Schedule 2021

DateTopicReading
30 June 2021Multispecies EthnographyKirksey and Helmreich (2010): The Emergence Of Multispecies Ethnography
7 July 2021Feral AtlasTsing et al. (2020): Feral Atlas – The more-than-human Anthropocene
14 July 2021Patchy AnthropoceneTsing et al. (2019): Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology
21 July 2021Critique towards the anthropocene concept and multispecies ethnographySmart (2014): Critical perspectives on multispecies ethnography
Hornborg (2017): Dithering while the planet burns: Anthropologists’ approaches to the Anthropocene
1 September 2021Discussion of our own projects (how to locate ourselves in and make use of MSE)
8 September 2021
Discussion of our own projects (how to locate ourselves in and make use of MSE)
6 October 2021REWILDINGPresentation of the REWILDING project by Michael Bollig and Léa Lacan
13 October 2021The Etosha National Park and the HaiǁomUte Dieckmann presents her work
20 October 2021Multispecies ethnography or “Anthropology beyond the human”Ingold (2013): Anthropology beyond Humanity
10 November 2021Conservation and AnthropologyDiscussion of the impressions and a way forward after the RAI conference.
24 November 2021Plurispecies communities of local beingsBird-David (2018): Size matters! The scalability of modern hunter-gatherer animism
1 December 2021Assemblage terminology ICritical examination of the assemblage concept in multispecies ethnograpyh
8 December 2021Assemblage terminology IIIngold (2021): In the gathering shadows of material things. In: Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence. Pp. 256-272.
15 December 2021Year-end meetingElaborating on planned activities in 2022