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 …
Lab members have published a paper in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. The paper draws on long-term experiences in conducting research together with partners from social psychiatry and mental health care across different research projects. It unfold three modes of achieving reflexivity co-laboratively: contrasting and discussing disciplinary concepts in interdisciplinary …
Is ANT still a suitable approach to inspire current research and if so, how? Lab member Milena Bister has published a review of the recent Routledge Companion to ANT in ephemera: theory and politics in organization. Do have a look!
More extreme than we can stand – On the relation of climate change & pandemics and environment protection & culture How does our way of lifestyle foster the emergence and circulation of new viruses and how what does global warming contribute to this process? On Tuesday 27th October at 4 …
Dear friends and guests of the Lab, we are pleased to announce that the program for the winter term is now online. Please check our events for information about the sessions. Meetings take place weekly, Monday 16:15-17.45 pm on Zoom. To receive the link to the session, please contact Janine …
It has long been in the making. Now, it has finally arrived: Biosocial Worlds! The inaugural edited volume in UCL Press’ new series: Culture and Health. The volume goes back to a very productive conference in Aarhus back in 2014 where scholars from STS and anthropology met to explore intellectual …
Humboldt University, Berlin is appointing a postdoctoral researcher for 4 years (75% position) for the “Water4Whom” project (http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?ref=96955) hosted at IRI THESys (https://www.iri-thesys.org/): Water Security for Whom? – Social and Material Perspectives on Inequality around Multipurpose Reservoirs in Colombia. The successful candidate will develop new modes of interdisciplinary collaboration and …
Due to Corona the lab does not meet physically during the summer term. However, our weekly meetings and discussions continue. Please check the events section for the program and directly contact the presenter if you wish you join. We are using Zoom. The sessions take place every Monday, 16:15-17:45. We …
Our lab members Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Martina Klausner & Josefine Raasch convene a panel at this year’s EASST/4S Joint Conference taking place in Prague from 18th to 21st August. The panel is titled: Timing matters: How does long-term ethnographic research affect concept work and case-making in practice? We seek …