On November 14, 2025, the world lost one of its most powerful voices for disability justice. Alice Wong, writer, activist, and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, passed away at the age of 51 after battling an infection. Alice’s legacy is defined by her fierce commitment to centering the stories …
Members of LAEHR and the IRI THESys are now part of a new international partnership between collaborating researchers from Prague, Vienna, and Berlin on the subject Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections. The goal of the project is two thematic workshops dedicated to interdisciplinary and transnational discussions on the Anthropocene …
The lab warmly congratulates (soon-to-be-Dr.) Anja Klein on finishing, submitting, and defending her PhD thesis on November 7th, 2025! The title of Anja’s thesis is “Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research.” Abstract: In the thesis, I explore the …
10 July, 2025, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m., hybrid @IfEE room 408 & on zoom The Lab welcomes Aseela Haque, a doctoral researcher at the Deapartment of Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, for her talk: Interstitial ecologies: Everyday cosmopolitics of pigeon-human inhabitation in the urban margins Focusing on road interstices in Karachi as …
03 July, 2025, 10:15 – 11:45 a.m., hybrid @IfEE, room 408 & on Zoom The Lab welcomes Hilal Alkan, a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin), for her talk: Plant Companions: Affordances of anthropomorphism in migrants’ lives Based on ethnographic research with Turkish migrants in Berlin, this talk focuses …
New international partnership of IfEE’s Lab Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations. Together with colleagues from the Vienna Anthropocene Network at the University of Vienna and the Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS) at Charles University of Prague, the Lab Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations obtained funding from the CENTRAL …
Cycling Excursion! LAEHR & the DFG- project Past-proofing Infrastructure Futures, and the Infrastructure Working Group @ Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) & the Berlin cycling community warmly invite to a cycling excursion around Hobrechtsfelde to explore pasts, presents, and futures of wastewater infrastructures! Date: June …
5 June, 2025, 10:15-11:45 a.m., online only. The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled organism which due to its ability to form efficient networks has been the subject of research by computer scientists and mathematicians for more than two decades. The fact that despite its simple structure it manifests …
Desirée Hetzel’s monograph “Moving Lives. Cultivating with Climate Change in Vanuatu” has been published in May 2025 with transcript. About the book: Horticulture in Oceania has been under increasing scrutiny due to climate change and related policies. In Vanuatu, cultivators navigate crop growth and community life within the context of …
