Arbeitsgruppe C Fellows (Sommer 2014)

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Dr. Gratien G. Atindogbé

Associate Professor at the University of Buea, Cameroon

Saving language and biodiversity: appropriating
Natures in a sustainable way.
A perspective from African linguistics

Hintergrund

PhD in African Linguistics (1996)
University of Bayreuth

Interessen

Descriptive linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, historical linguistics (Bantu), tonology, Cameroon Pidgin English, intercultural communication, French sociolinguistics and Cameroon Sign Language (CSL)

In Bayreuth

1st - 16th of June 2014

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Session on Shaping Future Nature (5th of June)

Kontakt

grat_atin[at]yahoo.com

Office: 201

 

 

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Grisha Coleman

Movement, Computation and Digital Media Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, Media and
Engineering School of Dance at Arizona State University, USA

Listening as the Land Talks Back: Ecology, Embodiment and Information in the Science Fictions of echo.system

Hintergrund

MFA in Music Composition/Integrated Media (2004)

California Institute of the Arts

BA in College of Letters (1989)

Wesleyan University

Interessen

echo.system (Fusion of art installation, choreographed

multimedia performance and public engagement),

connections between art and science, reflections upon how

and where we live

In Bayreuth

19th June to 7th of July 2014

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Session on (Re)thinking African rural and urban landscapes

into the future(3rd of July)

Kontakt

http://ame.asu.edu/directory/selectone.php?ID=4632

grisha.coleman[at]asu.edu

 

 

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Dr. Kristina Dietz

Postdoctoral Researcher Latin American Studies (LAI)
Free University of Berlin, Germany

Global Change – local Conflicts?

Conflicts over land in sub-Saharan

Africa and Latin America in the context of interdependent spatio-temporal transformation processes

Hintergrund

PhD in Social Sciences
University of Kassel (2010)

Interessen

Social-ecological problems and conflict in the fiel
d biofuels, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change,Social
Sciences and Political Ecology, International Climate and Energy Policy, Democracy and participatory research, Field Theoretical issues

In Bayreuth

10th-21st of June

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Public Lecture (17th of June)

Kontakt

http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/homepages/dietz/index.html
kristina.dietz[at]fu-berlin.de

 

 

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Dr. Lauren Dyll-Myklebust

Lecturer and Course Coordinator
The Centre for Communication, Media and Society
University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban

Negotiating nature - culture
relationships in social change
partnerships: observations from the
Kalahari

Hintergund

PhD Communication, Media and Society
University of KwaZulu-Natal (2012)

Interessen

Cultural Tourism, Critical Indigenous Methodologies, Cultural
Studies, and Media Studies

In Bayreuth

17th-27th of June
Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

ladyll[at]hotmail.com

 

 

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Dr. Christina Gabbert

Research Fellow Department ‘Integration and Conflict’
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Halle/Saale, Germany

Globalizing environments in the lowlands of Southern Ethiopia Terra nullius, home, sacred space, grabbed land, commodity or resource?

Hintergund

PhD in Anthropology

Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg (2012)

Interessen

Conflict and Gender, Peace Studies, Cultural Identity, Innovation and Cultural Change, Pastoralism, Cultural Neighbourhood, Global Neighbourhood, Investment, Global Markets and Changing Land Use, Development Cooperation, Visual Anthropology, Oral History, Music, Soundscape

In Bayreuth

17th-30th of June
Working Group C Guest Fellow and VAD conference

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/people/d/gabbert/

gabbert[at]eth.mpg.de

 

 

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Dr. Samuel Ndogo

Lecturer at the Department of Literature, Theatre & Film Studies since 2001
Moi University, Kenya

Exploring the Nature-Culture Relations in Selected Literary Texts from Kenya: Wangari Maathai, Henry ole Kulet and Ng’ang’a Mbugua

Hintergrund

PhD in African Studies

University of Bayreuth (2013)

Interessen

Kenyan post-colonial autobiography writings, 
Literature from the African diaspora, 
Film and theatre, 
Popular culture

In Bayreuth

11th-30th of June

Working Group C Guest Fellow and VAD conference

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

samndogo[at]yahoo.com

 

 

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Dr. Jan-Erik Steinkrüger

Geographical Institute of the University Bonn, Germany

National Parks, Zoological Gardens and the Representation of “African Nature and Wildlife”

Hintergrund

PhD in Geography, University of Bonn (2012)

Interessen

Animal Geography, Historical Geography, New Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Leisure and Tourism Geography, Religion geography / geography of the mind

In Bayreuth

5th -22nd of June

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/das-institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-personal/Steinkrueger-Jan-Erik

steinkrueger[at]geographie.uni-bonn.de

 

 

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Dr. Nisbert T. Taringa

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe 

The Sacred Duty of Animals in African Traditional Religion and Culture

Hintergrund

PhD in Religious Studies, University of Zimbabwe (2009), Fulbright and DAAD Alumni and Member of the Bayreut International Alumni Network

Interessen

Phenomenology of Religion, World Religions, African Traditional Religions and Systematic Theology. Research interest in methods and theories in the study of religion and in religions and contemporary ethical issues such as the Environment, Human rights, Gender and Sexuality and Health and Well-being

In Bayreuth

16th of June to 4th of July

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

taisekwa64[at]yahoo.co.uk or ntaringa[at]arts.uz.ac.zw

 

 

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Marlous van den Akker

PhD candidate
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Leiden University, Netherlands

Mt. Kenya: a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Making

Hintergrund

MA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Leiden University (2009)

Interessen

African nature and wildlife conservation, nature / culture division in heritage debates, UNESCO World Heritage, Kenya

In Bayreuth

25th of June to 10th of July

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Session on (Re)thinking African rural and urban landscapes into the future (3rd of July)

Kontakt

http://socialsciences.leiden.edu/anthropology/organisation/faculty-staff/akker-marlous-van-den.html

m.l.van.den.akker.2[at]fsw.leidenuniv.nl

 

 

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Dr. Fabio Vanin

Architect in Urban designer
Venice, Italy

Relation between the construction of cities in lusophone countries - and the interpretation/domestication of Nature

Hintergrund

PhD in Urbanism
IUAV University of Venice

Interessen

Human–environment (conflictual) relations and the African context seen through the Western lens. Tension between cultural images of cities (Maputo and Luanda) and landscapes, and the built urban and “natural” spaces

In Bayreuth

2nd-14th of June
Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Session on Shaping Future Nature (5th of June)

Kontakt

favanin[at]gmail.com

 

 

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Dr. Elizabeth E. Watson

Senior Lecturer and Pybus Fellow Newnham College
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Landscapes and human-environment relations in Eastern Africa

Hintergrund

PhD in Geography

University of Cambridge (1998)

Interessen

Climate change, livelihoods and responses, Identities, landscapes and livelihoods and Religion, climate change and policy

In Bayreuth

19th-21st of June

Working Group C Guest Fellow

Beitrag

Talk in Conference Negotiating concepts of nature and future in Africa (20th of June)

Kontakt

http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/watson/

liz.watson[at]geog.cam.ac.uk