CfP | Entangled Commons. Shifting Infrastructures of Sociality toward Visionary Pragmatic Lifeworlds [UrbAn] 

#EASA2022 Panel P044, European Association of Social Anthropologists 2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Belfast https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2022/p/11542 Conveners: Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)Carolin Genz (Humboldt-University of Berlin) Discussant: Alain Müller (University of Basel) Pandemic experiences influence infrastructures of sociality and potentiate social and spatial injustice. We collaboratively search for paths toward visionary pragmatic lifeworlds, taking entangled…

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EASA 2020 | Urban Co-Lab “Out of the Box 2.0“

EASA 2020 16th EASA Biennial ConferenceNew anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe20-24 July 2020, Virtual Lisbon conference Urban Co-Lab “Out of the Box 2.0“ digital collaboration on the study of urban lifeworlds through image-based urban ethnographic methods [UrbAn] [L19] This lab is co-organized between the Urban Ethnography Lab (urban-ethnography.com) and the Critical Icono-Ethnography Lab (cielab.ch) and…

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“Let’s order food”: Visiting Research Fellow of Urban Ethnography Lab

Bronwyn Frey is Visiting Research Fellow of the Urban Ethnography Lab at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin from June 2019 – June 2020 conducting ethnography on app-based food delivery in Berlin. App-based food delivery in Berlin How can anthropological understandings of labour better account for the expansion of data-driven capitalism? The…

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WiMi (w/m/d) 65% TVL-13 am Geographischen Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research Assistant (65 % part-time, TVL-13, third-party funding until 31.12.2021)– ENGLISH VERSION BELOW – Stellenausschreibung an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät – Geographisches Institut | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) mit 65 v. H. d. regelm. Arbeitszeit – E 13 TV-L HU (Drittmittelfinanzierung befristet bis 31.12.2021) Aufgabengebiet: Wiss. Dienstleistungen in der Forschung im Teilprojekt “Geographische Imaginationen: Sicherheit und Unsicherheit…

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Out of the Box: Crossing Boundaries, Interdisciplinary Methods, Visual Communication

Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe and Carolin Genz organize a workshop (Walkshop and Roundtable) as part of the alumni conference Beyond Borders by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius next Saturday, May 25th, 2019 from 10-22 Uhr @ silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin-Wedding. In this workshop, we will go beyond the proverbial “box” that limits our imagination and…

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Gender and the City. Ethnographic Perspectives of Urban Research on Space and Gender

This semester we are very looking forward to teaching a university course on “Gender and the City” at the Geography Department at Humboldt-University of Berlin. The course includes basic academic texts on gender and the city, which are dealing with the complexity of spatial practices, appropriation, visibility and security in public-urban space. From an ethnographical…

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Launching the Urban Ethnography Reading Group and Speaker Series 2019 at University of Toronto

In an effort to decentralize our academic knowledge and discussion on urban spaces, the Urban Ethnography Group at UofT’s Ethnography Lab has launched its Urban Ethnography from the Global South reading group and speaker series, dedicated to the study and analysis of ethnographic research produced on the Global South and by academics from the Global South.…

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