01/19/2024
We're extremely happy to announce that the Special Issue that came out of our 2021 Workshop has just been published with…
02/02/2023
“You can protect only what you know!”
02/01/2023
Our illustrated volume Delta Worlds has been reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
09/03/2022
Ulrich Oslender (Florida International University) on Delta Worlds
08/01/2022
Listen to Wanda McLeod in conversation with Franz Krause about his current fieldtrip in the Mackenzie Delta
06/02/2022
Join us for a short seminar with our guest Jason Cons (UTexas, Austin).
05/05/2022
Join us for a short seminar with Yu-Kai Liao from Durham University about "Commercial Shrimp Farming in the Mekong…
04/04/2022
In the current issue of the Cologne University Magazine you will find a detailed photo report about our newly published…
12/23/2021
As part of our upcoming workshop, we're looking forward to discussing collectice ethno-graphic work with our guests in…
11/29/2021
On April 7th, 2022 at 6pm, we will present our new illustrated book "Delta Worlds".
11/12/2021
Out bilingual (DE/EN) illustrated volume "Deltawelten/Delta Worlds" is now available in bookstores.
10/20/2021
Michael Schnepf reviews our coffee-table book "Delta worlds: Life between land and water" in the Viennese journal…
09/16/2021
October 1st 2021, 12:45 pm (CEST)
07/14/2021
August 12, 5 pm (CEST), via Zoom
02/11/2021
Two book reviews of ethnographies detailing life in the shadows of large hydropower dam projects were recently…
02/09/2021
In a contribution to a forum on climate activism and anthropology, a project member asks the difficult question, "Now…
If you missed our recent workshop, you can now read a report with some of the highlights.
12/16/2020
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has generously allowed us to have one more year for our DELTA project. The DELTA…
11/17/2020
13-15 January, 2021 The DELTA project is running its fifth and last workshop to discuss about the production and…
06/02/2020
The VAD has chosen the text "Crises, downside up", written by a DELTA team member, as 'best essay on African politics'…
05/27/2020
An essay reflecting on “the unnatural” has just been published in a collection on cultural theory, co-authored by a…
02/08/2020
Benoit Ivars and Jean-Philippe Venot’s article in Water Alternatives reflects on the history of land and water…
01/08/2020
We invite colleagues from anthropology and related disciplines to present their research and discuss "hydrosocial…
12/06/2019
The programme for the EnviroAnt workshop is finalised, and registration closed. But interested people can remotely…
09/04/2019
September 25, 7 - 10.30 pm, Rufffactory Ehrenfeld (Marienstraße 73, 50825 Cologne) -- Free Entry --
08/27/2019
Join the DELTA team on September 26th at 6.30pm when it opens its intervention 'Delta Worlds: Living in unsteady change'…
08/16/2019
The University of Cologne has launched a new interview series "UoC Insights" and Franz Krause, PI of the DELTA project,…
A workshop accompanied by an exhibition opening, a reading, performances and a film screening 25 - 27 September 2019
5 x Chico - The São Francisco River and His People 27 September at TURISTARAMA
06/26/2019
The DELTA project is involved in organising the inaugural meeting of the Environment and Anthropology (EnvironAnt)…
03/22/2019
External project partner to speak about Resource Frontier and Self-Determination in the Arctic
11/06/2018
We are happy to announce that our edited collection on 'Delta methods: reflections on researching hydrosocial…
03/17/2018
In late Summer 2017, when I (Sandro) was starting to engage into longterm fieldwork, my research site, the Tana Delta…
03/16/2018
We are happy to announce the new publication "Social Water" with thrilling contributions from our DELTA members Sandro…
12/08/2017
The DELTA Project is running its second workshop in Cologne, January 17-19 2018. We will focus on research methods for…
06/13/2017
Franz Krause's short article in Human Ecology journal formulates four dimensions for studying life in river deltas.
04/20/2017
Interdisciplinary panel discussions on 'Trump's Hot Air: Global Climate Change in the New Era' followed by a…
04/04/2017
After discussing our work with Mark Harris at a SIEF congress panel, we are thrilled to welcome him into the circle of…
12/12/2016
The DELTA project team will have a strong presence at the upcoming Congress of the International Society for Ethnology…
11/18/2016
Discuss with us the relationship between the 'delta' label designating particular regions, and the everyday life and…
10/11/2016
External project partner to speak about Flexibility and Adaptability Among Pastoralists in Western Mongolia.
10/03/2016
The project team is involved in organising a panel for the 2017 SIEF Congress and invites abstract submissions around…
09/01/2016
A detailed report of the project's inaugural workshop is now available on the DELTA website.
08/16/2016
The programme for our workshop 'Anthropology of and for river deltas' is now available.
08/11/2016
The project now has a social media presence - come and 'follow' us!
08/10/2016
We're organising our inaugural workshop to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of anthropology in river deltas.
06/15/2016
The DELTA team is growing: from mid-June 2016 onwards, another three researchers will be working in the project.
02/15/2016
The DELTA project has officially started on February 15, 2016.
