LAEHR warmly invites to our event series in the current summer term of 2026!
Everybody is very welcome to join!
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“A cog in the machine: violence against animals in Mexico”, Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
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In this presentation, I discuss violence against animals in Mexico as part of a “violent machine.” I argue that by taking a serious look at violence against animals, we can gain new insights into how violence in Mexico operates by analyzing how it is connected to other forms of violence and to changing ideas about justice.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
6 – 7:30 pm CEST
@ IfEE, room 408 & on Zoom
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Field Trip: Colonial Legacies and Risky Attachments – Walking the Anthropocene in the Neighborhood of IfEE, with Milena Bister
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In the course of the workshop “Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections”, Milena Bister (IfEE, IRI THESys & LAEHR) organizes a Field Trip around the Institute for European Ethnology building, connecting Anthropocene debates and colonial legacies.
The Workshop is co-organized by the Vienna Anthropocene Network, CTS at Charles University Prague, IRI THESys & LAEHR & funded by the CENTRAL Workshops 2025 program.
Starting point of the field trip:
Amo Salon (Foyer, ground floor), Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 41
10117 Berlin
Thursday, June 4, 2026
2:30 – 5 pm CEST
Please register by June 1 with alex.marlin.maurer@hu-berlin.de
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Reading & Discussion of the book „Struggling for Time. Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine“, Stanford University Press 2024, with author Natalia Gutkowski
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Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications.
We are very happy that Natalia Gutkowski herself will join the session and provide an introduction to the book! We are preparing this reading session as a collaborative effort. Everyone is invited to read the whole book or pick chapters and share their impressions, comments, and questions in a joint Google Doc.
Participation is also possible without preparation.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
10 – 12 am CEST
@IfEE room 212 & on zoom
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“Recalling rains, unsettling waters: affective politics and the infrastructures of life in Jerusalem”, Emilie Glazer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
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Abstract will be available soon on the Lab Website.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
10 – 12 am CEST
@IfEE room 212 & on zoom
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Everybody is very welcome to join!
IfEE has an accessible entrance & elevator
The talks/inputs will be in English, and questions can of course also be asked in German!