The program for the winter term 2024/25 is ready! We will start this semester on October 17th with a get-together and a brunch where we will discuss our activities in the upcoming winter term and the Lab’s values of collaboration. Everybody is welcome! If you come, please make a small …
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 …
Current and associated members of the lab are organizing several panels at EASST/4S 2024 in Amsterdam. If you would like to get involved, the Call for Papers is open until February 12th. Dennis Eckhardt (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Libuše Hannah Vepřek (University of Tübingen) are convening a panel on “ Developing …
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, …
Spinning-On: STS Movement Workshop on 27–29 September 2023 In an era fraught with dizzying socio-political events and burgeoning ecological catastrophes, this workshop for a special issue will delve into the concept of epistemic dizziness as a disordered state of whirling vertigo, applying it to the contemporary state of STS. As …
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 …
