Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture Series

Under the Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture Series the Research Cluster Society and Culture in Motion publishes guest lectures held at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg by leading scholars under the same title. The lectures are organised by the Research Clusters Society and Culture in Motion and Enlightment – Religion – Knowledge and dedicated to Anton Wilhelm Amo.

Volume 8: “The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility” by Ayelet Shachar

Volume 7: “Quantitative Marbling: New Conceptual Tools for the Socio-History of Quantification” by Emmanuel Didier

Volume 6: “The Capacity for Truth: Of ‘Restitution’ in African Systems of Thought” by Achille Mbembe

Volume 5: “Ethos und Wissensproduktion bei Sicherheitsbürokratien” by Werner Schiffauer

Volume 4: “Decolonizing the History of Philosophy” by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Volume 3: “The Precarious Future of National Souvereignty” by Arjun Appadurai

Volume 2: “Recht, Staat und Bürokratie in menschenrechtlicher Perspektive” by Hans Jörg Sandkühler

Volume 1: “Translation and Dissonance: Innovative Patterns in the Creative Industries” by Michael Hutter

ABOUT THE LOST RESEARCH NETWORK

The acronym LOST stands for Law, Organization, Science and Technology. Anthropology of Law (L), Organization Studies (O), and Science and Technology Studies (ST) are three vibrant transdisciplinary fields. Working at their intersections and merging their approaches, we also emphasize the economic, political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of fact-making in the present. The ambition of our detailed ethnographies is to respond to long-standing questions raised in social theory and philosophy, and vice versa, to translate these questions into ethnographic inquiry with a particular focus on critique. We address questions of global and planetary scope, although several of our empirical projects are located in Africa. Since its founding in 2002, LOST has grown from a small group based in Halle, Germany, to a decentralized network of independent scholars in many countries. Its vibrant activities have been winding down for a few years so that during 2024 this website is being turned into an archive.

Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture Series

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ABOUT THE LOST RESEARCH NETWORK