Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

On January 23, Christof Lammer (Humboldt University of Berlin & University of Klagenfurt) visited the Lab and gave a talk about his current project! Christof is currently based at The Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation at HU and works on the research project ‘Panda Heritage – Kinship Measurements and Life’s Value …

Invitation to the second of LAEHR’s collaborative reading sessions in the winter term 2024_25! On January 9, 2025  – at the usual Lab Time 10:15 – 11:45 am CET – at IfEE and on zoom, we will read and discuss Hillary Angelo’s “How Green Became Good. Urbanized Nature and the …

LAEHR members host a session in the Institute for European Ethnology’s Kolloquium. The winter term topic is “Spectres and Spectrums.” In the session titled “Hauntings in Knowledge Production”, Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Jelena Grosse-Bley, Anja Klein and Alexander Schindler discuss how human-environment relations are known by different communities of practice …

Invitation to the first of LAEHR’s collaborative reading sessions in the winter term 2024_25! On November 28, at the usual Lab Time 10:15 – 11:45 am CET at IfEE and on zoom, we will read and discuss the “Field Guide for the Patchy Anthropocene” by Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder …

LAEHR is warmly inviting abstracts to our open panel „Diffracting Ways of Living: Practices and Politics of Habitability in a More-than-Human Worlds“ @ STS Hub 2025 Berlin, 11-14 March 2025. The deadline for submission is 31 Oct 2024. Abstract Habitability as a central term in the Anthropocene can be immensely productive for …

The program for the winter term 2024/25 is ready! We will start this semester on October 17th with a get-together and a brunch where we will discuss our activities in the upcoming winter term and the Lab’s values of collaboration. Everybody is welcome! If you come, please make a small …

The program for the summer term is ready! We will start next week, April 25, with a session called Thinking About and With Habitability — A Collective Re-Reading, where we will continue our joint conceptual work with and on the subject of habitability. In this session, we will read / …

Edited by Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister and Tomás Criado The recurrent everyday distress many of us live with in times of climate mutation seems to have unearthed a peculiar link that seemed long lost: between the mental and the environmental. More than a century ago, already Georg Simmel (1903) sought …