodological training and multiple theoretical orientations, MA courses should offer both more specialization and various interdisciplinary options. In the research set up social and cultural anthropology can work convincingly with various other disciplines especially if it is allowed to bring in its holistic grasp of complex couplings of society, culture, economy and nature.

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