The events are aimed at drawing particular attention to the relation between cities, industries and energy in times of transformation to these once or prospective powerful centers.
Every month a new academic will be invited to discuss his/her papers with the group. The roughly 90-minute session will be a format to particularly render concepts more precisely and to critically engage with transformation theories related to energy production and consumption, resource extraction, industrial infrastructure and their ecological interlinkages, environmental consequences and transformation processes.
The program of the events:
- March 18th, Andrea Muehlebach: “Finance Structures: Water, Time, Debt”;
- April 15th, Gökçe Günel: “Spaceship in the Desert”;
- May 20th, Bathsheba Demuth: “The Climate of Change: Colonization, Reindeer Calories, and Northern Extraction in Alaska and the Soviet Union”;
- June 17th, Timothy Moss: “The Material Politics of Urban Infrastructure in Historical Perspective”;
- July 15th, Havard Haarstad: “Populism, Instability, and Rupture in Sustainability Transformations”;
- August 19th, Gargi Bhattacharyya: “Mutations of Racial Capitalism”;
- September 23rd, AbdouMaliq Simone: “Dirty Computing: Urban Production and the End of the Line”.
NB! The event will take place once per month, on Thursdays, from 5 PM – 6.30 PM (Lithuanian time). The discussions will be based on reading a text of the speaker of the month. The texts will be sent by e-mail. To join, please sign up via the e-mail katja.mueller@zirs.uni-halle.de
The events are organized by Siarhei Liubimau (EHU), Katja Müller (MLU Halle), Asta Vonderau (MLU Halle), Andreas Streinzer (Goethe Uni Frankfurt), Felix Ringel (Durham Uni), Kerstin Poehls (Uni Hamburg) in cooperation with ZIRS (Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies), CityIndustries, DGSKA Europa, dgv Ethnographies of the Political, EASA’s Energy Anthropology Network.
