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 …
Some members of the Lab (Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Anja Klein, Tim Seitz) participated in a workshop on how to organize an infrastructure for STS in Germany. On 20 and 21 February 2019, around 75 mostly young STS scholars gathered in Kassel to discuss and define core areas and forms …
The Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations as a writing collective has published a short paper in Science as Culture reviewing and commenting on the edited volume “Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations” (Deville, Guggenheim and Hrdliková 2016, Mattering Press). Involved in thinking through this piece have been Patrick Bieler, …
Dear lab, during the summer term (8.4.-12.7.) our weekly meetings will take place on Mondays from 4-6 pm. Location remains the same – Room 107a on the 1st floor at the Institute for European Ethnology (Mohrenstraße 41).
We are looking forward to a winter of reading: ourselves and significant others. 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 …
While we are happy with the new lab name Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment|Human Relations, we do not have an acronym yet. LAEHR is not it. Submit your suggestion and win a bottle of bubbly if we pick your suggestion! joerg.niewoehner@hu-berlin.de