Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr

Research

• Dilemmas of belonging and vigilance of Latinx racialized as migrants in the US-Mexico borderland. Subproject of the CRC 1369 “Culture of Vigilance: Transformations -Spaces-Practices” (2023-2027)
• Speak for Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 1 March 2023 - 28 February 2027 HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE, grant number 101086202, co-applicant (2023-2027)
• German Chancellor Fellowship. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Visions for the Amazon (2022-2023)
• Book Launch of "Watchful Lives in the U.S. Mexico-Borderlands" and vernissage of Nanzi Muro's exhibition "El Chaparral"
• Ökotourismus mit der Lupe: Ein bio-kultureller Ethik Ansatz zur Förderung eines gerechten und nachhaltigen Tourismus/ Ecoturismo con Lupa: un enfoque de ética biocultural para un turismo justo y sostenible (Eveline Dürr, mit Mariana Arjona Soberon, Saskia Brill und Martín Fonck, Riccardo Rozzi, mit Kelli Moses und Alejandra Tauro); Funded by BAYLAT (2021).
• “Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society,” Augsburg-Munich International Doctorate Program funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria (2021-2025).
• EU Project H202 MSCA Rise FALAH - Family, Agriculture, Livelihoods and Health in the Pacific Member of LMU/KULA e.V. Team (2019-2025)
• Negotiating Air in the Great Bear Rainforest. A Carbon Saving Project between Resource Extraction, Environmental Protection and Decolonization (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by DFG DU 209/24-1 (2020–2024)
• VolkswagenStiftung: „Strengthening Environmental Humanities“. Strategiekonzept Hochschule der Zukunft, located at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, co-applicant (2019-2026)
• Collaborative Research Center 1369: Culture of Vigilance: Transformations – Spaces – Techniques. Subproject: The vigilance of those mistaken for migrants in the US-Mexican border area (2019-2023)
• Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Successful nomination of Professor Dame Anne Salmond, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
• Mexico City: Ethical Conjunctures, Globalized Environmental Discourses, and the Pursuit of a Better City (2018 - 2021)
• The Mero Ikojts and the wind: Indigenous perspectives on renewable energy in Mexico (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by DFG DU 209/21-1 (2016-2018)
• Auckland: Pollution, Urban Ethics and Cultural Practice (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr)
  Funded by the DFG, FOR 2101: Urban Ethics. Conflicts about the Good Life in the City during the 20th and 21st Century (2015-2018). www.en.urbane-ethiken.uni-muenchen.de
• Slum Tourism in the Americas: Commodifying Urban Poverty and Violence (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the DFG (Open Research Area) DU 209/18-1 (2014-2017). Website
• Transformation of Indigenous Nature Relations: Ecological Discourses, Ecotourism und Gender in Mexico (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the DFG DU 209/16-1 (2013-2016)
• Teaching Related Research in Mexico (2012). (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr)
• Tourism and Urban Poverty: Slumtourism in Mexico (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the University Bayern e.V. (Special programme for recently appointed professors) and by the LMUexcellent Bonus for Women (2010-2012).
• Mobility und Sensemaking: Migration of North American Retirees to Mexico (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the University Bayern e.V. (Special programme for newly appointed professors) and by the LMUexcellent Bonus for Women (2010-2012).
• Transpacific Networks: Latin-American Migration to Auckland, New Zealand (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the LMUexcellent Bonus for Women and by the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand (2007-2009).
• Māori in Mexico. Transcultural Relationships between New Zealand and Mexico (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr). Funded by the Contestable Research Fund, Faculty of Applied Humanities, School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (2007-2008)

Conferences and workshops

• Dilemmas of Upward Mobility: The Need for Vigilance in the Making of Better Lives’. EASA Workshop in Barcelona, 23-26 July 2024
• Becoming Vigilant: Self-Consciousness and Collective Resistance in the Americas. LASA Workshop in Bogotá, Kolumbien, 12-15 June 2024
• Borderland Vigilance: re-conceptualising borders in comparative perspective. Workshop hosted by SFB 1369 Cultures of Vigilance, 19–20 July, 2022
• Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban. Online conference hosted by the Urban Environments Initiative, 30 June–2 July 2021
• Debating Urban Ethics as Research Agenda. Concluding Conference of the DFG Research Group Urban Ethics, LMU Munich, 26 -28 April 2021
• Spaces of Living in Transformation—In Times of Uncertainty, 26 June 2020, https://urbanenv.org/spaces-of-living-in-transformation-in-times-of-uncertainty/
• Dwelling (on) the urban future: Latin American city planning between ethical concerns and market forces, Conferencia: Las Américas, 12-14. Juni 2019, University of Bonn
• XXI. Mesoamerika-Tagung, 9 to 11 February 2018, LMU Munich. Conference Organizers: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr and Dr. Henry Kammler
• 11th European Society for Oceanists Conference, 29 June 2017 - 02 July 2017, Munich, LMU. Conference Organizers: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr (Chair), Dr. Philipp Schorch (Deputy Chair), Dr. Sina Emde, Dr. Rebecca Hofmann, Dr. Arno Pascht, Patric Hippmann, Marie Eser, Vivien Ahrens.
  
• From Stigma to Brand: Commodifying and Aestheticizing Urban Poverty and Violence, February 16-18, 2017
  Conveners: Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich, Germany), Prof. Dr. Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Gareth Jones (London School of Economics and Politics, UK) 
• URBAN ECONOMIES - Cultural Perspectives on Grassroots Entrepreneurs and Neighborhood Economies,
  July 14-16, 2016, Conveners: Juliane Müller and Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich)
• Trans-Environmental Dynamics: Understanding and Debating Ontologies, Politics and History in Latin America
  29–31 October 2015
  Convenors: Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich), Ernst Halbmayer (University of Marburg), Ingrid Kummels (LAI Berlin), Karoline Noack (University of Bonn), in cooperation with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
• Curatopia: Histories, Theories, Practice (July 6-7 2015)
  Conveners: Philipp Schorch (LMU Munich), Conal McCarthy (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ) and Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich)
• Slums on Show: Poverty and Violence as Spectacular Commodity, XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association May 27-30, 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Whose Waste? Whose Problem? October 23 to 25, 2014, LMU Center for Advanced Studies, Munich
• "Commodifying Urban Poverty, Social Exclusion, and Marginalisation: Spatial and Social Consequences", IUAES, 05.-10.08.2013, Manchester, UK, Call for Papers (16 KB)
• "New Perspectives on Transpacific Connections: The Americas and the South Pacific", 25.-28.04.2013, Munich, Germany,  Call for papers (120 KB)
  
  

Academic Career

• 2014 Affiliated Professor at the The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), LMU
• 2013 Carson Professor at the The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), LMU
• 2009 Call for a professorship in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (declined)
• Since 2008 Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
• 2005-2008 Associate Professor and Postgraduate Programme Leader, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2002-2004 Senior Lecturer, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
• 2000 Habilitation, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
• 1999 Teaching award of the Ministry of Sciences and Education, Baden-Württemberg
• 1997-1998 Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
• 1994-2002 Assistant Professor, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
• 1991-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
• 1990 PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (awarded with the Carl-Cromer-Prize for distinguished dissertations)

Academic Service

• Dean for Research, Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU Munich (2023-2026)
• Co-chair of the Collaborative Research Centre 1369: “Culture of Vigilance: Transformations – Spaces – Techniques" (2019-2025)
• Member of the WWF Academic Advisory Council (since 2022)
• Academic coordinator of the LMU Latin America Network (since 2022)
• Editorial Board Member, American Ethnologist (2022-2026)
• Vice-chair of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) (2021-2023)
• Mentor of the LMU Mentoring excellenceKWFak Programme, Faculty 12
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin (2020-2023)
• Coordination of the urban environments initiative (with Regine Keller, TUM) 2019-2021
  https://urbanenv.org/#
• Co-Chair of the Ethics Commission of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (since 2020)
• Member of the Ethics Commitee for the compartments Ethnology, Empirical Cultural Sciences und Intercultural Communication, Faculty for the Study of Culture, LMU Munich (since 2019)

• Scientific Advisory Board, Ibero-American Institute (IAI), Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin (2016-2023)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (2016-2019). www.erlacs.org (since 2016)
  
• Member of the DFG’s Permanent Senate Commission for Research Training Groups (2013-2018)
• Chair of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) (2015-2017)
• Founder and Co-Chair of the doctoral program Environment and Society, Rachel Carson Center (since 2010)
• Co-Chair of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program, Rachel Carson Center (since 2016)
• Advisory Board Member of the Rachel Carson Center (2012-2015)
• Academic Board Member of the doctoral program ProAmHist: American History – History of the Americas
• Co-chair of the Regional Research Group Mesoamerica of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) (2011-2022)
• Faculty Women's Representative (2012-2014)
• Honorary Research Fellow at AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand (2008)
• Regional Correspondent, Commission on Urban Anthropology, IUAES (2007-2010)
• Teaching Award, Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport, Baden-Württemberg (2000)
• Carl-Cromer Award for distinguished dissertations

Features

• Kletterverbot: Warum der Uluru so wichtig ist für Australiens Ureinwohner
  https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/tagesticket-der-frueh-podcast/kletterverbot-warum-der-uluru-so-wichtig-ist-fuer-australiens-ureinwohner/1762435
• "Vom Elendsviertel zur Attraktion: Ein Interview mit Eveline Dürr über das Phänomen des Slumtourismus." (10.2.2017)
• Zeige mir Deinen Müll...und ich sage Dir, wer Du bist
• “Waste, want and other urban woes” (pdf 485 KB)
• „Der Müll, die Stadt und die Not“ (pdf 260 KB)
• „Einmal Elend und zurück. Wenn Reisende die Sightseeingtour zum Slum buchen“
• „Wer will, kann mit Obdachlosen unter einer Brücke schlafen“