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Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn

 

+49 228 73 66100

 

lifeethics@uni-bonn.de

Research Area Globalization

Dr.
Jan Linhart

Biography

Jan Linhart is an anthropologist specializing in the relationships between diverse knowledge systems within contexts of structural inequality. Following his master’s research on Indigenous universities in Latin America, he co-founded a social business focused on developing solutions for e-participation and deliberative, cross-language knowledge co-creation. In 2011, he moved to Brazil, where he worked as a lecturer and researcher. His participatory action research with the Potiguara people aimed to strengthen epistemic sovereignty and equity, and provided the empirical foundation for his doctoral thesis on the geopolitics of scientific universalism. As a Senior Research Associate and coordinator of the Research Focus "Globalisation“ at the Center for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn, Jan collaborates with international partner universities, Indigenous scholars, and communities. His applied, collaborative research explores the potential of diverse approaches—such as Indigenous intercultural education and community-driven life-centered knowledge practices, pluriversal dialogues, and life ethics—to foster sustained cross-fertilization in knowledge production and to advance epistemic equity as a prerequisite for just and sustainable transitions for livable futures.

Contact

jan.linhart@uni-bonn.de
+49 228 73 66209

Location

Center for Life Ethics

Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7

53113 Bonn

Vita

Academic Background

2022

PhD in Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt a.O., Germany

 

2008

Master in Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Curriculum Vitae (selection)

2022 – present

Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany 

Senior Research Associate and coordinator of the Research Focus „Globalisation“

 

2014 - 2017

DeVry, João Pessoa, Braazil (private university) 

College Lecturer (Social Sciences, Research Methods, Political Sciences)

 

2012 - 2014  

Florida Christian University, USA / Unifuturo, João Pessoa, Brazil (private university, joint venture) College Lecturer (Educational Anthropology)  Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) (federal university), Brazil Researcher 

 

2010 – 2011

FuerUndWider.org, Berlin (on behalf of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation)

Researcher/Consultant (Interviews, visual argument mapping)

 

2008 - 2012

Echo-Source e.V., Berlin (social business, development of e-democracy solutions)

Founder/Executive Board Member

Publications

Publications

  • Linhart, Jan 2023: Science and the Other: An inquiry into the geopolitics of knowledge, Potiguara ontology and the hard problem of modern science. PhD thesis. Springer.
  • Batista, M. N. Faustina et al. 2021: Cosmologia Tradicional Potiguara. Linhart, Jan & Romero, Thiago (eds). Paulo Afonso: SABEH.
  • Batista, M. N. Faustina et al. 2021: Medicina Tradicional Potiguara. Linhart, Jan & Romero, Thiago (eds). Paulo Afonso: SABEH.
  • Linhart, Jan et al. 2017: O Coletivo de Pesquisa pela Valorização dos Saberes Potiguara. In: Uma década de expansão universitaria: estudos sobre o Vale de Mamanguape. 1. ed., João Pessoa: Editora do CCTA, v.2, 103-130.
  • Linhart, Jan 2017: Tecnofilia e vontade do poder: um ensaio sobre a nossa relação com a tecnologia. In: I Livro da Coleção de Saberes da DeVry João Pessoa. 40, v.1, p. 10ff.
  • Linhart, Jan et al. 2017: Auto-Etnografia Colaborativa entre os Potiguara e a Capacitação de Intelectuais Orgânicos. In: NEMDR.SEM.2017, Bananeiras/PB. II Seminário Internacional do Núcleo de Extensão, NEMDR, 2017. v.1. p.10 – 30.
  • Linhart, J.; Zampier, M. B.; Pereira, P.E. 2017: Escrita e Oralidade: Sobre o Papel Ambivalente do Uso da Escrita nas Escolas Indígenas. In: V SECAMPO, Seminário de Práticas Educativas, Mamanguape.
  • Linhart, Jan et al. 2016: O Coletivo de Pesquisa pela Valorização dos Saberes Potiguara: Apropriação do Espaço Acadêmico pelos Indígenas Potiguara. In: V SECAMPO, Seminário de Práticas Educativas, Mamanguape.
  • Linhart, J. & Ramos, I. 2014: 
Educación Intercultural Indígena: El Programa de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural del CRIC, como un ejemplo de una propuesta integral para una educación alternativa. In: IV SECAMPO – Seminário de Práticas Educativas, IV SECAMPO – Seminário de Práticas Educativas, Mamanguape.
  • Linhart, J. & Nunes, E. 2014: Brejo Paraibano: Sexo Privê. In: Garcia, Loreley et al. (eds): Nas Armadilhas do Desejo. João Pessoa, 104-124.
  • Linhart, Jan 2012:  Interculturalidade no Contexto do Ensino Superior e as suas Implicações Epistemológicas. Cadernos de Educação Escolar Indígena, v.10, Barra do Bugres.
  • Linhart, J. & Grötker, R. 2012: Selbstbestimmung am Lebensende: Nachdenken über assistierten Suizid und aktive Sterbehilfe; Schriften zu Wirtschaft & Soziales, Band 10, Berlin, 120-150.
  • Linhart, J. & Papp Laszlo 2010: Bridging the Gap Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down e-Participation Approaches: e-Participation as Active Citizenship. In: Parycek, Peter &  Prosser, Alexander (eds): EDem2010: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Democracy. Krems, Austria.
  • Linhart, Jan. Universidades Indígenas: Programas de Educação Indígena Superior na América Latina: A Caminho de uma Ciência Intercultural?; Open Access: shorturl.at/mnBH4 (Portuguese translation of Master thesis).

 

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