Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Teaching Experience of Dr. Julia Vorhölter

Winter 2018/19

  • Madness – Introduction to Psychiatric and Psychological Anthropology (4 hours/ week)

    • Summer Break 2018
  • Invited Guest Lectures on ‘Methodological Issues in Anthropology’ at the Department of Anthropology of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam)

    • Summer 2018
  • Themes, Trends and Theories – Exploring Contemporary Issues of Anthropological Journals
  • Crises of Capitalism: Neo-Marxist Perspectives in the Work of David Harvey

    • Winter 2017/18
  • Belief, Health, Globalization – Medical Anthropology in Africa (4 hours/ week)

    • Spring 2017 (Washington University, St. Louis)
  • Topics in Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Mental Health in Africa (engl.)

    • Summer 2016
  • Themes, Trends and Theories – Exploring Contemporary Issues of Anthropological Journals
  • Methodological Basics for Student Research Projects

    • Winter 2015/16
  • Urbanity, Lifestyle, Consumption – Middle Class(es) in Africa (4 hours/ week)

    • Summer break 2015: Guest lecture and seminar at University of Iringa, Tanzania
  • Discourses on Mental Illness and Therapeutic Practices in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective (engl.)

    • Summer 2015
  • Madness – Introduction to Psychiatric and Psychological Anthropology (3 hours/ week)

    • Winter 2014/15
  • Contemporary Debates in African Studies – Examples from Uganda
  • Methodological Basics for Student Research Projects

    • Summer 2014
  • Anthropology of Neoliberalism – Recent Debates
  • Between Idealism and Ideological Critique – The Ambivalent Relationship between Anthropology and Development Cooperation

    • Winter 2013/14
  • Introduction to Fieldwork Methods. Theory and Practice of Participant Observation
  • “African Sexualities” – Discourses in and about Gender, Sexuality and Kinship in Africa

    • Summer 2013
  • Makers or Breakers? Youth as Cultural Actors in Contemporary Contexts of Social Change
  • Foucault: Power and Discourse

    • Winter 2012/13
  • Practical Introduction to Fieldwork Methods
  • Anarchy in Africa? Representations of Conflict in Africa and the Role of the Media as Peacebuilder and Conflict Actor

    • Summer 2012
  • Criticism? Reform? Abolishment? The Ambivalent Relationship between Anthropology and Development Cooperation
  • Football and Globalization

    • Winter 2011/12
  • Practical Introduction to Fieldwork Methods
  • Disappointed Development, Mislead Modernization – Critical Anthropology and the Work of James Ferguson

    • Summer 2011
  • In Between “Tradition” and “Modernity” – Societal Change and Generational Conflicts in Eastern Africa

    • 2010/11: Teaching assignment at the Institute of Peace & Strategic Studies, Gulu University, Uganda
  • Ethnic Identity and Conflict Transformation (engl.)

    • Winter 2009/10
  • Rebellion, Representation, Resistance – Youth as Cultural Actors

    • Summer 2009
  • Armed Conflicts in Eastern Africa – New Approaches in the Anthropology of Conflict