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Cities and the activities urban infrastructures enable have long been noted for making demonstrable impacts on the surrounding atmosphere. Cities also provide unique social and political infrastructures, promoting particular forms of cohesion and fracture, including opportunities for promoting political consciousness and inspiring collective activism. This paper introduces the concept of …

This session will explore the politics of water in Palestine/Israel, with a focus on the falls of rain. Where water is governed by an occupying power, rain can index the extremes of infrastructural control, just as it can reveal its limits, holding possibilities beyond the state, recalling other ways. By …

On Thursday, June 18, 2026, 10 – 12 am CEST, we will meet for a reading & discussion session of Natalia Gutkowski’s amazing book “Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine” (Stanford University Press, 2024). We are very happy that Natalia Gutkowski herself will join the session …

In the course of the workshop “Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections”, Milena Bister (IfEE, IRI THESys & LAEHR) organizes a Field Trip around the Institute for European Ethnology building, connecting Anthropocene debates and colonial legacies. The Workshop is co-organized by the Vienna Anthropocene Network, CTS at Charles University Prague, …

In this presentation, I discuss violence against animals in Mexico as part of a “violent machine.” I argue that by taking a serious look at violence against animals we can gain new insights into how violence in Mexico operates by analyzing how it is connected to other forms of violence …

LAEHR warmly invites to our event series in the current summer term of 2026! Everybody is very welcome to join! —— “A cog in the machine: violence against animals in Mexico”, Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) —— In this presentation, I discuss violence against animals in Mexico as part of …

Once a major centre of heavy industries in Europe, Germany’s Ruhr Valley is transitioning into a postcarbon, climate-adjusted ecology and economy. Scholars studying the Ruhr’s “great transformation” as well as key actors in this transformation readily acknowledge that the return of nature above ground depends on the high-tech management of …

In this public session of the Lab, we will be discussing Melanie Garland’s ideas for her upcoming research project. The project reimagines maritime heritage by tracing the colonial, ecological, and cultural resonances of the German–Chilean saltpeter trade, carried by German sailing ships across the 19th century, and its links to …

In this public guest lecture, Marisol Marini (University of São Paulo) will discuss and illuminate the foundations that led to the development of the idea of the Common Body as a diagnostic and fabulative tool in the face of socio-environmental conflicts. The proposition of the Common Body aims to highlight …