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21.07.2025	Reconnecting and Looking Ahead: Alumni:ae of African Studies Return to Bayreuth
21.07.2025	New publication: Special Issue Africa Today Volume 71, Number 3-4, Spring/Summer 2025
30.06.2025	New publication: Literacy and illiteracy, its relational other: A key topic for collaboration between psychology and anthropology by Erdmute Alber and Carlos Kölbl
30.06.2025	New publication: “I am still incredibly angry, aggressive, and at the same time somehow on the brink of tears […].”: Gaining ‘emotionally-sensed knowledge’ as a Participant Observer in a Social Work Context by Hannah Schild
10.04.2025	New publication: “The wife is the mother of the husband”: Marriage, Crisis, and (Re)Generation in Botswana’s Pandemic Times by Koreen Reece
01.04.2025	Alber Erdmute: Research sabbatical SoSe 2025
28.02.2025	Reece, Koreen: Senior Seminar at the Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
20.01.2025	Alumni retention survey - be sure to take part
09.12.2024	Two Doctoral Research Assistants (m/f/d) wanted
20.11.2024	New publication: "Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe" with the contribution "Housing and Food Provision in Old Age by Tabea Häberlein and Albert Irambeshya
12.11.2024	Workshop "Child mobilities and migration: Transitions to adulthood in South-South Migrations" - A workshop organized in the framework of the Point Sud Programme of DFG
07.11.2024	On Generation: Crisis, History and Change Workshop, University of Bayreuth, 7-8 November 2024
23.10.2024	Publication “Pandemic Kinship” by Koreen Reece now also available in paperback
23.10.2024	Making (a) Difference goes into the second round: Writing Workshop on October 24 & 25
17.10.2024	Oct 30th Radical Spotlights: The Economics (and Politics too) of Care
14.10.2024	Semester Opening for new students and all students of higher semesters as part of the Anthropology Lecture Series at Iwalewahaus on October 15, 2024, 6:15 PM
08.05.2024	Djiboul, Vol. 4, March 2204 "Les spatialités de la parenté" new article by Erdmute Alber
02.05.2024	Journal cultura & psyché, Vol. 5, article 4 "When parents die: Bereavement, decision-making and achieving adult personhood in rural Togo" by Tabea Häberlein
06.03.2024	Peripherie 171/172 : "Changes in parental responsibilities through 'education for all'" by Erdmute Alber
22.02.2024	Workshop: Making a Living \| University of Bayreuth \| 22. - 23.02.2024
20.12.2023	REVUE DEZAN, Vol. 11, issue 2 "Politiques de parente: La circulation des enfants au Dahomey/Benin au XXE siecle" new article by Erdmute Alber
07.12.2023	Journal cultura & psyché, Vol. 4, issue 1 "Multiplicities of (Il)literacy?" edited by Erdmute Alber and Carlos Kölbl
07.12.2023	Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 43, issue 4 "Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin" new article by Erdmute Alber
30.10.2023	Coffi Fidèle Ballo Guede: Congratulations on the successful defence
30.10.2023	Albert Irambeshya: Congratulations on the successful defence
25.10.2023	Workshop "'Making (a) Difference' Intergenerational Conversations on Intimate Relations and Transformation" October 25-28, 2023
14.06.2023	Book Launch by Koreen Reece on Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 11h15 to 13h: Pandemic Kinship - Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS
13.06.2023	Invitation to MIASA Public Lecture Series 2023: Responsibilizing parents to overcome blindness - Changing intergenerational relations through education for all in Northern Benin; Speaker: Prof. Erdmute Alber
16.05.2023	"Increasing Women's Political Presence in West Africa": Invitation to MIASA Conference on 16-17 May 2023 at the University of Ghana
01.03.2023	Visiting Fellowship for Koreen M. Reece at the University of Glasgow
14.02.2023	Radio interview with Koreen Reece on 'Weddings around the World - Love in Different Cultures and Faiths'
13.02.2023	Research grant for Erdmute Alber at the MIASA
02.01.2023	New Publication "The Politics of Making Kinship" edited by Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher und Tatjana Thelen
07.11.2022	Anthropology Lecture Series - Wintersemester 2022/23
19.01.2022	New Publication "Politics and Kinship - A Reader" edited by Erdmute Alber und Tatjana Thelen

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