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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Desirée Hetzel’s monograph “Moving Lives. Cultivating with Climate Change in Vanuatu” has been published in May 2025 with transcript. About the book: Horticulture in Oceania has been under increasing scrutiny due to climate change and related policies. In Vanuatu, cultivators navigate crop growth and community life within the context of …
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 …
