Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:56:06 +0200 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/ https://img.hearthis.at/7/5/1/_/uploads/8934476/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1510047157.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/booklaunch-provenienzforschung/ The presentation took place on April 11th, 2018 in the auditorium of the Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum in Berlin.
In this recording, you'll hear the voices of
[Larissa Förster](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/forster-larissa/) ([CARMAH](http://www.carmah.berlin/)/AG Museum)
Heike Hartmann ([Deutsches Historisches Museum](https://www.dhm.de/))
[Sarah Fründt](https://www.ucf.uni-freiburg.de/people/chair-in-science-and-technology-studies/sarah-fruendt) ([University College Freiburg](https://www.ucf.uni-freiburg.de/))
[Barbara Plankensteiner](http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/8-0-Kontakt.html) ([Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg](http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/1089-0-startseite-umbau.html))
and [Rebekka Habermas](https://www.gts-goettingen.de/project/prof-rebekka-habermas/) ([Georg-August-Universität Göttingen](https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html))
You can access the e-book by clicking [here](https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19769).

]]> The presentation took place on April 11th, 2018 in the auditorium of the Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum in Berlin.
In this recording, you'll hear the voices of
[Larissa Förster](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/forster-larissa/) ([CARMAH](http://www.carmah.berlin/)/AG Museum)
Heike Hartmann ([Deutsches Historisches Museum](https://www.dhm.de/))
[Sarah Fründt](https://www.ucf.uni-freiburg.de/people/chair-in-science-and-technology-studies/sarah-fruendt) ([University College Freiburg](https://www.ucf.uni-freiburg.de/))
[Barbara Plankensteiner](http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/8-0-Kontakt.html) ([Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg](http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/1089-0-startseite-umbau.html))
and [Rebekka Habermas](https://www.gts-goettingen.de/project/prof-rebekka-habermas/) ([Georg-August-Universität Göttingen](https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html))
You can access the e-book by clicking [here](https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/19769).

]]> 2161533 no no Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:49:53 +0200 2018-07-16T14:49:53+02:00 1:02:15 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/strathern-lecture29052018/
This paper imagines two interrelated modes of thinking about transformation and thus about the transformation of disciplines. It considers ways in which anthropology is already transforming itself, and turns the question about what is anthropological into one about what kind of future we may conjure up for a subject that refers to itself in the plural (‘anthropologies’). That sense of internal multiplicity also raises questions at the heart of the collaborative languages that we speak. An example is given in the emphasis that English-speaking anthropology puts on the concept of relations.

This lecture was held in the context of the colloquium series ['Conjunctures and Creations: Anthropological Transformations/Transformations of Anthropology'](https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kolloquium), jointly organised by [CARMAH](http://www.carmah.berlin/) and the [Institute of European Ethnology](https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de) ([Humboldt University, Berlin](https://www.hu-berlin.de/de)) on 29 May 2018.

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This paper imagines two interrelated modes of thinking about transformation and thus about the transformation of disciplines. It considers ways in which anthropology is already transforming itself, and turns the question about what is anthropological into one about what kind of future we may conjure up for a subject that refers to itself in the plural (‘anthropologies’). That sense of internal multiplicity also raises questions at the heart of the collaborative languages that we speak. An example is given in the emphasis that English-speaking anthropology puts on the concept of relations.

This lecture was held in the context of the colloquium series ['Conjunctures and Creations: Anthropological Transformations/Transformations of Anthropology'](https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kolloquium), jointly organised by [CARMAH](http://www.carmah.berlin/) and the [Institute of European Ethnology](https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de) ([Humboldt University, Berlin](https://www.hu-berlin.de/de)) on 29 May 2018.

]]> 2142265 no no Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:58:57 +0200 2018-07-05T17:58:57+02:00 1:06:16 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/symposium-closing-discussion/ [Sharon Macdonald](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/) (chair of the discussion)
[Erica Lehrer](https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/history/faculty.html?fpid=erica-lehrer) (Concordia University)
[Friedrich von Bose](https://www.kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/en/content/friedrich-von-bose/) (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
[Duane Jethro](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/jethro-duane/) (CARMAH)]]> [Sharon Macdonald](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/) (chair of the discussion)
[Erica Lehrer](https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/history/faculty.html?fpid=erica-lehrer) (Concordia University)
[Friedrich von Bose](https://www.kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/en/content/friedrich-von-bose/) (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
[Duane Jethro](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/jethro-duane/) (CARMAH)]]> 1642189 no no Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:22:21 +0100 2017-11-23T13:48:03+01:00 1:04:08 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/session-v-engagement/ [Christine Gerbich](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/gerbich-christine/) (chair of the discussion)
[Bonita Bennett](https://bennettbonita.wordpress.com/author/bennettbonita/) (on 'Building Knowledge, Building Community in District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)')
[Laura Peers](https://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-peers) (on 'Obligations, Battles, Relationships: Museum Anthropology and the Praxis of Engagement')
[Ute Marxreiter](http://www.humboldt-lab.de/beteiligte/kein-platz-an-der-sonne/index.html) (discussant)]]> [Christine Gerbich](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/gerbich-christine/) (chair of the discussion)
[Bonita Bennett](https://bennettbonita.wordpress.com/author/bennettbonita/) (on 'Building Knowledge, Building Community in District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)')
[Laura Peers](https://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-peers) (on 'Obligations, Battles, Relationships: Museum Anthropology and the Praxis of Engagement')
[Ute Marxreiter](http://www.humboldt-lab.de/beteiligte/kein-platz-an-der-sonne/index.html) (discussant)]]> 1642181 no no Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:13:21 +0100 2017-11-23T13:48:02+01:00 1:45:49 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/session-iv-post-ethnological/ museums in Europe and North America, the terms ‘anthropological,’ ‘ethnological,’
‘ethnographic,’ and ‘Völkerkunde’ have progressively disappeared from their titles or have been disguised in acronyms. At the same time, museum theorists and practitioners have called for a ‘post-ethnographic’ or ‘post-ethnological’ museum. Some argue for a radical shift from the museum’s and discipline’s legacies, against the “logos of ethnos” (Deliss); others argue for a “following from” with a difference (Clifford). The prefix ‘post’ does not clearly define what it stands for (or against). What it indicates, however, is the persisting unease about the role of ethnographic museums, and particularly the role of anthropology and its legacies in relationship to the museum. Questioning this constitutive, but challenging, relationship will be the topic of this panel.
[Margareta von Oswald](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/von-oswald-margareta/) (chair of the discussion)
[Clémentine Deliss](http://www.internationaleonline.org/people/clementine_deliss) (on 'Conceptualising a Museum-University: Repositories as Sites for Transdisciplinary Research and Cultural Exchange')
[Dan Hicks](http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/DH1.html) ('On the Treatment of Dead Enemies')
[Ashkan Sepahvand](http://www.fellow-me.de/fellows/ashkan-sepahvand/) (on 'Imagining Elsewhere and Otherwise')]]> museums in Europe and North America, the terms ‘anthropological,’ ‘ethnological,’
‘ethnographic,’ and ‘Völkerkunde’ have progressively disappeared from their titles or have been disguised in acronyms. At the same time, museum theorists and practitioners have called for a ‘post-ethnographic’ or ‘post-ethnological’ museum. Some argue for a radical shift from the museum’s and discipline’s legacies, against the “logos of ethnos” (Deliss); others argue for a “following from” with a difference (Clifford). The prefix ‘post’ does not clearly define what it stands for (or against). What it indicates, however, is the persisting unease about the role of ethnographic museums, and particularly the role of anthropology and its legacies in relationship to the museum. Questioning this constitutive, but challenging, relationship will be the topic of this panel.
[Margareta von Oswald](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/von-oswald-margareta/) (chair of the discussion)
[Clémentine Deliss](http://www.internationaleonline.org/people/clementine_deliss) (on 'Conceptualising a Museum-University: Repositories as Sites for Transdisciplinary Research and Cultural Exchange')
[Dan Hicks](http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/DH1.html) ('On the Treatment of Dead Enemies')
[Ashkan Sepahvand](http://www.fellow-me.de/fellows/ashkan-sepahvand/) (on 'Imagining Elsewhere and Otherwise')]]> 1642168 no no Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:54:52 +0100 2017-11-23T13:46:02+01:00 1:42:25 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/session-iii-alterity/ from the Latin ‘alter’, meaning ‘other’, or ‘the other (of two)’. Anthropological scholarship
and ethnological museum practices have long been dealing with the representation and the construction of such differences. Postcolonial critiques, the crisis of representation, and
the Writing Culture debate have questioned the ways in which museums and anthropologists deal with the construction and representation of alterity. This panel invites perspectives from anthropology and curating in the context of ethnographic and art exhibition making to discuss the potential and the problems associated with alterity.
[Jonas Tinius](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/tinius-jonas/) (chair of the discussion)
[Henrietta Lidchi](https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/collections-departments/world-cultures/dr-henrietta-lidchi/) (on 'Bodies Changed into New Forms: Metamorphosis and Museums')
[Katharina Schramm](http://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Schramm_Katharina/index.html) (on 'After the Fire: Disrupting Whiteness Towards New Forms of Collaboration in the Space of the South African University')
[Alya Sebti](http://www.yeast-art-of-sharing.de/2016/05/mich-interessieren-die-grautoene/) (participating discussant)

]]> from the Latin ‘alter’, meaning ‘other’, or ‘the other (of two)’. Anthropological scholarship
and ethnological museum practices have long been dealing with the representation and the construction of such differences. Postcolonial critiques, the crisis of representation, and
the Writing Culture debate have questioned the ways in which museums and anthropologists deal with the construction and representation of alterity. This panel invites perspectives from anthropology and curating in the context of ethnographic and art exhibition making to discuss the potential and the problems associated with alterity.
[Jonas Tinius](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/tinius-jonas/) (chair of the discussion)
[Henrietta Lidchi](https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/collections-departments/world-cultures/dr-henrietta-lidchi/) (on 'Bodies Changed into New Forms: Metamorphosis and Museums')
[Katharina Schramm](http://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Schramm_Katharina/index.html) (on 'After the Fire: Disrupting Whiteness Towards New Forms of Collaboration in the Space of the South African University')
[Alya Sebti](http://www.yeast-art-of-sharing.de/2016/05/mich-interessieren-die-grautoene/) (participating discussant)

]]> 1634810 no no Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:01:49 +0100 2017-11-23T13:42:02+01:00 1:34:33 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/session-ii-trans-locality/ [Katarzyna Puzon](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/puzon-katarzyna/) (chair of the discussion)
[Beverley Butler](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/butler) (on 'Heritage Rites – Translocality, Creativity & 'Acting Back' in Refugee Camp Life')
[Banu Karaca](https://www.ici-berlin.org/people/karaca/) (on 'Diasporic Trajectories, Art Historical Taxonomies: Dikran G. Kelekian and Islamic Art')
[Paola Ivanov](http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/personenliste/ivanov/index.html) (on 'Conceptualising and Exhibiting Translocality as a Corrective to Dominant Narratives')

]]> [Katarzyna Puzon](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/puzon-katarzyna/) (chair of the discussion)
[Beverley Butler](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/butler) (on 'Heritage Rites – Translocality, Creativity & 'Acting Back' in Refugee Camp Life')
[Banu Karaca](https://www.ici-berlin.org/people/karaca/) (on 'Diasporic Trajectories, Art Historical Taxonomies: Dikran G. Kelekian and Islamic Art')
[Paola Ivanov](http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/personenliste/ivanov/index.html) (on 'Conceptualising and Exhibiting Translocality as a Corrective to Dominant Narratives')

]]> 1634801 no no Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:41:33 +0100 2017-11-23T13:35:02+01:00 1:27:38 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/session-i-provenance-part-1/ [Larissa Förster](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/forster-larissa/) (chair of the discussion)
[Ciraj Rassool](https://www.uwc.ac.za/Biography/Pages/Ciraj-Rassool.aspx) (on 'Provenance Politics')
[Paul Basu](https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104140.php) (on 'Provenance Beyond Origins and Return: Thinking Through the Metaphor (and Politics) of Diaspora')
[Britta Lange](https://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kollegium/1685612) (on 'Possible Locations')

]]> [Larissa Förster](http://www.carmah.berlin/people/forster-larissa/) (chair of the discussion)
[Ciraj Rassool](https://www.uwc.ac.za/Biography/Pages/Ciraj-Rassool.aspx) (on 'Provenance Politics')
[Paul Basu](https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104140.php) (on 'Provenance Beyond Origins and Return: Thinking Through the Metaphor (and Politics) of Diaspora')
[Britta Lange](https://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kollegium/1685612) (on 'Possible Locations')

]]> 1625831 no no Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:59:11 +0100 2017-11-23T13:29:02+01:00 1:40:43 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/introduction/ 1625828 no no Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:57:15 +0100 2017-11-23T13:22:02+01:00 17:33 https://hearthis.at/carmah-hu/haidy-geismar-objects-otherwise-public-lecture-july-26th-2017/ over the past years. A box. A cloak. An Effigy. A pen. Each object opens up a host of
questions about the interaction between old collections and new technologies, about
processes of translation, remediation, and representation, about the legacy of nineteenth
century colonialism and collecting within twenty-first century new media; and about the rearticulation of locality and cultural difference within museum technologies. How do new
technologies, such as 3D-printing, scanning, social media, and new web-based interfaces
alter our understandings of what a collection is, how objects encode knowledge and
meaning, tell stories, and what spaces are being created for cultural differences?
synthesise my work over many years with ethnographic collections from the Pacific, with
photography collections, and with new media, to explore the object lessons and politics of
perspective that are emerging for the twenty-first century collections.]]> over the past years. A box. A cloak. An Effigy. A pen. Each object opens up a host of
questions about the interaction between old collections and new technologies, about
processes of translation, remediation, and representation, about the legacy of nineteenth
century colonialism and collecting within twenty-first century new media; and about the rearticulation of locality and cultural difference within museum technologies. How do new
technologies, such as 3D-printing, scanning, social media, and new web-based interfaces
alter our understandings of what a collection is, how objects encode knowledge and
meaning, tell stories, and what spaces are being created for cultural differences?
synthesise my work over many years with ethnographic collections from the Pacific, with
photography collections, and with new media, to explore the object lessons and politics of
perspective that are emerging for the twenty-first century collections.]]> 1603898 no no Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:20:18 +0200 2017-11-20T11:26:01+01:00 1:37:06