Studio Naturen|Kulturen29 October 2026|Studio Naturen|KulturenHow to Survive the Mosquito: Vectorial Politics in Brazil and BeyondPhoto: Michael Morgenstern“When it comes to mosquitoes, the world will become Brazil,” a Brazilian entomologist remarked, as Brazil emerges as both a harbinger of planetary...25 June 2026|Studio Naturen|KulturenVerletzte Identitäten: Wissenschaft und Krise in der regressiven Moderne (Wounded Identities: Science and Crisis in Regressive Modernity)Photo: UHH/LizenzSomething has begun to shift. Reports of hostility toward scholars are becoming increasingly frequent, as are debates about threats to academic...26 May 2026|Studio Naturen|KulturenDialogue with Hamburger EnergiewerkePhoto: Ruzana LiburkinaStudio Naturen|Kulturen and students from the seminar “Industrielandschaften” (“Industrial Landscapes”) are visiting Hamburger Energiewerke for a...15 April 2026|Studio Naturen|KulturenWas macht Krieg? (What Does War Do?)At the opening event of the Department of Cultural Studies’ lecture series “Was macht Krieg?” (“What Does War Do?”), Ruzana Liburkina offers an...29 January 2026|Studio Naturen|KulturenME/CFS & Post-Vac Syndrome: Policies and Experiences Between Neglect and Vaccination EthicsPhoto: UHH/von WiedingFlorian Helfer (EKW, UHH) and Lisa Wiedemann (Microsociology, Helmut Schmidt University) discuss empirical insights into their ongoing ethnographic...10 July 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenWhat is environmentally just when harm is ubiquitous?Photo: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Prof. Jörg Niewöhner, Anthropology of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich See the full program for the institute...9 July 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenSargassum, the beauty and the beast of the oceans? On the contradictory nature of algae in climate changePhoto: Laura OttoThe lecture examines the contradictory images and meanings of Sargassum. Perceptions of this algae range from fascination to repulsion, sometimes...9 July 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenSargassum, the beauty and the beast of the oceans? On the contradictory nature of algae in climate changePhoto: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Prof. Dr. Laura Otto, European Ethnology/Anthropological Studies in Culture and History, University of Würzburg. See the full...3 July 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenThe environmental humanities against the grain: Reflections on the partial conversion of a social anthropologistPhoto: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Dr. Emmanuelle Roth, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), Munich. See the full program for the institute...26 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenEcological care: Perspectives from literature and social sciences in dialoguePhoto: LiburkinaÖffentlicher Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch, Germanistik & Prof. Dr. Ruzana Liburkina, Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg. ...25 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenFungal LandscapesPhoto: S. ZanderMushrooms can be both beneficial and harmful to humans, animals, and plants—they oscillate between beauty and horror. Mushrooms can be beautiful with...19 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenThe Small Matter of Suing ChevronPhoto: LiburkinaSuzana Sawyer’s talk takes on a legal trilogy. In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world’s largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5...18 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenNarratives of the North Sea Coast – Between Fear and FascinationPhoto: Norbert FischerCultural scientist Manuel Bolz, linguist and human geographer Martin Döring, and cultural historian Norbert Fischer will give short presentations on...12 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenHow to be hopeful about climate changePhoto: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Dr. Julian Sommerschuh and Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg, Institute for Ethnology, UHH. See the full program for the institute...4 June 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenVisitation: Ecology as the revenant of naturePhoto: Braun/BoccaccioThe ecological crises of our time are not just worrying. Rather, there is something sinister about them. When dead fish suddenly float in rivers, when...15 May 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenPower, Performance and Protest at climate conferences. How collaborative event ethnography can enrich the study of global environmental governance.Photo: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut, DFG Research Training Group Futures of Sustainability & Department of Social Sciences, UHH Environmental...14 May 2025|Studio Naturen|Kulturen"We have it pretty ugly here in the Wadden Sea...": Perceptions of the North Frisian tidal landscape between beauty and horrorPhoto: Martin DöringVortrag von Martin Döring in der Vortragsreihe Von Schöhnheit und Schrecken des Instituts für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Hauptgebäude,...8 May 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenNatural aesthetics inspired by nature? A foray into the latest literature on the Berlin suburbsPhoto: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Prof. Dr. Marcus Twellmann & Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier, Department of German Studies & Department of American Studies, UHH ...7 May 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenThe German forest as a landscape of conflict. Cultural and intellectual history aspects of the relationship between trees and humansPhoto: Viktoria UrmersbachThe German forest as a landscape of conflict. Cultural and intellectual history aspects of the relationship between trees and humansViktoria...24 April 2025|Studio Naturen|KulturenSociology of the Sea and Marine Social Sciences in the AnthropocenenthropozänPhoto: LiburkinaPublic lecture by Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz at the Institute Colloquium of the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies Marine Social Sciences (MSS)...Show all news
