This interdisciplinary and international Ringvorlesung examines the role of animals in institutional and infrastructural arrangements, past and present. It investigates the processes by which animals are turned into objects, living zoo attractions, museum exhibits, diplomatic tokens, commodities, laboratory tools, data sets, and more. The aim is to understand the trajectories, traffics and transformations of animal-objects within and between different sites in their global, political, scientific and cultural context.

09.11.20 Mareike Vennen (HU), Introduction: Animals as Objects
16.11.20 Therese Kienemund (MfN), Alfred Keller’s Insect Models and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
23.11.20 Lisa Onaga (MPIWG), Cocoon Cultures and Life Histories
30.11.20 Filippo Bertoni (MfN), Oozing Objectivities: Knowing Radiolarians, Fuelling Fossil Capital
07.12.20 Christian Kassung (HU), Restlos: Von der Unmöglichkeit, Schweine aufzuessen
14.12.20 Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (MPIWG), Counting Animals: Surveys, Baselines and Models in Nature Conservation
04.01.21 Clemens Maier-Wolthausen (Zool. Garten), ‘Heia Safari!’: Fangexpeditionen des Berliner Zoos in Ostafrika und koloniale Vermarktung
11.01.21 Marianna Szczygielska (MPIWG), Animating Capture: An Elephant Micro-History
18.01.21 Bernhard Gißibl (IEG), The Other Serengeti: Discussing the Naturalness of Elephants in postcolonial Tanzania
25.01.21 Kerstin Pannhorst (MPIWG), „Aus Vergnügen am Wehthun“: Nietzsches Genealogie der Askese
08.02.21 Britta Lange (HU), Die Seidenraupe: Ein (Clastique-)Modell und seine Modellhaftigkeit
15.02.21 Tamar Novick (MPIWG), Bodily Waste as Animal: The Case of Urine
22.02.21 Tahani Nadim (HU/MfN), Reproducing Species in and with Data

ANMELDUNG ERFORDERLICH
Gloria.Baur@mfn.berlin
www.culture.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/ringvorlesung-berliner-kulturwissenschaft