Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Since April 2025, Jonas Tinius is responsible for the newly renamed and reframed Berlin-Brandenburgische Landesstelle für Alltagskultur (Office for Everyday Culture), which existed since 1995 as the Landesstelle für Berlin-Brandenburgische Volkskunde and was directed by Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz. The Office for Everyday Culture gathers the archives, collections, and bequests of the Institute for European Ethnology and acts as a public documentation and research laboratory. Going forward, it aims to facilitate collaborative possibilities with artists, curators, journalists, scholars, and students to work towards public anthropological engagement with (extra-)curricular knowledge production, archives, and university collections. For more information and until the digital presence of the Office for Everyday Culture has been revamped, please consult the Collections Website of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (link) or consider the module "Volk" with Franka Schneider in our edited book Awkward Archives (link). 

Events

22 April 2025. 'Forms of Friendship: Can Institutions Function as Infrastructures of Solidarity'. Book launch and Institutskolloquium seminar with Michal Murawski (UCL). 4.30pm, Room 408. More info here. 

29 April 2025. 'Zwischen Utopie und Alltag. Die Landesstelle für Alltagskultur als öffentliches Labor'. Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin. Public event, no registration necessary. 2.30pm, Room 408. More info here. 

20 May 2025. 'Every Monument Will Fall' (Dan Hicks, 2025). Book launch, discussion, reception. Public event, no registration necessary. 4.30pm, Room 408, IfEE. More info here. 

16-19 October 2025. 'Styles of Experimentation. Unsettling the Anthropological Syllabus'. 4th workshop of the EASA network colleex - collaboratory for ethnographic experimentation. Berlin. More info here. 

Projects

July-October 2025. 'Decentring Knowledge Production: Innovating Public Anthropology in Postindustrial University Hinterlands'. Funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership. HU Project lead: Dr Jonas Tinius. Tandem partner: Prof Paul Basu (Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford).