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A Party for Andre Symposium on the Occasion of Andre Gingrich‘s Retirement from the University of Vienna November 2nd—3rd, 2017 Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1, 1090 Vienna PROGRAMME Thursday, November 2nd 16:30 | Welcome Reception 17:00 | Opening Peter Schweitzer | Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Heinz Faßmann | Vice-Rector, University of Vienna Wolfgang Kraus | Vice-Dean for Teaching of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna Michael Alram | Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Keynote The Ethnographic Unconscious: An Exploration of Psychoanalysis during Fieldwork Antonius Robben | University of Utrecht 18:30 | Reception Friday, November 3rd 09:30 | Welcome Thomas Fillitz | University of Vienna Peter Schweitzer | Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna Memories of an Early Companion/Friend Johann Heiss | Austrian Academy of Sciences 10:30 | Session I Chair: Ayse Caglar | University of Vienna From Stateless Societies to Anthropology of the State: Disciplinary Challenges in a Changing World Shalini Randeria | IWM, Wien By Comparison and Translation: Writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri in Sweden and New York Helena Wulff | Stockholm University 11:30 | Coffee Break 12:00 | Session II Chair: Tatjana Thelen | University of Vienna Methodological Challenges in Changing Landscapes: Materiality, Vitality, and Affect Kirsten Hastrup | University of Copenhagen The Open Society and Its Anthropology Ulf Hannerz | Stockholm University 13:00 | Lunch Break 14:30 | Session III Chair: Elke Mader | University of Vienna Science in Fiction Regina Bendix | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen English Anthropology’s Encounter with Nazism: Some Reflections based on the Life of John Linton Myres (1869-1954) David Shankland | The Royal Anthropological Institute Boas’ Judaism Reconsidered Matti Bunzl | Wien Museum 16:00 | Coffee Break 16:30 | Last but not Least Alumni—Rückblicke und Einblicke | Alumni—Retrospects and Insights Alumni Association of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna 18:00 | Partying with Andre RSVP by October 18th to [email protected] cover photo © der Knopfdrücker .

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