Christoph Wulf, Dr. phil., professor for anthropology and philosophy of education and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Member of the International Research Training Group "InterArt", of the Collaborative Research Center "Performing Cultures" and the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at the Freie Universität Berlin; professor honoris causa, University of Bucharest; Vice-Chairman of the Society for Historical Anthropology; founder of the commission on Educational Anthropology in the German Society for Educational Science; he is Vice President of the German Commission for UNESCO

UNESCO

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 and member of the Board of Directors of the German Commission for UNESCO

German Commission for UNESCO

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; member of the Conseil scientifique of the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (Paris/Lyon) and of the International Research Centre for Cultural Sciences (Vienna).

Focus of research:

historical and educational anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

, mimesis

Mimesis

Mimesis , from μιμεῖσθαι , "to imitate," from μῖμος , "imitator, actor") is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the...

, aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

, intercultural education, performativity

Performativity

Performativity is an interdisciplinary term often used to name the capacity of speech and language in particular, as well as other non-verbal forms of expressive action, to intervene in the course of human events. The term derives from the work in speech act theory originated by the analytic...

 and ritual

Ritual

A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers....

 research.

Research periods, invited stays and visiting professorships

Stanford University

Stanford University

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, USA; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Institute of Education London University, United Kingdom; Faculty of Education and Institute of Education Stockholm University, Sweden; European Peace University Stadtschlainingen, Austria; Fondazione San Carlo, Modena, Italy; Intitut Universitaire de France; Université de Paris Nanterre, Université de Paris Saint-Denis, Université de Paris Diderot, Université de Paris Jussieu; Université de Lille, France; The Tokyo University, Japan; Kyoto University, Japan; International Research Center for Cultural Science, Wien and lately in Beijing, China; Mysore, India.

Publications in recent years (selection)

(with Gebauer): Mimesis. Culture, Art, Society], University of California Press: 1995; (French edition au cerf, Paris 2005; Italian edition 2007); Education in Europe. An Intercultural Task, ed., Münster/New York 1995; Education for the 21st Century. Commonalities and Diversities, ed., Münster/New York 1998; (with Gebauer): Spiel-Ritual-Geste, Reinbek 1998, (Danish 2001; French 2004; Japanese edition in preparation); (with Dibie): Ethnosociologie des échanges interculturels, Paris 1998; (with Schäfer): Bild, Bilder, Bildung, ed., Weinheim 1999; (with Kamper) : Logik und Leidenschaft, ed., Berlin 2002 ;Traité d’anthropologie: Philosophie, cultures, histories, éd, Paris 2002; Corpo, cosmo, cultura. Enciclopedia antropologica, ed., Milano 2002; Anthropology of Education, Münster/New York 2002; (French 1999; German 2001 ; Spanish. 2004; Portugese 2005); (et allii): Das Soziale als Ritual. Zur performativen Bildung von Gemeinschaften, Opladen 2001, (French 2004 ; English edition in preparation); Anthropologie. Geschichte, Kultur, Philosophie, Reinbek 2004 (Russian 2007, Englisch and Chinese in preparation); (et alii): Bildung im Ritual, Wiesbaden 2004; (with Zirfas.) Die Kultur des Rituals, ed. München 2004; Hermès 43, 2005: Rituels; (with Zirfas), Ikonologie des Performativen, ed., München 2005 ; Zur Genese des Sozialen, Bielefeld 2005; (with Hüppauf, eds.), Bild und Einbildungskraft, München 2006; (with Brandstedter, eds.), Tanz als Anthropologie, München 2007; Une anthropologie historique et culturelle. Rituels, mimésis sociale et performativité, Paris 2007; Anthropologie kultureller Vielfalt, Bielefeld 2006; et alii, Lernkulturen im Umbruch, Wiesbaden 2007 ; (with v. Braun, eds.), Mythen des Bluts, Frankfurt/M. 2007 ; (with Zirfas eds.), Pädagogik des Performativen 2007; (with Huppauf, eds.): Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination. The Image between the Visible and the Invisible, Routledge 2009; (with Michaels, eds.): Images of the Body in India. Rituals. Transgression, Perfomativity Routledge 2010; (et al.): Ritual and Identity. The staging and performing of rituals in the lives of young people. London 2010; (ed.): Der Mensch und seine Kultur. Cologne, 2010; (et al.): Die Geste in Erziehung, Bildung, Sozialisation, Wiesbaden 2010; Anthropology. History, Culture, Philosophy (forthcoming).

Editor, co-editor and member of the editorial staff of several national and international journals

Co-editor of the "Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft" (Journal for Educational Science) and the Series "Historische Anthropologie" (1988ff), "European Studies in Education" (1995ff.), "Pädagogische Anthropologie" (1996ff.); executive editor of "Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie" (1992ff.); cooperative member of several international journals.

External links

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