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Seniors:

Jean Comaroff is Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and of Anthropology as well as Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. She was trained at the University of Cape Town – where she holds an honorary professorship – and the London School of Economics. Her research, primarily conducted in southern Africa, has centered on processes of social and cultural transformation – the making and unmaking of colonial society, the nature of the postcolony, and the late modern world viewed from the Global South. Her writing has covered a range of topics, from religion, medicine and body politics to state formation, crime, democracy and difference.

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John L. Comaroff studied at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. At present, he is Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies as well as Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. Until 2014, he also held a research professorship at the American Bar Association. His current research in South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on postcolonial politics. His field research has been primarily focused on South Africa, and he has worked on topics ranging from agricultural transformation to marriage payment, and from witchcraft to global capitalism.

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John and Jean Comaroff have collaborated in examining historical and postcolonial configurations in South Africa, consistently contributing to the theorizing of contemporary global conditions. Among the Comaroffs many joint publications are Of Revelation and Revolution (2 vols., 1991 and 1999), Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (1992), Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa (1993), Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2000), Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (2006), Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (2011).



Daniel Stein holds a professorship in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen. In 2013 he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize for outstanding scholarly achievements, awarded by the German Research Foundation and the German Ministry for Education and Research. His main fields of interest include comics and graphic narratives, African American literature and culture, jazz literature and jazz historiography, autobiography studies, teaching methodology, and theories of American media and popular culture since the 19th century. Since 2011 he has been a member of the research unit “Popular Seriality: Aesthetics and Practice,” with a current project on 19th century city mysteries. Among his recent publications is Music is my Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography and American Jazz (2012). He has co-edited numerous works on comics and graphic novels, including Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads (2013, with S. Denson and C. Meyer) and is preparing a monograph entitled Authorizing Superhero Comics: on the Evolution of Serial Genre.

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Guest:


Hubertus Büschel (1969) studied in Munich and Berlin History and Modern German Literature. He is Chair for Contemporary History at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, since Sep-tember 2015. In this position, his working and research fields are Global History, Cultural Histo-ry, African and European History (mainly since 1945). From 2009-2015 Büschel was Juniorpro-fessor for Cultural History at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. 2012, he was awarded with the venia legendi in Modern and Contemporary History. His doctorate (2004, summa cum laude) is from the Georg August University Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for History Göttingen. Recently Hu-bertus Büschel received a Heisenberg grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (rejec-ted). He publishes on the history of development and colonialism. Currently, he is writing a mo-nograph with the working title "Trauma in the Tropics. Global Histories of Psychiatry in the 20th Century".


Initiators:


Regina Bendix ist seit 2001 Professorin für Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Sie forscht und lehrt zu Themen im Bereich der Fach- und Wissensgeschichte, zum Zusammenspiel von Kultur, Wirtschaft und Politik (Tourismus, Kulturerbe), der kulturellen Ausprägung der Sinne (u.a. Nahrungsforschung) und der Kommunikations- und Erzählforschung. Sie leitet die DFG-Forscher/innengruppe ,Zur Konstituierung von Cultural Property‘ und ein Teilprojekt in der DFG- Forscher/innengruppe ,Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität‘. Sie ist Co-Editorin der Zeitschrift Ethnologia Europaea und seit 2014 auch Co-Editorin der Zeitschrift Narrative Culture.

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Hartmut Bleumer ist seit 2004 Professor für Deutsche Philologie/Germanistische Mediävistik an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten zählen die historische Narratologie und die historische Ästhetik. Er ist Co-Editor der Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi). Aktuell interessieren ihn besonders das Verhältnis von Minnelyrik und Minneroman im Mittelalter, in weiterer kulturwissenschaftlicher und literaturphänomenologischer Perspektive die Medialität der Stimme im Kontext der Schrift sowie die Rolle des Klanges bei der historischen Raumimagination.

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Rebekka Habermas ist seit 2000 Professorin für Neuere Geschichte an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und lehrt und forscht u.a. zur Bürgertums-, Rechts- und Gendergeschichte. In jüngster Zeit beschäftigt sie sich vor allem mit Kolonial-, Wissens- und Missionsgeschichte im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Derzeit arbeitet sie an einem Buch über einen Kolonialskandal um 1900. Sie fungiert u.a. als Mitherausgeberin der Zeitschrift Historische Anthropologie und mehrerer Buchreihen sowie als Sprecherin des DFG Graduiertenkollegs ,Dynamiken von Raum und Geschlecht‘. Unter ihren jüngeren Veröffentlichungen interdisziplinären Zuschnitts seien der gemeinsam mit Richard Hölzl herausgegebene Sammelband ,Mission Global. Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert‘ (Wien 2014) sowie der im selben Jahr im Journal of Modern History erschienene Artikel ,Lost in Translation. Transfer and Nontransfer in the Atakpame Colonial Scandal‘ erwähnt.

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Wolfgang Knöbl ist seit 2015 Direktor des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung (HIS). Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Sozialtheorie, die politische und historisch-vergleichende Soziologie, die Makrosoziologie und die Geschichte der Sozialwissenschaften. Derzeit arbeitet er an einer Studie mit dem Titel: ,Die Geburt des Staates aus dem Geist der Metropole: Eine ideengeschichtliche und planungssoziologische Studie zur Staatsbildung in Argentinien, Australien und Kanada’.

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Participants:


Claudio Altenhain (Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology, European Commission): Tropicalizing Surveillance: How big data policing “migrated” from New York to São Paulo.

J. Cecilia Cárdenas-Navia (Yale University): Color Me Free: Skin Technologies, Dermatology, and Epidermal Transformation in the Melanin Era.

Augustina Carrizo de Reimann (University of Leipzig): Narratives of Anarchy: Interpretations of Political Violence from the Soldiers’ and Militiamen’s perspective in Mexico and Buenos Aires (1820).

Maurice Cottier (University of Bern): Arson in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland 1860-1940.

Juliana Cunha Costa Radek (Jacobs University Bremen/University of Bahia): Drug-related Criminal Violence in Brazil: Visual Narratives in Television Annual Reviews.

Timon de Groot (Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin): Ex-offenders in Germany and their search for rehabilitation, 1870-1930.

Lee Flamand (John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin): “The Shades of the Prison-House”: Carceral Cultures in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

Florian Gabriel (John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin): Eugenic Discourse and Naturalist Aesthetics in Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature (working title).

Elmar Gracher (University of Cologne): „Ludenreviere“ und Zuhälterkartelle – Loyalitätszwänge und Krisen „krimineller“ Vergemeinschaftung in der Bundesrepublik von den 1950er bis in die 1980er Jahre.

Sarah Kleinmann (Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology, Dresden): “Views of Perpetrators”.

Julia Koch (University of Münster): Exposé: Between a doctoral and a post-doctoral project.

Andrea Kretschmann (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin): Policing by simulation rooms: Space, state and public order in the 21st century.

Haiyan Lee (Stanford University): A Certain Justice: Toward a Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination.

Pinar Sarigöl (Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology): Gender, Biopolitics and Neoliberal Governmentality in Turkey.

Pavel Vasilyev (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin): Revolutionary Law and Revolutionary Feelings: Emotions and the early Soviet Criminal Law

Catherine Whittaker (University of Edinburgh): Warrior women of Central Mexico – the cosmology of sex and violence in a changing world.

Karen G. Williams (Queens College): From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States.

Assistants:


Annekathrin Krieger




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