{"id":3731,"date":"2025-06-19T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:32:28","slug":"guest-lecture-hilal-alkan-plant-companions-affordances-of-anthropomorphism-in-migrants-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/2025\/06\/guest-lecture-hilal-alkan-plant-companions-affordances-of-anthropomorphism-in-migrants-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture: Hilal Alkan:  Plant Companions: Affordances of anthropomorphism in migrants&#8217; lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>03 July, 2025, 10:15 \u2013 11:45 a.m., hybrid @IfEE, room 408 &amp; on Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lab welcomes <strong>Hilal Alkan<\/strong>, a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin), for her talk:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant Companions: Affordances of anthropomorphism in migrants&#8217; lives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on ethnographic research with Turkish migrants in Berlin, this talk focuses on the affordances of plants in migrants\u2019 experiences of emplacement. I ask under which conditions plants become persons and what they offer to their human carers. Putting strands of ontological anthropology in conversation with migration studies, I raise questions about how to approach the materialities of plants and people when they encounter each other under the unsettling conditions of making new homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 3 July 2025, 10:15 \u2013 11:45.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe session takes place at the Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin, room 408 \u2028&amp; on Zoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody is very welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Optional and additional reading to accompany the talk is available and can be circulated upon request!<br \/>\nFor further information, the optional reading, and the Zoom link, please write\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:elisabeth.luggauer@hu-berlin.de\">elisabeth.luggauer@hu-berlin.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03 July, 2025, 10:15 \u2013 11:45 a.m., hybrid @IfEE, room 408 &amp; on Zoom The Lab welcomes Hilal Alkan, a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin), for her talk: Plant Companions: Affordances of anthropomorphism in migrants&#8217; lives Based on ethnographic research with Turkish migrants in Berlin, this talk focuses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}