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Ethnografische Objekte als Akteure:
Ein Gespräch über Museumspraktiken in umkämpften Öffentlichkeiten

As part of the DFG Public Anthropology Network, I co-organized the workshop, Re/Making and Navigating Publics (November 17–18, 2022, Berlin), with Beate Binder, as well as Hansjörg Dilger and Thomas Stodulka. The workshop invited participants to explore ideas, concepts, and the politics of making things public. In 2025, the network published the German-language open-access reader Public Anthropology: Knowledge Practices and Social Interventions of the Anthropological Disciplines, edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder, and Thomas G. Kirsch: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaft/public_anthropology-18744.html

The volume includes our chapter, Ethnographic Objects as Actors: A Conversation on Museum Practices in Contested Publics—a dialogue convened by Hansjörg Dilger and me with Sofia Botvinnik, Benjamina Efua Dadzie, and Paola Ivanov. We discuss the role of ethnographic objects and collections in shaping and mobilising publics. Drawing on their museum work, Sofia, Benjamina, and Paola reflect on the roles of collections in public debates, political agenda-setting, and the future of museum practice.


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