Ursula Probst
@probursula.bsky.social
Social anthropologist @FU Berlin | writing about sex work, trucking and construction work | working on labour migration, health, gender, racialisation and European East-West inequalities | she/her
Einladung zur Veranstaltung: „Arbeit, Migration & Ausbeutung. Osteuropa im Fokus ⏰ Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2026, 18:00 📍 Café der Kulturfabrik Moabit, Lehrter Str. 35, 10557 Berlin mit: 🔹 Dr. Ursula Probst (FU Berlin) & 🔹 Dominique John (DGB/Faire Mobilität) miteinander, 🔹 Moderation: Daniel Heinz 1/4
We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196
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We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297
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We're proud to share the following trailer and blogpost from Marcos Andrade Neves who in 2024 was awarded a Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship to aid filming, "Not Dead Yet." buff.ly/k3BQ0xt
Working on whiteness from an ethnographic perspective? Aleksandra Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to panel P141 at #EASA2026! Deadline: 26.01.2026 @easainfo.bsky.social Info and submisson via: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P141: Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies
Whiteness is not only a matter of skin colour. Its complexities, however, are often lost in polarised discourses which ignore or essentialise it. This panel
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Working on whiteness from an ethnographic perspective? Aleksandra Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to panel P141 at #EASA2026! Deadline: 26.01.2026 @easainfo.bsky.social Info and submisson via: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P141: Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies
Whiteness is not only a matter of skin colour. Its complexities, however, are often lost in polarised discourses which ignore or essentialise it. This panel
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OUT NOW! Our findings on institutional discrimination of people from the east of Europe in German jobcentres (in German) - with @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, funded by @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
Menschen aus Osteuropa werden beim Bürgergeld diskriminiert
Benachteiligungen gegenüber Menschen mit osteuropäischer Migrationsbiografie erschweren den Zugang zu Arbeit und Sozialleistungen erheblich
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New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "Reframing Syphilis in an Extreme Climate Event: Tensions Between Epidemiological Surveillance and Primary Care" by Eduardo Zanella, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "‘Training Citizens for Universal Health?’ An Ethnographic Account of a Public Health School in the Lao People‘s Democratic Republic" by Amelie Katczynski, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
New on U/C A – Health as a Common Good?: "The Price to Pay for a Racialized Labor Market is Health: Depletion and Restless Bodies among EU-2 Migrant Workers" by A. Valentina Moraru, boasblogs.org/uncommoning/... #DGSKA2025
Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!
Gestern protestierten unsere Studierenden bei einer Sitzung des akad. Senats gegen die Kürzungspläne der FU Berlin, die unser Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie unverhältnismäßig hart treffen würden. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich solidarisiert haben. It means a lot! 💜✊ (Photo: U. Probst)
Our institute, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is at risk due to budget cuts. In current times where we need more and not less critical social scientific perspectives, this is horrible, but also not entirely surprising news. Please spread the word!
Hansjörg Dilger@hdilger.bsky.social · last yr.At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...
So happy to finally see the result of this great collaboration with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social out in the world! For link and summary, see Aleks‘ thread below!
Aleks Lewicki@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · last yr.OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you for the invitation, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social! Was a pleasure to present together, and also thanks to the respondents for their thoughtful comments on our paper!
Aleks Lewicki@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · last yr.Yesterday, @probursula.bsky.social & I presented our paper „Sex, Care & the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Gendered Racialisation as ‚Eastern European’” - many thanks for the two great responses from Rosie Cox and @karinschersch.bsky.social - and to @scmrjems.bsky.social for hosting us!
There’s a new paper in the pipeline- excited to present „Sex, Care and the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Racialisation as Eastern European” together with @probursula.bsky.social today @scmrjems.bsky.social at Sussex Uni - with responses from Rosie Cox & @karinschersch.bsky.social
Last chance to submit your paper or roundtable to the hybrid medical anthropology conference „Re-definitons of Health and Wellbeing“ @univie.ac.at in September 2025 ! Deadline tomorrow - 15.1.2025 ! Submission Portal below 👇🏾 @easainfo.bsky.social @probursula.bsky.social mae.univie.ac.at/home/
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CfP “Werk it! Expulsion, exploitation, and commoning among queer workers” by a fabulous trio (imho) @anothermilorad.bsky.social @probursula.bsky.social at the upcoming DGSKA in Cologne in late September! DL 15.1.!!! tagung.dgska.de/workshops-ro...
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Das BMBF hat geprüft, ob es Hochschulangestellten der FU Berlin, die politische Erklärungen unterschrieben haben, deshalb Fördermittel entziehen kann. Der Mailwechsel dazu ist dokumentiert. Falls noch jemand Illusionen darüber hatte, was das Ministerium unter Wissenschaftsfreiheit versteht.
Als Reaktion auf Kritik: Bildungsministerium wollte Fördermittel streichen
Dem NDR liegen Unterlagen vor, wonach das Bundesministerium für Bildung prüfen wollte, ob kritischen Hochschullehrenden ihre Fördermittel gestrichen werden können. Grundlage der Prüfung ist ein offene...
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Germany 2024: you’re giving a presentation about sex work, migration and the racialisation of „Eastern Europeans“ in a small venue, yet have to speak through a mic, because outside some right wing extremists are drumming very loudly. Läuft. 🫠
When scholars whose work you highly appreciate read and recommend your work 🥰
Aleks Lewicki@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 2y agoA very inspiring book & must read for anyone interested in east-west inequalities in Europe, gender and mobility - based on ethnographic research @probursula.bsky.social shows how racialised and classed hierarchies operate within Berlin's sex work sector: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...
„Wer sich also eine Meinung in diesem Themenfeld bilden und sich im öffentlichen Diskurs positionieren möchte, sollte diese Studie auf jeden Fall gelesen haben“, schreibt M. Gutekunst in einer Rezension meines Buchs. Freue mich über die positive Resonanz und Anregungen zum Weiterdenken 🤩
H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 3y agoRez.: U. Probst: Prekäre Freizügigkeiten http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-138443 U. Probst: Prekäre Freizügigkeiten
📢 Working on „essential“ work, mobility and Covid? If so, consider joining Viktoria Adler, Alesandra Tatić, Silvia Wojczewski and me at the @EASAinfo conference in Barcelona in discussing feminist perspectives on mobile essential workers! Apply here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
Please submit your paper for our EASA 2024 panel in Barcelona: "Collaboration as method in Medical Anthropology. Feminist and decolonial perspectives". With María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra & Lucia Mair & sponsored by the EASA Medical Anthropology Europe network: easaonline.org/conferences/...
On Dec 5th, 14.30 CET, I’m presenting my book „Precarious Freedoms“ - for once, in English - at the colloquium of the Department of European Ethnology at HU Berlin. The presentation will be streamed, it can also be watched from afar. 😉 Info/registration: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...
Freue mich auf die Buchpremiere "Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten: Räume". Im Dialog mit dem Beitrag von Andrea Rottmann spreche ich über PrEP und schwule Häuslichkeit 💊 🏡 www.queere-zeitgeschichten.net/index.html
Berlin! Am 3.11. um 20.00 lesen Fabienne Mahwane und ich aus unseren Beiträgen - zu Rassismus im Hilfesystem gegen Gewalt an Frauen (F.Mahwane) und Gewalt in der Sexarbeit (ich) - im Sammelband “Intersektionalität und Gewalt” bei She Said Books, moderiert von Methu Thavarasa. ❤️
Danke, Theater Bremen! Last week I was invited to the production of „Happy Nights“ (highly recommended!), to talk about my research with Bibiana Mendes from the production team and could also join a conversation between cast and audience afterwards.
We are hiring! If you are interested in working as a research assistant AND conducting a PhD at the same time on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on medical uncertainty, consider applying: (I will be very grateful if you could help to spread this as widely as possible)
Research Assistant in Humanities and Social Sciences Applied to Medicine:Oxford Road
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