Prof. Dr. Karin Polit

Office hours in the winter term 21-22 will be held on Thursdays from 10:15 - 11:45 am.
You can sign up for them via the Doodle platform.

For written inquiries, please note the following:

As of now, only requests sent from your university email address will be processed, unfortunately emails from other addresses often disappear. Please note that emails cannot be answered on weekends. Since I receive a lot of emails, it is advisable to send your email on a working day between 07:00 and 18:00, otherwise it risks to get lost.

I will answer your emails on Thursdays from 08:00 - 10:00. If I have not replied by then, please feel free to contact me again.

In very urgent cases, you are welcome to write to Ms. Arold, who will then forward your request to me.

I kindly ask you to address only content-related questions, requests for expert opinions and letters of reference, and questions concerning my courses or the supervision of mobility semesters and theses directly to me. All other questions should be directed to the departmental or general academic advisor.

The deadline for all assignments is always the end of the current semester, i.e. March 30 for the winter semester and September 30 for the summer semester. In order to ensure that your work is processed as quickly as possible, from now on no work will be accepted that is submitted after this deadline

• The global hierarchy of value and the circulation of ideas, goods and aesthetic regimes related to cultural heritage, ritual and religion.
• Education, Work and Art in Resistance to Global and Local Inequalities (In collaboration with Prof. Gabriele Alex, University of Tübingen and Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena)
• Religion, Ritual, Performance
• Stress, education and teen suicide in India
• Media and Youth Culture in New Delhi
• Gender (violence, medicine, reproduction, youth)
• Medical anthropology (new technologies - mental health - violence)
• Mourning for own reproduction when children die early - USA, Europe, India, Japan (in cooperation with Prof. Harish Naraindas, JNU, New Delhi)