Research interests
Popular culture, media anthropology, anthropology of religion, disability studies, critical race studies
Research areas
West Africa (in particular Nigeria), East Africa (in particular Tanzania)
International Conference held at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, 12-14 September 2023; convened by Matthias Krings, Patrick Oloko, Ute Röschenthaler, Tom Simmert, and Artemis Saleh.
Workshop
Orality and cinema in Kenia. The practise of film DJs and audiences
Lake Naivasha Resort, Naivasha, Kenya 5‑7 Sept, 2022
The joint project CEDITRAA - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia investigates how digitization is changing cultural production in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. ...
Special section, edited by Jan Beek, Cassis KIlian and Matthias Krings, Social Anthropology 27.3, 2019 ...
Different shades of white: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the albinotic body
6th - 8th September 2018, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz ...
Matthias Krings: African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. ...
Steffen Köhn and Matthias Krings: Always-on. Sehen und gesehen werden in einer vernetzten Welt. Ausstellung in der Schule des Sehens der JGU Mainz 11.12.2015 - 4.2.2016. ...
Matthias Krings and Uta Reuster-Jahn (eds.): Bongo Media Worlds. Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar es Salaam. Reihe: Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Band 34. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2014. ...
Matthias Krings u. Onookome Okome (Hg.): Global Nollywood. The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ...
Thomas Bierschenk, Matthias Krings u. Carola Lentz (Hg.): Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Reimer, 2013. ...
Karl N. Renner, Dagmar v. Hoff u. Matthias Krings (Hg.): Medien - Erzählen - Gesellschaft. Transmediales Erzählen im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2013. ...