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The Institute for Social Anthropology is oriented towards the programmatic theme “Consensus and Conflict in Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Region”. Our research comprises the following regional foci: the Islamic Middle East and North Africa; primarily Buddhist Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia and the Tibetanspeaking Himalaya region); Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.

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Events

10.12.2019

ISA Regional Guest Lecture: Dian Andriasari

Blasphemy and the Quest for Justice in Indonesia: Legal Pluralism, Human Rights and Social Conflicts

05.12.2019

ROR-n Lecture: Fazil Moradi

The World is at stake: Revolutions, Wars, Pregnant Mother/s

02.12.2019

Workshop: Encounters Across Difference: Anthropological Frameworks

Keynotes: Sarah Green (University of Helsinki), Andreas Dafinger (CEU)

28.11.2019

ISA Regional Guest Lecture: Gabriele Dopler & Marcus Bachman

Yemen: Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians - The New Normality?

27.11.2019

ISA Regional Guest Lecture: Luftan Muntaqo

Majority-Minority Relations and Young Muslim Activists: The Case of the "Human Rights Friendly Region" of Wonsobo, Central Java,...

24.10.2019

13th Eric Wolf Lecture: Didier Fassin

Of Plots and Men. The Heuristics of Conspiracy Theories

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Projektpräsentation

Religion, Economy and Gender in the Upper Mekong Region: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

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Exhibition Opening: Schulgespräche (17.09.2019)

Junge Muslim*innen in Wien (Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art)

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Leiter/inn/entreffen Ethnologie, Sozial-und Kulturanthropologie (17.-18.05.2019)

Jahrestreffen der Leiter/inn/en von Fachinstituten der Ethnologie bzw. Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie aus Deutschland, Österreich...

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