23/06/2026
IfEE’s Laboratory Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (LAEHR) warmly invites to the next event of our summer term 2026 series:
Talk & Paper Discussion:
“Recalling rains, unsettling waters: affective politics and the infrastructures of life in Jerusalem”
Emilie Glazer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) w.g
This session will explore the politics of water in Palestine/Israel, with a focus on the falls of rain. Where water is governed by an occupying power, rain can index the extremes of infrastructural control, just as it can reveal its limits, holding possibilities beyond the state, recalling other ways. By following these waters, I will trace the forms of political violence and partial sovereignty that surface in the governance of life under intensifying settler colonial rule, in the shadow of genocide and ecocide, and unsettling seasonal rains, to consider overlooked nodes of accountability, political imaginaries, and practices of ongoing repair.
Moderation: Elisabeth Luggauer (IfEE, LAEHR) .luggauer
Thursday, July 2, 2026
10 - 11:30 am CEST
online only, we will meet on Zoom
This session is based on a paper, which will be shared upon request.
Participation is also welcome without preparation!
For further information, the reading materials, and the Zoom link, please write to Milena Bister ([email protected])
Everybody is very welcome to join!
The talks/inputs will be in English, and questions can of course also be asked in German!
For more information on the event series & the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations, please see the website of the Lab: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/