Spinning-On: STS Movement Workshop on 27–29 September 2023 In an era fraught with dizzying socio-political events and burgeoning ecological catastrophes, this workshop for a special issue will delve into the concept of epistemic dizziness as a disordered state of whirling vertigo, applying it to the contemporary state of STS. As …
In the early 2010s, Stefan Beck proposed exploring ways of being-in-the-world from a practice-theoretically informed angle. Some lab members later came to term this “phenomenography” and our lab has been developing and discussing this approach for almost a decade now. After Stefan’s unexpected and much too early passing, some of us elaborated …
The lab warmly (though somewhat belatedly) congratulates (soon-to-be-Dr.) Britta Acksel on finishing, submitting and defending her PhD thesis last summer. The title of her thesis is: “Wie wandeln?” Kulturanthropologische Einblicke in den Werkzeugkasten gegenwärtiger Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen (Opening the toolbox… cultural anthropological insights into current sustainability efforts). She was supervised by Gisale …
The lab invites you to join our sessions during this summer term. You can find the full programm with reading sessions, meet-the-authors and guest presentations here and in the Events section. There you will find further info on each event published in advance. Please note thet the meetings on Thursday …
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION To commemorate Bruno Latour, the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology and the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations at HU Berlin cordially invite you to an Homage on the upcoming Monday, January 16th, 17:00. We have planned to enter into conversation with Latour in two ways: …
We are delighted to invite you to this winter term’s program which contains joint reading sessions, ‘live’ discussions in the presence of book authors, (guest) presentations and a final discussion on the role of anthropology in our crisen-laden times. As you’ll notice, we have switched to biweekly public meetings. We’ll …
Members of the lab Britta Acksel, Jonna Josties and Maxime Le Calvé invite contributions to their panel at the STS-Hub which will take place in Aachen in March 2023. “The vertigo triggered by the circulation of ideas and pictures in our research field can be intense. We are inviting proposals …
We are happy to announce the funding and start of a “new” project contributing to the ethnography of social ecological modeling, which aims at situating materiality, difference and complexity in modeling practices through a comparative case study of three different research groups. “New” is set in quotation marks because this …
All events planned for this semester can now be found on the “events” page. In our upcoming session on Thursday, 28 April (10:15am), we will have a joint reading of Furuhata, Yuriko (2022): Climatic Media:Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control. Duke University Press. Please read the introduction, conclusion and one chapter …
