News: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

We congratulate our department's Dr. Victoria Sakti for the ERC grant she has been awarded for her five-year project “Improvising Later Life in the City: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Ageing in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts” ("LIV-AGE")!

 
The workshop brought together international scholars and PhD students to explore questions of supervision, research collaboration, decoloniality, and the infrastructures of knowledge production in a multipolar world.

The Kiss Lab is a participatory art and encounter format that explores physical proximity, touch, and nonverbal communication as social and cultural practices. During the event, a temporary space is created in which visitors become co-creators of a collective performance.

In the IT consultation at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, we are happy to help you with topics such as setting up the university VPN, Wifi, perMail or Microsoft Entra. For all these areas and other questions we offer student advice every monday 10am-2pm in person at our secretariat (Studtstraße 21) or per e-mail (ethnoedv[at]uni-muenster.de).

We look forward to hearing from you!

We are delighted to announce that the ENPA Conference 2025 will be held from June 10 to June 13, 2025!
The event will kick off with a pre-conference workshop for PhD students on June 10, followed by the main conference over the next three days.
We look forward to welcoming you to our venue at the Schloss in Münster, nestled amidst expansive parks and beautiful botanical gardens. You might even want to take a dip in the canal that runs through the city, so don’t forget to pack your swimming gear!

We are excited to welcome you to ENPA 2025 in Münster!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Ethnography Met, a comprehensive online repository designed specifically for students and faculty at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Ethnography Met offers a wealth of resources on ethnographic methods, providing invaluable support for research and academic endeavors.

Discover detailed guides, case studies, and multimedia resources that cover the full spectrum of ethnographic techniques. Whether you're just beginning your journey or looking to deepen your expertise, Ethnography Met is here to support your learning and teaching.
To access the platform, simply log in to your Learnweb account. Please note that enrollment in Learnweb is exclusively available to students and faculty at the University of Münster.

2022-2024 | DFG with Florin Cristea, M.A. and Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka

This project contributes to current debates on illness experience, care and therapeutic landscapes in Bali and Java, Indonesia. The island has established itself as a hub for international cooperation on mental health and illness. Based on the collaboration with professional networks already initiated during previous fieldwork, this project is well connected to local and international institutions It investigates the illness experience associated with severe psychiatric disorders as intertwined moral, cognitive, and emotional processes. This analytic link has not been studied so far and promises to provide an in-depth description of how global knowledge flows influence personal and social illness trajectories and outcomes outside of the Global North, by methodologically particularlizing the diverse Balinese and Javanese therapeutic landscapes.
Cooperation partner: Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogykarta, Indonesia