February 26, 2021
Katrin Seidel received her Habilitation (post-doctoral qualification) from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on 10 February 2021. Following her ...
February 01, 2021
On 1 February 2021, Ursula Rao begins her term as the new Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She takes over from Marie-Claire Foblets, who has performed this ...
December 16, 2020
In the first part of the discussion series "Kant – A Racist?", co-organized by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a panel of experts, including Cengiz Barskanmaz from the ...
November 30, 2020
In an interview with the radio station WDR 5, Carolin Görzig talks about her research on international terrorism. She explains why there have been four major waves of terrorism since the end of the ...
November 25, 2020
Floramante S.J. Ponce is this year’s winner of the annual award granted by the Anthropology of Food Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) for the best paper by a ...
November 20, 2020
Since January 2020 our lives have been defined by the waxing and waning of infection numbers, the media reports on the pandemic, and by the scientific research attempting to manage and explain it. For ...
November 19, 2020
Max Planck Director Chris Hann has been elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) by the Academy’s General Assembly.
October 12, 2020
The climate crisis, wars, and poverty often leave people no choice – they flee to Europe to escape violence and hunger. But fleeing often brings them into new life-threatening situations. At the 78th ...