Allegra Lab asks its readers to please consider giving their signatures to a collective letter we have drafted to the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland, Dr. Jarosław Gowin. In doing so, we join the recent outcry over a new decree that effectively removes anthropology/ethnology as an independent academic discipline from the Polish academic landscape. For already published reactions, please see here, here, and here.
PLEASE SIGN OUR COLLECTIVE LETTER BY ADDING YOUR NAME IN THE COMMENT FUNCTION BELOW THIS POST!
UPDATE: On 31 January, a first batch of 550 signatures was sent to the Minister. We will continue updating the Minister with each new 500 signatures – please help!
Dr. Jarosław Gowin,
Minister of Science and Higher Education
ul Hoża 20
00-529 Warszawa
Poland
Dear Minister,
We are writing to you to express our concern with your decree from 20 September 2018 “On the branches of science, scientific disciplines, and artistic disciplines”, merging the discipline of Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) with a conglomerate discipline called “Cultural and Religious Studies”. For anthropologists, this means that the unique knowledge, the distinctive insights gained by the ethnographic approach, and the respective regional expertise of our colleagues in Poland will de facto become invisible.
We fear that the change will impede international academic collaboration, making it more difficult for anthropologists in other countries to identify their Polish counterparts. Funding institutions might impose restrictions on collaborating with experts outside of the internationally recognizable field of anthropology. Anthropology PhD students in Poland might have problems locating external supervisors, let alone secure funding possibilities. ERASMUS cooperation might be more difficult to realise as it is not clear what role anthropology and ethnology are going to play within the new “Cultural and Religious Studies.”
The Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies – the world’s largest anthropological association – will take place in Poland in August this year. This fact testifies to the prominence of Polish anthropology in the international academic arena – a prominence that we fear is now threatened. Indeed, Polish anthropology has been salient on the international agenda ever since Bronisław Malinowski’s foundational work on the Trobriand Islands. We trust that you share our conviction that this Polish intellectual heritage should be cherished and given utmost visibility. We urge you to restore Anthropology/Ethnology as an independent discipline.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer (Allegra Laboratory; University of Konstanz, Germany)
Dr Miia Halme-Tuomisaari (Allegra Laboratory; University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dr Julie Billaud (Allegra Laboratory; University of Sussex, UK)
Dr Jon Schubert (Allegra Laboratory; Brunel University London, UK)
Dr Agathe Mora (Allegra Laboratory; LSE, UK)
Dr Felix Girke (Allegra Laboratory; University of Konstanz, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Michał Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Dr Elżbieta M. Goździak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Dr Mateusz Laszczkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
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UPDATE: On 31 January, a first batch of 550 signatures was sent to the Minister. We will continue updating the Minister with each new 500 signatures – please help!
Thanks, Allies!
Featured image by Tom Page (flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0).
Dr. Sarah May (Department of History, University of Swansea)
Jean-Louis Fabiani
Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Nador 9 utca
1051 Budapest
HU
in full support
Happy to sign to support Polish collegues.
Jane K. Cowan
Professor of Anthropology
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton UK
and
Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor (2018-2019)
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki, Finland
In full support of the colleagues in Poland!
Dr. Herta Nöbauer
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger
Hannah Arendt Institut for Totalitarianism Studies
at the Technische Universität Dresden
Helmholtzstr. 6
01069 Dresden
Germany
In solidarity
Sophie Anggawi,
PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute, Geneva
With Solidarity!
Dr. Dani Schrire, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ritti Soncco (PhD student University of Edinburgh)
Catherine Whittaker
Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
Wirginia Jankowska, anthropology student at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
Georgette Veerhuis
Cultural Anthropology & Gender Studies
Central European University
lots of energy!
Dr. Bianca Volk, Göttingen
Jeszcze polska etnologia nie …!
Dr. Georgiana Turculet, Copenhagen University
Academic Freedom matters, even if Academia is an institution which would benefit from being heavily reformed! Eliminating institutions is not the way to do it!
Please sign my name
Sara de Wit, postdoc University of Oxford
Theodoros Kyriakides, University of Cyprus
My full support!
Dear colleagues,
I sign the petition in full solidarity and commitment for the continuation of Polish Anthropology since Bronisław Malinowski’s work till today!
Dr hab Lidia Guzy
MA Anthropology Programme Director
Head Study of Religions Department
University College Cork (UCC)
National University of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Dr. David O’Kane (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Cinzia Greco, Postdoc, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
University of Manchester
Dr Oleg Yarosh
National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Polski Instytut Studiów Zaawansowanych
Popieram jak najbardziej!
Rachel Vales
Department of Anthropology,
Oberlin College, Ohio USA
Lene Faust, M.A.
Institut für Sozialanthropologie
Universität Bern
Esther Dischereit
Chair for Contemporary Poetics
Department of Geman at
New York University
13-19 University Place
3rd floor
New York, NY 10003
Prof. Dr. Gregor Dobler
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
In support of our Polish colleagues
Dr. Stacy Lockerbie, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary
Jana Stadlbauer, alumna of European Ethnography
Simonst. 62
90763 Fuerth
Germany
Alexa Färber
Prof. Dr. Alexa Färber (Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria)
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm
– Director –
Seminar of Cultural Anthropology / Folklore Studies
University of Münster
Scharnhorststr. 100
48151 Münster
Germany
PhD-Student, University of Vienna
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
In solidarity:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Schönberger
Institut für Kulturanalyse / Istituto di analisi della cultura / Inštitut za kulturno analizo
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Celovec
Universitätsstraße 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt / Celovec
Gabriele Janilionyte, Stockholms university, Sweden
SNSF Early-Postdoc.Mobility Fellow
Leibniz-Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO)
In full support to colleagues in Polland!
Dr Panas Karampampas
Post-doctoral Researcher
Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC)
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
54 Bd Raspail
75006 Paris, France
Dr Joanna Zalewska
Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw
Marion Fert
Assistante doctorante
Institut d’ethnologie
Rue Saint-Nicolas 4
2000 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Sabine Kradolfer
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Jaka Repic
Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Arts
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
In full support to colleagues in Poland
Laura Kocksch (PhD Student, Faculty for Social Science/Section for Anthropology of Knowledge, Ruhr University Bochum)
Heike Drotbohm, University of Mainz, Germany
Prof.Dr. Sabine Strasser, University of Bern Switzerland
I would like to sign the letter to the polish minister.
Dr. Vicki-Marie Petrick, Schiller International University, Paris
Dr Carna Brkovic, University of Goettingen
Prof. Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas, Asian University for Women.
Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming
Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas Widlok, Cultural Anthropology of Africa, University of Cologne
Arba Bekteshi (University of Tirana)
Dr. Kimberly Seibel
Prof. Dr. Michael Schoenhuth (University of Trier, Germany)
Dr Till Mostowlansky (The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland)
Haley Duschinski
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio USA
Reconsider closing anthropology I poland
Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Reconsider closing anthropology in Poland
Dr Natalia Bloch (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Dr Łukasz Krokoszyński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
dr Łukasz Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Dr. Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska,
University of Warsaw
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Indiana University, USA
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Catherine Scheer, Institute for Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
Barbara Pieta, PhD candidate @ Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dr. Tilmann Heil, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Elisabeth Schober, University of Oslo
Dr Iwona Kaliszewska, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
Please add my name! Erika Alpert, Asst. Prof, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Nazarbayev University.
Professor George Baca, Graduate School of International Studies, Dona-University, South Korea
Dr. Christian Strümpell, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg University
Dr. Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi, University Tübingen
Please reconsider this idea and value anthropology.
Dr. Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg)
Dr Łukasz Smyrski, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw
Dr Katarzyna Kość-Ryżko (Prof. of The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Dr. Jovan Maud (Göttingen University)
Prof. Dr. Thomas G. Kirsch (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz)
Dr. Christian Ungruhe, Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof Agustín Fuentes
University of Notre Dame
Aoi Otake (PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
Saskia Walther
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Chuck Sturtevant
Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law
University of Aberdeen
Izabela Kujawa, PhD candidate, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Inga Scharf da Silva, Institute of European Anthropology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Prof. dr. Borut Telban
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Patrycja Komor, Freie Universität Berlin
MA student in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (CADES) at KU Leuven
Dr Jan Grill, University of Valle, Colombia
Dr hab. Monika Baer, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Dr. Agata Staniszewski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Dr Lukas Ley (Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk
Department of Anthropology and African Studies
Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
dr Amanda Krzyworzeka, University of Warsaw
Dr Agnieszka Koscianska (University of Warsaw)
From Prof Serge TCHERKEZOFF: Anthropology (in all senses) is litteraly the “study of Manking”. Who could be saying that Mankind does not exist any more?????
Dr Margret Jaeger
Anthropologist
Vienna, Austria
The tragedy for the legacy of Bronislaw Malinowski is very deep. Poland has made a major contribution to Anthropology.
Dr. Jessica Robbins, Wayne State University
Khidir M. Prawirosusanto (Dept Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
Dr. Katharina Bodirsky, University of Konstanz and University of Bergen
It would be a great loss for all, and especially for work in Central and Eastern Europe generally, if this decision prevails.
Dr. Andrew Asher, Indiana University
Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Vienna)
Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw)
bring Anthropology/Ethnology – back
PhD researcher, European University of Viadrina
I oppose banning Anthropology.
Prof. nadzw. dr hab. Hana Cervinkova
University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland
Prof. Dr. Silja Klepp
Human Geography
Kiel University
Dr hab. Hana Cervinkova
University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland
doc. Kateřina Lišková, Ph.D.
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Prof. Marie Louise Seeberg, NOVA-OsloMet, Oslo, Norway
Dr. Christopher Wright, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
Alisse Waterston, Presidential Scholar and Professor, Department of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Tessa Moll, PhD candidate, University of Cape Town
MA student, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität, Berlin
University of Warsaw
Wolfgang Gabbert
Prof. of Development Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute of Sociology
Ingrid Bertleff, Musik-Akademie Basel, Studio für Musik der Kulturen
Former Anthropology student, Maynooth, Ireland
the people those are against ANthropology, they are basically against humanity
Eline Tomine Olafsrud, social anthropologist
Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Anthropologist, Senior Researcher, IRD (French Research Institute for Development), Montpellier
We hope you will recognise the value of Polish anthropology.
Survival of Anthropology is the survival of Humanity
dr Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek, University of Warsaw
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Professor of Russian and East European Studies
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Akshay Ragupathy (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University)
N. Maksymowicz
Dept. Of Anthropology
University of Szczecin
Dr Eric Leonard, French Institute for Development Research (IRD), Montpellier, France
Frances Pine
Dept. of Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
Sarah S. Willen, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
Tomasz Wilk, student at University of Wroclaw, Poland
Anna Horolets
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz, University of Bath, United Kingdom
University of Wrocław
Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger, Heidelberg University
Dr. Jodi Greig, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Elisabetta Gnecchi Ruscone Università di Milano Bicocca
Prof. Dr Joachim Otto Habeck, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin
In the hope of a change of policy and in solidarity – a word which I believe has a special resonance in Poland.- with Polish colleagues.
Dr. Pavel Pospech, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Dr Camelia Dewan, University of Oslo
Steffen Dalsgaard
PhD, Associate Professor
Dept of Business IT
IT University of Copenhagen
Agata Stasik (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Sara Nyssen, Ghent University, Belgium
Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology student in Wrocław, Poland
Dr hab. Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Gabriela Skrok (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Dr. Stephan Dudeck, Faculty of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
Magdalena Swarzyńska
student of ethnology and anthropology of culture, UWR
Marcelina Jakimowicz (University of Wrocław) Poland
Alexandra Staniewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
mgr Kamila Grześkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Linda Hart, Doctor in Social Sciences (D.Soc.Sc), Helsinki
Marta Kluszczyńska, PhD candidate, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Ewelina Ebertowska, PhD candidate, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Dr. Joachim Görlich
Department of Anthropology
University of Lucerne
Switzerland
Dr. Mariusz Filip (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Sara Fruga, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Dr. Marc Edelman
Hunter College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Prof.dr Marek Gawęcki, Instytut Wschodni, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza Poznań
Jennifer Kluever
BA Anthropology, Archaeology from University of Nevada, Reno
United States of America
Dr. Marek Pawlak
Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Magdalena Paluszak,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Faye V. Harrison
Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Past President of International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences
Anthropology & ethnology constitute a distinct discipline with a significant record of knowledge that warrants its full-fledged recognition and representation in the research & curricular domains of academic life.
Dmitriy Funk, Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University, Russia
Alicja Maciejewska
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Juraj Buzalka, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dr. Ursula Dalinghaus, Visiting Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and a
Anthropology
Ripon College
Anthropology is both a humanity and a social science
Ville Laakkonen, Doctoral Student, Tampere University, Finland.
Sebastian Temlett, MA Student
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
KU Leuven
Dr Monika Milosavljević, University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Dr. Sahar Sadjadi, MD,PhD
Amherst College, USA
Ewa Tracz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Mr. David Johansson, independent journalist and BA in Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Xenia Valeth
MA Student, Universitat de Barcelona
Wojciech Śliwa, Jagiellonian University student
University of Warsaw
It passes understanding that a country’s government should attempt to eliminate the study of humankind, which is the function of Anthropology. It poses the question of just who or what the government imagines it is governing, or more importantly, representing, if not those very humans it does not deem it worth studying.
I join my colleagues worldwide in condemning any such move, and asking the government of Poland to immediately reverse this really very silly decision.
Dr Tomasz Rakowski, University of Warsaw
Ruy Llera Blanes
University of Gothenburg
School of Global Studies
Vlad Naumescu
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Dan Podjed, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
Radim Marada
Masaryk University
Czech Republic
Gábor VARGYAS
scientific adviser
Research Center for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Gábor VARGYAS
scientific adviser
Institute of Ethnology
Reserach Center for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr Magdalena Sztandara
Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Independent researcher, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jordan Haug (PhD Candidate)
Department of Anthropology
University of California, San Diego
Debra McDougall
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology
University of Melbourne, Australia
Malinowski would turn in his grave!
Chair, European Society for Oceanists
Directeur de recherche, CNRS, France
Alice Echols
Professor of History
University of Southern California
Faculty in Department of Anthropology, Wardha Vishwavidyalya Maharashtra
As the Senior Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ( IUAES) I strongly support the petition against the abolition of anthropology as a subject in Poland
social anthropologist, research centre for the humanities hungarian academy of sciences
doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Maria Lidola (Universität Konstanz)
University of Oslo
I am signing #Collective Letter Against the Eradication of Polish Anthropology
Dr.Helena Tužinská, Department of Ethnology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Signed
Dr. Prem Kumar Rajaram, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University
Professor Sophie Day
Anthropology
Goldsmiths
Anna Niedźwiedź, dr hab., Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Perrine BURNOD, economist, researcher, CIRAD, France.
Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer
Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder
Supporting the petition on behalf of the Social Antrhopology study field, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Professor Jon P Mitchell (University of Sussex, UK)
Supporting the protest against suppression of Anthropology in Poland.
Z całej mocy popieram!
Prof. Dr. Noel B. Salazar, Anthropology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Popieram!
Makgorzata Biczyk,
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
cultural anthropologist, independent scholar, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor, Sociology, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Dr. Jochen Boehler, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Bogna Hall, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
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Judit Bodnar
Central European University
Budapest
Professor Geert De Neve (University of Sussex, UK)
Nayanika Mathur
University of Oxford
UK
Dr. Aleksandra Bartoszko, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway
Dr Jan Lorenz
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University
Miriam Odoni
Post-doctoral researcher, sociology
University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Mateusz Ossowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Prof. Dr. Anika Keinz
European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Magnus Godvik Ekeland
PhD Candidate
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies
Radboud University |
In full support of this letter.
Dr Giovanni Picker
University of Glasgow, UK
Supporting the protest against suppression of Anthropology in Poland
Ursula Probst, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Dr. Pawel Lewicki
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Dr Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK
Katrin Kremmel
University of Vienna (Austria)
Dr. Luzimar Paulo Pereira
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil
MA, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Dr. Annika Lems, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Professor Kate Fisher
University of Exeter/UK
Dr Richard Mole
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Małgorzata Graumiler, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Christof Lammer,
University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Chika Watanabe, University of Manchester
Mariusz Bogacki
University of Leipzig, Germany
Doc. Dr. Matej Spurný, historian, Charles University and Czech Academy of Science, Prague
Dr. Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Dr Małgorzata Kowalska was the best lecturer in Cultural Anthropology of Europe!
Filip Mikołajczak
Student of European Law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Dr. Anika König, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Yifat Gutman
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ben Gurion University
Dr Martyn Wemyss, Anthropology Dept., Goldsmiths University
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer
Imre Kertész Kolleg
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Raphael Schapira
Ph.D. student
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Madeleine Reeves
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Manchester
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology
Polish Academy of Sciences
I fully support the petition.
This is a letter of support to our colleagues in Polish Anthropology Department and an acknowledgement of their crucial task for a democratic society and the progression of humanity in Poland, the European Union and the common world challenges.
Social and Cultural Anthropology flourished and became professional thanks to Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski to whom we are all indebted. This is the least we can do now in support of our discipline and our colleagues.
I support this letter unreservedly.
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Hylton White
Department of Anthropology
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
PhD candidate, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna, Austria
Margit Feischmidt
Hungarian academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences
Institute for Minority Studies
Anthropological research is nowadays more necessary than ever, in a WEIRD biased sciece.
Charles University Prague
Professor, European Studies
EU-Asia Institute
ESSCA School of Management
Angers, France.
Doctoral Candidate
Committee on the Study of Religion
Harvard University
Gréta Süveges
Department of Sociolofy and Social Anthropology
Central European University
In full support of the petition and my friends as well as colleagues in Poland.
Dani Petra Matwiejuk, MA student in English Literature and Researcher in Women’s Writing, School of English, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
(Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast)
Maria Cristache
Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Dr. Ingo Rohrer,
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Elisabeth Kirndörfer
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig
Wojciech Cendrowski, PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw.
University of Vienna
JunProf. Dr. Anna Meiser
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Hana Synková
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK
I fully support this petition.
Dr. Petra Weschenfelder,
Cultural Anthropologist & Archaeologist, Berlin
Dr Justyna Pyz, Trinity College Dublin
I value the Polish contribution to the field of anthropology.
Ursula Obrusnik, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Dr. Ana Kladnik
Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
TU Dresden
Dr. Jopi Harri
Department of Musicology
University of Turku
Finland
Astrea Pejovic
PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Budapest
Wojciech Cendrowski, PhD candidate, University of Warsaw
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Warsaw
Protect Polish anthropology from ideologically-driven nonsensical ‘reform’.
Todd C. Rae
Reader
Centre for Research in Evolutionary, Social
& InterDisciplinary Anthropology
Dept of Life Sciences
University of Roehampton | London | SW15 4JD
UNITED KINGDOM
Ranked best modern university in London
Maya Fischer, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK
A free society requires expansive inquiry. I support this effort.
Dr Martin A Mills, Dept of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Olivier Givre, Ass Prof, Department of Anthropology, University Lumiere Lyon2 – France
In full support.
Irina Redkina,
Master Degree, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Central European University
David Paternotte,
Associate Professor in Sociology
Université libre de Bruxelles
Please add my name to your petition.
Melissa L. Hocking (M.A. in Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Niko Besnier
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Research Professor, La Trobe University
Fellow (2018-9), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
Editor-in-Chief, American Ethnologist
dr hab. Anna Engelking, Polish Academy of Sciences
/
Allegra Laboratory; University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Stephanie Hobbis, Anthropologist, Sociology of Development and Change Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Patryk Reczulski, MA student
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Jagiellonian University
Dr. Geoffrey Hobbis, Assistant Professor, Digital Anthropologist, Centre for Media Studies and Journalism, University of Groningen.
Ewa Majczak, DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Dr. Jacob Copeman, Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Please add my name.
Elzbieta Matynia
Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies
Director: Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
New School for Social Research, NY, NY
Dana McKelvey
PhD student at Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
dr hab. Dorota Hall, Polish Academy of Sciences
I hereby undersign the open letter to the Polish minister
Amelia Kuch, PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh
Martijn Koster
Anthropology and Development Studies
Radboud University, Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Please add my name to your letter
Anikó Gregor PhD, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), Budapest
Polish cultural anthropology and religious studies have such radically different histories, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that forcing scholars in these disciplinies to function in the same departments and evaluate each others’ work can only lead to conflicts and misunderstandings.
Dr Wojciech Woźniak
Katedra Socjologii Struktur i Zmian Społecznych
Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Uniwersytet Łódzki
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Prague
Rachel R Reynolds
Associate Professor
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr Magdalena Rek-Woźniak, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, Poland
On
Dr. Sarah Albiez-Wieck
History Department
University of Cologne
Germany
In full support of Polish colleagues.
Christina Toren
Professor of Social Anthropology
University of St Andrews
Linda Sólveigar- Guðmundsdóttir, PhD candidate in the department of anthropology. Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. University of Iceland.
SASHA NEWELL – Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Guillaume Marche, professor of American studies, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France
Christine D. Worobec, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Northern Illinois University
Staša Babić
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Olga Shevchenko,
Professor,
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Williams College
Julie Wedam
Master of Science of Social and Cultural Anthropology
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Anna Kurowicka, dr Antropologi, Uniwersytet Barcelonski, Hiszpania
Linda Sólveigar- Guðmundsdóttir, PhD candidate in anthropology. Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. University of Iceland.
PhD candidate Robert Rydzewski, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Dr Ágnes Hesz
European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Department, University of Pécs
La Trobe University, Australia
Dr hab. Tomasz Basiuk, University of Warsaw
Dr Jérome Courduriès
Lecturer in Anthropology
University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès
France
With full support for a Polish anthropological tradition to remain highly visible and
distinct, and with respect for the authors of this letter to be able to voice the matter of factness of this political mistake, in the face of blunt ignorance.
Christine Verbruggen
KULeuven, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Łukasz Sochacki PhD
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University
Dr. Christos Varvantakis
Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Aleksandar Palavestra
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade
Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Sussex)
In solidarity with Polish anthropology as an independent discipline.
Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Kivilcim
Humboldt University, Berlin
Germany
Roman Urbanowicz, PhD student in Social Anthropology, University of Helsinki
Jakub Vašíček (Masaryk University, Brno)
Dr. Pavel Doboš (Department of Geography, Masaryk University in Brno)
Dr Ahmet Kerim Gültekin (Ethnologist)
I was dismissed from my position in Munzur University (Dersim/Tunceli – Turkey) Sociology Department via a decree law in January 2017 by Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) because of signing a declaration of Academics for Peace, against AKP’s militarist oppressions.
I fully support Polish colleagues and their struggle for anthropological tradition.
University of Wrocław, Poland.
Jason Baird Jackson, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, Indiana University, USA
Jonatan Kurzwelly (Department of Anthropology, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa)
Carmen Rial (University of Santa Catarina, World Council of Anthropological Associations)
Social Anthropologist, University of Vienna
Gábor Klaniczay (University Professor, Central European University, Budapest))
research fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Dr Ainhoa Montoya, School of Advanced Study, University of London
PhD candidate, Visual Arts Academy of Braunschweig, Germany
Dr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková
Section for Social Anthropology, Sociology Department, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
happy to support this initiative
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Prof. Marc Lenaerts
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Dr. Luuk van Kempen
Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Ethnologist, Slovakia
Tanya Richardson
Associate Professor
Anthropology and Global Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
In Solidarity with my Polish colleagues. Let’s stand up to mindlessness
Marie A. H. Müllerová
Student of Social Anthropology at Masaryk University
Brno
Czech Republic
Dr Izabella Main (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland)
Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UK
Anthropoloy Undergraduate, University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
All support for the Polish Anthropology
DR. Luiz Fernando Rojo
Universidade Federal Fluminense – Brazil
Head of the Commission of Anthropology of Sports (IUAES)
Member of the Brazilian Paralympic Association
Deeply concerned about the threat to democracy by stopping free thinking, knowledge and expression.
Dr. Yofi Tirosh
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
MIŁOSZ SUCHORSKI , Anthropology student at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland
Dr Mariya Ivancheva (University of Liverpool)
In solidarity
Dr Keir Martin
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
Dr. Franz Graf, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Felix Hoffmann (Freie Universität Berlin/Europa-Universität Viadrina FFO, Germany)
Kristýna Kaymak Minaříková
Masaryk University
This letter has my full support.
Robert Rowland
Professor of Anthropology (retired)
Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)
Former President, Portuguese Anthropological Association
In solidarity
Gábor Danyi, PhD-candidate (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Polish anthropology has a very vibrant tradition and must be supported. It is no exaggeration to say that both global and Polish social science would be significantly weakened if these new rules stay in effect.
Poland should celebrate and develop NOT destroy the legacy of Europe’s if not one of THE world’s greatest anthropologist. He encouraged people to go and live for many months with people to understand and explain their differences thus helping us learn from and relate to people from the entire range of humanity. How ironic that after 9/11 the CIA tried to recruit anthropologists because they wanted to understand terrorism. I was taught by a pupil of Malinowski at Cambridge, Edmund Leach, and I owe everything to that wonderful year long course we postgrads did on the entire work of Malinowski. It facilitated my academic fieldwork from then on. I have also helped teach Polish students anthropology when visiting professor in Denmark and lectured around Poland. I was so impressed with the different universities and students steeped in anthropology. Poland we need your expertises in the discipline developed by your distinguished ancestor. Don’t destroy your cultural legacy and future
Evan Ahearne BaHons
Anthropology
Alumnus of Maynooth University Ireland
Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam/OSU)
Dr. Sita Venkateswar
Associate Professor,
Social Anthropology, Massey University, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ellen Judd, Distinguished Professor and Professor of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
In solidarity…
La Trobe University, Australia
Max de Blank, MA Student in Gender Studies, Central European University
Joanna Mishtal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Central Florida
Sandeep Kaur
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Panjab University
CHANDIGARH, India
In solidarity with my Polish colleagues and with their communities,
Thomas J. Thompson M.A., RPA
Norman, OK, USA
Dr Lars Højer (University of Copenhagen)
Joseph Grim Feinberg
Philosophy Institute
Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague
President of the Israeli Anthropological Association
Dr. Kirsten Endres
Head of Research Group
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Halle/S.; Germany
Dr Aimee Joyce (University of St Andrews)
In full support,
Dr. Pablo Jaramillo (Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
In solidarity,
Sherrie Alexander, MA
Department of Anthropology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Irit Dekel,
Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena,
Humboldt University, Berlin
Valentina Napolitano
Professor,
Connaught Scholar,
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Toronto,
M5S 2S2
ON
Canada
Dr. Aaron Kappeler
Lecturer in Anthropology of Development
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
Scotland, UK
In full support,
Karolina Kuberska, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge
Marie France Labrecque
Professeure émérite
Département d’anthropologie
Université Laval
Québec, Canada
Hakan Altun / Goethe University – Germany
Dr Alice Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Montserrat VENTURA OLLER
Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Departament d’Antropologia Social i Cultural
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Dr. Marta Wieczorek
Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
All my support to one of the most vivid, rich and stimulating anthropologies of Europe
Nicoletta Diasio
Professeure à la Faculté des Sciences Sociales de l’Université de Strasbourg
UMR 7367 Dynamiques européennes
Institut Universitaire de France
Marie Balas
Maîtresse de conférences
Faculté des sciences sociales
Université de Strasbourg
France
student of Social Anthropology at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Joseph Feldman
Assistant Professor
Programa de Antropología
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Frédéric Moulène
Teaching Fellow (Université de Franche-Comté)
& Associate Researcher (Université de Strasbourg)
France
Xavier Gegout
Collaborateur scientifique
HES – hepia
Genève
I did not know that the Polish state seeks to eradicate the critical voice of anthropology; but unfortunately, I’m not surprised.
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology,
University of Oxford
In full support of the letter
Heléne Hedberg, Social worker. Stockholm, Sweden.
Prof. Dr. Anna Lipphardt
Institute for Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnologe
Universität Freiburg (Germany)
Professeur émérite d’anthropologie
Laboratoire DynamE
Université de Strasbourg
France
Professeur émérite d’anthropologie
Laboratoire DynamE
Université de Strasbourg
Professeur émérite d’anthropologie,Laboratoire DynamE
Université de Strasbourg
With all my support
Social anthropology: an important key to understand actual social problems and help to solve it.
J.-M. de Grave
Maîtres de conférences habilité
Université d’Aix-Marseille
France
Angela Lindt, PhD candidate, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Yannick Swedrak
Master Social and Cultural Anthropology
Marc Bloch Strasbourg
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Le Corre Virginie
Doctorante en socio-anthropologie
Université de Strasbourg-France
I am a student at the University of Oslo studying Anthropology with a minor in Computer Science. A similar process is happening here. I support you and anthropology in Poland. Wish you all the best of luck!
A tragedy for intellectual thought in Poland
I support anthropology studies in the world, in europe and in poland.
A french student from EHESS (paris).
Dr. Hadas Weiss, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study
Dr. Apostolos Andrikopoulos
Postdoc Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Nairobi
Agnese Bankovska
PhD candidate
University of Helsinki
Adolfo Estalella
Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology.
Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Please add my name. Dr Marketa Dolezalova
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Jena, Germany
Sam Shuman
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Dr Sharon Attard
University of Malta
Dr. Nurhak Polat
Departmant of Ethnology and Cultural Research
University of Bremen
Dr Lorena Gibson
Cultural Anthropology Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Katarzyna Puzon, Humboldt University, Berlin
Anne J. Botz, Universität Heidelberg
Dr Tiina Suopajärvi, Social sciences, Tampere University, Finland
Professor Dan Hicks FSA, MCIfA
Professor of Contemporary Archaeology and Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford
In solidarity!!!
David Berliner,
Professor of Anthropology
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dr. Antu Sorainen,
Academy Fellow, Docent, PhD
University of Helsinki
Academy of Finland Research Project “Wills and Inheritance Practices in Sexually Marginalised Groups” (2014-2019)
PI of the Academy of Finland Research Project “CoreKin – Contrasting and Re-Imagining Margins of Kinship” (2016-2020).
Project Website: CoreKin.fi
In full support of this petition!
Benedict Mette-Starke
PhD student
University of Constance
Emir MAHIEDDIN, Researcher at CNRS, Member of the CéSor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Thomas Cousins
University of Oxford
UK
in full support
Liisi Raidna
Curator of the Photo Collection
Art Museum of Estonia
In solidarity
Dr William Wheeler
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
University of Manchester
Guillaume Silhol
PhD researcher in political sociology
Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, France
Sarah Besky, Brown University
Geremia Cometti,
Professor of Anthropology
Université de Strasbourg
Ian M. Cook
Central European University
Mélissa NAYRAL, CAS-LISST, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France.
Yolaine Gassier
PhD candidate in political sociology
Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, France
Ina Zharkevich
University of Oslo
Dr Paola Esposito
Departmental Lecturer
Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology
University of Oxford
Wiebe Ruijtenberg
PhD student
Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen
Dr. Koreen M. Reece, ERC Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK
Swann Gastinger Finazzo
Graduate student in social and cultural anthropology
Université de Strasbourg
France
In full support to our colleagues in Poland
Supporting our Polish colleagues
Anthropologist | Humanitarian Worker | Writer
It isn’t the role of Government to dictate the boundaries of knowledge and academia
Anthropology is an important intellectual space to keep open.
Julie Sascia Mewes
Institute for Sociology Technische Universität Berlin
Visiting Professor of Anthropology,
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest
Karol Schubert
European law student (AMU Poznań/University of Ljubljana)
Michalina Furmaniak, English studies college graduate, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Postdoctoral Researcher, Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Csaba Szaló, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
Anthropology!
Co-director, Center for Policy Studies
Visiting professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Budapest
Anika Jugovic Spajic (University of Pittsburgh)
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher Scuola Normale Superiore Florence
Supporting my phenomenal colleagues in Poland.
Anthropology is a vital branch of scientific research.
In solidarity!
associate professor
Social Anthropology Department
University of Oslo
Signing in support of anthropologists in Poland. Emilija Zabiliute, University of Edinburgh, Department of Anthropology.
Polish-origin anthropologists have been crucial to the development of the discipline. In these times it would be a great loss and a great folly to lose anthropology because of bureaucratic/ political decisions.
Stephanie Kitchen
International African Institute, London
Dr Weronika Plińska, Faculty of Fine Art, Pedagogical University of Cracow
Jessyca Fernanda Zaniboni, Master student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anthropology and Sociology of Development
Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies
Geneva
Switzerland
Nicola Delvino
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
University of Oxford
Professor, University of Oslo
Lucas Koppen
Graduate Institute Geneva
I have my full support.
Dr Agata Pacho, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr. Jari Kupiainen
Principal Lecturer (Docent)
Karelia University of Applied Sciences
Dr Magdalena Lubanska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Dr Defne GONENC, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Dr. Kristina Baines
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
City University of New York, Guttman
Siobhan Magee, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
In solidarity with my Polish colleagues!
David Henig, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
In full support and solidarity!
Cecilia G. Salinas
Social
anthropologist
Oslo Metropolitan University
Professor. Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Mirco Göpfert
Professor of Anthropology
Goethe University Frankfurt
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Toulouse II Jean Jaurès
Former MA student in anthropology from the university of Oslo. In full support.
Sterre Gilsing, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Ignacio Fradejas-García, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Atak Ayaz
Ph.D. student
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
Full solidarity!
Andreas Streinzer
Institute for Social Research
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Carolina De La Torre Ugarte
MA candidate in Anthropology and Sociology
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Switzerland
Dr Oleg Yarosh
National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Polski Instytut Studiów Zaawansowanych
Popieram jak najbardziej!
Anthropology matters!
Rachel Massey,
UK
Social Anthropology Graduate
Aleksandra Dzik (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Risa Cromer, Stanford University, USA
Dr Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen
Associate professor of gender studies
University of Stavanger
Norway
Jan Albrecht
Masaryk University, Brno
Czech Republic
Dr. Martin Fotta
Goethe University Frankfurt
Germany
Professor of Anthropology
Utrecht University
Geert Mommersteeg, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Anthropology Department, Utrecht University.
Gabriela Hertig
Ph.D. Candidate
Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
Merel de Buck, PhD candidate Anthropology, Utrecht University
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Dr Ada grabowska-Zhang
Department for Continuing Education
University of Oxford
anthropology student from Estonia
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
PhD Candidate Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
Dr. Giulia Zanini, University of Barcelona, Spain
AIMILIA Voulvouli
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr AIMILIA Voulvouli
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr Astrid Jamar
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nat Raha
Edinburgh College of Art
Dr. Janina Kehr
University of Bern
Switzerland
Dr. Siobhán McGuirk, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University
Dr Grietje Baars
The City Law School
City, University of London
Dr Shaban Darakchi, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Dr Sarah Bernstein
School of English
University of Sheffield
Dr Andreja Mesaric
Senior Researcher
The McPin Foundation
London, UK
popieram z głębokim przekonaniem
Dietlind Bork, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Dr Alessandro Rippa
Center for Asian Studies
University of Colorado Boulder
Politicians and bureaucrats who imposed this outrageous decision, will be long history when ethnology/cultural anthropology will still blossom.
Dr Patrick Neveling
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
Vega de Hoyos Aragoneses
Antropologist in Fresno Link And mYmo, Madrid Spain
Dr. Vasiliki Papageorgiou
Ethnologist-Social Anthropologist
Assistant Professor
Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece
Department of Management, Economics, Communication of Cultural and Hospitality Units
Liisi Rohtung, BA in social and cultural anthropology, Estonia
I support the continuation of Polish anthropology
Anna-Maria Brandstetter
Department of Anthropology and African Studies
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Germany)
Business Anthropologist
CEO in Antropología 2.0
Carolin Hirsch, M.A.
Ph.D. Candidate and Member of the Research Staff
Working Group Social and Political Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities
University of Konstanz
Dr. Martijn Oosterbaan. Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
Department of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Coordinator of the European Master in Anthropology (CREOLE), Master in which the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland, is a valuable partner!
PhD Candidate
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Dr Dominika Czarnecka. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology. Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sergio González Varela
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México
Dagna Rams, PhD Student, University of Lausanne (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Culturelle et Sociale)
Yvon van der Pijl
Associate Professor, department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University.
Samira Marty, PhD candidate, University of Oslo
Franziska Duarte dos Santos, PhD student, University of Konstanz
Howard Rechavia Taylor
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University in the City of New York
Nila Jeep
Institute of Anthropology
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Rochelle Davis
Associate Professor
School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Washington DC, USA
Popieram jak najbardziej!
Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion
Director of the Religious and Ethnic Diversity in China and Asia Research Unit
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
King’s College London
Shahram Khosravi
Professor
Stockholm University
Sweden
Nick Wees
PhD Candidate
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
Kyla Cangiano, MA Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
Elizabeth Finnis
Associate Professor
Dept. Sociology and Anthropology
University of Guelph
Canada
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
In solidarity.
This 3rd generation Polish Canadian supports protecting Anthropology as a separate discipline.
Janice Victor
Assistant Professor, Aboriginal Health
University of Lethbridge, AB
Dr. Robin Whitaker
Department of Anthropology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL CANADA
Matthew McCready
MA Linguistics (Sociocultural)
York University
Dr. Sabrina Peric, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Malinowski’s legacy should be acclaimed, not minimized!!
Véronique Leclerc
MA Student
Department of anthropology
Université Laval
This decision should be reversed.
Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu
Visiting Scholar, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.)
President, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology
Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, CANADA.
Dr. Greg Feldman
University of Windsor
In full support!
Dear Allies,
we have sent the letter today (January 31, 2019), but I will keep the comment section open so that you can still add your names to the collective letter which will remain online and accessible to all. Thank you all for your support, we collected over 550 signatures within just one week!
XX
Judith
IN FULL SUPPORT!!!!
In full support from Copenhagen:
Marie Sandberg, PhD, Associate Professor
European Ethnology
University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Humanities
SAXO Institute, Ethnology Section
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 Copenhagen S
Peter J. Braeunlein
Professor of the study of religion
Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Meret Fehlmann (Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft – Populäre Kulturen, Universität Zürich)
Maximilian Jablonowski, Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Claudia Jürgens
PhD Candidate DFG-Grauiertenkolleg “Identität und Erbe”
Technische Universität Berlin
Dr. Ulrike Prinz
Anthropologist and Journalist
Barcelona and Munich
in full support
Sina Sauer, M.A.
PhD student
Hamburg University
With my full support.
L. Wagner, M.A.
Brazilian Consulate-General
Munich, Germany
Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn
Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn
Dominique Steinhauer (University of Freiburg)
Dr. Olga S. Hünler
Universität Bremen
Lots of energy and strength!
Maja
MA European Studies student from Leipzig, Germany
in full support
Fabio Freiberg
MA Student
Department for Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studie
University of Bonn
Sean Heath
PhD Candidate in Anthropology
School of Sport and Service Management
University of Brighton, UK
In full support of our Polish colleagues.
in resistance to the above mentioned plans of the Polish government.
This is an attack on intellectual freedom and the careers of excellent scholars. It is a decision guided by fear and ignorance.
Good luck!
Daša Ličen, Research Assistent, Inštitute of Ethnology, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Leuphana University Lueneburg
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology
University of Grenoble Alpes,
PACTE
Assistant professor in anthropology
Université Paris 8
France
In full support
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Eisch-Angus
Institute for Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology, Head of Institute
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Attemsgasse 25/I
8010 Graz, Austria
Fully supporting the Polish colleagues!
My full support!
Alik Mazukatow
research assistant and dcotoral student
Humboldt – Universität Berlin
The academic community can decide much better than goverments when it comes to scientific value.
Leonie Thal
PhD Candidate
Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis
LMU Munich
Proud to support this letter.
I very much support this letter.
Susan Vincent, Professor
Department of Anthropology
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS CANADA
In solidarity
Giulia Battaglia
(MA, PhD @ SOAS, University of London)
Temporary Lecturer in Anthropology of Visual/Art/Media Practices
@ ISCOM Paris
Membre @ laboratoire de recherche IRMECCEN, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Membre associé @ laboratoire de recherche IIAC/LAIOS – EHESS
Restore Anthropology/Ethnology as an independent discipline.
Unfortunately, this is part of a wider ‘illiberal’ stance by the present Polish government.
Dr. Kapil Babu Dahal
Central Department of Anthropology (CDA)
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu
Nepal
Prof. Scott Simon, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Arnd Schneider
Professor of Social Anthropology
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
NORWAY
in solidarity
Dr Grit Wesser, Newcastle University, UK
With full support for my polish colleagues and admiration for their work.
University of Siegen, Germany
Dr Marlene Schäfers, Ghent University, Belgium
Giuseppe Tateo
PhD Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
just thinking of malonowski
Lucia Sunder-Plassmann
Humboldt-University of Berlin
In solidarity with Polish anthropology —
Dr Aet Annist
Department of Ethnology
University of Tartu
Estonia
Dr. Susanne Wessendorf, LSE, UK
Dr. Audrey Kichelewski, History Department, University of Strasbourg, France.
In full support of our colleagues !
Dr. Francesco Fanoli
PhD in Anthropology and Historical-linguistic studies at University of Messina, Italy
In solidarity.
Sahana Udupa
Professor of Media Anthropology
University of Munich (LMU) Germany
Anthropology is the most humanist of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. It is the essential discipline which has paved the way for public acceptance of cultural difference, for rejection of colonialism, racism, sexism, exploitation of indigenous peoples, inequity and disparity. Anthropology is the study of humans across time and space in the recognition that humans are animals who share a planetary ecosystem with other lifeforms, with the object purpose of understanding those not ourselves. This is not something humans will ever stop doing. A ban is futile and only reflects negatively on those who attempt it.
H. Young-Leslie, Ph.D.
Director, Social Sciences/Humanities Grant Assist Program,
Office of the Vice-President (Research)
Research Impact Canada Liaison
University of Alberta
Dr Ewa Tartakowsky, post-doctoral fellow, Institut des sciences sociales du Politique (France) and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, the University Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Catholic University of Paris
Please count me in!
Catalina Ahuile Muñoz
Social anthropology student in University of Chile,
currently on an exchange year in University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Martha Radice
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Oxford University
U.K.
It’s unbelievable – but more and more frequent with raising nationalist-populism in Europe. It seems that we have to unite too…
Vintila Mihailescu
Professor of Anthropology
National School of Political Studies and Administration
Bucharest, Romania
I support the letter. I met the Minister two weeks ago and should have mentioned this to him.
Dawid Bunikowski
Doctor of Law (Nicolaus Copernicus University),
Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship (US),
Senior Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences in Włocławek, Department of Administration (Poland),
Leader, Subgroup of Philosophy of Law in the Arctic, University of the Arctic (Finland),
Primary contact person, The LYY thematic research group on Philosophy of Law in the Arctic (Finland)
Dr. Emma Varley
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Brandon University
Brandon, Manitoba
Canada
Closing this entire discipline is totally unacceptable. I will certainly have nothing more to do with the Polish academy so long as Anthropology is banned in Poland; I will not travel to Poland or accept invitations to conferences there.
Andrew Gow, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of History
University of Alberta
Canada
Mark Alexander McIntyre
Dr Céline Geffroy. University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. France
Ethnomusicology’s PhD Student
Paris-Nanterre University
LESC-CREM CNRS
France
Aditi Surie von Czechowski
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Anne-José Villeneuve
Assistant professor of French linguistics
University of Alberta (Canada)
Meike Brückner
PhD Student
Division of Gender and Globalisation
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
School of Hum. and Social Sciences, KAIST
Daejeon, South Korea
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris 7
/ ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The Australian National University
Dominique CROZAT Professeur de géographie culturelle, UMR 5281 ART-Dev, CNRS-Universités Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
Maria Lis Baiocchi
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Alumnus, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University
Sinan Dogan
PhD Student
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Full support for our Polish colleagues, who have a strong record now as well as distinguished history in anthropology.
Robert M. Hayden
Professor of Anthropology & Law
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Singing it with full support!
Best of luck!
Venera Khalikova, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stéphane Gros
Researcher, Social Anthropologist
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
France
Katarzyna Grabska
Assistant Professor
Institute of Social Studies
Erasmus University, The Hague
In solidarity!
Adina Dymczyk
doctoral student, Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Alexia Bloch
Professor of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Social and cultural anthropology are vital disciplines for understanding the nature of experience in our contemporary world. For the country that is home to some of the most globally important anthropological heritage to cut the discipline is an error on an epic scale, surely also for those who claim to have the country’s best interests at heart or who might hope to elevate the country’s international standing.
Rosalie Stolz, University of Cologne
In solidarity.
Nicole Constable
Professor of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Felix Ringel
International Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
United Kingdom
Valentina Zagaria
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK
Given the prominence of Malinowski, Anthropology should be very much at home in Poland
Sophie Erman, Student of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Jan G. Wilkens
Institut of Sociology
University of Marburg
In solidarity with our Polish colleagues, in full support of Polish Anthropology.
Catherine Alexander
Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.
I cannot believe that a nation which has played such a major part in the exploration of what it is that makes us human in an intriguing variety of ways can abolish a discipline that lies at the cutting edge of the quest for mutual understanding and tolerance.
In solidarity!
Adina Dymczyk
doctoral student, Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Long life to Anthropology anywhere in the world!
Considering that one of the founders of modern Social Anthropology was a Pole, Bronislaw Malinowski, this is an insult to Poland’s reputation as a country of world class scholarship.
Losing Malinowski to UK & US was bad enough, let alone the entire discipline!!
Sven Bergmann
Department of Gender Studies
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
In solidarity,
Anna Žabicka
Mg.sc.soc. in Social Anthropology;
and current graduate student in Anthropology at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Jurist, Social&Cultural Anthropologist, Vienna
PD Dr. Ira Spieker
Head of the Department of Cultural Anthropology
Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology
Dresden
Lug Dusuzeau Student (master II) in ethnology, University of Strasbourg.
Amos Goldberg
Prof. of Jewish History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University Konstanz
Social / Cultural Anthropology
Johannes M. Waldmüller
Associate Research Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Universidad de Las Américas, Quito
Development Studies,
University of Vienna
Nic o nas bez nas!
In full support.
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
A public anthropology and activism forum
Not a way to promote wholistic understanding.
Dr. Johanne Lefeldt
Cultural Anthropology
University of Mainz
In full support –
doctoral candidate ETH Zürich
Cultural Anthropology, University of Padova
University of Vienna
I express my solidarity!
Dr. Anke Bahl, Bonn, Germany
In solidarity!
Ivan Rajković
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Halle, Germany
Donatella Schmidt
Professor of Ethnology
Università degli Studi di Padova,
ITALY
Solidarity with our Polish colleagues!
In full support.
I express my solidarity!
Polish anthropology is important for world anthropology.
Enrico Vincenzi, graduating in anthropology in Italy.
For anthropology
Support from Lithuanian sociologists and anthropologists!
In solidarity!
Stephan Zandt
Research Assistant
Institute for Cultural Theory and History
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
An extraordinary decision from the government of the country that gave us Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the most influential founders of modern anthropology. May I respectfully request that Polish government ministers inform themselves more fully of anthropology’s broad scope and its huge potential for improving the quality of human social life?
Prof. Martin Auer
Writer and student of anthropology
Vienna
In full support of the colleagues in Poland!
Zsófia Hacsek
MA of Social and Cultural Antropology @ University of Vienna
PhD candidate @ Coventry University
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig
Cultural Anthropology/Volkskunde
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Germany
In full support and solidarity!
JProf. Dr. Sarah Scholl-Schneider
Cultural Anthropology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Germany
ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kraus
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna, Austria
Please add my name
Dr Hans Steinmüller
Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics
WC2A 2AE London
UK
In full support
Social Anthropology is a vitally important subject, support to my Polish colleagues.
In support and solidarity!
Attack on Polish antropology is attack on all of us!
In full support of colleagues in Poland
Assoc. Prof. Dr Suzanne Goopy
University of Calgary
Canada
In full support
Tian Shi
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology Department, KU Leuven
Miguel Alcalde
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – UK
I fully support this petition from the perspective of a practicing anthropologist in the Global South.
Alexandra Kemmerer
Senior Research Fellow & Head of Berlin Office
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Heidelberg / Berlin
Germany
The American Anthropological Association, an organization with 10,000+ members worldwide, fully supports this petition.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Bogazici University Istanbul
Candidate for MA in Visual Anthropology, University of Münster
(see also IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress in Poland, deadline for submissions of abstracts for papers or films/audiovisual presentations February 15 https://www.iuaes2019.org/ )
Dr Eleni Sideri
Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies
University of Macedonia-Greece
Gosia Lipinska
Department of Psychology
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Dr Lucy Pickering
Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
The University of Glasgow
UK
I ask the government to reconsider its decision regarding the status and funding of anthropology/ethnology in Poland. Historically, Poland has directly and indirectly contributed to the discipline in many ways: indirectly via its ‘son’ Bronislaw Malinowski and via the work of Ryszard Kapuscinski, and directly through the contribution of contemporary anthropologists living and working in Poland, Europe and North America. The proposed changes would radically affect the ability of Polish anthropologists to undertake research and teach the subject at a time when a greater knowledge of the world is required by citizens.
Arnar Árnason
Department of anthropology
University of Aberdeen
Scotland
In full support!
Alessio Vitiello
Science of Social Service student
Università degli Studi di Messina
Dipartimento di Scienze cognitive, psicologiche, pedagogiche e degli studi culturali
Italy
Student in Cultural Anthropology at University of Torino, Italy
Giuliana Sano’
Research fellow University of Messina
In full support
Duccio Gasparri
Associate Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
In full support
Piibe Kolka
Filmmaker
MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Tallinn University, Estonia
Marcin Skupiński
PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw
Poland
Silvia Wojczewski
PhD candidate, University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Anna Chowaniec-Rylke MA
PhD Candidate
University of Warsaw
Poland
anthropology help to make the World more understandable and pacific for all of us. it is needed and it is important for our future and for the future of young people in particolar.
Dr Ewa Sidorenko
Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood Studies
University of Greenwich
London
UK
Dr. Jason Danely
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford UK
I endorse Mirella Olivari’s comment
In solidarity
Eva Jarosova
Ph.D. candidate
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
&
University of Alberta, Canada
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw)
PhD Candidate
HafenCity University, Hamburg
WE owe a great debt to Polish Anthropology for the contributions of our
founding father, B. Malinowski.
in solidarity
Dr. Jonathan Roth
Cultural Anthropology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Germany
Dominique Conte
Cultural Anthropology
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
In full support of the petition! There is good reason to take pride in the contribution of Polish anthropology to anthropological knowledge worldwide.
Dr Anthony Pickles
University of Cambridge
Accursio Graffeo
Student of Cultural Anthropology
University of Turin, Italy
Full support to this petition.
Dr. Oliwia Murawska
Cultural Anthropology/Volkskunde
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Germany
Dr. Ralf Bormann
Art historian, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Cordula Endter
Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
University of Hamburg
Karolina Kozioł
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
Princeton University
Anthropology Doctoral Student
Veronica Sousa, Doctoral Student, Princeton University
Monika Jankowska, graduate in Ethnology, University of Warsaw
Dr Anna Malewska-Szałygin
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Warsaw
Viviane Nolte
MA Student Anthropology & Sociology
University of Konstanz
Zuzanna Głowacka
ethnology and cultural anthropology student
University of Warsaw
Gustaw Kowalczyk
Anthropology student
University of Warsaw
Anna Kluczyk
Graduate from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Warsaw
Sociologist, Prof. Dr in Urban studies, environmental issues and global risks
Chloé Le Mouël, PhD candidate, Université de Strasbourg, France
Katarzyna Zarzycka, MA
graduated from Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Aleksandra Sawa
Applied Sociology and Social Anthropology student
University of Warsaw (ISNS UW)
Milena Lewandowska, student
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
University of Warsaw
Iga Kondraciuk, student
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
Weronika Godlewska – anthropology student from Uniwersytet Warszawski in Warsaw
Maria Gacyk
Master’s Degree Student
Anthropology Department
University of Copenhagen
Maria Reimann, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture, University of Warsaw
Pia Maier, M.A.
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Department of History & Sociology
University of Konstanz, Germany
Proud student of ethnology and cultural anthropology (UW)
On behalf of the French Anthropological Association;
Etienne Bourel
PhD student
LADEC
University Lumière-Lyon II
On behalf of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, Poland
Dr. Anja Sieber Egger, Zurich University of Teacher Education Switzerland and associate researcher of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Anahy Gajardo, Anthropology Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
University of Teacher Education Zürich, Switzerland
Ellina Mourtazina
PhD Candidate
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
M.A. Tabea Buri
curator
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Switzerland
proud of my profession as anthropologist and having been recruited at ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) explicitly thanks to my anthropological university education:
Dr. Patricia Schwärzler
Scientific collaborator – research and teaching
ZHAW Zurich, Switzerland
anthropologist proud of my profession, having been recruited at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences thanks to my anthropological university education
Dr. Patricia Schwärzler
scientific collaborator – research and teachin
ZHAW Zürich, Switzerland
Cultural Anthropologist
Assistant Professor em. University of Berne
Lecturer em. University of Zurich
Yvan Schulz, PhD anthropology, University of Neuchâtel
Postdoctoral Researcher, China Centre, University of Oxford
Prof. Aymon Kreil, Ghent University
Jérémie Forney
Assist. Prof.
Anthropology Institute, University of Neuchâtel
Dr. Alban von Stockhausen, Curator, Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland
Ethnologist, Vidéaste
Senior Researcher/Lecturer at the Academy of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Alexandros Papageorgiou
PhD candidate, Department of History, Archeaology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly
Stefan Leins
Post Doc
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Zurich
Carla Meyer
MA Student
Anthropology Institute
University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland.
Dr. Angelica Wehrli
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Institute of Social Anthropology
University of Lucerne and Lecturer for Cultures University of St. Gallen
In full support
Dr Roland Kaehr
retired curator of the Museum of ethnography, Neuchâtel /Switzerland
Laura Affolter, PostDoc, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Lena Kaufmann
Post Doc
Department of History & Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Zurich
Curator and Deputy Director Museum der Kulturen Basel
In solidarity
Marion Fert
Institute of ethnology, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
Esther Leemann, PhD
Senior researcher and lecturer
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Zurich
MA ethnology, Ethnology/Anthropology Institut, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
MA geography, Geneva University, Switzerland.
High school teacher in Geneva.
Alessandro Monsutti
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute Geneva
Dr Laure Sandoz,
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
University of Basel
Switzerland
…
academic staff, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
University of Zurich
Julie Perrin, PhD
Anthropology Institute
University of Neuchâtel
In full support
Dr. Fiona Siegenthaler
Institute of Social Anthropology
University of Basel
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
In full support!!
Professor,
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
Séverine Rey
Professor
School of Health Sciences (HESAV)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland
Lausanne, Switzerland
Post Doc
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Zurich
Switzerland
In full support
Roberta Colombo Dougoud
Curator of Oceania collection
MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève)
Geneva (Switzerland)
M.A. in Social Anthropology, graduated at University of Bern, Switzerland
Emilia Smolińska
BA Student
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Goethe University Frankfurt
Germany
Social Anthropologist,
Zurich, Switzerland
in full support of the appeal for ethnology as an academic discipline on its own
mgr. Katarzyna Czupryna (Paszkiewicz), Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Warszawa, Poland
Prof. dr hab. Borys Paszkiewicz, numismatist & historian
University of Wrocław, Poland
In full support
Associate professor, PhD Astrid Pernille Jespersen
Head of Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities
Ethnology
Saxo Institute
Denmark
Student, Carla Jürgens,
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Supporting the future of Polish society and Polish anthropology.
Adriana Golanko,
Political Science, University of Warsaw
Vanessa Ortseifen, Student
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sandra Bärnreuther
Senior Lecturer and Researcher
University of Zurich
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Research Associate for Cultural Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
I support Polish anthropology
Student of Anthropology
Anne Sherfield (PhD student Arizona State University)
Professor Bern University of Teacher Education, associate Institut of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
PhD candidate, Department of Ethnography and Anthropology, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia.
Just having visited the IUAES 2019 Congress in Poznan, I learned about the situation. Let me express my full support and solidarity with my colleagues from Poland! In Russia, Anthropology lost the status of an independent discipline in the first half of the twentieth century, becoming a part of History. This year, a similar rationalization has seriously reduced the teaching staff of our Department. I fully support the struggle for the autonomy for Anthropology!
Its unfortunate that in the birth place of Malinowski, Anthropology is being relegated.
Dr Basile Zimmermann, Senior lecturer, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Giuseppe Troccoli
Research Fellow
University of Southampton, UK