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 …
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 …