Technoscience Studies Lecture (2026/27)

The lecture 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

Anca Prodan - Linetracing: A Method Found in the Field

This presentation introduces insights from my fieldwork on Sorbian culture, focusing on linetracing as methodological approach. Although I refer to Tim Ingold’s work, my research did not begin with his concepts. Instead, linetracing emerged in the field as the only viable way to finding information for my research questions. My presentation outlines how I moved from respondent-driven sampling to linetracing, and how I then worked with it to analyse Sorbian culture.

Francesc Rodríguez - Enduring Waterscapes of Ukraine

This session presents the first public screening of Enduring Waterscapes, an ethnographic film produced by Francesc Rodríguez (BTU). This film walks the spectator along a single stretch of the River Kharkiv during Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, attending to its hydrosocial, infrastructural, and more-than-human relations.

Following the screening, Francesc will discuss the film's audiovisual techniques, the circumstances of its production in Kharkiv during the summer of 2026, and its relationship to debates about the present and future of rivers in wartime Ukraine. 

Ahmed Suleiman - Traditional Knowledge and Disaster Resilience: Lessons (to be) Learned from Rural Egypt pre-1964

In the presentation I will give an introduction on my research topic, regarding the role of Traditional Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction processes as a catalyst for resilience and a tool to achieve inclusiveness in commonly-adopted top-down response and recovery frameworks, and how am I going to approach it. Through reflection on the Nile river's annual flood response in rural Egypt pre-1964 (the year that marks the building of Aswan High Dam), I shall be able to highlight lessons-to-be-learned from an historically-evolved and contextual response and recovery framework that complements both top-down and bottom-up approaches, and integrates institutionally-developed measures and procedures with community-inherited practices.