Sara Zavaree

Since 2016: PhD candidate
2016-2018: Funded by the Helene and Benedict Schmittmann-Wahlen-Stiftung
Since 2018: Funded by DFG - Leibniz Price (chair of Anne Storch)
2014-2014: Magister Artium in Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, and African Studies
Thesis: Zivilisieren und Beherrschen: Diskurse und Praktiken der 'Erziehung zur Arbeit' in den deutschen Afrika-Kolonien und im Kaiserreich (Civilise and Rule: discourses and practices of 'work education' in Germany's African colonies and in the Kaiserreich)

Winter term 2020/2021: Language Ecologies / Language Transfer / Language Contact
Winter term 2018/2019: Postkolonial Theorien: Basics (postcolonial theories: basics)
Winter term 2015/2016 (with Anne Storch): Die Afrikanische Diaspora in Asien (The African diaspora in Asia)

09/2020: Panel 'Crossing the Gulf - Migration, Materiality and Spirituality' at Thirtheenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference. Salamanca/Spain (cancelled due to Covid-19)
04/2018-07/2018: Research Colloquium 'Ritualisierung (ritualization)' at Institute for African Studies and Egyptology. Cologne/Germany
09/2017 (with Andrea Hollington, Angelika Mietzner, Nico Nassenstein und Anne Storch): Conference 'Performance and Representation in Language - The Other's Other'. Cologne/Germany

'Under Sheets - The possibilities of Intimacy' at Third Workshop on Language and Tourism. Language and Intimacy: Discourses and Narratives. El Arenal/Spain.
'Trading Spirits and Slaves: Spirit Possession in Zanzibar and Iran' at Muslim Cultures in the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present. London/United Kingdom.
'Speaking Back - Speaking Loud - Speaking About: Reden und Schweigen über (Homo-)Sexualität in Iran' at Queer Contradictions – Widerspruchsszenarien der diskursiven Positionierung von Marginalität jenseits heteronormativer Lebensentwürfe. Bremen/Germany
'Just Pretend I'm not here: Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit im Ritual' at Daten, Sammlung, Kritik: Reflexion zu Disziplinarität und Absurdität. Cologne/Germany.

'Slavery in Iran: new approaches in research' at International conference on African slave trade and slavery across the Sahara, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Katsina/Nigeria
'All spirits are gay - whispered anecdotes on homosexuality in spirit possession contexts in Zanzibar and Iran'. Talk at Performance and representation in language: the Other's Other. Cologne/Germany.
'Connectivity in motion: spirit possession in Zanzibar and Southern Iran' Talk at Zar and possession rituals: A Comparatove View. Historical, Ethnographical and Social Aspects. Bochum/Germany.

'We have our own Africans: Public displays of Zar in Iran'. Talk at Linguistic entanglements, emblematic codes and languaging in tourism. Cologne/Germany.

The Other’s Other. In Hollington, Andrea; Mietzner, Angelika; Nassenstein, Nico; Storch, Anne & Sara Zavaree (eds.) Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics (4)
Degarbash - On Queerness in and about Iran. In: Hollington, Andrea; Mietzner, Angelika; Nassenstein, Nico; Storch, Anne & Sara Zavaree (eds.) The Other’s Other. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics (4)

“When our eyes opened” – Revisting the History of Slavery in Iran.In: Babajo Sani, Abubakar and Ibrahim Muhammad Jumare (eds.) Studies in Slavery across Africa: Experiences and Modern Resurgence. Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Press Ltd: Katsina
“We have our own Africans” - Public Displays of Zar in Iran. In: Mietzner, Angelika und Anne Storch (eds.) Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings. Bristol: Channel View Publications.

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