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Jonas Tinius is a social anthropologist, whose research grapples with the tensions between art, nation, identity, colonial legacies, and difficult heritage in Europe, focusing on institutionalised and public forms of cultural production, such as theatres, museums, and art spaces.
He studied British and American Studies and Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster (Germany), as well as Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he also received his PhD in Social Anthropology for a doctoral thesis on German theatre, ethics, and migration (2016). During his PhD, he was founding co-convenor of the Mellon-Newton-funded Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Centre for Research on the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), and a research fellow at the theatre studies collection on Schloss Wahn, Institute of Theatre and Media, University of Cologne (Germany).
From 2016-2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, funded by Sharon Macdonald’s Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2016-2020). As part of his research, he collaborated with artists and curators of art spaces and galleries in Berlin (among them SAVVY Contemporary, the ifa-gallery and the Wedding district gallery) to study and think about curatorial practices as forms of troubling of national, universal, and hegemonic narratives, especially against the backdrop of major museum transformations such as the Humboldt Forum. From 2017-2020, he acted as founding convenor of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) together with Prof Roger Sansi. Since 2017, he is also coordinator of the research section and co-founder of the PostHeimat Network on migrant theatre funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and founding member of the theatre and research collective Ruhrorter. Since 2020, he is postdoc and scientific coordinator of the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Constructions After Western Universality, as part of which he curates a residency, research, and exhibition programme in collaboration with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. He is an associate member of CARMAH at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he completes a habilitation. Together with Prof Alex Flynn, he coordinates the digital learning platform form*at.
He is editor, among other books, of the open-access volume Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial (with Margareta von Oswald, Leuven University Press, 2020) and the two-volume edited collection Der fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr (with Alexander Wewerka, Alexander Verlag, 2020).
He studied British and American Studies and Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster (Germany), as well as Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he also received his PhD in Social Anthropology for a doctoral thesis on German theatre, ethics, and migration (2016). During his PhD, he was founding co-convenor of the Mellon-Newton-funded Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Centre for Research on the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), and a research fellow at the theatre studies collection on Schloss Wahn, Institute of Theatre and Media, University of Cologne (Germany).
From 2016-2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) in the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, funded by Sharon Macdonald’s Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2016-2020). As part of his research, he collaborated with artists and curators of art spaces and galleries in Berlin (among them SAVVY Contemporary, the ifa-gallery and the Wedding district gallery) to study and think about curatorial practices as forms of troubling of national, universal, and hegemonic narratives, especially against the backdrop of major museum transformations such as the Humboldt Forum. From 2017-2020, he acted as founding convenor of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) together with Prof Roger Sansi. Since 2017, he is also coordinator of the research section and co-founder of the PostHeimat Network on migrant theatre funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and founding member of the theatre and research collective Ruhrorter. Since 2020, he is postdoc and scientific coordinator of the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Constructions After Western Universality, as part of which he curates a residency, research, and exhibition programme in collaboration with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. He is an associate member of CARMAH at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he completes a habilitation. Together with Prof Alex Flynn, he coordinates the digital learning platform form*at.
He is editor, among other books, of the open-access volume Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial (with Margareta von Oswald, Leuven University Press, 2020) and the two-volume edited collection Der fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr (with Alexander Wewerka, Alexander Verlag, 2020).