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 …
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION To commemorate Bruno Latour, the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology and the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations at HU Berlin cordially invite you to an Homage on the upcoming Monday, January 16th, 17:00. We have planned to enter into conversation with Latour in two ways: …
We are delighted to invite you to this winter term’s program which contains joint reading sessions, ‘live’ discussions in the presence of book authors, (guest) presentations and a final discussion on the role of anthropology in our crisen-laden times. As you’ll notice, we have switched to biweekly public meetings. We’ll …
We are happy to announce the funding and start of a “new” project contributing to the ethnography of social ecological modeling, which aims at situating materiality, difference and complexity in modeling practices through a comparative case study of three different research groups. “New” is set in quotation marks because this …
All events planned for this semester can now be found on the “events” page. In our upcoming session on Thursday, 28 April (10:15am), we will have a joint reading of Furuhata, Yuriko (2022): Climatic Media:Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control. Duke University Press. Please read the introduction, conclusion and one chapter …
On Thursday, March 17th, Patrick Bieler is giving a presentation on “Urban mental health beyond social relationships? Encountering as a heuristic for co-laborative interdisciplinary engagements between anthropology and psychiatry” at McGill University, Canada. It takes place at 3pm, Eastern time/ 9pm Berlin time. To participate via zoom, register here.
We want to warmly congratulate long-standing member of the lab, Patrick Bieler, on successfully defending his PhD thesis “BioÖkologien des Begegnens: Eine ethnografische Untersuchung der relationalen Konstitution psychischer Gesundheit und urbaner Umwelten” at the intersection of urban and medical anthropology and STS! Patrick will continue to contribute to the lab …
