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Maren Wirth

@marenwirth.bsky.social
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PhD candidate & research associate Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies" FU Berlin | affects, activism, photography, colonialism

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Maren Wirth @marenwirth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our institute is at risk due to the severe funding cuts affecting Berlin’s universities. It’s no coincidence that, in a time of the alarming rise of the far right, it’s the already underfunded critical social sciences that are being hit hardest. Now is the time to stand up ✊
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Hansjörg Dilger @hdilger.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...
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Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts
At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...
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Maren Wirth @marenwirth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Honoured to be in Birmingham at #ASA2025 to present a paper together with @domattes.bsky.social based on our ongoing research with religious climate activists.
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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Memories of German colonialism in Tanzania: Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko talks about his research on Maasai belongings at Ethnological Museum Berlin @kulturspk.bsky.social. @hdilger.bsky.social @marenwirth.bsky.social @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social @isdbund.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5EKJ...
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Episode 04 (English) with Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko
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Maren Wirth @marenwirth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@domattes.bsky.social and I are hiring a student assistent for our research project on affect, religion and the climate justice movement based @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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Maren Wirth @marenwirth.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Read some reflections on the affective and ethical tensions I faced during my ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania, which I was very happy to publish @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/the-temporal...
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The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections  - Allegra Lab
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in Oltukai, northern Tanzania. One of the men is pointing at me
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