The Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” (www.cliwac.de) has just started in Berlin funded by the Berlin University Alliance and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. We’re looking for a postdoc to conduct inter- and transdisciplinary ethnographic research on risk perception, adaptive practices and water futures in Berlin-Brandenburg as part …
After presenting ideas on co-laboration as a mode of ethnographic theorizing at a joint panel at the 42. conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in 2019, we (Patrick, Lauren, Jonna, Jörg, Anja and Christine) are now happy to present them as a paper in the Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie. …
“stsing” is a newly founded professional organisation that represents academics and practitioners that are interested in doing Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany. You can find details here: https://stsing.org/ stsing was founded in October 2020 and is now officially open for membership through its website. Fees start from …
At IRI THESys, we are currently looking for an ethnographically competent and STS-minded PhD candidate to work with us and our partners in Colombia and Brazil on water security in Colombia in the context of multipurpose dams. Deadline: 18th of December (despite what the advert says) Please contact: joerg.niewoehner@hu-berlin.de for …
It has long been in the making. Now, it has finally arrived: Biosocial Worlds! The inaugural edited volume in UCL Press’ new series: Culture and Health. The volume goes back to a very productive conference in Aarhus back in 2014 where scholars from STS and anthropology met to explore intellectual …
The German society for folklore studies (www.d-g-v.org) currently holds its biannual meeting at the University of Hamburg: http://dgv-kongress2019.de “World.Knowledge.Gestalten.” is the overarching topic and members of the lab have designed a panel / discussion workshop around the question how we can understand theory and reflexivity as something that is co-laboratively …
The lab has been given the chance to tell the story of its development and also to feature some of its current research. Go to the easst review to read all about it. Thanks to everyone for contributing and in particular Milena, Janine und Sabine for making it happen. Read …
A new BMBF funded project called Food4Future has just started together with some exciting colleagues in Berlin and Brandenburg. We are part of it with a Phd project investigating ethnographically possible futures of eating in Germany. Please do apply if you are interested or pass the ad along to others. …
We are looking forward to a winter of reading: ourselves and significant others. Texts are likely to be circulated in advance – often into smaller subgroups in order to avoid circulation of ‘work in progress’ into large email lists. If you are interested in particular sessions only, please do get …