Ghassan Hage (@anthroprofhage) / X

Ghassan Hage

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Ghassan Hage

@anthroprofhage

(he/him) Professor of anthropology. cochlear implants. daily swimmer. cook. cabinet maker.

Sydney, New South Wales

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Joined February 2009

Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Nov 8, 2023
I’ve been nominated for a German scholarship/prize. A lot of work has gone into demonstrating my intellectual worthiness. Last week my nominators were asked to make a statement not about my intellectual worthiness but about my ‘BDS sympathies’. This week the scholarship/prize
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Oct 10, 2024
It really disturbs me professionally as a researcher of colonialism that I so fell for the idea that the worst of genocidal colonialisms is well behind us that my analytical imagination was and still is is unable to encompass the perpetration and legitimisation of so much evil.
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Nov 8, 2023
Replying to @anthroprofhage
committee told my nominators that they can’t decide on whether I should get the prize/money or not… like that. Don’t want to name names, more out of respect for my nominators than for any other reason. But I want to share the fact that this thing that has happened to a number of
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Feb 22, 2024
I’d like to announce today, on my 67th birthday, that I have just finished meeting my German lawyer and we’ve decided that we will be fighting Max Planck’s decision in court. Even if we lose it is not a decision I want to accept without a fight as this is about a lot more than me
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Nov 8, 2023
Replying to @anthroprofhage
people I know is happening to me too… or is not happening 🙂
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Feb 7, 2024
I will soon issue my own statement. I would have lived with the first part re incompatibility. But finishing with ‘there is no place for racism’ implying that i am a racist, I cannot accept. Statement of the Max Planck Society about Prof. Ghassan Hage
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Statement of the Max Planck Society about Prof. Ghassan Hage
The renowned Lebanese-Australian scholar Ghassan Hage, who is highly acclaimed in the scientific community, has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology since April 2023....
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Feb 9, 2024
Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statem…
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Feb 7, 2024
I really dislike ethno-nationalist states, and particularly colonially implanted ethno-nationalist states. They are the ones who have a long history of racial hatred, of censoring and burning books, of discriminating and burning stores, and putting peoples in concentration
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
May 31, 2024
Germany's pseudo 'anti-anti-semitism' and France's pseudo 'laïcité' share something in common: they give a 'noble' garb to what are really garden varieties of European anti-Muslim racism. They enable this racism by ennobling it.
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Feb 19, 2024
Another reflection of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the so-called journalists of the Berlin newspaper that has been attacking me. They refer to me systematically as a ‘Lebanese with an Australian passport’. Why would anybody insist on calling me this despite everyone
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Sep 28, 2024
when the zionists finish assassinating who they want assassinated annihilating everyone they want annihilated occupying whatever land they want occupied silencing whoever they wish silenced everyone will love and respect them, and think of them fondly. a great future awaits them
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Oct 20, 2024
Me to conference organisers: I am not interested in debating a zionist. organisers: Is this BDS? Me: no. this is refusing to have a civilised debate with someone who supports genocide and the invasion of my own country as they are both unfolding. how can you even suggest this?!
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
Sep 15, 2024
My friend, the great Lebanese writer and intellectual Elias Khoury has left us. When I was a PhD student, meeting him for the first time in 1984, almost exactly fourty years ago, truly resuscitated my sense of belonging to Lebanon. He was the editor of the cultural section of
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage
May 19, 2024
The first court meeting with Max Planck’s lawyers has happened and as expected, as I am not interested in a financial settlement, and they are not interested in apologizing to me, there was no reconciliation. so now Max Planck’s lawyers have to present us with what they think is