Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

Guest Lecture: Marisol Marini: “Common Body and new immunological imaginaries and metaphors as a habitability tool” – 15 January, 2026

In this public guest lecture, Marisol Marini (University of São Paulo) will discuss and illuminate the foundations that led to the development of the idea of the Common Body as a diagnostic and fabulative tool in the face of socio-environmental conflicts. The proposition of the Common Body aims to highlight …

Workshop Recap: Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections

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 …

Congratulations, Anja Klein!

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 …

Guest Lecture: Aseela Haque: Interstitial ecologies: Everyday cosmopolitics of pigeon-human inhabitation in the urban margins

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 …

Guest Lecture: Hilal Alkan: Plant Companions: Affordances of anthropomorphism in migrants’ lives

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: „Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections“

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 on June 19th, 2025

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 …