Timetable: Research Seminar ‘Global Multiplicity’
Time: on Tuesdays, 14–16 h (starting 7 Nov 2023)
Place: Kleiner Seminarraum
Format: in-class and online (see timetable below)
Lecturer: Patrick Desplat
Course description:
This seminar fosters 'transversal thinking' through lectures and instruction by guest lecturers, both local and international, who offer their insights and engage in reading events with the students. Active participation in these seminars enables students to cultivate comprehensive knowledge, refine critical analysis skills, and partake in meaningful discussions with peers and experts.
The second segment of the seminar is dedicated to equipping students with an understanding of and proficiency in research design within social anthropology. Research design entails the formulation of a plan detailing how a research project will be executed and how the evidence will be utilized to address the research question. Consequently, the latter portion of this course is primarily focused on crafting well-structured research inquiries and transforming them into systematic projects that yield
valuable and noteworthy outcomes.
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Remarks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov 2023 |
Introduction to ‘Political Potentials’
and ‘Global Multiplicity’ |
Ursula Rao | in-class | |
| 14 Nov 2023 | ‘Lenticular Realities’ | Ghassan Hage | in-class | |
| 21 Nov 2023 |
Imaginary, sampling, concepts:
The recursive nature of anthropological research |
Patrick Desplat |
The puzzle and the idea:
An introduction to the research design of anthropological research |
online |
| 28 Nov 2023 | ‘Economic Re-ordering’ | Biao Xiang | in-class | |
| 5 Dec 2023 | ‘Legal Complexity and Justice’ |
Marie-Claire
Foblets |
in-class | |
| 12 Dec 2023 |
CANCELLED –
due to SAB meeting |
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| 19 Dec 2023 | Conceptualizing social life | Patrick Desplat |
Or: What is theory?
How to conceptualize during research? |
|
| 9 Jan 2024 |
The puzzle and the research
question |
Patrick Desplat |
How to ask the right
questions? The entanglement of the problématique and research questions. |
|
| 16 Jan 2024 |
Sleep and sleeplessness in
social anthropology |
Julia Vorhölter | in-class | |
| 23 Jan 2024 | Writing a literature review | Patrick Desplat |
Organizing your research and
building a comprehensive narrative |
|
| 30 Jan 2024 |
Ethics and research
data management |
Patrick Desplat/
Jovan Maud |
Part of the 3-day Course “Ethics
and Research Data Management” |
in-class |