Urban Ecologies
Uli BeiselThis project focuses on the main drivers of urbanization and the resulting interplay between biodiversity and human health.
Mobile Mosquitoes
Uli BeiselHow is the mobility of people and things interlinked with the mobility of mosquitoes and the spread of associated arboviral diseases?
African Swine Fever pandemic
Laura MattThis project engages with attempts to (re)gain control over the African Swine Fever virus in Brandenburg (North-Eastern Germany) and practices of knowing and caring for a contested ecological balance in a relational world.
Anthropocene in the Humboldt Forum Berlin
Ralph BuchenhorstThis project probes how Latin American decolonial conceptions such as Buen Vivir are considered at the Humboldt Forum Berlin when dealing with objects and symbolic forms appropriated by colonial practices.
Political Ecology along the Nile
Enrico IlleThis project asks how different residents in Sudan’s most conflicted areas define what they ‘have’ around them, if and how it should be extracted and put to use, and who should be allowed to do that.
Sustaining Life and Ecology
David KananizadehThis project looks into human-forest entanglements in Sierra Leone by inquiring into the social and economic forms and moral dimensions of sustaining ecology, life and subjectivation.
Afterlives of Medical Research
Paul Wenzel GeisslerThis project investigates on the practice of medical and natural sciences in Eastern Africa. It mainly focuses on relations between fieldworkers and their fields in different settings.
Toxic Exposure to Mould in Food
Konstantin BiehlThis project asks how lay people come to know and trust scientific evidence of otherwise unobservable toxicity and translate this knowledge into quests for accountability.
Toxicity as Ethical Substance
Stacey LangwickThis project explores how reflection on and labor over the toxic have come to define both ethical subjects and emergent objects of knowledge and practice in East Africa.
Contested History in the Face of Violent Pasts
Ralph BuchenhorstThis project scrutinizes European memory sites to inquire how memory and remembrance are institutionalized in national as well as European identity politics.
Vectors of Health
Luísa Reis CastroThis project investigates technologies for controlling mosquito-borne diseases as a window into science and public health policies in Brazil.