LAEHR members host a session in the Institute for European Ethnology’s Kolloquium. The winter term topic is “Spectres and Spectrums.” In the session titled “Hauntings in Knowledge Production”, Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Jelena Grosse-Bley, Anja Klein and Alexander Schindler discuss how human-environment relations are known by different communities of practice …
Invitation to the first of LAEHR’s collaborative reading sessions in the winter term 2024_25! On November 28, at the usual Lab Time 10:15 – 11:45 am CET at IfEE and on zoom, we will read and discuss the “Field Guide for the Patchy Anthropocene” by Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder …
LAEHR is warmly inviting abstracts to our open panel „Diffracting Ways of Living: Practices and Politics of Habitability in a More-than-Human Worlds“ @ STS Hub 2025 Berlin, 11-14 March 2025. The deadline for submission is 31 Oct 2024. Abstract Habitability as a central term in the Anthropocene can be immensely productive for …
The program for the winter term 2024/25 is ready! We will start this semester on October 17th with a get-together and a brunch where we will discuss our activities in the upcoming winter term and the Lab’s values of collaboration. Everybody is welcome! If you come, please make a small …
The program for the summer term is ready! We will start next week, April 25, with a session called Thinking About and With Habitability — A Collective Re-Reading, where we will continue our joint conceptual work with and on the subject of habitability. In this session, we will read / …
Edited by Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister and Tomás Criado The recurrent everyday distress many of us live with in times of climate mutation seems to have unearthed a peculiar link that seemed long lost: between the mental and the environmental. More than a century ago, already Georg Simmel (1903) sought …
Current and associated members of the lab are organizing several panels at EASST/4S 2024 in Amsterdam. If you would like to get involved, the Call for Papers is open until February 12th. Dennis Eckhardt (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Libuše Hannah Vepřek (University of Tübingen) are convening a panel on “ Developing …
We invite you to join our lab sessions this Winter semester. All sessions will be hybrid and will take place at the Institute of European Ethnology @ HU Berlin and on Zoom. This semester the lab’s focus is on “habitability” and we look forward to an exciting combination of discussions, …
Spinning-On: STS Movement Workshop on 27–29 September 2023 In an era fraught with dizzying socio-political events and burgeoning ecological catastrophes, this workshop for a special issue will delve into the concept of epistemic dizziness as a disordered state of whirling vertigo, applying it to the contemporary state of STS. As …
