courses

Winter term 2024-25

Conspiracy Theorizing from the Global South

Summer term 2020

Dramatic Anthropology. Theory and Case-Study in Cultural Anthropology

Winter term 2019-20

Use and Abuse of Theories and Concepts in Cultural Anthropology

Summer term 2019

The Populism of the Precarious. Marginalization, Mediatization and Moralization in the Global South

Media 4.0. From Mantra to Tweet

Winter term 2018-19

Affect, Political Emotions, and the Politics of Ressentiment

Betwixt and Between: Hinduism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Summer term 2017

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Cultural Theory. FromA(lthusser) to Zizek

Winter term 2016-17

Cultural Landscapes of Pakistan

Methoden der Text- und Kulturwissenschaften (Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies)

Summer term 2016

Voices from the Margins: What is the Political in Political Documentary Film? (with Max Kramer)

Political Rhetoric in South Asia

Winter term 2015-16

Anthropology of Pakistan: A Nation “Insufficiently Imagined”?

“Der Hindu” in rezenten Urdu Horrorgeschichten aus Pakistan (“The Hindu” in recent Urdu Horror Tales from Pakistan)

Summer term 2015

Traces of the Other. Theories of Difference in Cultural Studies (with Max Kramer)

Public Spheres in South Asia. Languages of Resistance and Political Mobilization

Winter term 2014-15

Sprache. Kultur: Grundfragen der Textwissenschaften mit Südasienbezug. (Language. Culture. Introduction to Literary Studies with Regard to South Asia)

Summer term 2014

Pakistanische Minoritäten in verschiedenen Hindiquellen (Minorities in Pakistan through Hindi Sources; with Gautam Liu)

Cultural Theory 101: Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ideology. From A(lthusser) to Z(izek)

Winter term 2013-14

Anthropology of Pakistan: Non-Muslim Communities, Human Rights, and Radical Democracy

Methoden der Text- und Kulturwissenschaften (Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies)

Summer term 2013

Theories of Language, Theories of Practice

Soziolinguistik mit Südasienbezug (Sociolinguistics and South Asia)

Winter term 2012-13

Cultural Landscapes of Pakistan

Methoden der Text- und Kulturwissenschaften (Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies)

Summer term 2012

Looping, Grouping, and Instituting: Theories of Group Formation (with Sandra Bärnreuther)

Winter term 2010-11

Minorities in Pakistan (with Prof. William Sax)