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.
In one of our lab reading sessions in January 2021 we discussed “Thinking Like a Climate” by Hanna Knox with a focus on epistemological and ontological implications of Knox’ ethnography and central arguments. Departing from this, lab members Britta Acksel and Dženeta Hodžić, together with Catharina Lüder, freshly published a …
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 …
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 …
Dear friends and guests of the Lab, we are pleased to announce that the program for the winter term is now online. You can find it here here and online in the events section which will be updated as the individual sessions come nearer. Meetings take place weekly, Thursday 10:15am-11:45am …
Lab member Milena Bister will give a public lecture on the concept of chronicityat the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London. Register and join! Sept 8th, 2021, 3-4 pm (UK time), via ZOOM
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. …
