article · Ethnologia Fennica · 2020
World. Knowledge. Design
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Abstract
The 42 nd conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (DGV), at the invitation of the Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie at Hamburg University, took place from 7 to 10 October 2019.About 400 researchers followed the call to congregate under the conference's theme 'World.Knowledge.Design'.The organising institute and the University of Hamburg framed the conference with the celebration of their 100 th anniversary.Seven keynotes, ten panels and eleven sections offered various versatile inputs concerning theoretical and methodological approaches as well as current research projects.For the first time, the conference programme included three workshops, which took place in the run-up to the conference.The workshops discussed the management of research data, university education and teaching.The conference provided about 100 contributions focusing on global dynamics as fundamental processes.Understanding world as a globally interwoven and symbolically created habitat of humankind makes it possible to focus on the relations between 'small life-worlds' and larger entities.The diversity of ways in which the world is known contributes to the specific acquisition of knowledge about the world, which enables its perception and guides its design.These basic ideas were introduced by the organisers and elaborated on by the Chairman of the DGV, Johannes Moser (University of Munich).In his opening words to the conference, Moser discussed the common narrative of a world out of joint manifested in concerns about climate change and distrust in the scientific community and scientific research in general.Facing these challenges and topics is a task for future research and was a key issue of the conference.The first keynote speaker, Kim Fortun (University of California, Irvine), expounded her views on late industrial anthropology, which she framed by the term Anthropocene and explained the way the Anthropocene can be understood and conceptualised by European ethnology.She described the Anthropocene as a narrative or 'novel' that European ethnologists need to focus on by intensifying interdisciplinary collaboration, building data infrastructures and changing universities' curricula to preserve a critical engagement of 'anthropologies on shifting grounds'.
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Linzner, F. (2020). World. Knowledge. Design. Ethnologia Fennica, 47(1), 111–114. https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.91710
Linzner, Felix. “World. Knowledge. Design.” Ethnologia Fennica, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020, pp. 111–14, https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.91710.
Linzner, Felix. 2020. “World. Knowledge. Design.” Ethnologia Fennica 47 (1): 111–14. https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.91710.
Linzner, F. (2020) ‘World. Knowledge. Design’, Ethnologia Fennica, 47(1), pp. 111–114. Available at: https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v47i1.91710.
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doi = {10.23991/ef.v47i1.91710}
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