In one of our lab reading sessions in January 2021 we discussed “Thinking Like a Climate” by Hanna Knox with a focus on epistemological and ontological implications of Knox’ ethnography and central arguments. Departing from this, lab members Britta Acksel and Dženeta Hodžić, together with Catharina Lüder, freshly published a …
The Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” (www.cliwac.de) has just started in Berlin funded by the Berlin University Alliance and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. We’re looking for a postdoc to conduct inter- and transdisciplinary ethnographic research on risk perception, adaptive practices and water futures in Berlin-Brandenburg as part …
We want to warmly congratulate long-standing member of the lab, Patrick Bieler, on successfully defending his PhD thesis “BioÖkologien des Begegnens: Eine ethnografische Untersuchung der relationalen Konstitution psychischer Gesundheit und urbaner Umwelten” at the intersection of urban and medical anthropology and STS! Patrick will continue to contribute to the lab …
Dear friends and guests of the Lab, we are pleased to announce that the program for the winter term is now online. You can find it here here and online in the events section which will be updated as the individual sessions come nearer. Meetings take place weekly, Thursday 10:15am-11:45am …
Lab member Milena Bister will give a public lecture on the concept of chronicityat the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London. Register and join! Sept 8th, 2021, 3-4 pm (UK time), via ZOOM
After presenting ideas on co-laboration as a mode of ethnographic theorizing at a joint panel at the 42. conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in 2019, we (Patrick, Lauren, Jonna, Jörg, Anja and Christine) are now happy to present them as a paper in the Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie. …
“stsing” is a newly founded professional organisation that represents academics and practitioners that are interested in doing Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany. You can find details here: https://stsing.org/ stsing was founded in October 2020 and is now officially open for membership through its website. Fees start from …
Dear friends and guests of the Lab, we are pleased to announce that the program for the winter term is now online. You can find an overview here at this end of this post. However, it may be subject to change so please check our events for information about the …
At IRI THESys, we are currently looking for an ethnographically competent and STS-minded PhD candidate to work with us and our partners in Colombia and Brazil on water security in Colombia in the context of multipurpose dams. Deadline: 18th of December (despite what the advert says) Please contact: joerg.niewoehner@hu-berlin.de for …