In this paper draft I approach the topic of social inequality with praxeo graphic sensibilities on process and enactment. In particular I investigate how welfare measures\, inserted to minimize social inequality\, discrimina te welfare recipients through formally sound administration processes that operate along and with specific categories of people. For this purpose\, I draw on the story of a woman\, aged 50+\, to whom the welfare categories 'm entally ill'\, 'disabled'\, 'unemployed' and 'parent' have been attributed. At a certain point\, in their simultaneous effectiveness\, these categorie s mobilized public resources against the woman's declared will and left her in a situation of desperateness and powerlessness. With references to the research programme on "practices of human differentiation" by Stefan Hirsch auer and the sociology of dis/ability as shaped by Michael Schillmeier\, I suggest that categorization practices in public welfare administration sign ificantly create processes of contemporary social in/equalizing.
The draft is not a completed paper yet and I am looki ng forward to discussing the argument with you. Please drop me a line if yo u can put effort into reading the manuscript: milena.bister(a)staff.hu-berl in.de.
I will probable circulate it on Thur sday\, 5th Nov. Thank you for your interest!
In this two-parted session\, we first welc ome our new lab member Paz Araya. Paz is a PhD student at IRI THESys and wi ll give insights into her doctoral research. In the second half of the sess ion we will discuss a short piece by our lab member Dennis Eckhardt.
Here are the messages by our two presenters:
Incidence of per ception of thermal comfort in adoption of improvement for housing. Question s from the thermal comfort problem in Chilean households (Paz Araya)
A combination of cold and rainy weather\, inefficient building
regulation\, in addition to firewood being four to five times cheaper than
alternative heat sources\, are identified as the major causes for a severe
air pollution problem in southern Chile. Heating issues include: indoor an
d outdoor air pollution\, low in-home temperatures\, overspend in energy an
d also sub-spend (hidden energy poverty)\; all of which are interrelated wi
th infrastructure\, resources and practices.
Public instituti
ons have responded in a fragmented fashion\, between different policies age
ndas and different territorial scales. Public policies have been limited fo
r a political framework outlined by a weak State and high inequality result
ing from the total privatization of energy and real-state sectors.
Public and academic debate have acknowledged focusing on new conceptu
alization about energy poverty\, suitable for Chilean case. Energy Poverty
indicators developed in Europe doesn't represent the local energy problem\,
and particularly for Chile\, either economic or access indicators fit the
reality of a middle income\, high inequality and cold climate case. In sou
thern Chile\, people have access and can afford some forms of energy\, but
the quality dimension turns out to be critical.
On this conte
xt\, research has shown the thermal quality of dwellings is crucial to face
the problem\, considering future scenarios where both\, extreme cold and h
ot will impact people's welfare. But this also implies some policy dilemmas
¿what to do with all the building lacking thermal standards?
On the next session presentation\, I will be showing background elements f
or this problem triggering and outlining research questions about the role
of thermal comfort to face this problem.
Arbeit an und m it Algorithmen (Dennis Eckhardt)
Discussions about what algorithms do are highly focused on the work of algorithms. I try to elabor ate very shortly on the concept of working on and working with algorithms. By presenting two very short empirical cases of my fieldwork\, I make the a rgument\, that algorithms can be seen as products (as working on them) and as production goods (as working with them). As becoming a product\, their i nfrastructured relations become imperceptible\, which is the labour investe d and the data of users. They are then ready to get used as production good s\, and to work with them on other cases of the platform. I conducted field work in a comparison platform\, on which one can compare and find commoditi es.
The draft is meant to be published at kuckuck\, a small and nice Austrian journal. Due to its format\, I only have limited space\, and I expect not all of the readers are familiar with Marx\, STS\, platform studies etc. So I try to keep it quite short. But that is also what I am s truggling with. This is my very first publication working with my own empir ical data. So kuckuck is one some way a good start\, to keep the level low. The paper is on German\, but I will give a very short English summary in t he beginning. I am looking forward for all your feedback.
I f you want to get the draft please send me an email: promusicam@gmx.de (old address)\, or denniseckhardt@poste o.de (new one).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/incidence-of-perception- of-thermal-comfort-in-the-adoption-of-improvement-for-housing-arbeit-an-und -mit-algorithmen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201010T0150Z-1602294637.9526-EO-2790-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201009T154231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T161936Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201123T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201123T174500 SUMMARY: “‘Berlin is the right place but we knew that before’ – Bringing ne w work practices to the old world: Anthropological thoughts on entrepreneur ial ecosystem thinking.” DESCRIPTION: Lab member Jonna Josties will give insights into her PhD thesi s. Jonna’s presentation will be accompanied by a short comment by our lab m ember Josefine Raasch. More information will follow shortly. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lab member Jonna Josties will give insight s into her PhD thesis. Jonna's presentation will be accompanied by a short comment by our lab member Josefine Raasch.
More information will foll ow shortly.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/berlin-is-the-right-plac e-but-we-knew-that-before-bringing-new-work-practices-to-the-old-world-anth ropological-thoughts-on-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-thinking/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5394-EO-2792-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T094201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201124T142744Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201130T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201130T174500 SUMMARY: “Articulations of transmitted trauma. On tracing transmission path ways\, or on how to end the cycle” DESCRIPTION: Lab member Adina Dymczyk wishes to discuss a paper draft\, whi ch is based on interviews she conducted over the last months. In the piece she explores how “transgenerational trauma” is articulated in multiple ways . “With this draft\, I would like to share with you the first data material of my … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lab member Adina Dymczyk wishes to discuss a paper draft\, which is based on interviews she conducted over the last m onths. In the piece she explores how "transgenerational trauma" is articula ted in multiple ways.
In doing
so\, I pursue the question of how trauma transmission is articulated on thr
ee levels:
The first two parts give insights into how trauma
transmission is negotiated based on multiple experiences outside and inside
the psychiatric practice. The third part (and probably the presentation) i
s a first attempt to map different thought styles in trauma research and ex
plore how various collectives 'think' trauma transmission (especially conc
erning temporality and causality).
Whether the draft serves a
s the basis for a paper or becomes a first chapter attempt is open at this
point.
I would be happy to receive feedback on the argumenta tion and ideas for literature references. If time allows\, it would be exci ting to start a discussion with you about the methodological challenges of conducting online interviews.
I would circulate the draft on Thursday. Just drop me an e-mail: adina.dym@googlemail.com.
"In this paper\, I will present preliminar y results of my ethnography within Thomas Picht's team around the Digital T win project\, regarding the implementation of a brain mapping method in the local infrastructure at the University Hospital of Charité. I will first b riefly present functional tractography and the way it is taught and communi cated. I will then present the concerns of the team and their course of act ion to establish this practice in the field of neurosurgical planning. Why don't surgeons adopt this method more quickly and massively? How can we rec oncile the statistical operations generating the 3D images with the profess ional experience condensed in the surgeon's gesture? In order to explain th e difficulties in establishing a link between the activity of the scientist and the activity of the practitioner\, I will borrow the concepts of the " quest for certainty" (Dewey 1929) and that of the "necessity of contingency " (Meillassoux\, 2008). I will also show how my own activity as an ethnogra phic sketcher allows me to access another understanding of the observed sit uation related to the "life of lines" (Ingold 2015). Finally\, I will prese nt the various projects underway within my team at the cluster "Matters of Activity" which will provide a more concrete response to these questions."< /p>
Maxime will circulate the draft in due time prior to the session. If you are interested in reading the piece\, please contact Maxime directly: m axime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de.
The presentation will be commented on by Petra Beck.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/drawing-uncertain-lines- certitude-and-contingency-in-brain-tractography-and-visual-ethnography/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5578-EO-2794-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T094945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201214T085727Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201214T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201214T174500 SUMMARY: Reading Session I DESCRIPTION: This is the first of three scheduled reading sessions in which we aim to discuss how to ethnographically grapple with the currently incre asing overlap of geo- and biopolitical questions. The main challenges\, we figure\, are to think through the interweaving of processes on very differe nt scales from the ‘macro’ (such as land … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is the first of three scheduled readi ng sessions in which we aim to discuss how to ethnographically grapple with the currently increasing overlap of geo- and biopolitical questions. The m ain challenges\, we figure\, are to think through the interweaving of proce sses on very different scales from the 'macro' (such as land use change\, g lobal value chains\, the Anthropocene) and the 'micro'/'nano' (such as (men tal) health\, epigenetic change\, the microbiome) as well as their regulati on. To kick off the discussion we recommend to read the Introduction and Pa rt III (Agribiopolitics) of "The Government of Beans. Regulating Life in th e Age of Monocrops" by Kregg Hetherington (Duke University Press\, 2020). W e will have two further reading sessions in the remaining semester weeks. Y ou are highly welcome to bring in further text suggestions that connect to the questions and ideas raised.
If you wish to take part in the discu ssion this Monday\, please drop a short e-mail to patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/reading-session-i/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.563-EO-2795-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T095434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T095434Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210104T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210104T174500 SUMMARY: “Anticipating Crisis: Risk\, Cost\, and Care in German Psychiatry” DESCRIPTION: Lab member Lauren Cubellis will present the key findings of he r doctoral thesis. Moreover\, she wishes to discuss a chapter which she pla ns to revise for an article submission. Her presentation will be followed b y a short comment by Patrick Bieler. To receive the chapter beforehand\, pl ease contact Lauren in … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Lab member Lauren Cubellis will present th e key findings of her doctoral thesis. Moreover\, she wishes to discuss a c hapter which she plans to revise for an article submission. Her presentatio n will be followed by a short comment by Patrick Bieler.
To receive t he chapter beforehand\, please contact Lauren in advance: cubellis@wustl.ed u.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/anticipating-crisis-risk -cost-and-care-in-german-psychiatry/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5686-EO-2796-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T130953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T132010Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210111T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210111T174500 SUMMARY: “Changing Cities? Practices and Effects of Transformation Instrume nts” DESCRIPTION: Lab member Britta Acksel will present a chapter of her doctora l thesis-in-the-making. A draft of the text will be circulated before the s ession. If you would like to read it\, please send a mail to Britta before the session: britta.acksel@kwi-nrw.de. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lab member Britta Acksel will present a ch apter of her doctoral thesis-in-the-making. A draft of the text will be cir culated before the session. If you would like to read it\, please send a ma il to Britta before the session: britta.acksel@kwi-nrw.de.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/changing-cities-practice s-and-effects-of-transformation-instruments/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5744-EO-2798-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T131943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T131943Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210118T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210118T174500 SUMMARY: “Tomorrow’s Doctors” DESCRIPTION: Lab member Stefan Reinsch will give insights into a study he’s conducting together with a student collective from the MBH Fontane (Brande nburg Medical School Theodor Fontane)\, which looks at the transformation f rom students to doctors and county hospitals to (academic) teaching hospita ls. The presentation will be followed by a short … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Lab member Stefan Reinsch will give insigh ts into a study he's conducting together with a student collective from the MBH Fontane (Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane)\, which looks at the transformation from students to doctors and county hospitals to (academ ic) teaching hospitals. The presentation will be followed by a short commen t by Janine Hauer.
A draft version of the study will be circulated in due time. If you with to read it\, please contact Stefan: stefan.reinsch@g ooglemail.com.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/tomorrows-doctors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5806-EO-2799-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T132145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T130559Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210125T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210125T174500 SUMMARY: Reading Session II: Thinking Like a Climate DESCRIPTION: In this session we will discuss “Thinking Like a Climate by Ha nnah Knox”. [Knox\, Hannah. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate\, Govering a City in Times of Environmental Change. Durham\, London: Duke University Press.] If you wish to join the session or need further information\, please write a mail to Janine … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this session we will discuss "Thinking Like a Climate by Hannah Knox".
[Knox\, Hannah. 2020. Thinking Lik e a Climate\, Govering a City in Times of Environmental Change. Durham\ , London: Duke University Press.]
If you wish to join the session or need further information\, please write a mail to Janine Hauer (janine.haue r@hu-berlin.de).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/reading-session-ii/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5866-EO-2803-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T133714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T135237Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210201T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210201T174500 SUMMARY: “Practices of groundwater use and management” | “Knowledge transfe r at universities under anthropocenic conditions” DESCRIPTION: This lab session is split in two parts. In the first part lab member Dženeta Hodžić will give insights into her freshly started PhD “Soci al dimensions of groundwater: Practices of (un-)regulated resource manageme nt in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina” in the research project “regulate. Re gulation of Groundwater in Telecoupled Social-Ecological Systems” . … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This lab session is split in two parts.
In the first part lab member Dženeta Hodžić will giv e insights into her freshly started PhD “Social dimensions of groundwater: Practices of (un-)regulated resource management in Croatia and Bosnia-Herze govina" in the research project "regulate. Regulation of Groundwater in Tel ecoupled Social-Ecological Systems" .
In the second part Fotin i Takirdiki will present her plans for a PhD project proposal on "Knowledge transfer at universities under anthropocenic conditions".
The lab se ssion will take place via Zoom. The link will be circulated on Monday aroun d noon. If you wish to participate\, please drop a short mail to patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de. If you wish to read the PhD proposals in advance\, please contact the presenters d irectly (see their announcements).
Political Ecologies of Kno wledge in the Anthropocene. An Ethnographic Inquiry into New Modes of Knowl edge Production in Hybrid Spaces (PhD project\; Fotini Takirdiki)< /p>
New knowledge spaces have an important role to play in coping with th e Anthropocene. In that context there are new initiatives evolving that dev elop novel formats of knowledge production and that are hybrid\; in a sense that they lie at the intersection of disciplines\, sectors and institution s beyond the divide between nature and culture. Academic places such as the university but also non-university institutes strive for structural change s and explore new ways in order to generate transformative knowledge. The a im of this PhD project is to ethnographically study hybrid spaces as experi mental sites for new modes of knowledge production in the Anthropocene in o rder to understand what kind of knowledge is being produced\, if societal p articipation is being enabled through which differences can be bridged and how socioecological learning processes can be fostered. The project will qu estion if an opening of knowledge production is actually happening and whic h infrastructures influence this mediation process. For this purpose\, I wi ll observe practices of knowledge transfer between science and society at t hree selected field sites in a comparative study. The research will be situ ated in the field of knowledge anthropology with intersections to STS and p olitical ecology and will include findings from critical pedagogy. I am cur rently in the phase of applying for scholarships (so at the very beginning of the PhD process) and therefore I would like to present the main structur e\, research design and goal of my dissertation project. If you want to rea d the exposé that is written in German\, please send me a mail and I will h appily forward it to you: ftakirdik i@yahoo.de
Social dimensions of groundwater: Practice s of (un-)regulated resource management in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina ( Dženeta Hodžić)
In light of anthropogenic drivers of climate change\, groundwater management and concomitant groundwa ter use need to be closely examined to propose sustainable solutions. Groun dwater is a crucial resource not only for drinking water but also for indus try\, agriculture and ecosystems\, which may spark increased resource compe tition and poses a challenge to (integratively) govern groundwater complexi ties. Locally\, different forms of water governance and land use practices increasingly interact with national and transnational regulatory frameworks \, such as the EU (Ground-)Water Framework Directive (WFD). By deploying an ethngoraphic approach\, I aim to study translocally/-nationally interlinke d processes of groundwater management and use in two case studies in the We stern Balkans\, namely in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. T he case studies will be centred around the shared transboundary aquifer Una /Pljesevica\, which directly links the Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croati a) and the city of Bihać (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The overall aim is to addres s questions of how groundwater is understood by local communities as well a s institutions\, how groundwater is rendered manageable and what EU (WFD) p olicy effects can be observed in an EU/non-EU member state. The research de sign is informed theoretically by STS-inspired approaches that addresses re search themes such as policy\, knowledge and infrastructure. This PhD proje ct is part of the BMBF-funded junior research group "regulate - Regulation of groundwater in telecoupled social-ecological systems" at the Institute f or social-ecological research (ISOE)\, Frankfurt am Main. I'm only at the b eginning of my PhD and currently in the phase of further sharpening my theo retical lens\, further conceptualising the research design and defining the proposed case studies. Those who are interested in the overall project are invited to peruse our web presences: http://regulate-project.eu/ and https://www.isoe.de/en/research/junior- research-group-regulate/. If you would like to read the PhD proposal\, feel free to contact me: hodzic@isoe.de
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/groundwater-extraction-p ractices-in-telecoupled-socio-ecological-systems-knowledge-transfer-at-univ ersities-under-anthropocenic-conditions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5928-EO-2800-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T132349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T132349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210208T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210208T174500 SUMMARY: Reading Session III DESCRIPTION: This is the third of three reading sessions during the winter term. More information will follow shortly. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is the third of three reading session s during the winter term. More information will follow shortly.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/reading-session-iii/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.5988-EO-2802-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T133110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201015T090356Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210215T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210215T174500 SUMMARY: “Ecologies of Urban Mental Life “ DESCRIPTION: Lab members Patrick Bieler and Milena Bister wish to discuss t heir plan for a Special Issue. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lab members Patrick Bieler and Milena Bist er wish to discuss their plan for a Special Issue.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/bioecologies-of-encounte ring-studying-urban-mental-health-environment-entanglements/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201013T1337Z-1602596278.6079-EO-2801-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20201013T132650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T133142Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210222T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210222T174500 SUMMARY: Semester Roundup DESCRIPTION: Our last session will give us the opportunity to reflect on pa st discussions and collect ideas for the upcoming summer term. We invite al l our members and guests to bring in suggestions. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our last session will give us the opportun ity to reflect on past discussions and collect ideas for the upcoming summe r term. We invite all our members and guests to bring in suggestions.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Janine Hauer":MAILTO:janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/semester-roundup/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210419T1353Z-1618840380.3461-EO-2913-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T075729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T075729Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210419T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210419T174500 SUMMARY: Lab session: Lauren Cubellis on “Primary Care” DESCRIPTION: In our first (public) session\, Monday 19 April (16:15)\, Laur en Cubellis (FU Berlin) will discuss her ongoing work on relations and matt ers of care. Particularly she will discuss a paper draft for an introductio n to a Special Issue. Here’s her invitation: Thank you for taking time to r ead this introductory … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In our first (public) session\, Monday 19 April (16:15)\, Lauren Cubellis (FU Berlin) will discuss her ongoing work o n relations and matters of care. Particularly she will discuss a paper draf t for an introduction to a Special Issue. Here's her invitation:
Than k you for taking time to read this introductory chapter! The chapter (tenta tively titled\, Primary Care) is the outcome of a wenner gren work shop organized by Rebecca Lester and myself about ethnographic approaches t o and encounters with care. This workshop was in 2018\, and since then\, as you are well aware\, the anthropological writing about care has exploded. One of the things I am struggling with with this piece is how to respond to the many threads of the care discourse effectively\, while still putting f orward a unique formulation for Rebecca and myself. This introduction has b een completely reworked a number of times\, and the task of writing it has lingered in the background for so long\, that I am really feeling stuck. I am hoping that some perspective from all of you will help me move things al ong. After our discussion last week\, I am also thinking how the middle ran ge concepts we discussed might be helpful frames for some of this material. More specifically\, I am working in the intro with a notion of "finitude"\ , how might this work in connection with the idea of the future perfect? Se cond\, I make some comments regarding the interconnection of local and glob al\, and I'm wondering now if I am just relying on standard rhetoric\, and maybe reframing this on a global/planetary frame could be helpful. As I men tioned on Monday\, I am really struggling with this material\, and my own c ommitment toward it\, so please feel to make suggestions in any and all dir ections. Please email me for the manuscript: lauren.cubellis@fu-berlin.de
As the sessions will sti ll take place via Zoom\, please contact Patrick Bieler (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de) if you wish to j oin a session in order to receive the link.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-lauren-cubel lis-on-primary-care/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T0512Z-1618895543.974-EO-2914-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T173051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T125846Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210426T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210426T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: Working Session I “Politics of Habitability” DESCRIPTION: In the upcoming session\, we will be working on\, with and thr ough these two papers: Langwick\, S. A. (2018). “A politics of habitability : plants\, healing\, and sovereignty in a toxic world.” Cultural Anthropolo gy 33(3): 415-443. Lappé\, M.\, et al. (2019). “Environmental Politics of R eproduction.” Annual review of anthropology 48(1): 133-150. … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In the upcoming session\, we will be worki ng on\, with and through these two papers:
- Langwick\, S. A. (2018). "A politics of habitability: plants\, healing\, and sovereign ty in a toxic world." Cultural Anthropology 33(3): 415-443.
- Lappé\, M.\, et al. (2019). "Environmental Politics of Reproduction." An nual review of anthropology 48(1): 133-150.
Stacey Langwick is concerned with a herbal garden and its produce in Tanzania and how it relat es to a politics of habitability - a notion she develops from de Certeau in order to discuss responses to socio-material toxicity. It is part of a wid er discussion of toxicity and its anthropology in the journal Cultural Anth ropology. Martine Lappé's review piece (with Hein and Landecker) in Ann Rev Anth picks up the toxicity theme\, but gives a broader overview of how ant hropology has dealt with it and to what effect. The focus is on reproductio n - something that we have so far not been concerned with in the lab too mu ch -\, but it is really a very sharp synopsis of how to think through human -environment interweavings.
One question for us is how to address the all pervasiveness of anthropogenic environments and their unequal nature i n their multiple effects on human bodies in action.
Rather than tryin g to answer this in 90mins\, however\, we will be engaging in a little writ ing exercise that will hopefully help us to think our own research and thin king through some of the concepts on offer. This way\, we might be able to develop heuristics that help us in our ethnographic work rather than trying to clarify macro concepts that preclude ethnographic research.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-working-sess ion-i-politics-of-habitability/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T0512Z-1618895543.9842-EO-2915-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T173335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T153854Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210503T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210503T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: Konsum Reorganisieren (reorganizing consumption) DESCRIPTION: Dennis Eckhardt will discuss a chapter of his PhD with the lab . His PhD project’s working title is “The Valorization of Comparing. The Ma king of Comparing Platforms through labour practices”. The chapter is writt en in German\, short introduction and discussion will be in English. Abstrr act: “This is one of my … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dennis Eckhardt will discuss a chapter of his PhD with t he lab. His PhD project’s working title is “The Valorization of Comparing. The Making of Comparing Platforms through labour practices”.
The chap ter is written in German\, short introduction and discussion will be in Eng lish.
Abstrract: "This is one of my empirical chapters\, trying to de al with my fieldnotes and making sense of what could be described analytica lly. In this chapter I describe how the comparison platform I studied is pr oduced as an intermediary\, as "the space\, where demand and supply meet"\, as one of the employees told me. For producing this intermediary the emplo yees frame "the market" and "the users" as something being "out there"\, wh ich can be observed\, measured and calculated with. In this sense the 'prod uction of becoming an intermediary' is in the core of this chapter\, by hav ing a closer look on different technoscientific valuation practices. I desc ribe how employees frame purchasing with different new categories like the "need of comparing"\, which users do have\, and for which they provide comp aring products. By that - I argue - consumption is reorganized not as the a ct of buying something\, but as an continuous comparing problem. Not only t he one purchasing act is by that valued by the platform\, but consumption i s turned into an asset\, that grants revenue-streams (as rent) to the platf orm."
If you want to read my chapter\, please send an email to denniseckhardt@posteo.de. I will pr ovide the chapter draft\, table of contents and a bibliography. If you wish to receive the chapter only\, please do indicate.
If you wish to par ticipate in the session\, please send an e-mail to Patrick Bieler (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de) in or der to receive the zoom link
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-konsum-reorg anisieren/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T0512Z-1618895543.9948-EO-2918-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T173609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T163909Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210510T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210510T174500 SUMMARY: Working Session II: “Encounter(ing) as anthropological concept” DESCRIPTION: This session\, we will be dealing with the concept encounter. This session is a product of Patrick Bielers ongoing attempts to grasp urba n human-environment relationality as ecological practice. We will be discus sing: Wilson HF. On geography and encounter: Bodies\, borders\, and differe nce. Progress in Human Geography. 2017\;41(4):451-471. doi:10.1177/03091325 16645958 Faier\, Lieba\, … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This session\, we will be dealing with the concept encounter. This session is a product of Patrick Bielers ongoing at tempts to grasp urban human-environment relationality as ecological practic e.
We will be discussing:
- Wilson H F. On geography and encounter: Bodies\, borders\, and difference. Progress in Human Geography. 2017\;41(4):451-471. doi:10.1177/0309132516645958
- Faier\, L ieba\, and Lisa Rofel. "Ethnographies of encounter." Annual Review of Anthr opology 43 (2014): 363-377.
- Filippo Bertoni (2013) Soil and Worm: On Eating as Relating\, Science asCul ture\, 22:1\, 61-85\, DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.776 365
The text by Faier and Rolfe will give an overview on the use of encounters in anthropology\, while Wilson's work introduces us with discussions in geography and opens up potential links to affective and atmospheric theorizing as well as more-than-human studies. Anna Heitger ha s suggested an additional reading on the encounters of soil and worm (the t ext by Bertoni). These texts do not neatly 'add up' and form into a coheren t framework. Hopefully they offer potentials for different empirical and an alytical avenues that might be related to your work as well.
If you n eed access to one or all of the texts please contact Patrick Bieler directly.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-working-sess ion-ii-encountering-as-anthropological-concept/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T0512Z-1618895544.0079-EO-2919-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T173931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T070731Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210517T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210517T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: “Exhaustion of Hoping” and “Future Food Scripts” DESCRIPTION: In this session\, Stefan Reinsch (MHB Fontane) will discuss a paper draft “exhaustion of Hoping” and Anna Heitger (HU Berlin) will discus s her conference proceeding “Future Food Scripts”. Stefan is a medical doct or and anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research at the intersectio n of Clinical Medicine\, Medical Anthropology and Science & … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this session\, Stefan Reinsch (MHB Fontane) will discuss a pa per draft "exhaustion of Hoping" and Anna Heitger (HU Berlin) will discuss her conference proceed ing "Future Food Scripts".
Stefan is a medical doctor and anthropolog ist who conducts ethnographic research at the intersection of Clinical Medi cine\, Medical Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies. As part of a multidisciplinary team he investigates the Meanings and Practices of non-invasive Prenatal Genet ic Diagnostics in Germany and Israel.
In the context of the resea rch project Food4Future that aims at bringing together perspectives on nutr ition\, food production and sustainability\, Anna investigates the social a nd cultural dimensions of food employing ethnographic and experimental meth ods.
If you want to participate and read the texts in advance\, pleas e contact the authors.
Abstracts
Exhaustion of Hopin g: chronic illness\, anticipation\, and the management of good emotions.
„I have thought about a lung transplantation. But I decided\, I do not want it. For me\, it would be too exhausting.“ said Jonas\, a young man in his 20s. We sat at the table of his room\, looking out of the window onto the central ally of a University hospital in large town in eastern Germany. We had been discussing his health\, how it had not improved over his 3-wee k stay\, and how it had decreased over the last years\, to the point that h e had now difficulties performing his daily chores. Jonas was one of 350 children and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF)\, a chronic progressiv e respiratory condition\, who were regularly treated for several weeks at a hospital ward where I worked for 1-and-a-half years as a physician\, while also continuing long-term ethnographic fieldwork. The topic of Jonas trans plantation had come up at the end of his previous admission\, in the way it was often coming up\, as an anticipation of a possible future that is inf used with several conflicting emotions: hope for a second life\, anxiety of an earlier death if the procedure failed\, hesitation if it would be ok to not enter the road towards transplantation and the prospect of the exhaust ion during the repeated preparatory assessments and the waiting that could potentially take month or years.
While much has been written about th e difficult prognostication to determine the right decision\, and the right moment of a transplantation (Sethi et al 2021\; Yeung et al 2020\; Liou et al 2007\; Maynard 2007)\, here I propose to take closer look at the emotio nal management of the people waiting for an organ transplantation\, as well as their caregivers. Emotional management is not understood as an individu al achievement\, but interactive\, and occurs in an inter-personal negotiat ion while both patients and caregivers are struggling for well-being\, care and with morality (Ehrenberg 1998\, Miyazaki 2004\, Neckel 2009). Through repetitively being reminded that “progression can be slowed by personal inv estment in therapy”\, patients with CF learn that disease progression is no longer founded on the fate of inheriting a faulty gene but has become the fruit of their own responsibility and initiative. Inscribed in a general vi ew of modernity where we are what we make of ourselves (Giddens 1991) this reminder produces two emotions\, hope and exhaustion\, where exhaustion is the counterpart of the energy that everyone has to mobilize in order to re alize one’s own best possible future. I take as an example moments of wait ing for a transplantation\, where in order to be eligible\, patients are re quired to convincingly show to be adherent to therapy\, and hopeful of the transplantation’s success. I argue that\, in a setting that is marked by an xiety of suffocation\, doubts\, and frustration of waiting for years\, thi s expression of hoping produces a counter effect of ‘exhaustion of hoping’. A patient that is hopeful and fighting will draw the care team into a spir al of emotional exhaustion. However\, a patient who is exhausted of hoping\ , that is\, not showing and properly experiencing the “good emotions” incit es hoping in the care team that the patient might make more efforts. Here\, hoping acts as a measure of patients and caregivers demand to control soci ally undesired emotions of despair and stipulates the individual’s proper e xperience of “good feelings”\, like confidence.
Future Food Scripts< /h4>
Food and food security have become urgent global political and ecolo gical issues in the Anthropocene\, giving rise to various (techno-utopian) projects set out to intervene in and design the future of food and the ways in which we engage with food by growing\, acquiring\, preparing\, eating a nd digesting it.
My ethnographic research on food and eating practice s in Germany is part of the research project "Food4Future" that aims at dev eloping new technologies for food production and future foodstuffs. With th e concept of anticipation (Adams et al. 2009) I try to capture how the poss ibility of future is pervasive in practices of food design and how this bio political form of preparedness for an uncertain future legitimises interven tions\, embedded in wider epistemic and biopolitical projects\, in the pres ent. The project attempts to find ways to conceptualize the particular mult ispecies subjectivities and altered difference configurations emergent with in these anticipatory projects.
My proposal is to understand food as a scripted technology (Akrich 1992) to analyse how the incorporation of nov el substances with novel characteristics and potentialities evokes a new su bject and a new\, altered and already futuristic body. What I seek to discu ss is 1) what is at stake when we as multispecies organisms shaped by food from the social and cultural to the molecular level literally "eat the scri pt" of designed foods\, 2) how to prepare for different kinds of anticipati ons\, 3) how to re-contextualize these anticipatory projects in the history of food and eating\, and in ethnographies of food and eating of the presen t.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-exhaustion-o f-coping-and-future-food-scripts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210531T2012Z-1622491925.9304-EO-2940-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210531T073720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210531T073742Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210531T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210531T174500 SUMMARY: 31.5.21: Lab session DESCRIPTION: Britta Acksel and Maxime Le Calvé will discuss drafts of their current research projects on Monday\, 31 May 2021 – as usual at 4pm (16:15 ) via Zoom. Britta will discuss a new version of her PhD chapter on policy instruments as enabling governance practices\, while Maxime will present an other angle … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Britta Acksel and Maxime Le Calvé will discuss drafts of their current research projects on Monday\, 31 May 2021 - as usu al at 4pm (16:15) via Zoom. Britta will discuss a new version of her PhD chapter on policy instruments as enabling governance practices\, while Max ime will present another angle on his visual ethnographic research with and about neurosurgery trainings.
If you wish to participate in the s ession\, please drop a short mail to the authors for their drafts (britta.acksel@kwi-nrw.de\, maxime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de) and t o the organizer (patrick.biele r@hu-berlin.de) for the Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/31-5-21-lab-session/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T0512Z-1618895544.0168-EO-2920-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210419T174425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210604T113537Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210607T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210607T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: “Seeing like a Environmental Assessment Study” DESCRIPTION: In this session\, Sascha Cornejo Puschner (HU Berlin) will dis cuss a chapter of his PhD Thesis. Sascha’s research follows the questions o f how natural resource extraction impact on local territories. His research is focused on a Chilean Region in the Atacama Desert (Tarapacá)\, generall y conceived as a rich deposit of … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this session\, Sascha Cornejo Puschner (HU Berlin) will di scuss a chapter of his PhD Thesis.
Sascha's research follows the ques tions of how natural resource extraction impact on local territories. His r esearch is focused on a Chilean Region in the Atacama Desert (Tarapacá)\, g enerally conceived as a rich deposit of natural resources\, like copper\, z inc\, or lithium. The construction of a Chilean imaginary as a “mining coun try” has contributed to the displacement of resource frontiers\, and with t hat the growing fear and uncertainties of the local population about the un expected social and environmental impacts of mining on these territories.
Abstract
This chapter seeks to highlight the relationship betwee n environmental impact studies carried out by mining companies and the cont estation of these studies by indigenous communities. In this context\, cont estation is an integral part of the whole consultation process (based on th e right to be previously informed)\, focusing on the epistemological and me thodological weaknesses and biases of these studies. By this indigenous gro ups are trying to obtain a better position against mining or even stop the development of new extractive projects. This text therefore seeks to unders tand the kind of knowledge these reports contain and the representation the se reports make of the environment and the people affected. This would lead us to understand the epistemological and methodological assumptions implic it in such a study and\, in this particular case\, in the representation of "indigenous culture". By contrasting this knowledge with the "counter-repo rts" we will also seek to understand how this knowledge is contested and cr iticized. Finally\, in relation to the norms that rules these processes\, w e will\, in turn\, outline an interpretation of the agency of a technical d evice such as an Environmental Impact Study whose construction is governed by norms established in the Chilean law.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-seeing-like- a-environmental-assessment-study/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1148-EO-2923-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T165642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T112655Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210614T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210614T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: Brainstorming Lab Infrastructures DESCRIPTION: In this session\, Tim Schütz (UC Irvine) will give a presentat ion on the mechanics and purpose of PECE\, the Platform for Experimental Co llaborative Ethnography (https://worldpece.org/). The PECE initiative is on e attempt at relation-making across projects that operates in an ethnograph ic mode. We would like to learn more about it as … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this session\, Tim Schütz (UC Irvine) will give a presentation on the mechanics and purpose of PECE\, the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (h ttps://worldpece.org/). The PECE initiative is one attempt at relation- making across projects that operates in an ethnographic mode.
We w ould like to learn more about it as we are hoping to set up a conversation about what PECE does\, whether L:AEHR could operate as a member of PECE or whether alternative modes and infrastructures spring to mind for our joint thinking and writing.
This presentation is followed by a comment b y Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths London)\, whom we have invited into this s ession\, because his still relatively recent volume with Joe Deville and Zu zana Hrdliková focused on the practices of comparing in research projects ( Practising Comparison\, Mattering Press 2016).
If you wish to part icipate and receive the Zoom link\, please contact Patrick via mail (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-brainstormin g-lab-infrastructures/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1251-EO-2924-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T165919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210618T122340Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210621T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210621T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: Haptic luminaries: a virtual reality experiment in mu ltimodal STS DESCRIPTION: Maxime Le Calvé (possibly together with his colleague Yoonha K im from HU’s Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity”) will give a prese ntation on their paper with the working title “Sounding neurons ‘down the s cale’: designing an immersive VR experience as ethnographic device to span neurosurgery\, biophysics and sartorial research.” Please find … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Maxime Le Calvé (possibly together with hi s colleague Yoonha Kim from HU's Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity ") will give a presentation on their paper with the working title "Soun ding neurons 'down the scale': designing an immersive VR experience as ethn ographic device to span neurosurgery\, biophysics and sartorial research." Please find the abstract here.
If you wish to participate and receive the Zoom link\, please contact Patrick via mail\; to receive the paper upfront please contact Maxime via mail (maxime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de ).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-haptic-lumin aries-a-virtual-reality-experiment-in-multimodal-sts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1333-EO-2926-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T170309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T151952Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210628T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210628T174500 SUMMARY: Lab Session: Climate change adaptation in China’s agriculture DESCRIPTION: In this session\, Jelena Große-Bley will discuss first explora tions within the context of her PhD Thesis. Jelena is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, a visiting predoctoral fellow with the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In this session\, Jelena Große-Bley will discuss first explorations within the context of her PhD Thesis.< /p>
Jelena is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Humbol dt-Universität zu Berlin\, a visiting predoctoral fellow with the Lise Meit ner Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science a nd a doctoral researcher/lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. Her main res earch interests are environmental knowledges\, nature-human relationships\, and climate change adaptation discourses and practices in the context of C hina’s agricultural system.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-climate-chan g-adaptation-in-chinas-agriculture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1423-EO-2927-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T170403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T170403Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210705T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210705T174500 SUMMARY: Working Session III: Future Perfect DESCRIPTION: tba X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:tba
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/working-session-iii-futu re-perfect/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1544-EO-2928-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T170725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T114455Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210706T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210706T114500 SUMMARY: CANCELLED Lab Session [extra date]: Modeling relations: Co-laborat ing\, process philosophy and models of social-ecological relations DESCRIPTION: This session has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconven ience. In this session\, Anja Klein will present material from her ongoin g empirical dissertation research on computational models of human-environm ent relations. She will draw in particular on a case study of modellers wor king to include process philosophical perspectives in their … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This session has been cancelled. We apolog ize for any inconvenience.
In this session\, Anja Klein will present material from her ongoing empirical dissertation research on computational models o f human-environment relations. She will draw in particular on a case study of modellers working to include process philosophical perspectives in their model of a social-ecological system.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/lab-session-extra-date-m odeling-relations-co-laborating-process-philosophy-and-models-of-social-eco logical-relations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210420T1927Z-1618946836.1729-EO-2929-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20210420T170812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T170812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210712T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210712T174500 SUMMARY: Working Session IV X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/working-session-iv/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.2581-EO-3196-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T145041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T145041Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211022T114500 SUMMARY: 28.10.21: Reading session “Experimenting with ethnography” DESCRIPTION: We will read together parts of the book Experimenting with Eth nography. A companion to analysis by Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthere ik (2021). Jonna\, Anja and Maxime will moderate the session. We will also practice together. We decided to reduce the load of “core” readings to the introduction and chapter … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We will read together parts of the book
Here is the link to the open access copy: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/ 110829
For more information on the practical exercise of chapter 5\, which we will also be doing\, and to get access via zoom\, please get i n touch with Maxime Le Calve (maxime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/28-10-21-reading-session -experimenting-with-ethnography/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.2724-EO-3197-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T153111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T153111Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211104T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211104T114500 SUMMARY: 04.11.2021: “Planning Education” (Paper draft: Fotini Takirdiki) DESCRIPTION: Fotini Takirdiki is a PhD student with supervision at the HU B erlin (Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner\; European Ethnology) and at the University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider\; European Media Studies). Her rese arch is focused on the intersection of knowledge creation\, society and spa ce in the context of the Anthropocene\, … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Fotini Takirdiki is a PhD student with sup ervision at the HU Berlin (Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner\; European Ethnology) a nd at the University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider\; European Medi a Studies). Her research is focused on the intersection of knowledge creati on\, society and space in the context of the Anthropocene\, where she inves tigates knowledge practices\, eco pedagogies and media/infrastructures of k nowledge. In this session she will present a paper draft for the publicatio n project „Planning Miseducation: Relearning urbanism within\, against and beyond the university“ and a video essay that she presented at the Conferen ce „Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft” at the University of Innsbruck wit h the annual topic „Wissensökologie“ (Ecology of Knowledge). Please reach o ut to her via ftakirdiki@yahoo.de to receive the article.
Furthe r information on the work she will present:
Paper Draft: Learning fro m/within Ecotones: Educational Experiments for a Critical Urban Pedagogy be yond Anthropocentrism (~ 8 pages\; in English)
How does Planning Educ ation need to adapt to go beyond the material/immaterial\, human/nonhuman\, local/global and the digital/analogue dichotomies? How can planning studen ts and practitioners develop a moral\, civic and political ecological pract ice for critically designing urban infrastructures in the Anthropocene? Thi s is where the Ecotone opens up as a setting for educational experiments an d a pedagogical concept that includes site-specific field work as a feral m ethod for planning theory and praxis. Learning from and within ecotones mea ns observing\, experiencing and investigating the encounter of two ecosyste ms\, e.g. in the Berlin area at the wetlands of Briesetal\, the shore of la kes at Grunewald or at the setting of Floating University. Studying the loc al environment\, especially the transition zones where ecosystems overlap\, will be seen as the preliminary work for designing the thresholds between natural and built environment. Through the analysis of an empirical ethnogr aphic example\, I will argue that the notion and the investigation of the E cotone can contribute to planning education in the Anthropocene. Accordingl y\, this piece of writing aims at emerging from the in-between: between wha t is perceived as scientific and fiction writing\, between nature and cultu re.
Video Essay: Wie lernen wir im und mit dem Sumpf als Natur-Kultur ? (~24 mins\; in German)
Next/connected to the article I developed an interactive field guide at Briesetal in North Brandenburg as a form of aut oethnographic research. I presented it at the GfM Conference as part of the panel „Der Sumpf als Grenzobjet. Eine medienanthropologische Untersuchung des Briesetals“. You can download and watch it via this link: GfM_Sumpf-Grenzobjekt_FTakirdiki.mp4
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/04-11-2021-planning-educ ation-paper-draft-fotini-takirdiki/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.2849-EO-3198-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T153157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T080437Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211111T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211111T114500 SUMMARY: 11.11.21: “Personal health technologies and precarious chronic car e infrastructures” (Paper draft: Henriette Langstrup) DESCRIPTION: We are happy to invite you to our next session in which our gu est Henriette Langstrup\, University of Copenhagen\, will give a talk title d „Personal health technologies and precarious chronic care infrastructures : from invited participation to device activism“. Please contact Patrick Bi eler (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de) if you wish to join us via … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We are happy to invite you to our next ses sion in which our guest Henriette Langstrup\, University of Copenhagen\, wi ll give a talk titled „Personal health technologies and precarious chronic care infrastructures: from invited participation to device activism“.
Please contact Patrick Bieler (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de) if you wish to join us via zoom.
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Personal health technolog ies and precarious chronic care infrastructures: from invited participation to device activism.
Personal digital health techno logies are proliferating within and outside established healthcare arrangem ents and institutions. Apps\, implantable\, wearable and transportable devi ces that track and monitor health states are becoming part of "chronic livi ng" (Wahlberg 2021) in contemporary society. But with devices inviting pati ents to self-monitoring and self-management also follows new burdens of tre atment (May et al. 2014) – what may be called the "the data burden" in a di gital age – inputting\, interpreting and acting on digital data in the cour se of daily living. The management of this and related burdens of treatment in chronic living is contingent on the resources available and care enable d by larger chronic care infrastructures (Langstrup 2013). Drawing primaril y on empirical work on patient-driven device innovation in diabetes\, I wan t to explore how some people with chronic diseases have responded to their experience of "the data burden" of treatment with what I phrase "device act ivism" (Jansky & Langstrup forthcoming). They are reverse-engineering their treatment devices to automate them and establishing open-source communitie s as alternative\, global\, online chronic care infrastructures based on th e recursiveness of the participants' engagement and material resources. I w ill end by discussing some of the new individual burdens experienced by use rs and the broader implications for achieving "response-able chronic care i nfrastructures". Are device activists addressing the precariousness of conv entional and institutionally sanctioned digital infrastructures or are they introducing new forms of precariousness?
Bio: Henriette Langstrup is Associate Professor and Head of Studies in Health Informatics at the Department of Public Health\, Centre for Medical Science and Techno logy Studies at University of Copenhagen. Her current research concerns the use of patient generated data in chronic care infrastructures and patients ' engagement in open innovation and self-tracking technologies.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/11-11-21-from-invited-pa rticipation-to-device-activism-personal-health-technologies-and-precarious- chronic-care-infrastructures-paper-draft-henriette-langstrup-university-of- copenhagen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/device-activism-krys-unverzagt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.2974-EO-3199-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T153937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T082033Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211118T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211118T114500 SUMMARY: 18.11.21: Working Session I: Decentering Anthropos (Theme 1) DESCRIPTION: In this meeting\, we will have our first working session on ou r joint project of carving out heuristics for the anthropocene. This week\, it’s all about ‘decentering anthropos’. For preparation\, we would like to encourage you to read chapter 2 (“of” the human (“after” the human)\, pp. 34-69) of Tobias … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this meeting\, we will have our first w orking session on our joint project of carving out heuristics for the anthr opocene. This week\, it's all about 'decentering anthropos'. For preparatio n\, we would like to encourage you to read chapter 2 ("of" the human ("afte r" the human)\, pp. 34-69) of Tobias Rees' 2018 book After Ethnos (Duke University Press).
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This is a provocating book trying to distinguish be tween anthropology and ethnogaphic research\, arguing for a kind of theoret ically informed empirical philosophy that does not target the observation o f 'societies'/and how humans live together ('ethnography') but tries to pos e questions about what the human is ('anthropology') as well as enhancing a nthropology's focus beyond the human (without losing sight of the human\, h owever). Although there are surely flaws\, inconsistencies and questionable genealogies (see the Book Symposim in the journal HAU\, Vol. 9\, Issue 1\, and especially Tim Ingold's review)\, I think that the book and chapter 2 provide a good starting point to reflect on the manifold (and different) po ssible modes of 'decentering the human'. Rees forces his readers to attempt to create a heuristic rather than holistic framework of achieving this iss ue. Moreover\, the book seems helpful in also reflecting on the disciplinar y legacies of specific thought styles and concepts (although\, as stated\, Rees' reading is a very specific one...).
In the session on 18 Novemb er\, we do not wish to engage abstractly with Rees' arguments and writing i tself\, but rather we wish to create an opening to reflect on our own work in relation to specific questions that the chapter raises. If you feel some thing resonates with your work\, we would be happy to receive (short) respo nses around the following questions: With what methods are we trying to dec enter anthropos and what are guiding methodological principles in this work ? How do we work with theory\, and what are texts/concepts that we find use ful (or maybe also unhelpful) in pursuing our endeavor to decenter anthropo s in a situated and empirically grounded manner? Why would we want to decen ter anthropos with regards to our respective field site\, what does our 'mi ssion' relate or contribute to? And\, after all\, how might this help us in re-conceptualizing anthropos and anthropology?
Please contact Patric k Bieler (patrick.bieler@hu-be rlin.de) if you wish to join us via zoom or need the above mentioned ch apter.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/18-11-21-working-session -i-decentering-anthropos-theme-1/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Decentering-anthropos_KUnverzagt_2-4-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.3098-EO-3200-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211119T110623Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211125T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211125T114500 SUMMARY: 25.11.21: How to use autoethnography in STS? (Thesis chapter: Karo lina Żyniewicz\, University of Warsaw) DESCRIPTION: We are very pleased to invite you to our next meeting where Ka rolina Żyniewicz will present a chapter of her dissertation titled “How to use autoethnography in STS?”. Karolina would like to discuss the chapter “T he meanings of transmattering – enacted through an autoethnography of relat ions between human and post-human … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_3243" align="align
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We are very pleased to invite you to our next meeting where Karolina Żyniewicz will present a chapter of her dissertation titled "How to use au toethnography in STS?". Karolina would like to discuss the chapter "The mea nings of transmattering – enacted through an autoethnography of relations b etween human and post-human liminal beings". She especially wishes editori al feedback on how to shorten the chapter. Please contact Karolina (karolinazyniewicz@gmail.com) to r eceive the text.
Here she gives a brief overview of the next session:
"I shared with lab members the IV chapter of my thesis but I would l ike to explain the general idea of the research and how the sent chapter is located in the thesis. The research which I present in my thesis is dedica ted to matter\, mattering\, and transmattering. Matter\, understood as a bi ological substance\, meaning\, and importance\, is the main character of th e text. Following the quotation from Karen Barad\, which I use as a referen ce point\, physical matter and its meaning cannot exist separately. My goal is to describe how their correlation looks like in the case of my empirica l experiences.The role of the text is to guide the reader through the theor etically described mattering and empirically experienced transmattering. Ma ttering has been described already by scholars\, which I mention in chapter I. Meanwhile\, transmattering is my research that approaches the matter fr om my embodiment point of view. I show how my liminal practice allowed me t o transgress the mattering vision I got to know thanks to literature. The m ain questions which I decided to raise are: How to transmatter? What does t ransmattering mean? The text shows how my autoethnographic research answers these questions. I present one of many possible ways\, which nobody can re peat in the same form. The knowledge produced by my research and my writing is a matter to transmatter by others. The prefix trans- signalizes that I transform available theoretical and biological matter. I select the matter in a specific way\, allowing me to be bodily present in my research. The pr ocess is described and analyzed without pretending that I present an object ive point of view."
Given the current situation\, it is not yet certa in whether the lab will take place in hybrid format. For sure we will meet on Zoom: Thu\, Nov 25th\, 10:15 - 11:45 a.m. If you wish to join us\, pleas e contact Patrick Bieler (patr ick.bieler@hu-berlin.de).
ŻYNIEWICZ KAROLINA is an artist (2009 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź\, Departmen t of Visual Arts) and researcher\, PhD student (Nature-Culture Transdiscipl inary PhD Program at Artes Liberales Faculty\, University of Warsaw). Worki ng in a laboratory (mostly at the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology\, Faculty of Biology\, University of Warsaw) locates her works in the field of bio art\, although she tries to avoid using this term. She sees her limi nal activity as situated knowledge production. She is mostly focused on lif e in its broad understanding (its biological and cultural meaning). Her pro jects have mostly conceptual\, critical character. The main point of her Ph D research interest are multilevel relations emerging during realization of liminal projects. She tries to put her observations\, as an artist/researc her (liminal being)\, in the context of Science and Technology Studies (STS ) Actor-Network Theory by Bruno Latour and feminist humanities. Website: karolinazyniewicz.com
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/25-11-21-how-to-use-auto ethnography-in-sts-thesis-chapter-karolina-zyniewicz-university-of-warsaw/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Autoethno-in-STS_KUnverzagt-cropped-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.3228-EO-3201-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211126T123253Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211202T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211202T114500 SUMMARY: 02.12.21: Sketching haptic brains (Proposal draft\, Maxime Le Calv é\, HU Berlin) DESCRIPTION: More info to follow… X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:More info to follow...
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This week we will discuss a thesis chapter on the enactment of social order and knowledge in participatory modelling practices by Krys Unverzagt. She is a graduate student in European Ethnolog y at IRI THESys. Her research is focused on the practice of participatory m odelling in human-environment research. If you wish to receive the text to prepare for the session\, please email anja.klein@hu-berlin.de. If you need the Zoom-link\, please contac t Patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de< /a>.
Some context provided by Krys for the chapter:
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"I study participatory m odelling (PM) of socio-ecological issues as a practice. When I embarked on my project\, I initially wanted to explore the ways in which participatory research and democracy relate to each other. Eventually\, I ended up studyi ng the situatedness of the participatory modelling process in terms of its entwinement with underlying broader thought structures and with the making of the world (extending to models of democracy by way of ethics). Now\, I w ork with the notion of enactment\, taking a micro perspective on PM practic es and tracing how five key “objects”: world\, people\, knowledge\, science \, and social order are enacted throughout the research process. The notion of enactment has come to replace that of co-production (Jasanoff) in my pr oject.
The reading for the session is mainly an excerpt of my second empirical chapter “On data collection and diagram-building”\, which deals w ith the interviewing and diagram-building phase of the participatory resear ch process.
In terms of methodology\, I only very briefly want to add beforehand that I adapted James Spradley’s method of Cultural Theme Analys is to analyse my ethnographic material for cultural “themes”\, ordering pri nciples that structure social life. "Adapted" here means that I use the met hod\, however\, I treat the emerging themes not as static but as indicators for different versions of plural\, flexible and ever emergent objects-in-t he-making. Cultural Theme Analysis includes three steps: an analysis of cul tural domains (such as: events\, agents\, acts\, places\, times…)\, a taxon omic analysis on how these domains relate to each other\, a componential an alysis that serves to categorise and reflect on domains and then the cultur al theme analysis to hypothesise on ordering principles that underlie the w ay in which the domains hang together during the observed interactions. Whe n coding conversation for domains and interpreting for relationships betwee n domains I have drawn on´ insights from linguistic anthropology."
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/9-12-21-enactments-of-kn owledge-and-order-in-participatory-modelling-thesis-chapter-krys-unverzagt- hu-berlin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/participatory-modeling_KUnverzagt_cropped-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.4002-EO-3203-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T154258Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211216T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211216T114500 SUMMARY: 16.12.21: Working Session II: Planetarity (Theme 2) DESCRIPTION: more info to follow… X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:more info to follow...
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/16-12-21-working-session -ii-planetarity-theme-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.4137-EO-3204-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T102240Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220106T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220106T114500 SUMMARY: 6.1.21: Reading Session II: “Experimenting with Ethnography” DESCRIPTION: In this session\, we would like to continue our discussion of Andrea Ballestero and Brit Winterheik’s book “Experimenting with Ethnograph y. A Companion to Analysis” (download here).This time\, we would like to en gage with it in a way that we can support each other. What kind of data ana lysis methods and … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In this session\, we would like to continu
e our discussion of Andrea Ballestero and Brit Winterheik’s book “Experimen
ting with Ethnography. A Companion to Analysis” (download here).This t
ime\, we would like to engage with it in a way that we can support each oth
er. What kind of data analysis methods and analytic practices do we (want t
o) use in our research? And how could we relate these to de/recentering the
human as part of our ongoing conversation?
To prepare for the sessio n\, we suggest selecting and reading one or two analytic protocols that you feel are helpful for your research\; please document that choice of chapte r(s) in the Miroboard we used last time (link available upon request from < a href="mailto:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de">anja.klein@hu-berlin.de or jonna.josties@hu-berlin.de) unt il January 4th. You may also skim the two concluding chapters (just ten pag es taken together).
If you want to participate in the session via zoo m\, contact patrick.bieler@hu- berlin.de for the link.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/6-1-21-reading-session-i i-experimenting-with-ethnography/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.4251-EO-3205-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T083715Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220113T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220113T114500 SUMMARY: 13.1.21: Working Session III: De- and Recentering Anthropos X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/13-1-21-working-session- iii-temporality-theme-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.463-EO-3206-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T105035Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220120T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220120T114500 SUMMARY: 20.1.21: Resilience Narratives as ‘Counterstories’? (Thesis chapte r: Adina Dymczyk\, HU Berlin) DESCRIPTION: Adina Dymczyk is a graduate student at the Institute for Europ ean Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research is focused on discourses of trauma transmission. In this session\, she will present a dr aft of a thesis chapter titled “Resilience Narratives as ‘Counterstories’?” “In current debates on trauma transmission\, the term … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Adina Dymczyk is a graduate student at the
Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her re
search is focused on discourses of trauma transmission. In this session\, s
he will present a draft of a thesis chapter titled "Resilience Narratives a
s ‘Counterstories’?”
"In current debates on trauma transmission\, the term "resilience" refers to a "diversity" of expe riences of those affected\, or at least implies descendants of survivors' p ossibility to shape their future in a positive way. However\, critical voic es have repeatedly highlighted that "resilience" leads to a de-politicizati on of the discourse. Based on initial field research\, I ask/explore how th e narrative of resilience is introduced into the trauma discussion and what function it serves in the field. I argue that the term "resilience" emerge s as a "counter-narrative". In this session\, I would appreciate f eedback on how the concept of counter-histories fits the material\, what al ternative interpretations are possible?"
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/20-1-21-resilience-narra tives-as-counterstories-thesis-chapter-adina-dymczyk-hu-berlin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lab-session-Adina_KU-2cropped-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.4746-EO-3207-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T155245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T120237Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220127T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220127T114500 SUMMARY: 27.1.21: Rebuilding model worlds: an ethnography of modeling socia l-ecological systems (Thesis chapter: Anja Klein\, HU Berlin) DESCRIPTION: Anja Klein will present insights from her ethnographic researc h and collaboration on/ with modelers developing mathematical models and co mputer simulations of human-environment systems. The aim is to inquire into the epistemological\, ontological and ethical commitments of this work. “A s preparatory reading for the session I would like to provide two … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Anja Klein will present insights from her e thnographic research and collaboration on/ with modelers developing mathema tical models and computer simulations of human-environment systems. The aim is to inquire into the epistemological\, ontological and ethical commitmen ts of this work.
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"As prep aratory reading for the session I would like to provide two short presentat ion scripts I gave in other contexts so that you can already familiarize yo urself with my field and things such as ABMs\, ODEs\, SES and XPP. I will e laborate on these in my presentation on Thursday so as you read through the m there is no need for detailed feedback as you might give on a paper draft \, but I would appreciate a focus on overarching questions such as what I c ould do with this kind of data\, what this means for co-laboration or what modelling does to assemblage thinking."
If you want to receive t he texts please send an email to a nja.klein@hu-berlin.de.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/27-1-21-rebuilding-model -worlds-an-ethnography-of-modeling-social-ecological-systems-thesis-chapter -anja-klein-hu-berlin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.4873-EO-3208-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T123321Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220203T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220203T114500 SUMMARY: 3.2.21: HEAT in practice: Workshop on data analysis in the lab (in ternal session\, members only) DESCRIPTION: Facilitators: Adina Dymczyk\, Krys Unverzagt\, Anja Klein We w ould like to focus on concrete examples of data analysis practices and appr oaches. Concretely\, we invited some of our post-doc members to prepare a s hort input on how they did ethnographic analysis in their respective PhD pr ojects and in addition we provide … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Facilitators: Adina Dymczyk\, Krys Unverza gt\, Anja Klein
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We would like to focus on concrete examples of data analysis practices and approaches. Concretely\, we invited some of our post-doc members to prepare a short input on how they did ethnographic analysis in their respective Ph D projects and in addition we provide a paper by Cornelia Schadler on new m aterialist ethnography with another very concrete methodology for data anal ysis to discuss this with/ against: Schadler\, Cornelia (2017): Enactments of a new materialist ethnography: methodological framework and research pro cesses. In: Qualitative Research 19 (2)\, S. 215–230. DOI: 10.1177 /1468794117748877
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/3-2-21-heat-in-practice- workshop-on-data-analysis-in-the-lab-internal-session/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0521Z-1635225717.5001-EO-3209-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20211025T154630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T104330Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220210T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220210T114500 SUMMARY: 10.2.21: Presentation of 2 PhD projects by Dženeta Hodžić\, ISOE F rankfurt/Main and Felicitas Sommer DESCRIPTION: We invite you to the last Lab Session of the term (10.02.2022) where Dzeneta Hodzic (ISOE) and Felicitas Sommer will present aspects of t heir two PhD projects. As usual we will meet online between 10.15 and 11.45 am. To join via zoom\, please email Patrick Bieler. First\, Dzeneta Hodzic will present … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We invite you to the last Lab Session of t
he term (10.02.2022) where Dzeneta Hodzic (ISOE) and
First\, Dzeneta Hodzic will p resent ideas and preliminary plans for her ethnographic fieldwork in Croati a and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These include conducting participant observation with ‘groundwater actors’ as well as interdisciplinary co-laboration with s ocio-hydrology/socio-hydrogeology\, aquatic ecology and practitioners. How might different disciplinary methods be combined fruitfully with(in) long-t erm ethnographic research\, i.e. perception graphs\, participatory modeling \, groundwater sampling or so-called ‘stakeholder workshops’?
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In the second p art of the session Pheli/Felicitas Sommer will present one chapter of her P hD project in which she investigated the development\, use and maintenance of land registries and other governmental data bases containing information on (agricultural) land ownership in Germany. The title is: Seeing farms like a state. How land market transparency regulation can obscure lan d concentration and complex corporations.
The chapter is bas ed on ethnographic fieldwork on the current discourse about land market reg ulation\, regulatory gaps and the role of complex financial entanglements. She would like to focus on bureaucratic and data infrastructures and how th eir legal\, technical and organizational set-up enables or impedes bureaucr atic practices and representations regarding land rights and their distribu tion.
If you want to prepare for the session\, you c an read a short article about land governance and sustainability that addre sses the question of why we need to know more about land distribution. It i s in German\, but you find an English translation attached. http s://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/die-moral-der-buerokratie/
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/10-2-21-extractive-infra structures-in-post-soviet-space-grant-proposal-beril-ocakli-hu-berlin-ideas -for-a-multi-sited-groundwater-ethnography-fieldwork-preparation-dzeneta-ho dzic-isoe-frankf/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/data-infr_land-and-groundwater_KUnverzagt_crop2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T0754Z-1650959664.7149-EO-3324-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220426T081506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T094052Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220428T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220428T114500 SUMMARY: 28.04.22: Reading Session “Climatic Media” DESCRIPTION: In our upcoming session on Thursday\, 28 April (10:15am)\, we will have a joint reading of Furuhata\, Yuriko (2022): Climatic Media:Trans pacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control. Duke University Press. Please r ead the introduction\, conclusion and one chapter from that book. The sessi on will take place hybrid. We’ll meet in the aquarium … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In our upcoming se
ssion on Thursday\, 28 April (10:15am)\, we will have a joint reading of Fu
ruhata\, Yuriko (2022): Climatic Media:Transpacific Experiments in Atmosphe
ric Control. Duke University Press.
Please read the introduction\, co nclusion and one chapter from that book.
The session will take place hybrid. We'll meet in the aquarium (room 107a) of HU's Institute of Europea n Ethnology\, and you'll also have the chance to join us virtually via Zoom . If you need access to the book or have not yet received a zoom link and w ant to join\, please shortly contact Patrick Bieler.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/28-04-22-reading-session -climatic-media/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-petrochemical-plant-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.3287-EO-3328-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220412T081526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093756Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220512T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220512T114500 SUMMARY: 12.05.22: Short pitch (Anna Heitger\, HU Berlin/IRI THESys) // Boo k Proposal (Lauren Cubellis\, HU Berlin) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/12-05-22-short-pitch-ann a-heitger-hu-berlin-iri-thesys-book-proposal-lauren-cubellis-hu-berlin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.3473-EO-3329-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220419T081549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093806Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220519T114500 SUMMARY: 19.5.22: History of Biology (Hannah Landecker\, UCLA/Max Planck In stitute for the History of Science) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/19-5-22-history-of-biolo gy-hannah-landecker-ucla-max-planck-institute-for-the-history-of-science/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.3672-EO-3330-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220402T081514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093818Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220602T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220602T114500 SUMMARY: 2.6.22: Preparation of Lab’s contribution to the IfEE Institutskol loquium on ‘Collective Access’ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/2-6-22-preparation-of-la bs-contribution-to-the-ifee-institutskolloquium-on-collective-access/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.3839-EO-3331-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220409T081534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093858Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220609T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220609T114500 SUMMARY: 9.6.22: Working Session: Coding X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/9-6-22-working-session-c oding/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.4007-EO-3332-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220416T081552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093907Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220616T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220616T114500 SUMMARY: 16.6.22: A short and dense story of transition: The implementation of the psychiatric reformist devices from the perspective of its daily pra ctices (Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira\; UF Rio de Janeiro) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/16-6-22-a-short-and-dens e-story-of-transition-the-implementation-of-the-psychiatric-reformist-devic es-from-the-perspective-of-its-daily-practices-arthur-arruda-leal-ferreira- uf-rio-de-janeiro/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.4152-EO-3333-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220423T081517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093918Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220623T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220623T114500 SUMMARY: 23.6.22: EASST 2022 Presentations Test Run (all Lab members presen ting at EASST) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/23-6-22-easst-2022-prese ntations-test-run-all-lab-members-presenting-at-easst/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.429-EO-3334-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220330T081538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093934Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220630T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220630T114500 SUMMARY: 30.6.22: The placenta\, an evolving bio-object? Enacting toxicity as process in epigenetic research on air pollution (Sophia Rossmann\, TU Mu nich) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/30-6-22-the-placenta-an- evolving-bio-object-enacting-toxicity-as-process-in-epigenetic-research-on- air-pollution-sophia-rossmann-tu-munich/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220426T1640Z-1650991252.444-EO-3335-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20220314T091559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T093942Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220714T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220714T114500 SUMMARY: 14.7.22: tba (Britta Acksel) // regulate: project on water resourc es and land use (Kristiane Fehrs\, Ulrike Mausolf\, ISOE Frankfurt/Main) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/14-7-22-tba-britta-ackse l-regulate-project-on-water-resources-and-land-use-kristiane-fehrs-ulrike-m ausolf-isoe-frankfurt-main/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.3733-EO-3392-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T100149Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221020T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221020T114500 SUMMARY: 20.10.2022: Reading Session (Petryna: Horizon Work) DESCRIPTION: We will read and disuss: Adriana Petryna (2022): Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change. Princeton U niversity Press. Please read the prologue\, chapters 1 and 4 as well as the conclusion and one additional chapter of your choice. If you wish to take … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We will read and disuss: Adriana Petryna ( 2022): Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change. Princeton University Press.
Please read the prologue\, chapt ers 1 and 4 as well as the conclusion and one additional chapter of your ch oice.
If you wish to take part in the session\, please send an e-mail to Patrick (patrick.bieler@hu -berlin.de) to receive the Zoom link or let us know that you'll be join ing us at the IfEE.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/20-10-2022-reading-sessi on-petryna-horizon-work/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.3816-EO-3393-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T113951Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221103T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221103T114500 SUMMARY: 3.11.2022: Meet the author with Jamie Lorimer DESCRIPTION: Via Zoom (!)\, we will have Jamie Lorimer (Professor of Enviro nmental Geography\, Hertford College\; University of Oxford) talking about his book The Probiotic Planet (2020\, University of Minnesota Press). This book overviews several probiotic approaches and analyses their promises and limitations\, with a special focus on the collaborations between science a nd … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Via Zoom (!)\, we will have Jamie Lorimer (Professor of Environmental Geography\, Hertford College\; University of Ox ford) talking about his book The Probiotic Planet (2020\, Universi ty of Minnesota Press). This book overviews several probiotic approaches an d analyses their promises and limitations\, with a special focus on the col laborations between science and policy.
If you are interested in join ing the session\, please read the Introduction\, the Conclusion and one cha pter of your choice to prepare for the discussion. If you wish to receive t he Zoom link\, please send an e-mail to Patrick (patrick.bieler@hu-berlin.de).
We are looking f orward to a lively discussion!
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/3-11-2022-meet-the-autho r-with-jamie-lorimer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.3886-EO-3394-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T100543Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221117T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221117T114500 SUMMARY: 17.11.2022: Reading session (Collier/ Lakoff: The Government of Em ergency) DESCRIPTION: Stephen J. Collier/Andrew Lakoff (2021): The Government of Eme rgency: Vital Systems\, Expertise\, and the Politics of Security. Princeton University Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stephen J. Collier/Andrew Lakoff (2021): T he Government of Emergency: Vital Systems\, Expertise\, and the Politics of Security. Princeton University Press.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/17-11-2022-reading-sessi on-collier-lakoff-the-government-of-emergency/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.3956-EO-3395-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T100716Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221201T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221201T114500 SUMMARY: 1.12.2022: Meet the Author with Eva Haifa Giraud DESCRIPTION: Eva Haifa Giraud (University of Sheffield) discusses What come s after entanglement? (2019\, Duke University Press) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Eva Haifa Giraud (University of Sheffield) discusses What comes after entanglement? (2019\, Duke University Press)
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/1-12-2022-meet-the-autho r-with-eva-haifa-giraud/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.4031-EO-3396-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T151614Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221215T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221215T114500 SUMMARY: 15.12.2022: Session on Climate Change Knowledge DESCRIPTION: With Milena Bister (Universität Wien) & Desirée Hetzel (Humbol dt-Universität zu Berlin) Climate change knowledge PART 1: Earthly climate actants In the lab’s first explicit session on climate change knowledge\, w e turn the spotlight on phenomena such as water\, wind\, fire\, soil or car bon dioxide as ‘earthly climate actants [In a … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With Milena Bister (Universität Wien) & De sirée Hetzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Climate change knowledge PART 1: Earthly climate actants
In the lab’s first explicit session on climate change knowledge\, we turn the spotlight on ph enomena such as water\, wind\, fire\, soil or carbon dioxide as ‘earthly cl imate actants [In a slight variation of Moore’s (2015) „earthly relations“] that fundamentally shape how we come to understand and approach climate ch ange. As a relation of materials and flows\, earthly climate actants also c hallenge established categories and methodologies of anthropological resear ch in many intriguing ways. In this session\, we want to discuss the impact of their materialities and properties on our anthropological knowledge pro duction. We therefore invite a debate that centres around some of the follo wing questions:
- Is it important to engage with these substances and flows\, and if so\, why?
- How do we decide on the definition of the relevant climate actant in our research\, e.g. whether we study water o r currents or mud\, air\, wind or dust?
- How can or should we study (with) climate actants?
With these questions in mind\, please r ead Cyme Howes Chapter 1 in “Ecologics. Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (2019). These questions also guide us through the session.
We will k ick-off our conversation through presenting some aspects from our own resea rch on Climate Change adaptation and soil in Vanuatu and human-water-intera ctions in Berlin-Brandenburg (Desirée) and how carbon emissions are known i n the context of a multimodal anthropological project on the call for a nat ional Climate Court of Audit in Austria (Milena).The floor will be open to share moments of irritation or delight around climate actants and their rel evance for anthropological climate change knowledge from your own research\ , or your reflections after reading Cymene Howe’s chapter on “Wind”.
In this session\, we would like to talk\, discuss and speculate about appro aches to climate change actants drawn from your experiences in research or (academic) everyday life. We are looking forward to opening a space for lea rning based on the Lab member’s diverse interests and research topics.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/15-12-2022-session-on-cl imate-change-knowledge/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.4106-EO-3397-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T100922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T130724Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230112T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230112T114500 SUMMARY: 12.1.2023: Guest presentation by Luca Chiapperino on Biosocial Com plexity DESCRIPTION: In the upcoming lab session\, Luca Chiapperino (University of Lausanne) will give a presentation entitled “Producing biosocial complexity : epigenetics and the tools of postgenomics” in which he draws from a five- year fieldwork to describe how scientists navigate the uncertainties\, cons traints and tensions of the so-called post-genomic age. How do they … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In the upcoming lab session\, Luca Chiappe rino (University of Lausanne) will give a presentation entitled "Produc ing biosocial complexity: epigenetics and the tools of postgenomics" i n which he draws from a five-year fieldwork to describe how scientists navi gate the uncertainties\, constraints and tensions of the so-called post-gen omic age. How do they attempt to produce a dynamic\, non-gene-centric and e nvironmentally embedded representation of life from the stand point of geno mic research infrastructures? Chiapperino argues that the complexification of life sciences' experimental systems offers a prolific entry point on sci entists' enactments of the exigencies to entangle large volumes of data\, t o align diverging aims of research (e.g. mechanistic\, predictive\, populat ional)\, as well as to integrate heterogeneous kinds of data (from scores o f socio-economic status\, to postcodes and functional analyses of gene expr ession) in post-genomics. Studies of these complexification processes\, he concludes\, could promote a documentation of the material conditions of pos sibility of post-genomics and move beyond oppositional and disciplinary dis tinctions between thick and thin ontologies of the biosocial determinants o f health.
The session will take plac both on site and online. For the zoom link please contact Patrick Bieler.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/12-1-2023-guest-presenta tion-by-luca-chiapperino-on-biosocial-complexity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.4184-EO-3398-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T101009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T101009Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230126T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230126T114500 SUMMARY: 26.1.2023: Semester Revisited X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/26-1-2023-semester-revis ited/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221017T1129Z-1666006163.4257-EO-3399-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20221017T101124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T101124Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230209T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230209T200000 SUMMARY: 9.2.2023\, 6 pm: Discussion: Anthropology in Times of Crises DESCRIPTION: Discussants: Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania) & An drew Lakoff (University of Southern California) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Discussants: Adriana Petryna (University o f Pennsylvania) & Andrew Lakoff (University of Southern California)
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/9-2-2023-6-pm-discussion -anthropology-in-times-of-crises/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.4825-EO-3493-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T191300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T191300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230424T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230424T200000 SUMMARY: [13.07.2023\, 6pm] Engineering Vulnerability as Climate Adaptation DESCRIPTION: A discussion with Sarah E. Vaughn (UC Berkeley) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A discussion with Sarah E. Vaughn (UC Berk eley)
CATEGORIES:Lab Events LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/13-07-2023-6pm-engineeri ng-vulnerability-as-climate-adaptation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.5244-EO-3485-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T190224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T065748Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230427T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230427T114500 EXDATE;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230511T101500,20230518T101500,20230525T101500,20230608T101500,20230615T101500,20230629T101500 SUMMARY: [27.04.2023] Attuning to more-than-human ecologies DESCRIPTION: Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham) and Maria Pui g de la Bellacasa (University of Warwick) will join us vis zoom to discuss current debates on how to account for more-than-human life and ecologies wi thin STS. They recently co-edited two edited volumes assembling prominent d iscussants of these themes: Ecological Reparation: Repair\, Remediation … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Notti ngham) and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (University of Warwick) will join us vis zoom to discuss current debates on how to account for more-than-human l ife and ecologies within STS. They recently co-edited two edited volumes as sembling prominent discussants of these themes: Ecolo gical Reparation: Repair\, Remediation and Resurg ence in Social and Environmental Conflict (with Maddalena Tacchetti) an d Reactivating Eleme nts: Chemistry\, Ecology\, Practice (with Natasha Myers).
To prepare for the disc ussion\, please read the introductions of both books (both intros are open access). You can join our lab members in person at the IfEE or join us via Zoom (please send a mail to pa trick.bieler@hu-berlin.de to receive the zoom link).
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/27-04-2023-attuning-to-m ore-than-human-ecologies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.5629-EO-3487-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T190806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T190806Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230512T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230512T170000 SUMMARY: [12.05.2023] Lab on Tour DESCRIPTION: A field trip to the Spreewald with Desirée Hetzel (HU Berlin) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A field trip to the Spreewald with Desirée Hetzel (HU Berlin)
CATEGORIES:Lab Events,Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/12-05-2023-lab-on-tour/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.5997-EO-3488-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T190850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T081726Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230601T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230601T114500 SUMMARY: [01.06.2023] Joint Reading on Climate Adaptation DESCRIPTION: Sarah E. Vaughn (2022): Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation. Durham/London: Duke University Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sarah E. Vaughn (2022): Engineering Vulner ability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation. Durham/London: Duke University P ress.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/01-06-2023-joint-reading -on-climate-adaptation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.6353-EO-3489-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T190941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T152021Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230612T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230612T200000 SUMMARY: [12.06.2023] Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City 6pm! DESCRIPTION: A presentation by Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan): In Mexico City\, residents of colonias populares are devoted to lead’s powe rs for engendering pleasurable congregation through meals eaten off of lead -glazed ceramic dishes. Their devotion comes from a careful grappling with the relationship of this complicated chemical to their relations and surro undings. Grappling\, often carried … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A presentation by Elizabeth Roberts (Unive rsity of Michigan):
In Mexico City\, residents of colonias popula res are devoted to lead's powers for engendering pleasurable congregat ion through meals eaten off of lead-glazed ceramic dishes. Their devotion comes from a careful grappling with the relationship of this complicated ch emical to their relations and surroundings. Grappling\, often carried out in defiance of experts and authorities whose sole focus is the damage lead does to individual bodies\, lays bare the reductionism of contemporary scie ntific exposure models which has contributed to making a "permanently pollu ted world" (Liboiron\, Tironi\, and Calvillo 2018). Additionally\, the gra ppling of the residents in these working class neighborhoods assumes permea tion\, which demonstrates some of the limits of "entanglement" in recent an thropological theory where vulnerability tends to be overlooked. Grappling \, which prioritizes pleasurable connective dependencies\, can lead to grea ter devotion to complicated chemicals\, or their replacement with equally c omplicated chemicals\, and has much to teach the rest of us about how we mi ght live in a world so saturated with toxicants and so unequally shared.
CATEGORIES:Lab Events LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/12-06-2023-grappling-wit h-exposure-in-mexico-city-6pm/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.674-EO-3490-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T191050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T191050Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230619T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230619T190000 SUMMARY: [19.06.2023\, 5 pm] Presentations by Kim Fortun & Mike Fortun (Uni versity of California\, Irvine) DESCRIPTION: tbd X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:tbd
CATEGORIES:Lab Events LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/19-06-2023-5-pm-presenta tions-by-kim-fortun-mike-fortun-university-of-california-irvine/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.7111-EO-3491-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T191134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T090610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230622T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230622T114500 SUMMARY: [22.06.2023]: Mal-nutrition: a thousand windows into American viol ence (Emily Yates-Doerr) DESCRIPTION: In this session Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam/Ore gon State University) will discuss the introduction of her new book: “Mal-n utrition: a thousand windows into American violence” Abstract fro the boo k: For the record number of Guatemalan families seeking asylum in the Unite d States\, life in Guatemala is no longer viable. … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this session Emily Yates-Doerr (Univers ity of Amsterdam/Oregon State University) will discuss the introduction of her new book: "Mal-nutrition: a thousand windows into American violence"
Abstract fro the book: For the record number o f Guatemalan families seeking asylum in the United States\, life in Guatema la is no longer viable. My book offers an untold story of this exodus\, doc umenting the convergence of maternal nutrition interventions and American w arfare. The manuscript begins during the U.S. government's 'War on Poverty' in the 1960s\, when scientists initiated an experimental feeding study in Guatemala. It traces how the feeding study catalyzed a global movement to i ncrease intelligence\, executive functioning\, and human capital by improvi ng nutrition in the narrow window of pregnancy and breastfeeding– a window today known as "the first 1000 days of life." Yet following a half-century of intensive reliance on nutrient supplementation\, Guatemala still has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world. The book explains this outcome\, illustrating how many of the scientific and political systems tha t claim to be alleviating hunger in Guatemala's Indigenous highlands are co mplicit in reproducing harm. Drawing from twenty years of anthropological e ngagement in Guatemala and three years of focused ethnography with nutritio n policymakers and families living through their policies\, the book shows what happens when fetal development becomes a tool of global development. I ts discussion of how cruelty is reproduced through the science and policy o f nutrition has relevance for apprehending and transforming structures of A merican violence.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/22-06-2023-a-presentatio n-by-emily-yates-doerr-university-of-amsterdam-oregon-state-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230425T0121Z-1682385715.7481-EO-3492-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230424T191212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T081432Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230706T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230706T114500 SUMMARY: [06.07.2023] Capitalism\, Necropolitics\, Life DESCRIPTION: A presentation by Andrea Muehlebach (Universität Bremen): When water movements represent their struggle for water as commons as a “battle between Wall Street and Life\,” they represent the vitality of water and t heir struggles for it as buoyed by life and by the dependence of all life o n earth on … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A presentation by Andrea Muehlebach (Unive rsität Bremen):
Wh en water movements represent their struggle for water as commons as a "batt le between Wall Street and Life\," they represent the vitality of water and their struggles for it as buoyed by life and by the dependence of all life on earth on water. They also implicitly represent "Wall Street" as necropo litical force that "kills" life and violates water´s integrity and "freedom ." The task of this paper is two-fold – first\, to ask how financial instru ments in the form of financialized water utilities generate the conditions for necropolitical life (by which I mean household indebtedness\, infrastru ctural ruination\, and pollution). Second\, I ask how life – and the global ly circulating slogan “Water is Life” – is articulated against this necropo litics across different scales and forms of political expression. Against t he life-draining necropolitics of financialized accounting and forms of val uation\, and against the simulation of vitality that is capitalism\, water movements posit other modes of valuation and other modes of future making. As neoliberalism renews its “extractive-dispossessive form” in an era of fi nancialized sovereignty (Gago 2015\, 11)\, it renews its necropolitical cor e as well. And yet\, it is also challenged by the vitality of the politics of water as life\, now a rallying cry around the world.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/06-07-2023-capitalism-ne cropolitics-life/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230516T1112Z-1684235543.4442-EO-3504-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20230516T093816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T093816Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T194500 SUMMARY: [13.07.2023] Engineering Vulnerability as Climate Adaptation (6pm ) DESCRIPTION: A discussion with Sarah E. Vaughn (UC Berkeley) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A discussion with Sarah E. Vaughn (UC Berk eley)
LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/13-07-2023-engineering-v ulnerability-as-climate-adaptation-6pm/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.3854-EO-3545-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T115433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T122321Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231026T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231026T120000 SUMMARY: 26.10.2023: Habitability: Jointly Exploring a Concept DESCRIPTION: With Milena Bister & Tahani Nadim What to expect? Tahani and M ilena will begin by specifying what we associate with the term\, and invite you to also prepare a brief statement/initial thought (of about +/- 5 minu tes) about how the term habitability speaks to you or how it might relate … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With Milena Bister & Tahani Nadim
Wh at to expect? Tahani and Milena will begin by specifying what we associate with the term\, and invite you to also prepare a brief statement/initial th ought (of about +/- 5 minutes) about how the term habitability speaks to yo u or how it might relate to your research area or interests.
For our joint discussion\, we propose the following two papers as preparatory readi ngs:
- Simone\, AbdouMaliq (2016) The Uninhabitable? Cultural Politics\, 12(2)\, 135-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3592052
- Wong\, A lice (2019) The Rise and Fall of the Plastic Straw. Sucking in Crip Defianc e. Catalyst 5(1)\, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.30435
- And some time ago\, in the lab\, we read and discussed Stacey A. Langwick’s pa per on the politics of habitability in the lab (DOI: 10.14506/ca33.3.06). I f possible\, revisit the article or your notes from back then.
Dear friends of the lab\,
Th is is an invitation to our field trip to Floating University Berlin on the topic of “In/Habitabil ity“ and “More-than-human Cohabitation“ tomorrow\, Thursday\, November 9th. Please dress appropriately as we will be outside most of the time and find the rough schedule and further information below.
Schedul e (10:15 - 11:45):
- Arrival: 10:15 am at Lil ienthalstraße 32\, 10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg (https://floating-berlin.org/de/ort/barrieref reiheit/) in front of the gate
- Collective Check-In
- Introduction: Situating Floating in the neigh borhood and introducing how it emerged
- Field Walk and Readi ng: based on the history and ecology of the urban infrastructure\, a water retention basin\, and its more-than-human inhabitants as well as o n the conflict with different stakeholders around the questions: What is ha bitable\, for whom\, where and when? What does maintenance and care mean? W hat does toxicity and contamination mean?
- Group Exchange: on ‚habitability / cohabitation in more-than-human cities‘ at Float ing
- Possible Add-on: Visiting a warm place for the group exchange or afterwards\, e.g. Take a Brake\, Bergmannstraße 59\, 109 61 Berlin
Please let me know if you have any questions or sugge stions. Also\, if anything comes up\, feel free to contact me via the numbe r in my signature. See you tomorrow!
Warmly\,
Fotini
CATEGORIES:Lab Events ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/9-11-2023-lab-excursion- to-the-floating-university/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.4416-EO-3547-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T115650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T084008Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231116T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231116T120000 SUMMARY: 16.11.2023: Joint Reading on Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory DESCRIPTION: We will discuss Florian Sprenger and Gottfried Schnödl’s book “Uexküll’s Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought”. Open access download: https://meson.press/books/uexkulls-surroundings/ You can join in person at the IfEE or join us via Zoom (please send a mail to carolavonder dick@student.hu-berlin.de to receive the zoom link). In their book\, Schnöd l and Spenger … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We will discuss Florian Sprenger and Gottf ried Schnödl’s book “Uexküll's Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing T hought”. Open access download: https://meson.press/books/uexkulls-surroundings/
Y ou can join in person at the IfEE or join us via Zoom (please send a mail t o carolavonderdick@s tudent.hu-berlin.de to receive the zoom link).
In their book\, Sc hnödl and Spenger not only reveal details of Uexküll’s biography that show he was much more engaged in trying to offer a holistic world view to the Na zis as until now acknowledged\, but they also argue that Uexküll’s theories of “Umwelt” and Umgebung cannot be separated from this historical constell ation. They demonstrate a structural conservatism and an identitarian logic in his writings in which everything is to remain in its place and nothing is to mix - biologically as well as politically.
In the upcoming sess ion\, we look forward to discussing with you the implications the book’s co nclusions have for concepts such as niching and affordances (Manning et al. “Niche Sociality“ 2022\; J.J. Gibson’s work on affordances)\, and our own anthropological knowledge production.
To prepare for the session\, pl ease read the introduction\, the short conclusion and read (or skim through ) one other chapter of the book.
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/16-11-2023-joint-reading -on-uexkulls-umwelt-theory/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.4707-EO-3548-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T115743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T115743Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231130T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231130T120000 SUMMARY: 30.11.2023: Workshop: Exploring Habitability through Ethnographic Data DESCRIPTION: Hosted by Milena Bister X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Hosted by Milena Bister
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/30-11-2023-workshop-expl oring-habitability-through-ethnographic-data/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.5001-EO-3549-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T120000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T123744Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231207T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231207T120000 SUMMARY: 07.12.2023: Assemble\, Extract\, Discard: Afterlives of Colonial I nfrastructure in South Asia DESCRIPTION: With Baldeep Grewal (Potsdam University) This Thursday Baldeep Kaur will present some of their thesis work on colonial infrastructure in South Asia at the lab. As a PhD student and interdisciplinary scholar they study how colonialism repairs and maintains itself during phases of large-s cale global transitions. Alongside their thesis\, a … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With Baldeep Grewal (Potsdam University)
This Thursday Baldeep Kaur will present some of their thesis work on c olonial infrastructure in South Asia at the lab. As a PhD student and inter disciplinary scholar they study how colonialism repairs and maintains itsel f during phases of large-scale global transitions. Alongside their thesis\, a longer-term project is to imagine velocities of academic work that nouri sh slow work and protect slow workers. Identifying speed as not only a prop erty of work but a dimension that determines the work/er\, they try to real ize methods that normalize failure and exhaustion.
They will present the first chapter of their thesis. Baldeep is working on finishing their th esis and looks forward to a discussion on the presentation as well as the o verarching argument.
We will meet at IfEE as well as on Zoom. If you want to participate and need the zoomlink and/or the brief preparatory read ing\, please contact Anja Klein
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/07-12-2023-assemble-extr act-discard-afterlives-of-colonial-infrastructure-in-south-asia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.5287-EO-3550-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T120106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T120109Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240111T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240111T120000 SUMMARY: 11.01.2024: Climate Change Knowledges: Follow-up on the Spreewald DESCRIPTION: Hosted by Desirée Hetzel X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Hosted by Desirée Hetzel
CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/11-01-2024-climate-chang e-knowledges-follow-up-on-the-spreewald/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240112T2330Z-1705102251.3424-EO-3588-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20240112T090806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T091937Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240125T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240125T114500 SUMMARY: 25.01.2024: Joint reading: Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality i n Trouble by Isabelle Stengers DESCRIPTION: On the 25.01.24\, the Laboratory: Anthropology of Human Enviro nment Relations will host a collective reading session of the newly transla ted book Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabelle Steng ers (Durham: Duke University Press\, 2023). The translator Andrew Goffey\, Associate Professor in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the Universi ty of Nottingham\, … X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
T he translator Andrew Goffey\, Associate Professor in Critical Theory and Cu ltural Studies at the University of Nottingham\, will give an introduction to the concept of ecology of practices\, contextualize this important book in the landscape of science and technology studies\, and share with us how this text influenced his own work. The lab members will then give short inp uts on each chapter\, before we dive into the discussion.
"In Vir
gin Mary and the Neutrino\, first published in French in 2006 and here
appearing in English for the first time\, Isabelle Stengers experiments wi
th the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but throug
h their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John D
ewey to Gilles Deleuze\, she develops what she calls an “ecology of practic
es” into a capacious and heterogeneous perspective that is inclusive of cul
tural and political forces but not reducible to them. Stengers first advoca
tes for an approach to sciences that would emphasize the way each should be
situated by the kind of relationships demanded by what it attempts to addr
ess. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific b
inary—like the opposition between the neutrino and the Virgin Mary. An ecol
ogy of practices instead stimulates an appetite for thinking reality not as
an arbiter but as what we can relate to through the generation of divergin
g concerns and obligations.” (From the website of Duke)
This session is con
vened by Maxime Le Calvé. To register\, please contact maxime.le.calve@hu-berlin.de
Hosted by Milena Bister & Desirée Hetzel CATEGORIES:Lab Sessions LOCATION:Room 107a\, Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) GEO:52.512590;13.395020 ORGANIZER;CN="Anja Klein":MAILTO:anja.klein@hu-berlin.de URL;VALUE=URI:https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/events/08-02-2024-habitability- revisited/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231010T1611Z-1696954305.6232-EO-3554-1@141.20.5.46 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T115643Z CREATED:20231010T120433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T075415Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240215T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240215T120000 SUMMARY: CANCELLED: 15.02.2024: Workshop: Finding (New) Ways with Methods: Fieldnotes DESCRIPTION: The workshop will take part in the upcoming summer semester. O rganized by Alexander Schindler\, Anja Klein\, Maxime Le Calvé\, Sophia Ros smann X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The workshop will take part in the upcomin g summer semester.
Organized by Alexander Schindler\, Anja Klein\, Ma xime Le Calvé\, Sophia Rossmann
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