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 …
Please find our current program under the Event section. There is an option to import all lab events into you calendar. We are looking forward to seeing many of you: Mondays 10:15-11:45 in room 107a in the Institute for European Ethnology.
The German society for folklore studies (www.d-g-v.org) currently holds its biannual meeting at the University of Hamburg: http://dgv-kongress2019.de “World.Knowledge.Gestalten.” is the overarching topic and members of the lab have designed a panel / discussion workshop around the question how we can understand theory and reflexivity as something that is co-laboratively …
The lab has been given the chance to tell the story of its development and also to feature some of its current research. Go to the easst review to read all about it. Thanks to everyone for contributing and in particular Milena, Janine und Sabine for making it happen. Read …
A new BMBF funded project called Food4Future has just started together with some exciting colleagues in Berlin and Brandenburg. We are part of it with a Phd project investigating ethnographically possible futures of eating in Germany. Please do apply if you are interested or pass the ad along to others. …
We are looking forward to a summer of reading, discussing and thinking! Texts are likely to be circulated in advance – often into smaller subgroups in order to avoid circulation of ‘work in progress’ into large email lists. If you are interested in particular sessions only, please do get in …