CaSt welcomes Sara Canha as a guest in Vienna until June 2026. Her doctoral project examines how paid and unpaid forms of home care in old age reproduce, negotiate, or challenge the meanings and boundaries that structure distinctions between family, professional, institutional and informal care arrangements.
Welcome to Zuzana Talašová who joins CaSt as a guest until May 2026. During her stay in Vienna, Zuzana will be working on her dissertation project “Great-Grandparenthood in Four-Generation Families: Family Roles, Care, and Narratives”.
CaSt welcomes Wilma Jovell (University of Vienna) as a new member!
Matej Butko joins CaSt as a guest – welcome! During his research stay in Vienna, Matej will work on his planned monograph manuscript, based mostly on material gathered during his research in Transcarpathia.
Open position as University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology under the supervision of Tatjana Thelen — Deadline: 12 May 2025.
CaSt welcomes Roman Szorad (doc.funds / University of Vienna) as a new member!
Monday, 18 November 2024 | 5 pm (UTC +1)
University of Vienna
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
NIG, 4F, HS-A & online
At this event, we will present our research and specifically new publications in a hybrid format. Click here for more information.
We are happy to announce that Letizia Bonanno will join our local CaSt group in Vienna with funding by the Research Platform Transformations and Eastern Europe to further develop her project “Steel Lives” in Taranto and Galati.
Ilona Grabmaier‘s dissertation Stayed at home. (Re)Configurations of Care in Rural Ukraine [in German] has been awarded a sponsorship award by the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation – congratulations!
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted funding for Ahmad Moradi‘s three-year project Beyond Humanitarianism: Disability Care and Belonging of Afghan Veterans in Iran. The position will start from January 2025 and will be hosted by the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
For decades, the Iranian state has sent Hazara male refugees from Afghanistan to fight in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the war against the Islamic State in Syria (2011 onward), from which many returned disabled. Ahmad’s research aims to explore the social life of these two generations of Afghan veterans in contemporary Iran, their exclusion from care and compensation, and their ambiguous status as refugees who fought for their host country.
Christof Lammer was invited to a one-year fellowship (April 2024 to March 2025) at HU Berlin by the newly founded centre for advanced studies Käte Hamburger Kolleg inherit – Heritage in Transformation. There he is working on the project “Panda Heritage: Kinship Measurements and Life’s Value in Species Conservation”.
Alexandra Schwell‘s FWF project Competing Urgencies: Translating Climate Neutrality in the European Union (EU-URGE) started in April. EU-URGE ethnographically accompanies the three cities of Klagenfurt, Warsaw and Ljubljana in their efforts to achieve climate neutrality.
Tatjana Thelen joins a discussion of Hilal Alkan’s new book Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey. The book presentation will take place on 30 April 2024 at 5:00 pm at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany). For further information click here.
The University of Vienna is looking to hire 7 PhD researchers within the framework of the new interdisciplinary FWF doc.funds program The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures (with participation of Tatjana Thelen among others) starting on 1 September 2024.
The seven doctoral projects are situated in a field defined by interlocking key themes: the transformation of statehood & sovereignty, of labor, of mobility, and of rights. They focus on Central & Eastern Europe, with important transnational and global extensions. The objective is to combine insights from history and social sciences to study transformations in the wake of major ruptures during the 20th and 21st centuries.
>>> Application deadline is April 12th 2024. <<<
Anna Žabicka has been awarded the 2023-2024 Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students – congratulations!
With this support, she will join the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society as a visiting academic for the fall 2023 and continue work on her dissertation project there.
As the first anthropologist in this position, Tatjana Thelen will take up the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professorship at Stanford University from January to June 2023. Congratulations!
Ivan Rajković is a guest researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences (University of Belgrad) from 1 October 2022 until 31 March 2023. His stay is funded by the Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) Grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. During his stay, he will work on his project “Whither ecopopulism? Energy transition and popular environmental mobilizations in the Balkans”.
Letizia Bonnano was a guest on the podcast The Familiar Strange, talking about her fieldwork in a social clinic of solidarity in Athens and the impact of austerity policies on people seeking healthcare in Greece at that time.
CaSt welcomes Julia Malik (Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt) and Saskya Tschebann (ÖAW DOC Fellow) as new members of our research network.
Anna Ellmer has started to work at the Department of Health at Bern University for Applied Science in Switzerland. Employed as a Post-Doc, she is pursuing research on the project “Caring about Diversities”, which focusses on everyday practices of elderly care in Swiss nursing homes. Congratulations!
CaSt member Ahmad Moradi has joined Freie Universität Berlin as visiting scholar for 2021-2023. Congratulations!
CaSt congratulates Marlene Persch on being awarded a scholarship at Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS). Her PhD project “Becoming a State Actor: Prison Officer Training in Accra, Ghana” focuses on the transformation of non-state actors into state actors in the training of prison staff in Ghana and the production of state awareness.
Lukas Milo Strauss will soon change his institutional affilitation to the Department of Cultural Analyses (Empirical Cultural Analysis / Cultural Anthropology Unit) at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt. Employed as a PhD candidate he will pursue research on the project “Brokering the care gap: the institutional trajectory of European care migration”. Congratulations!
“There is no doubt that Reconnecting state and kinship could open a new page in the study of the interrelation of kinship and the state […]”
Dmitri M. Bondarenko (International Center of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics/Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) reviewed Reconnecting state and kinship (2017), edited by Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber.
CaSt congratulates Ilona Grabmaier for receiving a Marietta Blau Scholarship and a Leopold Kretzenbacher Scholarship of the Schroubek Fonds Eastern Europe that allows her to persue her research until end of April at the Zentrum für Osteuropa- und Internationale Studien / Centre for East European and International Studies in Berlin and from May to July at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Tatjana Thelen will spend the academic year 2020-21 (September – June) as fellow at The Paris Institute for Advanced Study / Institut d’études avancées de Paris.
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