- MPI for Social Anthropology - – Workshop on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Günther Schlee – July 10 - 12, 2011* Organisers: Peter Finke (University of Zurich), Martine Guichard and John Eidson (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Programme
Sunday, July 10th
14:00 Greetings and Opening Remarks Organisers: Peter Finke, University of Zurich, Martine Guichard, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Hans-Jörg Albrecht, MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg im Breisgau Franz von Benda-Beckmann, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Steve Tonah, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra
14:45 Musical Interlude
14:50 Congratulations from absentee well-wishers
15:00 Musical Interlude
15:05 Coffee break
15:30 Session I: Roundtable “Rational Choice and Challenges” Moderation: Peter Finke, University of Zurich Discussants: John G. Galaty, McGill University, Montreal Jürg Helbling, University of Luzern Richard Rottenburg, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Donald L. Donham, University of California, Davis
17:30 Refreshment and Personal Congratulations
19:00 Party with buffet
*Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle/Saale, Germany, +49-(0)3 45 – 29 27 0 MPI for Social Anthropology – Workshop on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Günther Schlee – July 10 - 12, 2011
Monday, July 11th
09:00 Registration
Session II: Ethnicity I Chair: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Bielefeld University
10:00 Olaf Zenker University of Bern Idiomisation, Ethnicity and Linguistic Relativity: second language acquisition in the Irish language revival of Northern Ireland
10:30 Dereje Feyissa Dori University of Bayreuth and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Production of Similarity through Opposition: ethnographic evidence from Ethiopia
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Ethnic Identification through Legal Pluralism in West Sumatra
12:00 Christiane Falge University of Bremen Explaining Conflicts Among the Global Nuer: individuals and the mobilisation of lineage identities
12:30 Lunch at the Institute
Session III: History Chair: Steven P. Reyna, University of Manchester and MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
14:00 Pierre Bonte Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris Natives and Foreigners: the Arabization of the Western Sahara
14:30 Jürgen Christoph Winter University of Bayreuth A Census in Kilimanjaro in 1801: some thoughts on population dynamics in 19th century Eastern Africa
15:00 Coffee break
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15:30 Al-Amin Abu-Manga University of Khartoum Ethnic Identity in the Old Fulani Settlements on the Blue Nile in the Sudan
16:00 Anatoly M. Khazanov University of Wisconsin-Madison The Role of the Eurasian Nomads in the History of Military Art
19.00 Dinner at the restaurant “Delphi“
Tuesday, July 12th
Session IV: Ethnicity II Chair: Serge Tornay, formerly Musée de L’Homme, Paris
09:30 Steve Tonah University of Ghana, Legon-Accra Ethnicity, Political Identity and Citizenship in Ghana: the example of the Fulani
10:00 Werner Fricke Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg When Constructivism Meets Reality: “tribal wars” in Kenya?
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Abdullahi A. Shongolo Independent Scholar, Kenya The Dynamics of Social and Political Violence in Kenya
11:30 Bertram Turner MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale The Politics of Belonging and the Litmus Test of Retaliation
12:00 Markus V. Hoehne MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Clan Borders, State Borders and Cross-Cutting Ties: changing social and political borders and their impact on conflict dynamics in Somalia after 1991
12:30 Lunch at the Institute
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Session V: Structures and Practices Chair: Tilo Grätz, Free University of Berlin
14:00 Youssouf Diallo Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, and MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Cultural Understandings of the Enemy: anthropology in professional military education
14:30 Joachim Otto Habeck MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale From SO36 to Herd Number Nine: how people structure space and express local identities through numbers
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Session VI: Final Discussion Chairs: Peter Finke, University of Zurich, Martine Guichard and John Eidson, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
19.00 Dinner at the restaurant “Schad“
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