Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

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 …

We invite you to join our lab sessions this Winter semester. All sessions will be hybrid and will take place at the Institute of European Ethnology @ HU Berlin and on Zoom. This semester the lab’s focus is on “habitability” and we look forward to an exciting combination of discussions, …

In the early 2010s, Stefan Beck proposed exploring ways of being-in-the-world from a practice-theoretically informed angle. Some lab members later came to term this “phenomenography” and our lab has been developing and discussing this approach for almost a decade now. After Stefan’s unexpected and much too early passing, some of us elaborated …

The lab warmly (though somewhat belatedly) congratulates (soon-to-be-Dr.) Britta Acksel on finishing, submitting and defending her PhD thesis last summer. The title of her thesis is: “Wie wandeln?” Kulturanthropologische Einblicke in den Werkzeugkasten gegenwärtiger Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen (Opening the toolbox… cultural anthropological insights into current sustainability efforts). She was supervised by Gisale …

The lab invites you to join our sessions during this summer term. You can find the full programm with reading sessions, meet-the-authors and guest presentations here and in the Events section. There you will find further info on each event published in advance. Please note thet the meetings on Thursday …