Lehre an der Professur für Vergleichende Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Lehrveranstaltungen im Wintersemester 2026/2027
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BA-Seminar
donnerstags, 14:15–15:45 Uhr
AM 205
Start: 15.10.2026
Module:
KUL|BAC|CSS|-M2 – Cultural and Social Studies: Consolidation
KUL|BAC|CSS|-DIFF – Difference – Migration, Gender and Diversity
KUL|BAC|KUG|-GS-V – Gender Studies: Vertiefung
KUL|BAC|KUWI|-KUWI-V – Kulturwissenschaften: Vertiefung
This seminar offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Queer Studies from anthropological and sociological perspectives. Starting from the historical and cultural transformation of sexual and gender identities as well as sexual politics, we examine their development in the context of European imperial and nation-state-centered modernities. We also address the emergence of social movements focused on non-normative sexual and gender identities, and the deconstruction of gender-binarisms and sexuality in the context of queer academic critiques. Intersectional perspectives relating to the intersection of sexuality and gender with hierarchies of class, 'race' and ethnicity will be relevant throughout, and situated both historically as well as geopolitically.
MA-Seminar
donnerstags, 11:15–12:45 Uhr
AM 205
Start: 15.10.2026
Module:
KUL|MAS|SOST|2026|-BMRA – Borders and Migration, Racism and Authoritarianism
KUL|MAS|2026|-GQR – Gender and Queer Studies
KUL|MAS|SOZ|-WPM-GSQT – Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
In this seminar we examine the central role that sexuality and its gendered regulation hold in the ideologies and practices of racist domination. We will address sexuality as an element of racist Othering and phantasies of national decline, but also focus on the control and regulation of sexuality as an element of racist practices of governing. This focus will be examined through historical examples that include histories of European colonialism, through discourses of eugenics as an ideology and political programme that seeks to 'breed' qualitative traits of human populations, and through focusing on contemporary right-wing discourses on immigration in Germany and beyond.
Leistungsnachweis: Students need to engage in intensive reading and contribute actively to class discussions. Regular attendance is mandatory. If you miss more than three sessions without valid excuse such as a doctor's certificate, you will not pass the course. For 3 or more ECTS, you will also keep a learning journal and share your new steps each session with the class. For 6 or more ECTS, you will take responsibility for the class discussion of a mandatory reading in one of the sessions, providing some initial thoughts and questions to stimulate discussion, and moderating it. For 9 ECTS, you can additionally write a final paper of 2500-3000 words, to be submitted by March 15, 2027.
MA-Seminar
mittwochs, 11:15–12:45 Uhr
AM 205
Start: 14.10.2026
Module:
KUL|MAS|SOST|2026|-BMRA – Borders and Migration, Racism and Authoritarianism
KUL|MAS|SOZ|-WPM-MEE – Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
KUL|MAS|MES|-110 – WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
This class combines a seminar with a lecture series on contemporary topics of forced migration. Students will prepare to attend six online lectures offered by international scholars. Preparation takes place by meeting on-site in class to read and discuss selected texts authored by these scholars. The lecture series brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on forced migration and examines how displacement is shaped by immigration and asylum systems, border regimes, geopolitical conflicts, racialisation, humanitarian infrastructures, and everyday experiences of uncertainty, reception, exclusion, and participation. Students need to be prepared to participate in on-site meetings on Wednesday mornings, and also in the online lectures offered Wednesdays at 4 PM. To make up for the double schedule, we will not be meeting every week, but on select dates throughout the semester.
BA-Seminar
mittwochs, 11:15–12:45 Uhr
GD 205
Start: 14.10.2026
Module:
KUL|BAC|CSS|-DIFF – Difference – Migration, Gender and Diversity
KUL|BAC|KUG|-GS-V – Gender Studies: Vertiefung
KUL|BAC|CSS|2026|-SOSC – Social Sciences
KUL|BAC|KUG|-SOWI-V – Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
KUL|BAC|KUWI|-SOWI-V – Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
Around the world, people encounter multiple and intersecting forms of inequality in their everyday lives. This course examines how inequalities related to social class, gender, and race are experienced and contested through everyday struggles and mundane forms of resistance. Drawing on a range of theoretical debates on everyday politics, the course explores empirical examples spanning historical processes of dispossession, displacement and unpaid and forced labour as well as contemporary forms of precarity and exclusion from social rights and infrastructures. In doing so, the course highlights the continuing importance of collective practices of solidarity, including mutual aid, collective care, and the creation of commons and communities of struggle.
Leistungsnachweis: For 6 ECTS students should prepare a presentation of an example of an everyday form of resistance based on the literature of the course. For 9 ECTS students should prepare a presentation of an example of an everyday form of resistance based on the literature of the course which they also analyze in a 4 page written assignment. All students write a short in-class exam on the main concepts introduced in the seminar in the last week of the term.
MA-Seminar
dienstags, 11:15–12:45 Uhr
GD 205
Start: 13.10.2026
Module:
KUL|MAS|SOST|2026|-BMRA – Borders and Migration, Racism and Authoritarianism
KUL|MAS|SOZ|-WPM-MEE – Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
KUL|MAS|MES|-110 – WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
The course will introduce the externalisation of European borders notably to North and West Africa and West Asia which has been pursued since decades and is becoming ever more critical within a European border regime aimed at deterrence, containment, and control. The concept of externalisation is examined critically as it relates to forced migration and other social phenomena and relations which characterize Europe's role within its surrounding and in the world. We will discuss how migration policies, security and development cooperation, and international agreements reshape notions of sovereignty and territoriality and extend Europe's influence as well as dependence, notably on prior colonies. Examples and actors of externalisation both within Europe and beyond Europe are examined based on empirical cases and ethnographic studies. The diverse legal, social, political-economic, ethical and cultural contexts and effects of externalisation will be discussed considering its impact both on forced migrants and host societies in transit areas.
Leistungsnachweis: For 3 ECTS, students are expected to read all mandatory readings and also selected recommended readings and to prepare one short input on one reading of max. 200 words for a forum debate on moodle. For 6 ECTS, students prepare three short inputs and for 9 ECTS three short inputs on moodle are required on top of an essay of 15-25 pages.
BA-Seminar
donnerstags, 14:15–15:45 Uhr
GD 206
Start: 15.10.2026
Module:
KUL|BAC|CSS|-M2 – Cultural and Social Studies: Consolidation
KUL|BAC|CSS|-DIFF – Difference – Migration, Gender and Diversity
KUL|REPO|-MÖM – Migration, Öffentlichkeit und Medien
KUL|REPO|-MGIII.4. – Recht und Politik im transnationalen Kontext (Vertiefung)
KUL|BAC|CSS|2026|-SOSC – Social Sciences
KUL|BAC|KUG|-SOWI-V – Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
KUL|BAC|KUWI|-SOWI-V – Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
This course introduces students to key concepts and critical fields of study in the context of forced migration. It asks how forced migration is produced and governed, looking at the legal and political stakes of forced displacement, international and national humanitarian and refugee law, and the high-tech data infrastructures employed to govern people's forced im/mobility. Drawing on different disciplinary approaches to the study of forced migration, from legal to anthropological and Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives, students learn to critically question how people are sorted into becoming "migrants" or "refugees." Who is a refugee, and who decides? On what grounds is protection granted or denied, and someone rendered subject to deportation? What are the consequences of such categorizations on displaced people's lives? The course puts emphasis on contrasting state-centric perspectives of the management of forced migration with the autonomy of asylum, i.e. how people on the move navigate and resist migration control within and beyond reception and deterrence systems. These dynamics are examined across key fields: refugee protection and international and local asylum systems and their reception infrastructures; the role of international humanitarian actors; and the broader relation of forced migration to border deterrence. Engaging with ethnographies and case studies from different regions around the globe, such as the EU and the Americas, the course situates forced migration governance within its colonial histories, asking how today's border regimes reproduce colonial logics of racialized ordering and mobility control. The course closes by examining how digital technologies reshape the categorization, surveillance, and control of displaced people today.
Literatur: Madiou, M. (2019). Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises. Social Media + Society, 5(3). Chimni, B.S. (1998). The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies: A View from the South. Journal of Refugee Studies, 11, 350-374.
Leistungsnachweis: Regular, active participation is required as a prerequisite for all types of assessments. 3 ECTS: three reading questions on three separate sessions, reading comment on one session to present in class. 6 ECTS: three reading questions on three separate sessions, reading comment on one session to present in class, term paper (10-12 pages). 9 ECTS: three reading questions on three separate sessions, reading comment on one session to present in class, term paper (20-25 pages).
MA-Seminar
donnerstags, 16:15–17:45 Uhr
GD 205
Start: 15.10.2026
Module:
KUL|MAS|SOST|2026|-BMRA – Borders and Migration, Racism and Authoritarianism
KUL|MAS|CODE|2026|-PICD – Politics of International Conflict and Democracy
KUL|MAS|SOZ|-WPM-MEE – Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
KUL|MAS|MES|-110 – WPM 3: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
The European border regime has witnessed massive transformations in the last decades as it has become ever more securitized, externalized, and logistified. Its ongoing proliferation and militarization are repeatedly at the center of public and political attention and have a significant impact on people living and arriving in Europe and on conceptions and imaginations of freedom and the future. In this seminar, we examine external and internal borders that contribute to migrants' exclusion, exploitation, confinement, and racialization as well as to their differential inclusion into workfare and work. We will learn from ethnographic studies and empirical examples across different locations and cities from North Africa, over the Alpes, to the Aegean and from the Balkans over Belarus, to Brandenburg and Berlin. Besides considering the spatial and temporal differences and diverse effects of border regimes, we will also discuss the resistance and struggles it meets. The image of a deadly fortress Europe that keeps migrants out and reproduces whiteness has been continuously contested by migrants' border struggles and autonomy as well as persisting infrastructures of flight and solidarity. We will conclude the seminar by discussing recent anti-racist and no-border activism that calls for an abolition of borders and resonates with abolitionist movements against prisons and the police.
Literatur: Casas-Cortes, M., Cobarrubias, S., De Genova, N., Garelli, G., Grappi, G., Heller, C., Tazzioli, M. (2015). New Keywords: Migration and Borders. Cultural Studies, 29(1), 55–87. Riva, S., Campbell, S., Whitener, B., & Medien, K. (Eds.). (2024). Border Abolition Now. Pluto Press.
Leistungsnachweis: Regular, active participation is required as a prerequisite for all types of assessments. 3 ECTS: three reading questions for three separate sessions, detailed comment on one session to present in class. 6 ECTS: three reading questions on three separate sessions, detailed comment on one session to present in class, term paper (10-12 pages). 9 ECTS: three reading questions on three separate sessions, detailed comment on one session to present in class, term paper (20-25 pages).
Zurückliegende Lehrveranstaltungen
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
"It is not only the Poor who Migrate: Golden Visas, Sunset Migration and Transnational Gentrification" – Seminar
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
"Migration in the Context of Global Inequalities" – Seminar
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
"Research Colloquium" – Seminar
Dr. Mouna Maaroufi
"From the Black Atlantic to the Black Mediterranean" – Seminar
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
"Ambivalenz der Scham - ein feministisches Forschungsprojekt"
Seminar
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
"Diversität erforschen. Methodische und forschungsethische Herausforderungen ungleichheitssensibler Sozialforschung"
Seminar
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
"Symbolic Borders in Germany’s Migration Society"
Seminar
Dr. Mouna Maaroufi
"Anfänge und Aktualität von Theorien zum rassifizierten Kapitalismus"
Seminar
Dr. Mouna Maaroufi
"Introduction to the European Border Regime"
Seminar
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Forschungskolloquium "Auf dem Weg zur Abschlussarbeit.
Themenfelder: Migration, Ethnizität, Rassismus, Gender, Queer Studies
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Migration in the Context of Global Inequalities
Seminar
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
Humor und Rassismus
Seminar
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
Rassismus und Sexualität in ostwesteuropäischer Migration
Seminar
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Migration in the Context of Global Inequalities
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Forschungskolloquium "Auf dem Weg zur Abschlussarbeit. Themenfelder: Migration, Ethnizität, Rassismus, Gender, Queer Studies"
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Racial Capitalism
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Feminist and Queer Approaches to Challenging Times
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Feminist and Queer Repertoires of Resistance
Dr. Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar
Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Dr. Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar
Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick, Dr. Rita Vallentin
Digital Manospheres – Intersectional Perspectives on Discourses, Practices and Hierarchies
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MASS: Forschungsmodul // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory // SMG: Forschungsmodul // SMG: Wahlpflichtmodul: Multimodalität, Diskurs und Medien
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Forschungskolloquium "Auf dem Weg zur Abschlussarbeit. Themenfelder: Migration, Ethnizität, Rassismus, Gender, Queer Studies"
Kolloquium (Präsenzveranstaltung): MASS: Forschungsmodul
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Introduction to Queer Studies (Summer School)
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): Kulturwissenschaften: Einführung // Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Einführung
Dr. Luis M. Hernández Aguilar
A brief history of feminist thought
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
Dr. Luis M. Hernández Aguilar
ConspiRacism: Conspiracy Theories and their entanglement with racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Creative Imaginaries of Migration
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Kulturelle Praktiken, Wissensordnungen, ästhetische Formationen
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Collective Emotions, Public Feelings and Political Affect
Seminar (Präsenzveranstaltung): Kulturwissenschaften: Vertiefung // Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Migration in the Context of Global Inequalities
BA-Seminar Vertiefung: Difference – Migration, Gender and Diversity
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Kolloquium zur Vorbereitung der Abschlussarbeit
Kolloquium: Methods, Academic Writing and Research Skills
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Grenzen, Frontiers und Zeit-Raum Kompression
MA-Seminar: MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
Dr. Luis Hernández Aguilar
Introduction to qualitative research and methods (Wahlobligatorik)
BA-Seminar: Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Einführung
Dr. Luis Hernández Aguilar
The instrumentalization of Gender and Sexuality in the far-right: Femonationalism, antigenderism, and racism
MA-Seminar: MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Cultures of Migration
BA-Seminar: Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Feminist and Queer Repertoires of Resistance
MA-Seminar: SMG: Wahlpflichtmodul: Multimodalität, Diskurs und Medien // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Kulturelle Praktiken, Wissensordnungen, ästhetische Formationen // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Kolloquium für Abschlussarbeiten
Kolloquium: MASS: Forschungsmodul
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Introduction to Queer Studies
BA-Seminar: Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften: Vertiefung
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Sexualität und Rassismus
MA-Seminar, MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
Dr. Özlem Savaş
Affect/Emotion in Culture and Politics
MA-Seminar: SMG: Wahlpflichtmodul: Multimodalität, Diskurs und Medien // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Kulturelle Praktiken, Wissensordnungen, ästhetische Formationen // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Gender Studies und Queer Theory
Dr. Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar
Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Shared histories and divergent articulations
BA-Seminar: Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften – Vertiefung
Dr. Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar
Race and racism: historical trajectories, conceptual approaches, and recent developments
MA-Seminar: MASS: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus
Dr. Darja Klingenberg
Erinnerungspolitik in der Migrationsgesellschaft
BA-Seminar: Kulturwissenschaften - Vertiefung // Vergleichende Sozialwissenschaften - Vertiefung
Dr. Darja Klingenberg/Dr. Stephan Lanz
Spurensuche: Jüdische und andere Berliner*innen in der Spandauer Vorstadt.
Teil 1: Migrationswissenschaftliche Perspektiven und Teil 2: Urban Studies Perspektiven
MA-Seminar: MASS: Forschungsmodul // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus // MASS: Wahlpflichtmodul: Urban Studies
Hinweise zu Seminararbeiten
Hier finden Sie die formalen Anforderungen für die schriftlichen Abgaben an der Professur von Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick.
Die Eigenständigkeitserklärung bitte unbedingt jeder schriftlichen Arbeit beifügen!
Hier finden Sie Empfehlungen und formale Richtlinien für die Abgaben an der Professur von Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick.
Die großen Fragen zu Abschlussarbeiten an der Professur von Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick.
Hier erhalten Sie einen Leitfaden für ein Exposé für Abschlussarbeiten (empirische qualitative Forschung, Beispiel aus der Kulturanthropologie Goethe Uni Frankfurt).