22.02.2022

RAI Book Launch: Encounters with Anthropology in Austria

A VIRTUAL SEMINAR BY THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE


Anthropology in Motion:
Encounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from Austria

(Sean Kingston/RAI Country Series)

&

Socio-cultural anthropology from Vienna under National Socialism (1938-1945):
Institutions, Biographies and Practices in Networks 
 
(Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Original title: Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938-1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken


Programme and speakers
 

14:00 - 15:30    Part I: Contemporary approaches / RAI Country Series 'Anthropology in Motion'

Chris Hann (Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology)
Andre Gingrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Thomas Fillitz (Professor Emeritus, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna)
Eva-Maria Knoll (Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Schweitzer (Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna)
Stephan Kloos (Acting Director, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

15:30 - 16:00    Break

16:00 - 17:30    Part II: Anthropology from Vienna during the Nazi period

David Shankland (Director, Royal Anthropological Institute) 
Barbara Plankensteiner (Director, Hamburg MARKK Museum)
Christian F. Feest (Professor Emeritus, Institute of Historical Ethnology, J.-W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.)
Andre Gingrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Rohrbacher (Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

This webinar will be held on Zoom, to register go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErceivqzsuEt2vZO8B8iwK57iTqG-zmFca 

https://www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar/eventdetail/762/-/rai-book-launch-encounters-with-anthropology-in-austria