25 June 2025

Photo: S. Zander

Mushrooms can be both beneficial and harmful to humans, animals, and plants—they oscillate between beauty and horror. Mushrooms can be beautiful with their sometimes brightly colored “joyful” hues and diverse shapes, but at the same time they are feared because of their potential toxicity. Those who search for mushrooms meander through the “mushroom landscape,” be it a forest, a park, a meadow, or the heath. They walk through nature with their eyes open, and Anna Tsing's sentence reveals itself to them: “What to do when the world falls apart? I go for a walk, and if I'm very lucky, I find mushrooms.

6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m., Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, West Wing, Room 221

Lecture series: Von Schönheit und Schrecken

Coordination
Prof. Dr. Ruzana Liburkina / Prof. Dr. Norbert Fischer, both from the Institute for Anthropological Studies in Culture and History, University of Hamburg