Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr

Research

• Nosology and Sustainability: Indigenous healing knowledge and sustainable human-environment relations in Northwestern Amazonia. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU in cooperation with the Global Mental Health Research Group at LMU Klinikum, funded by the LMU Munich funding for sustainability.
• Planetary healing as transformative process: a decolonial approach to the challenges of climate change. Reinhart Koselleck-Project, DFG-funded (2024-2029, DU 209/28-1)
• 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 at the 8th EASA Biennial Conference 'Doing and Undoing with Anthropology', University of 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“