• News: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

    On Thursday, May 14th, 2026 the department and library will remain closed.


    Departmental colloquium summer term 2026

    You can find the current plan for this semester's departmental colloquium here or on our info page about current events and lectures.


    ESE Summer school 2026

    European Campus of Intercultural Perspectives - Training in intercultural competence for students

    August 24-28, 2026
    For more information, you can find the flyer here

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Workshop: Contesting Knowledge Formations in a Multipolar World

 
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.

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Join the Kiss Lab Team!

We are still looking for support for our public relations! Your contribution to the project can take the form of an internship, a media project, a course project, or a thesis. For the awareness team, we are seeking individuals with relevant prior experience in this field.

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Student IT consultation

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!

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ENPA conference 2025 in Münster!

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!

Artwork by Agus Suwage and Titarubi
Artwork by Agus Suwage and Titarubi
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Introducing Ethnography Met: Your Go-To Online Repository Learnweb for Ethnographic Methods!

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.

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Symbiosis of rituals and conventional medicine

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

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    Current information will follow, when provided by the student council of the masters programme.

  • Information on the Emergency Fund costfree social counselling

    Due to the financial hardship of many students, the University of Muenster and the AStA offer costfree social counselling and the crisis fund. Further information can be found here.

  • Funding for student research projects

    The Rectorate of the WWU supports innovative and scientific projects initiated and carried out by students (including doctoral students) with up to 5,000.00 euros. It is important, among other things, that these projects are distinguished from degree qualifying measures and other academic achievements. The age limit is 27 years. Further information can be found on the SAFIR website, which will be happy to assist you with your application.