Colloquium on technology and science research (2024/25)

Colloquium in WiSe 24/25; Module: 12174 Interdisciplinary research project

DatePresentersTopics
29.11.2024Lora Koycheva (Moderator)Reading Group
05.12.2024 Team Meeting Tag 1
06.12.2024 Team Meeting Tag 2
13.12.2024Francesc RodriguezSurviving NatUAres: Hydraulic, Acoustic, and Vegetal Insights from Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine
20.12.2024Maria Elizabeth Bedon Sancheztba
24.01.2025 14:30pmCornelia ErtlLearning from Plants - on gardeners' expertise
07.02.2025Ahmed El SherbiniEnergy in qualitative terms: An introduction to energy as a socio-cultural role player in human society's history

The colloquium takes place online, unless communicated otherwise.

The presentations are mainly offered by ourselves. If you would like to present part of your work, a publication in progress or a presentation in preparation, you are welcome to do so in the defence. MA/BA theses at almost any stage can also be discussed in this format. The presentation language is not necessarily English, but can also be German.

The event will take place on demand and will then be advertised accordingly on our website and on our social media channels. So if you feel you would like to discuss your work with the group, or if you know someone who would like to do so, please contact me: schwarza(at)b-tu.de

Link to Moodle Course


Cornelia Ertl 
Learning from Plants – on gardeners’ expertise

Gardeners are experts on plants, on how to care for them and to live together with them. Their expertise grows from seemingly mundane yet intimate encounters with plants and is highly specific and significant, yet often overlooked and underappreciated. By paying attention to gardeners’ everyday practices, I explore how expertise in plants and their care unfolds within more-than-human dynamics of interacting and relies on the abilities to attune to and respond to vegetal being(s) – to develop “a feeling for the plant”, as gardeners call it.

Cornelia Ertl is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on the perception and shaping of more-than-human environments, marginalized forms of knowledge and plant-human entanglements. In her PhD dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin, she sheds light on the significance of ambiguities in everyday practices of plant care at the Botanic Garden Berlin and on the complexity of gardeners’ expertise. Previously, Cornelia studied social and cultural anthropology and ethnology in Berlin and Munich, focusing primarily on the interrelationships between grown, built and social environments in the rural Amazon region. Other fields of interest are more-than-human care dynamics, critical plant studies, and sensory ethnography, as well as artistic and speculative approaches to exploring and imagining shared worlds. Contact: cornelia.ertl(at)web.de

See a video of the talk here.


Date comment:
The colloquium usually takes place online, sometimes in person in LG10, R113a, selected Fridays, from 11:30 am to 1 pm.

On January 24, the colloquium will start 14:30 pm.

Online event
Webex

Contact us

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. phil. habil. Astrid Schwarz
Allgemeine Technikwissenschaft
T +49 (0) 355 69-2135
schwarza(at)b-tu.de