„Läuft. Die Ausstel­lung zur Menstruation“

06.10.2023 bis 06.10.2024
Muse­um Europäis­ch­er Kul­turen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Etwa 2 Mil­liar­den Men­schen auf der Welt men­stru­ieren. Über 1,5 Mil­liar­den weit­ere Men­schen hat­ten ihre Peri­ode oder wer­den sie bekom­men. Seit rund 10 Jahren nun wird die Men­stru­a­tion in Europa öffentlich disku­tiert. Das MEK präsen­tiert die Ausstel­lung dazu.

„Läuft“ zeigt eine Geschichte des Prag­ma­tismus und der Utopi­en, des Erfind­ungsre­ich­tums und Aktivis­mus. Dafür ver­sam­melt die Ausstel­lung rund 100 his­torische und brand­neue Men­stru­a­tion­sar­tikel sowie Wer­beanzeigen. Schaubilder, Inter­views und Hands-On-Sta­tio­nen ver­mit­teln den aktuellen Wis­sens­stand. Mit knapp 200 All­t­ags­ge­gen­stän­den, Fotos, Grafiken, Zeitungsar­tikeln und Social-Media-Posts fächert die Ausstel­lung die Diskurse auf, die Men­stru­ierende seit Jahrzehn­ten begleit­en: Es geht um The­men wie Leis­tung, Peri­o­den­ar­mut, Müll, „Nor­mal­ität“, Naturver­bun­den­heit, Stim­mung und einige mehr – und natür­lich um Aktivis­mus! Denn im Zen­trum ste­hen die Stim­men und Erfahrun­gen von Men­stru­ieren­den selb­st. Wir laden dazu ein, ihnen in Inter­views zu lauschen und sich selb­st auszu­tauschen. Fil­mauss­chnitte, Musik und Kunst­werke run­den die Ausstel­lung ab.

Mehr Infos unter http://www.smb.museum/flow.

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Visu­al anthro­pol­o­gy exhi­bi­tion: “Faces of Hypnosis”
LSE Atri­um Gallery
Houghton Street, Lon­don (WC2A 2AE), UK
11 Nov – 20 Dec
Open from 10am to 8pm from Mon­day to Fri­day, and admis­sion is free.

“Faces of Hyp­no­sis” com­bines 31 ethno­graph­ic pho­tos, 45 min­utes of video instal­la­tion, and over 30 arte­facts and art­works to explore hyp­no­sis and the lives of the peo­ple who prac­tice it. It has a par­tic­u­lar focus on hyp­no­tists liv­ing in Indone­sia, there­by exam­in­ing how ideas about the mind, con­scious­ness, trance, and ther­a­py are con­strued and enact­ed by cit­i­zens of a Mus­lim-major­i­ty coun­try in the Glob­al South. The exhi­bi­tion could sup­port teach­ing in psy­cho­log­i­cal anthro­pol­o­gy, med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, or visu­al anthropology.

You can access fur­ther details here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/11/20241111/Faces-of-hypnosis

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Casey Golom­s­ki: „God’s Wait­ing Room: Images of Care in Poet­ic Form”
Webi­nar of the series “Images, Age­ing and Care”
9th Decem­ber, 18:00–19:30 CET, 17:00–18:30 GMT, 12:00–13:30 Eastern

Cati Coe will mod­er­ate the discussion

Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93360548693 Meet­ing ID: 933 6054 8693

ABOUT THE TALK: A new work of cre­ative non­fic­tion, God’s Wait­ing Room (Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty Press and Wits Uni­ver­si­ty Press) flips the script on racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in US long term care, show­ing how old­er ‘racist’ whites and their black nurs­es find grace togeth­er among their ghosts and despite the odds. Set thir­ty years after apartheid in South Africa, it fea­tures the untold sto­ry of Nel­son Mandela’s Robben Island Prison nurse as well as sto­ries of queer old­er adults and health­care providers, teach­ing us how racism, ageism, and sex­ism impact where we end up, who cares, and what mat­ters in the end. While ground­ed in sev­en years of ethno­graph­ic research, the book is nar­rat­ed as tak­ing place in a sin­gle day and employs col­or pho­tos and visu­al­ly strik­ing ele­ments of poet­ic form, trans­la­tion, and prose. This sem­i­nar offers a win­dow into the author’s cre­ative process, sit­u­at­ing these nar­ra­tive ele­ments with­in his­to­ries of imag­is­tic and ethno­graph­ic poet­ry and relat­ing the book to recent imag­is­tic approach­es in the anthro­pol­o­gy of aging, care, and the Otherwise. 

BIO: A cre­ative writer and cul­tur­al and med­ical anthro­pol­o­gist, Casey Golom­s­ki is a Depart­ment Chair and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Hamp­shire, with vis­it­ing appoint­ments at the uni­ver­si­ties of Pre­to­ria and the Wit­wa­ter­srand. He is the author of the book Funer­al Cul­ture (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press) and many arti­cles, spe­cial issues, and poems in anthro­pol­o­gy, African and Black stud­ies, and lit­er­ary journals.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES ON IMAGES, AGEING AND CARE: This webi­nar series – free and open to all- gath­ers anthro­pol­o­gists and image-mak­ers inter­est­ed in explor­ing the onto­log­i­cal and epis­te­mo­log­i­cal con­nec­tions between images, aging and care, treat­ing the rela­tion­ship and these phe­nom­e­na as requir­ing and invit­ing inter­ro­ga­tion. It is spon­sored by the Images of Care Col­lec­tive, the Asso­ci­a­tion for Anthro­pol­o­gy, Geron­tol­ogy and the Life Course (AAGE), EASA’s Age and Gen­er­a­tions Net­work (AgeNet) and the Net­work for Visu­al Anthro­pol­o­gy of the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion of Social Anthro­pol­o­gists (VANEASA). You can see our past webi­na­rs here.

To be informed about the next webi­na­rs, sign up for the mail­ing list by click­ing here.

Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you all there,

Bar­bara Pieta, Cati Coe, Pao­lo Favero and Mar­ti­na Laganà

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