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EKW




Institut für
Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (Anthropological Studies in
Culture and History)

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Sargassum, the beauty and the beast of the oceans? On the contradictory nature of algae in climate changeLecture by Laura Otto

9 July 2025

IK PLakat

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Public lecture by Prof. Dr. Laura Otto, European Ethnology/Anthropological Studies in Culture and History, University of Würzburg.

See the full program for the institute colloquium here

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diverse medizinische utensilien auf einer weißen oberfläche

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29.01.2026|Studio Naturen|Kulturen
ME/CFS & Post-Vac Syndrome: Policies and Experiences Between Neglect and Vaccination Ethics

Florian Helfer (EKW, UHH) and Lisa Wiedemann (Microsociology, Helmut Schmidt University) discuss empirical insights into their ongoing ethnographic research projects on the experiences and trajectories of patients with post-vaccination syndrome (Helfer) and ME/CFS (Wiedemann).

All interested parties...

IK PLakat

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10.07.2025|Studio Naturen|Kulturen
What is environmentally just when harm is ubiquitous?

Public lecture by Prof. Jörg Niewöhner, Anthropology of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich

See the full program for the institute colloquium here