For more than forty years, the Aachen Monday Evening Talks have been a highlight in the university life of the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. Anthropology is at the centre of this year’s Monday Evening Talks. As the science of humans, anthropology enquires into the possibilities and limits of being human; into the physical, cultural and social conditions of human existence. For further information on the Monday Evening Talks please refer to the website of the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University.
The event is taking place in cooperation with RWTH Aachen; the lecture will be held in English. Free admission.
Timothy Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He obtained his doctorate in 1976 with a study of the Skolt-Saami of north-eastern Finland. He taught at the University of Helsinki (1973-74) and then at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Professor in 1990 and Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology in 1995. In 1999 he moved to the University of Aberdeen. Professor Ingold’s work focuses on the human-animal relationship and the intersections of anthropology, archaeology and art. In contrast to the traditional method of empirical observation, his research is characterised by a participatory approach that emphasises the act of ‘making’. In his research, man is not just a silent observer, but “himself in motion“.
Image: © Tim Ingold
