CURRICULUM VITAE - Tufts University

CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Peter Probst
Department of Art History & Department of Anthropology
Tufts University
11 Talbot Avenue; Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617 627 2939 (office)
617 480 4820 (home)
Fax:
617 627 3890
e-mail: [email protected]
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
2001. Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
1990. Ph.D. in Anthropology, Free University Berlin, Germany
1984. M.Phil. in Anthropology, University of Cambridge, England
1983. M.A. in Anthropology, Free University Berlin, Germany
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2012 – present
2011 – present
2005 – 2010
1999 – 2004
2000 – 2001
1993 – 1998
1994 – 1998
1991 – 1993
1985 – 1987
Full Professor, Chair, Department of Art History, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Anthropology, Tufts University
Full Professor, Department of Art History, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Anthropology, Tufts University
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Adjunct Associate
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University
Associate Professor, Iwalewa-Haus, Center for African Art,
University of Bayreuth
Visiting Professor, Frobenius Institute, Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Free University,
Berlin
Research Associate, Institute of Social Research, Chancellor
College, University of Malawi, Zomba
Assistant Curator, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin (MSPK)
Research Associate, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research (MESRES), Yaoundé, Cameroon
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GRANTS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2012
2011 – 2013
2010
2010
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006 – 2007
2003
2002 – 2005
2002
2000 – 2002
2000
1999
1998
1996 – 1998
1987 – 1990
1984 – 1986
1984
Tufts Tisch College, Senior Fellowship
Mellon / GAHTC Grant for “Histories of Heritage” together with
Michelle Apotsos (Williams College) and Brinker Ferguson (UCSC)
FRAC / Faculty Research Fund for Project on Aby Warburg and
Leo Frobenius
FRAC / Grant in Aid for Archival Research on Aby Warburg
Arts Council of the African Studies Association, Arnold Rubin
Outstanding Book Award 2014, Honourable Mention for “Osogbo and
the Art of Heritage” (IUP 2011)
Nigerian Studies book award for “Osogbo and the Art of
Heritage” (IUP 2011)
Tufts Collaborates Award “Media Aesthetics,” Principal Investigator
Tufts Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship
Tufts Tisch College, Faculty Fellowship
FRAC / Tufts Faculty Research Grant (“The Canaletto View. Heritage
Trouble in Dresden”)
CELT Faculty Fellow, Tufts University
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies, (IFK), Vienna,
Austria
Professorship (W2), University of Frankfurt a.M, offered but declined
Summer Research Grant / FRAC (“The Art of Heritage in Nigeria”),
Tufts University
Conference Grant (“Local Vitality and the Globalization of the Local”)
African Studies Center, University of Bayreuth & German Research
Council (DFG)
Research Grant (“Kunstwelten in Interaktion”), German Research
Council (DFG)
Conference Grant (“A Passion for Difference”), African Studies
Center, University of Bayreuth & German Research Council (DFG)
Research Grant (“Imagination, Ästhetische Praxis und Globale
Kunstwelt in Afrika”), German Research Council (DFG)
Colloquium Grant (“Negotiating Modernity in Africa”), Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Conference Grant (“Media, Mediality and Imagination.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives”), University of Bayreuth, Institute of
African Studies
Lecture Series (“African Modernities”), Thyssen Stiftung
Post-Doctoral Scholarship / Habilitation (“Nyau Maskenbünde in
Zentralmalawi”), German Research Council (DFG)
Doctoral Scholarship (“Text im Kontext: Schriftlichkeit im Grasland
von Kamerun), German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung)
Scholarship and Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Program
(DAAD)
Travel Grant, Girton College, Cambridge, England
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Monographs
2011
Osogbo and the Art of Heritage. Monuments, Deities, and Money.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
2005 Kalumbas Fest. Lokalität, Geschichte und Rituelle Praxis. Berlin: Lit
1992a Schrift, Staat und Symbolisches Kapital bei den Wimbum im Grasland von
Kamerun. Berlin: Lit
1992b Der Dekorierte Körper. Dimensionen der Tätowierung in der Südsee
Berlin: SMPK
Edited and Co-Edited Volumes / Special Issues
2012
2009
2008
2004
2002
“Iconoclash in the Age of Heritage,” Special Issue of African Arts, Vol. 45, No. 3
“Hybrid Heritage,” Special Issue of African Arts, Vol. 42, No. 4 (co-edited with
Ferdinand de Jong)
“Visual Publics,” Special Issue of Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art
History and Visual Culture. Vol 1, No. 2
Between Resistance and Expansion. Münster / Berlin / Rochester: Lit &
Transaction Publishers (co-edited with Gerd Spittler)
African Modernities. Entangled Meanings, Current Debate. Oxford / New York:
James Currey (co-edited with Jan Georg Deutsch and Heike Schmidt)
Articles and Book Chapters
2016a: “Prickly Prestations. Living with (World)Heritage in Nigeria.” World Heritage on
the Ground, eds. Christoph Brumann & David Berliner. Oxford: Berghahn, pp.
248-272
2016b “Über Kreuz: Leo Frobenius als Gegenspieler von Aby Warbung” Kulturkreise:
Leo Frobenius und seine Zeitgenossen. eds. Jean-Louis Georget, Hélène
Ivanoff und Richard Kuba Berlin: Reimer Verlag, pp. 25-43
2015 “Afrikanische Moderne im Zeichen der Dekolonisierung: Anyanwu von Ben
Enwonwu.” Kanon Kunstgeschichte, eds. Martin Schulz & Kirstin Marek,
München und Paderborn: Fink, pp. 400-418
2014a “Sublime Images. Masked Performances and the Aesthetics of Belonging in
Malawi.” Masquerade. Essays on Tradition and Innovation Worldwide, ed.
Deborah Bell, Jefferson: McFarland, pp. 84-90.
2014b “Remixing Heritage. How the Grove of a Nigerian River Deity became a
UNESCO World Heritage Site.” World Heritage and National Registers in
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2013a
2013b
2013c
2013d
2013e
2013f
2012a
2012b
2011
2010a
2010b
2010c
2010d
2009a
2009b
2009c
2008a
2008b
2007a
2007b
Perspective, eds. Thomas Gensheimer & Celeste Guichard. Rochester: Trans
action Publishers, pp. 33-4
“Preserving Heritage and the Values of Exchange. Lessons from Nigeria,”
History Compass. Vol. 11, No. 12, pp. 1035-1046
“Chris Marker’s Even Statues Die. An Introduction.” Art in Translation, Vol. 6, p.
429
“Bedürfnis zur Beachtung: Ikonoklasmus, afrikanisches Kulturerbe und
Bildökonomie,” Paideuma. Vol. 59, pp. 31-49
“Determining Value and the Politics of Presence,” African Arts, Vol. 46/2, p. 11
“New Media for Old Deities. Creating and Disputing Iconic Objects at a Nigerian
World Heritage Site.” The Challenge of the Object, eds. Georg Ulrich Großmann
& Petra Krutisch, Nuremberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, pp.
458-459
“From Iconoclasm to Heritage. The Osogbo Art School and the Dynamics of
Modernism in Nigeria,” A Companion to Modern African Art. A Reader, eds.
Monica Visona & Gitti Salami, Malden, MA: Wiley & Blackwell,
pp. 294-310
“Iconoclash in the Age of Heritage,” African Arts, Vol. 45/3, pp. 10-13
“Lagos – Oshodi. Inspecting an Urban Icon.” Afropolis, ed. Kerstin Pinter et al.
Köln: Walter König (English translation from 2010 catalogue), pp. 138143_
“Revisiting Osogbo – Religion, Media, and Control in a Nigerian Heritage
Site,” Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture,
Vol. 7, pp. 65-83
“Roundtable Contemporary African Art History and the Scholarship,” NKA.
Journal of Contemporary African Art. No. 24, pp. 80-151
“Troubled Waters. On Ownership and Otherness,” African Arts, Vol. 43/2, pp. 79
“Die Stimmung von Osogbo. Kulturerbe als Politik von Präsenz.” Spiegel und
Prisma. Festschrift für Ute Luig, eds. Dorothea Schulz & Jochen Seebode,
Berlin: Argument Verlag, pp. 252-266
“Lagos-Oshodi. Zur Inspektion einer Urbanen Ikone.“ Afropolis, ed. Kerstin
Pinter et al. Köln: Walter König, pp. 138-143
“Yoruba Heritage as Project, Reauthenticating the Osun Grove in Osogbo,
Nigeria,” African Arts, Vol. 42/4, pp. 24-37
“Modernism against Modernity. A Tribute to Susanne Wenger,” Critical
Interventions, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, No.3/4, pp.
245-255
“Mixed Media,” Journal of Material Religion, Vol. 5/2, pp. 229-230
“A Matter of Mimicry: Visual Publics.” Critical Interventions, Journal of African Art
History and Visual Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 2-7
“The Modernity of Heritage.” Figurations of Modernity. Global and Local
Representations in Comparative Perspectives, eds. Vincent Houben & Mona
Schrempf, Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 155-178
“An African Journey. Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism.” RES,
Journal of Anthropology and Comparative Aesthetics, Vol. 52, pp. 153-161
“Picturing the Past. Heritage, Photography, and the Politics of Appearance in
a Yoruba Town,” Reclaiming Heritage. Alternative Imaginaries of Memory, eds.
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2007c
2006
2005a
2005b
2005c
2004a
2004b
2004c
2004d
2003
2002a
2002b
2002c
2002d
2001a
2001b
2001c
2001d
Michael Rowlands & Frederick de Jong, Walnut Creek, CA: LeftCoast Press,
pp. 99-125
“Betwixt and Between. African Studies in Germany.” The Study of Africa. Vol. II,
ed. Paul Zeleza, Dakar & Michigan: Codesria & University of Michigan
Press, pp. 157-297
“Weltkulturerbe als Exportschlager.” Lettre International, No. 74, pp. 124-125
“Between and Betwixt. African Studies in Germany.” Africa Spectrum, Vol. 30,
No. 3: 403-427
“Medien, Grenzen, Öffentlichkeit. Für ein relationales Verständnis des
Lokalen.” Globalisierung und Lokales Handeln, eds. R. Loimeier et al.
Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 175-208
“Zeitgenössische Kunst in Afrika.” Brockhaus. Kunst der Welt. Mannheim:
VBI. pp. 542-559
“Keeping the Goddess Alive: Performing Culture and Remembering the Past in
Osogbo, Nigeria.” Social Analysis, Vol. 48; 32-54
“From an Anthropology of Astonishment to a Critique of Anthropology's
Common Sense” (together with Gerd Spittler), Between Resistance and
Expansion. Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa, eds. P. Probst & G. Spittler,
Münster, Rochester: Lit & Transaction Publishers, pp. 1-24
“Vital Politics. History and Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria.” Between Resistance
and Expansion. Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa, eds. P. Probst & G.
Spittler, Münster, Rochester: Lit & Transaction Publishers, pp. 279298
“Schrecken und Staunen. Nyau Masken der Chewa im Kontext der Konjunktur
des Okkulten und der Medialisierung des Schreckens,” Africa Screams. Das
Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult, ed. Tobias Wendl, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, pp.
115-125
“Differenz und Schaulust. Zur Sexualisierung des Sehens bei Twins Seven
Seven, Rotimi Fani Kayodé und Yinka Shonibare.” Sexualität und Tod.
Afrikanische Kunst und AIDS, ed. K. Schaefer Köln: Kunst Verlag, pp. 26-38
“Expansion and Enclosure. Ritual Landscapes and the Politics of Space in
Central Malawi.” Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 28, pp. 178-196
“Kalumbas Tänzer und Malandas Zorn. Polyzentrische Öffentlichkeit und die
Kraft des Performativen in Zentralmalawi.” Paideuma. Vol. 48: 135-143
“Entangled Meanings, Cherished Visions.” African Modernities. Entangled
Meanings and Current Debate, eds. G. Deutsch, P. Probst & H.
Schmidt, Oxford/New York: J. Currey & Heinemann, pp. 1-17
“Osogbo oder das Wunder der Wandlung“Afrikanische Reklamekunst.
Wuppertal, ed. Tobias Wendl, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, pp. 83-93
“Traumwerk, Bildwerk, Kunstwerk: Visualität und ästhetische Praxis in
Osogbo, Nigeria,” 100 Jahre Traumforschung: Kulturwissenschaftliche
Perspektiven, ed. B. Schnepel, Köln: Köppe Verlag, pp. 178-197
“Bild als Weltbild. Zentrale Verschiebungen in einem marginalen Thema.” In: H.
Behrend (Hrsg.) Geist, Bild, Narr. Zu einer Ethnologie der Konversionen.
Festschrift für Fritz Kramer, ed. Heike Behrend, Berlin: Philo, pp. 207-223.
“Krankheit und Heilung.” Afrikalexikon, Stuttgart:: Kröner Verlag, ed. E.
Maabe, pp. 617-619.
“Traum.” Afrikalexikon, ed. E. Maabe, Stuttgart: Kröner Verlag, p. 647.
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2001e “Siegfried Nadel. Foundations of Social Anthropology.” Hauptwerke der
Ethnologie, eds. C. Feest & K.H. Kohl, Stuttgart: Kröner, pp. 337-341
2000a “Picture Dance. Reflections on Nyau Image and Experience.” Iwalewa Forum,
Vol. 3/1, pp.17-32
2000b “Mischung und Moderne.” Wörterbuch der Ethnologie, ed. B Streck, Wuppertal:
Peter Hammer, pp. 156-160
1999a “Mchape 95 or the Sudden Fame of Billy Goodson Chisupe: On Healing, Social
Memory and the Enigma of the Public Sphere in Post-Banda-Malawi.” Africa,
Vol. 69/1, pp. 108-137
1999b “Körperbild und Körperkultur.” Ohne Körper Geht Nichts. Ein Theorie-Praxis
Hand Buch für Theater und Pädagogik, eds, G. Koch et al, Berlin &
Mielow: Schibri, pp.90-102
1999c “Von der Somatischen Wende zum Ästhetischen Aufbruch: Neues von der
Körperfront.” Ohne Körper geht Nichts. Ein Theorie-Praxis Hand Buch für
Theater und Pädagogik, eds, G. Koch et al Berlin & Mielow: Schibri, pp. 51-61
1998a “Auf der Suche nach dem Publikum. Prolegomena zu einer Anthropologie der
Öffentlichkeit im Subsaharischen Afrika.” Paragrana. Vol. 7, pp. 291-305
1998b “Imagination und Repräsentation: Variationen indigener Ethnographie in
Malawi.” Afrikaner Schreiben Zurück, eds. H. Behrend & T. Geider, Köln:
R. Köppe, pp. 81-103
1997 “Danser le Sida: Nyau Performances et Chewa Culture Populaire dans le Centre
du Malawi,” Les Arts de la Rue dans les Sociétés du Sud, eds. A. Ricard & M.
Agier, Autrepart (Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, Nouvelle Série); Vol. 1/1, pp.
91-112
1996a “Arbeit am Körper.” Anthropos, Vol. 91/1, pp. 225-229
1996b “Malinowskis Pendelschlag.” Historische Anthropologie, Vol 4/1, pp. 471-475
1995 “Die Moral von Mchape: Erinnerung, Kult und Krise in Malawi.” Das Große
Sterben. Seuchen machen Geschichte, ed. Hans Wilderotter, Berlin: Jovis, pp.
234-249
1994 “Omais Erben: Polynesische Variationen über die Ästhetik des Lokalen im
Globalen.” Historische Anthropologie, Vol. 2/1, pp. 87-106
1993a “Über das ethnologische Interesse am Traum. Anmerkungen zu einer
verlorenen Neugier. ” Anthropos, Vol. 88/1, pp. 153-162
1993b “The Letter and the Spirit.” Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, ed. Brian
Street, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, pp. 198-220
1993c “Im Zeichen der Körper: Tradition und Politik im gegenwärtigen Polynesien.” Von
Kokos zu Plastik. Kulturen der Südsee im Wandel, ed, Markus Schindlbeck,
Berlin: SMPK, pp. 49-66
1992 “Die Macht der Schrift. Zum ethnologischen Diskurs über eine populäre
Denkfigur. ” Anthropos, Vol. 87, pp. 167-179
1991 “Comment on Crane’s "Composing Culture".Current Anthropology, Vol. 32, pp.
307-308
1990a “Schrift, Schriftlichkeit, Verschriftlichung. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven eines
ethnologischen Forschungsfeldes. ” Kodikas/Code, Vol. 13, pp. 21-39
1990b “Patterns of Control. On Medicine, Politics and Social Change among the
Wimbum, Cameroon Grassfields. ” Anthropos, Vol. 85, pp. 447-454
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“The Letter and the Spirit. Literacy and Religious Authority in the History of the
Aladura Movement in Western Nigeria. ” Africa, 59/4, pp. 477-495
1988a “Beobachtung und Methode. Johann Stanislaus Kubary als Reisender und
Ethnograph im Spiegel seiner Briefe an Adolph Bastian.” Baessler Archiv, Vol.
3, pp. 23-56
1988b ‘Medicine as a Political Category. The Case of the Wimbum in the Cameroon
Grassfields.’ Ethnomedical Systems in Sub-Sahara Africa, ed. P. Nkwi
Leiden: African Studies Center, pp. 219-231
1987 “Randbemerkungen und empirische Notizen zum Thema Verschriftlichung.”
Technik und Sozialer Wandel, Beiträge zum 23. Deutschen Soziologentag, ed.
J. Friedrichs, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 33-37
1984 “Herrschaft und Fremdherrschaft.” Bikini oder die Bombardierung der Engel, ed.
F. Kramer et al. Frankfurt a.M: Syndikat, pp. 29-45
1989
Reviews
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2008
2007
2005
2004a
2004b
2002
2001
2000a
2000b
1999
1998a
1998
1994a
1994b
Sidney Kasfir, African Art and the Colonial Encounter. Bloomington
University of Indiana Press. Journal of African History, Vol. 51/1, pp. 104-105
Arnd Schneider & Chris Wright (eds.) Contemporary Art and Anthropology.
London/New York: Berg. Anthropos Vol. 103, pp. 287-288
African Comics. An Exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem. African Arts,
Vol. 40, pp. 88-89
K.H. Kohl. 2003. Die Macht der Dinge. Geschichte und Theorie Sakraler
Objekte. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. Vol. 71, pp. 291-293
F. Ginsburg, L. Abu Lughod, & Larkin, B.( eds.) 2002. Media Worlds.
Anthropos, Vol. 98, pp. 342-342
S.M. Low, & D. Lawrence-Zuniga (eds.) 2003. Anthropology of Space and
Place: Locating Culture. Anthropos Vol. 98, pp. 356-357
M. Felix and M. Jordan. 1997. Mask Characters of the Upper Zambezi.
Anthropos, Vol. 97, pp. 574-575
J. & J. Comaroff (eds.) 1999. Civil Society and the Political Imagination of
Africa, Anthropos, Vol.96, pp. 457-458
J. Fabian. 1998. Moments of Freedom. Anthropology and Popular Culture.
Anthropos Vol. 95, pp. 257-258
Z.S. Strother 1998. Inventing the Mask. Agency and History in the Art of the
Central Pende. Anthropos, Vol. 95, 645-646
J. Weintraub &. K. Kumar (eds).1997 Public and Private. Anthropos, Vol. 94,
pp. 640-641
L. Birch de Aguilar.1996. Inscribing the Mask. Interpretation of Nyau Masks
and Ritual Performance among the Chewa in Central Malawi. Anthropos, Vol.
93, pp. 233-235
D. Parkin, L. Caplan & H. Fisher (eds.) 1996. The Politics of Cultural
Performance. Anthropos, Vol. 93, pp. 267-268
B. Turner 1992. Regulating Bodies. Anthropos, Vol. 89/2, p. 631
M. Lock and S. Lindenbaum (eds.) 1993. Knowledge, Power and Practice. In:
Anthropos, Vol. 89/2, p. 632
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1993a D.B. Gewertz and F.K. Errington. 1992. Twisted Histories and Altered
Contexts: Representing the Chambri in a World System. Zeitschrift für
Ethnologie, Vol.118, pp. 129-130
1993b M.C. Jedrei & R. Shaw. 1992. Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa.
Anthropos, Vol. 88/2 , pp. 291-293
1993c. Kunst und Körper. Tatauierung in der Südsee. Museums Journal, Vol. 7/1, pp.
31-34
1992 R. Dillon 199O. Ranking and Resistance: A precolonial Cameroonian Polity in
Regional practice. Africa, Vol. 88, p. 195 (review)
1991a M.W. Delancey. 1989. Cameroon - Dependence and Independence In: Africa,
Vol. 61 /2, p. 312
1991b P. Geschiere and P. Konings (eds.) 1989. On the Political Economy of
Cameroon. Historical Perspectives. Africa, Vol. 61/2, p. 194
1989a A. Henn. 1988. Reisen in Vergangene Gegenwart. Geschichte und
Geschichtlichkeit der Nichteuropäer im Denken des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Mundus, Vol. 25/2, pp. 116-117
1989b C. Marx. 1988. Völker ohne Schrift und Geschichte. Zur Historischen
Erfassung des vorkolonialen Schwarzafrikas in der deutschen Forschung des
19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Mundus. Vol. 25/3, pp. 202-203
1989c C. Geary. 1988. Images from Bamum. German Colonial Photography at the
Court of King Nyoja, Cameroon, Westafrica, 1902-1915. Tribus, Vol. 38, pp.
174-175
Working Papers, Interviews, Reports, etc.
2003a Interview with Michael Lambek, NAB Newsletter of African Studies at
Bayreuth University, Vol. 2/2, pp. 6-9.
2003b Interview with Ulf Hannerz. NAB Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth
University, Vol. 2/1, pp. 6-9.
2002a Interview with Frederick Cooper. NAB Newsletter of African Studies at
Bayreuth University, Vol. 1/2, pp. 6-9.
2002b Interview with Jean and John Comaroff. NAB Newsletter of African Studies at
Bayreuth University, Vol. 1/1, pp. 4-7.
1998 Afrikanische Moderne(n) – Bericht über eine Veranstaltungsreihe an der
Humboldt-Universität", Humboldt-Spektrum, Bd. 5/4, pp. 24-29
1995 Moral Discourses and Ritual Authority in Central Malawi. Sozialanthropologische
Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 66, Berlin: Das Arabische Buch , pp. 1-16
1993 Kunst und Körper. Tatauierung in der Südsee. Museums Journal SMPK, Vol.
7/1, pp. 31-34
1991 Schrift, Kultur, Schriftkultur. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven eines ethnologischen
Forschungsfeldes. Sozialanthropologische Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 35, Berlin: Das
Arabische Buch , pp. 1-15
1987 The Letter and The Spirit. Literacy and Religious Authority in the History of the
Aladura Movement. Sozialanthropologische Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 4, Berlin: Das
Arabische Buch , pp. 1-18
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Exhibitions
2012
Global Flows. (co-curated Amy Schlegel and members of the Tufts Art History
Department. Tufts University Art Gallery
2006 Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as a Metaphor for Identity
(co-curated with Pamella Alara and Amy Schlegel), Tufts University Art Gallery
& Harn Museum University of Florida, Gainesville
2003 Spuren des Heiligen. Fotografische Pigmentdrucke von Lukas Werth
Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth
2000. Fabulous Beasts. Masked Portraits of Douglas Curran. Iwalewa Haus, University
of Bayreuth
1993 Von Kokos zu Plastik. Kulturen der Südsee im Wandel. (co-curated with Mattias
Schindlbeck), Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SMKP)
1992 Der Dekorierte Körper: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SMKP)
Lectures and Conference Papers
3/2016
10/2015
4/2015
9/2014
6/2014
2/2014
11/2013
6/2013
7/2012
7/2012
7/2012
3/2012
7/2011
The Study of Heritage in Urban Africa. Notes towards a Research Agenda.
Emory University
Christos’s River. On Preservation and the Problem of the Gift. Roger Williams
University
On Neighboring, Tisch College, Tufts University
Rags over the River. Reflections on the Global Cult of Heritage.
Graduiertenkolleg Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs. University of
Rostock
Der Unheimliche Andere. Warburg und Frobenius. Institut für
Kunstgeschichte, FU Berlin
Über Kreuz: Aby Warburgs Verhältnis zu Leo Frobenius. Frobenius Institut,
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
On Property, Values, and Exchange: Living with (World)Heritage in Nigeria.
African Studies Workshop, Harvard University
Iconocrash. On Heritage, Property, and Exchange in Nigeria, African Studies
Institute, University of Cologne
Bedürfnis zur Beachtung: Ikonoklasmus, afrikanisches Kulturerbe und
Bildökonomie (annual Frobenius lecture). Frobenius Institute, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt
Osogbo and the Art of Heritage. Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth
History. Boston University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture.
New Media for Old Deities: Creating and Disputing Icons in a Nigerian World
Heritage Site. CIHA conference on “The Challenge of the Object.”
Nuremberg, Germany
From Einstein to Enwezor. Why and How to Write a History of African Art
Kultur als Erbe. Vom Sozialen Faktum zur Globalen Bewegung. Institut für
Ethnologie und Afrikawissenschaften, University of Mainz, Germany
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6-2011
6/2011
6/2011
5/2011
4/2011
4/2011
3/2011
3/2011
11/2010
11/2010
10/2010
5/2010
11/2009
3/2009
2/2009
11/2008
11/2008
6/2008
5/2008
12/2007
Das Bild als Gabe. Überlegungen zur Theorie des Kulturerbes. Institut für
Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, University of Vienna
Aura and Effect. Introduction to Conference on the Media of Religion. Institute
für Cultural Studies, IFK, Vienna
Aura and Effect. The Media of Religion. Conference organized for the
Institute of Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria
Susanne Wenger und der Osun Hain in Nigeria. Völkerkundemuseum,
Vienna
The Politics of Presence. On Heritage, Media, and Religion. International
conference on “Materiality, Memory, and Cultural Heritage.” Technical
University, Istanbul, Turkey,
Divine Distance. Media-Theoretical Reflections on Art and Religion. Tufts
Humanities Center
Atlas versus the Cherry Tree: Museum, the Nation, and the World. Panel
Discussion, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University
Iconoclash in the Age of Heritage. Arts Council of the African Studies
Association Conference, UCLA
Kultur als Erbe. Vom Sozialen Faktum zur Globalen Bewegung. Institut für
Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Germany
World Heritage in the Parliament of Things. With Professor Latour on a Visit
to Dresden, Weatherhead Centre, Harvard University
Strategies and Tactics – Again: Revisiting De Certeau in the Study of African
Visual Culture. ASA Conference, San Francisco
Contemporary and Contemporaneity. Remarks on the Politics of Time.
Workshop on “Disputing the Global. Art History’s Future Symposium.“ Tufts
University
Expanding the Empire of the Goddess. Religious Tourism and Processes of
Retraditionalization in Nigeria. International Conference on “Tourism and
Word Heritage,” University of Lawal, Quebec,
Heritage as an Image Machine. Examples from Fieldwork in Africa. African
Studies Association Conference, Panel: The Heritage Industry
The Value of Art – An African Perspective. Symposium on “The Value of Art.
The Place of Art in the University Today,” Tufts University
Modernism Against Modernity. How The Grove of a Nigerian River Deity
became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sixth Savannah Symposium: World
Heritage and National Registers in Perspective. Savannah College of Art and
Design
Das Dilemma des Zeitgenössischen. Oder Was Heißt Afrikanische
Kunstgeschichte Heute? Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin
Revisiting Osogbo. Images, Media and the Art of Mediation. Columbia
Seminar on African, American and Oceanic Arts, Columbia University, NY
Osogbo oder die drei Weisen von Präsenz. Institut für Kulturwissenschaftliche
Forschung, Vienna, Austria
Im Zeichen des Körpers. Überlegungungen zum Studium des Kulturerbes
als Normative Ordnung. Frobenius Institut, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
University, Frankfurt, Germany
Expansion als Interaktion. Globale Kunstwelten Heute. Kunstuniversität Linz
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2/2005
11/2004
10/2004
6/2004
2/2004
11/2003
10/2003
11/2002
11/2002
9/2002
Picturing the Past. Photography, Memory and the Politics of Appearance in
Nigeria. Triannual ACASA Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville
Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism. Panel. “Time Loops. The
Revival of Primitivism”. College Arts Association, New York.
Entangled Presence. The Art, Economics and Poetics of Heritage. ASA
Annual Conference, San Francisco
Against Religion. Imagination, Style and the Politics of Appearance, Walter
Rodney Seminar Series, Boston University
Heritage as Presence. St Cross Africa Lecture, Oxford University
Money, Media, and Memory: Heritage Politics in Nigeria. International
Conference on “Religion and Media”. University of Amsterdam
Contested Presence. Memory and Media in Nigeria. International
Conference on “Sites of Memory in Africa,” Harvard University
Producing Presence. The Art of Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria. Lectures
Series on “Yoruba Art, History and Politics.” Organized by Art History and
African Studies Emory University
Heritage Epidemics. On Media, Memory, and Modernity in Osogbo, Nigeria.
Conference on “Configurations of Modernity,” Berlin, Humboldt University
Contested Presence: Memory and Monument in Osogbo, Nigeria,
Northwestern University, Monday Night Lecture, African Studies Seminar
Murmurs of Memory. Public Art and National Culture in Osogbo, Nigeria,
, Panel: “Memory and the Public Sphere.” AEGIS Conference, London
What Does Aesthetic Practice Mean? Panel: “Aesthetic Practice in Africa.”
AEGIS Conference, London
Confronting the Gaze. Seeing Sex in Times of AIDS. International
Conference, “AIDS and the Moral Order,” Berlin.
Picturing Osun. From History to Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria. Panel:
“Revisiting the Canon. African Art History Today.” College Arts
Association, Atlanta,
The Semantics of The New. International Conference: “Questioning the
New.” University of Bayreuth, Germany
African Angst. Colloquium in Honour of Ute Luig, Free University of Berlin
The Culture of Ritual. International Conference on “Ritual and Culture.”
University of Cologne
The Day Jacob Lawrence Left Osogbo. An Untold Tale in the History of
Modern African Art. Lecture Series “African Modernity:” Linden Museum
Stuttgart
Visual Spheres, Public Spheres, Visual Publics? Institute of Visual Studies,
University of Linz
In Search of the Public Sphere. Department of Anthropology, University of
Basel
Godly Monuments. Memory and Monument in Osogbo, Nigeria.
International Conference. The Audience of Images. Visual Publics in Africa
and Beyond, University of Bayreuth
Learning from Debord in Osogbo. Art, Anarchy and Arrest in Nigeria.
Rautenstrauch Joest Museum in Cologne
Godly Monuments. Memory, Media and Money in Osogbo, Nigeria. Panel:
Museums and Heritage, ASA Conference in Manchester,
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10/1998
9/1999
6/1998
3/1999
9/1998
7/1998
11/1997
4/1996
9/1995
10/1994
3/1993
10/1992
Osogbo Revisited. International Conference: A Passion of Images: Ulli Beier
and his Contribution to Yoruba Studies. Iwalewa-Haus. University of
Bayreuth
Vital Politics. From History to Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria. Conference. “The
Vitality of the Local and the Localization of the Global.” University of
Bayreuth
Dreamwork, Imagework, Artwork. The Case of Osogbo, Nigeria.
International Colloquium, 100 Years Sigmund Freud’s Traumdeutung. Bad
Homburg
Imagination, Aesthetic Practice and the Global Art World. A Research Project.
Department of Anthropology. Free University Berlin.
From World Picture to Picture World: A Note on the Prehistory of the Iconic
Turn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Dancing AIDS. Morality, Politics and Performance in Malawi. University of
Leipzig
Picture Dance. Reflections on Nyau Image and Experience Opening of the
Exhibition “Fabulous Beasts. Masked Portraits of Douglas Curran.” IwalewaHaus, University of Bayreuth
Imagination und Repräsentation. Variationen indigener Ethnographie in
Malawi. Conference: Afrikaner Schreiben Zurück. University of Cologne
Ritual, Raum und Erinnerung. Organisation of Panel and Introductory Paper
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV).
University of Heidelberg
Auf der Suche nach dem Publikum. Prolegomena zu einer Anthropologie der
Öffentlichkeit im Subsaharischen Afrika. Ringvorlesung Kulturen des
Performativen. Free University Berlin
Mischung und Moderne. University Seminar, Institute for African Studies,
University of Bayreuth.
Afrikanische Modernen, Institute for African Studies, Humboldt University
Berlin
The Modernity of Masking Traditions in Central Malawi. Department of Fine
Die Moderne und das Böse. Symposium Afrika und die Moderne, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
and Performing Arts, Chancellor College, University of Zomba
Malinowski’s Pendelschlag. Die Ausstellung Afrika: Die Kunst eines
Kontinents im Berliner Gropius Bau. Institute for African Studies, Humboldt
University Berlin
Die Moral von Mchape. On Healing, Social Memory and the Enigma of the
Public Sphere in Post-Banda-Malawi Annual Conference, Association of
German Anthropology. Vienna, Austria
Omais Erben: Polynesische Variationen über die Ästhetik des Lokalen im
Globalen. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin. SMPK.
Letter and the Spirit. Literacy and Religious Authority in the History of the
Aladura Movement in Western Nigeria. University Lecture Series. Free
University Berlin
Über das Ethnologische Interesse am Traum. Anmerkungen zu einer
verlorenen Neugier. Annual Conference of the German Anthropological
Association. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
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9/1987
12/1985
10/1985
Kunst und Körper. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin. SMPK
Der Dekorierte Körper. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin. SMPK
Prophet Harris the Weberian Concept of Disenchantment. Afrikanistentag,
University of Mainz
Medicine as a Political Category. The Case of the Wimbum in the Cameroon
Grassfields. Conference “Ethnomedical Systems in Sub-Sahara Africa.”
African Studies Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Literacy and the Great Divide. A Pragmatic Reconceptualization. Annual
Conference of German Association of Sociology
All the President’s Men. Local Politics and Social Change in NorthwestCameroon. Department of Anthropology. Bern, Switzerland.
Who are the Tikar? Department of History. University of Yaounde, Cameroon
FIELDWORK
2010
2000 – 2009:
1993 – 1999
1984 – 1986
1981
Dresden, Germany
Osogbo, Nigeria
Lilongwe, Malawi
Ndu, Cameroon
Yap, Micronesia
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Memberships
Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)
African Studies Association (ASA)
College Arts Association (CAA)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Editorial Advisory Board
Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture (Routledge)
Art in Translation (Getty Foundation)
Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Reimer Verlag)
Evaluation Work
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
German Research Foundation (DFG)
University Presses in the U.S.
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Ph.D. Committee Work & Tenure/Promotion Cases
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Rochester
Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
LANGUAGES
German (native language), English, French, Italian, Chichewa, Yoruba