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Muddy Measures: When Wetlands and Heritage Converse

inherit. heritage in transformation 

Venue: TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater

Exhibition: March 28 – July 19, 2025. 

Events: March 29 – June 12, 2025.

Wetlands emerge where water encounters land. Activists recording endangered migratory bird sounds in mudflats, people dancing bare feet in wetlands, soil scientists sticking tools in the peat, farmers draining peatlands for agriculture, artists putting their hands in marshes.

muddy measures. when wetlands and heritage converse experiments with wetlands becoming spaces for debate and engagement inviting people with their situated knowledges, to learn from one another. It welcomes audiences to exhibitions and events, and asks: How can a heritage perspective can reshape our understanding of wetlands? Conversely, how does engaging with wetlands in transformation alter our understanding of heritage? How are wetlands measured and what counts as measurement? What and who falls out of the grid?

The muddy measures exhibition at the Tieranatomisches Theater opened on 27 March 2025 at 18:00. The exhibition features materials from the Humboldt Universit’s collection Moorarchiv, as well as the Land Prints series of Teresa Pereda, and documentations from the Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Investigation Group.

Monthly changing guest exhibitions which feature Berlin-based research projects form an integral part of muddy measures. It will include “If you take care of birds, you take care of most of the environmental problems in the world” from June 12 – July 19 by anthropologist and HZK Member Magdalena Buchczyk (Institute of European Ethnology), as well as “Swamp Things!” from March 27 – April 30 and “Latent Accumulations” May 10 – May 31, developed with project partners.

There will also be several events including the workshop “Listening to the Mallín” with the artist Teresa Pereda (29 March), the workshop “MoorFit” with the artist Daniel Hengst (25 April, Häsener Luch), the roundtable event of Latent Accumulations (9 May) and workshop by artist-researcher Alice Jarry (10 May), and the film screening of “Sura. A Love Song” by Hwang Yun (12 June, Kino Central).

Find more information and registration here: https://inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/muddy-measures-when-wetlands-and-heritage-converse

Laurentiu Constantin measuring a soil core sample in Bieselfließ
Laurentiu Constantin measures a soil sample in Bieselfließ, Germany, November 2024

Contributors: Anahí Herrera Cano (CONICET-UBA), Ayelen Fiori (Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco), Charlett Wenig (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces), Daniel Hengst, Dongpil Oh, Heejung Jung, Seongsil Lee and Seungjun Oh (Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Investigation Group), Doohee Oh (Peace Wind), Eugenia Tomasini, Clara Tomasini and Milagros Córdova (Centro MATERIA IIAC-UNTREF), Yun Hwang, Iva Rešetar (Matters of Activity), Juana del Carmen Aigo (INIBIOMA-CONICET), Jutta Zeitz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – HU), Laurentiu Constantin (HU), Léa Perraudin (Matters of Activity), Lucia Braemer (HU), Lucy Norris (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin), Magdalena Buchczyk (HU), Moorarchiv (HU), Paula Vogt (University of Potsdam), Rosa Blens (HU), Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Investigation Group, and Teresa Pereda.

Curated by Yoonha Kim, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Margareta von Oswald

Project Website – TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater

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Image credit top banner: Teresa Pereda Working on Land Prints Series. ©Teresa Pereda

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Lecture series “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) – April 30, 2025 with Nadja-Christina Schneider

On April 30, 2025 at 18:00 we invite you to the next date of the lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" (Family Matters):

Family and other forms of cohabitation in urban India
Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften)

Nadja-Christina Schneider’s presentation will examine the extent to which housing planning in India has changed in recent decades to accommodate new social and demographic developments. Although the trend, especially in larger cities, is clearly moving towards housing forms for smaller family units, multi-generational households continue to exist. A rapidly growing market has also emerged for age-appropriate housing and care facilities. Households and communal living are still closely associated with the ‘family living model’, particularly from a state perspective. Does this in turn offer room for alternative forms of family and kinship alongside heteronormative extended and nuclear families? And conversely, how accepted are individual or communal forms of living that deliberately do not define themselves in terms of family or kinship? The lecture will take a closer look at these questions using selected examples.

The lecture will be held in German.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is open to all interested parties.

Organiser:

Prof Dr Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Alia Rayyan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Laura Goldenbaum (Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace)

Place and time:

30 April 2025,

6 to 8 pm

in Room 3 (Saal 3), ground floor,
Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz.

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Nadja-Christina Schneider

Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider is a South Asian Studies scholar and teaches as a professor at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at HU Berlin. The results of her research on family, reproduction and housing in India can be found in the two book publications ‘Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India’ (Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024)(open access) and ‘Family Norms and Images in Transition. Contemporary Negotiations of Reproductive Labour, Love and Relationships in India (ed. with Fritzi-Marie Titzmann)(Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020).

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Protecting Trees – Crafting Houses – Parrot Tree Caretakers Association meets Morgenvogel Real Estate

The TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater invites you to an evening of dialogue and presentations on the preservation of bird habitats through activism and visual art. Featuring conservationist and activist Nick Byaba (Parrot Tree Caretakers Association, Uganda) and artist duo Maria Leena Räihälä & Manuel Bonik (Morgenvogel Real Estate, Germany/Finland), the event explores the intersections of interspecies care and the shared agency of birds and humans in urban and rural environments.

Event details
Date: March 25, 2025
Time: 6–8 pm
Location: Tieranatomisches Theater, HU Berlin, Campus Nord, Philipstr. 12/13, 10115 Berlin
Language: English
Admission: Free

With
Nick Byaba (Parrot Tree Caretakers Association), Kampala, Uganda
Maria Leena Räihälä & Manuel Bonik (Morgenvogel Real Estate), Berlin

Moderator: Felix Sattler, TA T

The event is part of the exhibition Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories (on view at TA T until March 29) by artists Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger in collaboration with Nick Byaba and CMUK.

While operating in distinct contexts—Uganda’s tropical forests and European urban landscapes—both initiatives reflect a commitment to birds as valued co-inhabitants.

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Morgenvogel houses for a colony of sparrows, commissioned by Grün Berlin, potato hall in the extension area of Mauerpark in Berlin-Mitte, 25 February 2019 © Morgenvogel

Parrot Tree Caretakers Association (PTCA)
Founded in 2020 by Nick Byaba, the PTCA is a community-based organization dedicated to conserving grey parrots and their habitats. Through tree-planting initiatives, educational outreach, and scientific monitoring, the PTCA works with local farmers and conservationists to ensure the survival of this endangered species. Key achievements include planting over 6,000 indigenous trees, monitoring parrot flyways, and integrating rehabilitated parrots back into their original habitats.

The PTCA also runs educational programs for children, fostering a new generation of conservationists who advocate for the protection of parrots and their ecosystems. Looking ahead, the PTCA aims to establish the world’s first Grey Parrot Museum in Uganda, serving as a hub for education, research, and awareness. greyparrotmuseum-uganda.org

The exhibition Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories includes the joint work SEEDS by Hörner/Antlfinger and Nick Byaba.

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Child’s draft for the Grey Parrot Museum, drawing by Ronald Ajuna. ©PTCA/Ronald Ajuna
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Rose Kembabazi, a local farmer, close to her oil palm tree, a proud member of the Parrot Tree Caretakers Association. ©PTCA

Morgenvogel Real Estate
Morgenvogel Real Estate (M0RE) is a long-term artistic initiative by Maria Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik, addressing the loss of nesting opportunities for urban birds in the wake of urban redevelopment. For over a decade, the Berlin-based art project Morgenvogel has engaged in ecological urban interventions by producing and distributing handcrafted birdhouses tailored for species like tits, sparrows, and pied flycatchers.

With support from conservation foundations, Morgenvogel has placed over 1,000 nesting boxes across Berlin and other European Cities, often accompanying installations with art events such as BirdChurch, Avanti Natura!, and BirdTalks.

Beyond Morgenvogel Real Estate, Maria Leena Räihälä and Manuel Bonik have been engaged in landscape restoration, most recently by their MAJAVA project (2021–2024), an initiative inspired by beavers as ecosystem engineers (Majava is the Finnish word for beaver). Through dam-building and water filtration structures, Morgenvogel seeks to counteract environmental degradation in Finnish wetland and forest areas. morgenvogel.net

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StarlingDarling @ Morgenvogel-House, Mauerpark, 16.05.2020. © Morgenvogel
Image credit top banner: African Grey Parrots taking a meal on oil palm trees. © PTCA
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Inheriting Empire? Transformations and Contestations of “Ottoman” Heritage

Keynotes organized by Roxana Coman, Gizem Zencirci, Dr. Belgin Turan-Ozkaya, Dr. Malte Fuhrmann, Habiba Insaf, Emma Jelinski.

Since heritage has a complex relationship with the concept of inheritance, and hence it presumes the notion of ownership, it has been at the center of various political projects; imperial, local, national and civilizational. Through a focus on (post)-Ottoman lands and imaginaries, this workshop aims to engage with civilization, empire, nation, and heritage as constructs in flux, forever dependent on individuals, objects, ideas, and places that carry inherited meanings and become catalysts for new kinds of meaning making, as well. By studying the reimagination and reproduction of the Ottoman empire across time and place, we examine how multiple political projects have engaged in memory-making and heritage-making practices.

During the keynotes, Dr. Belgin Turan-Ozkaya and Dr. Malte Fuhrmann will approach the multiplicity of heritage(s) in the Ottoman Empire and its former imperial center, Istanbul. Dr. Turan-Ozkaya will engage with the ethnic, cultural, religious plurality, and how its post-imperial framework had shifted the conversation to one increasingly Turkified. Dr. Fuhrmann will breach the commodification of heritage in Istanbul via the current audio-visual digital trends, and how this complicates further the discussion on and around the archaeological and historical legacies.

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Christian Krug CC BY-SA 4.0

13.01.2025, 17.00 -19.00
HZK Kurssaal
Campus Nord, Philippstr. 13, Haus 3

Keynotes free and open to all, please register by March 7, at the following email address: info-inherit@hu-berlin.de

More information here: https://inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/inheriting-empire-transformations-and-contestations-of-ottoman-heritage

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Invitation to the lecture series “Hands On. Research Perspectives on Collections”, February 17, 2025 – Quellenkritik und Datenkritik? Erkenntniskritische Perspektiven auf Datafizierungspraktiken in wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen

On February 17, 2025 at 18:00 c.t. the fifth session of the lecture series “Hands-on. Research Perspectives on Collections”, organized by the Coordination Office for Scientific Collections in Germany, will take place:

Quellenkritik und Datenkritik?
Erkenntniskritische Perspektiven auf Datafizierungspraktiken in wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen
Dr. Nora Probst (Universität Köln)

Like many cultural heritage institutions, university collections are in a state of flux: Not only are they exploring various options for digitising their holdings, but their new acquisitions are also increasingly available as ‘born-digital documents’. The resulting digital collections and their metadata require new concepts of a source and data critique that considers the medial situatedness of the digitised material as well as metadata-related practices of modelling, collection, processing, dissemination and visualisation. The lecture is concerned with epistemological perspectives on the datafication of collections in the humanities and cultural studies and, not least, focuses on a power-critical examination of discriminatory attributions and descriptions in the metadata of cultural heritage.

The lecture will be held in German.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is free for all interested parties!

Organisers:
Sarah Elena Link and Gesa Grimme
Coordination Centre for Scientific Collections in Germany

Time and Place:
The event takes place on Monday November, 25, 2024 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kurssaal, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Campus Nord, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to network and exchange ideas over a small drink.

There is also the possibility to join the event via Zoom.
Further information can be found here.

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Lecture series “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) – Andrés F. Castro

     

On 5 February 2025 at 18:00 we invite you to the next date of the lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" (Family Matters):

(Missing) Intersections of Social Inequality and Population Research – A Call for Further Study 

Dr. Andrés F. Castro

Social inequality and population research have developed as parallel conversations with little intersection. In this talk, I will present descriptive results on the parallel development of these research areas using basic text analysis of published research from 1960 to the present. I will argue that the relative neglect of social inequalities in quantitative population research is related to a Eurocentric bias in the social sciences, and I will quantify this bias using various sources. Additionally, I will provide examples of how population research, particularly family and fertility research, could benefit from a focus on social inequality. Finally, I will offer my view on how social inequality research could be better integrated into the social sciences beyond population studies.

The lecture will be held in English.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is open to all interested parties.

Organiser:

Prof Dr Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Alia Rayyan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Laura Goldenbaum (Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace)

Place and time:

5 February 2025,

6 to 8 pm

in Room 3 (Saal 3), ground floor,
Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz.

Further information

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Dr. Andrés F. Castrois a computational social scientist, sociologist, and demographer at the
Computational Social Science and Humanities Program of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (CSSH-BSC).I graduated from the UNiversity of Pennsylvania in 2019 and since then I have worked in several research centers in Europe including the Frenc National Institute for Demographic Research (Ined), the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and the Center for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. My research areas include global inequalities in knowledge production, bibliometric analysis and research assessment, and population studies, primarily focus on fertility and family dynamics in the global south and among immigrant populations.

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Lecture series “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) – Anette Fasang

On 22 January 2025 at 18:00 we invite you to the next date of the lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" (Family Matters):

Career and Family Life Demography and Inequality in Focus

Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang (Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences)

Dr. Anette Fasang is Professor of Microsociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences. Before moving to Berlin, she completed her doctorate at Jacobs University Bremen and did postdoctoral research at Yale University and Columbia University. Her research interests include family demography, stratification and life course sociology. She was awarded the prestigious Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research in 2018 and 2023. Her recent work has appeared in leading international journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review and Sociological Methodology.

The lecture will be held in German.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is open to all interested parties.

Organiser:

Prof Dr Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Alia Rayyan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Laura Goldenbaum (Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace)

Place and time:

22 January 2025,

6 to 8 pm

in Room 3 (Saal 3), ground floor, Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz.

Further information

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Anette Fasang

Dr. Anette Fasang ist Professorin für Mikrosoziologie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Direktorin der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften und Direktorin der Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences. Vor ihrem Wechsel nach Berlin hat sie an der Jacobs University Bremen promoviert und als Postdoktorandin an der Yale University und der Columbia University geforscht. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Familiendemographie, Stratifikation und Lebenslaufsoziologie. Sie wurde 2018 und 2023 mit dem renommierten Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research ausgezeichnet. Ihre jüngsten Arbeiten sind in führenden internationalen Fachzeitschriften wie American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review und Sociological Methodology erschienen.

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Lecture series “Beziehungsweise Familie” (Family Matters) – 8 January 2025 with Tatjana Thelen

On 8 January 2025 at 18:00 c.t. we invite you to the third date of the lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" (Family Matters):

Family, Care, State – Ideals of Belonging and Practices of Exclusion

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Thelen (University of Vienna, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology)

The concept of the “modern” family is a central element of European self-description. Accordingly, in Europe, kinship is in decline and largely replaced by an emotionalized (nuclear or core) family, which carries little political significance. This self-image contrasts with an external perspective that assumes the persistence, even dominance, of “traditional” kinship in the past or outside of Europe. The economic and political implications of kinship organization in Europe are thus often overlooked. Moreover, this narrative of progress can lead to a devaluing of other forms of cohabitation. When it comes to family care, however, an ambivalent perspective arises. In Europe, care is perceived as requiring state support, while in other parts of the world, it seems to remain intact. “Proper” care within families thus becomes a marker of political belonging. In my lecture, I will explore both the political significance of kinship in Germany and the forms of exclusion that arise from a specific understanding of kinship care.

The lecture will be held in German.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is open to all interested parties.

Organiser:

Prof Dr Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Alia Rayyan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Laura Goldenbaum (Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace)

Place and time:

8 January 2025,

6 to 8 pm

in Room 3 (Saal 3), ground floor, Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz.

Further information

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On 11 December 2024 at 18:00 c.t. we invite you to the second date of the lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" (Family Matters):

Digital Kinship – Memes as Cultural Connectors in Digitality for People from Elementary Age Onward

Prof. Dr. Petra Anders (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften)

The concept of digital culture (Stalder 2017) expands the notion of kinship: people interact by responding to digitalized content from one another, constantly forming new communities often shaped by algorithms. Memes serve as connective elements in these digital communities; they allow people, often humorously, to show which cultural references they identify with and to what extent they feel a sense of belonging (Shifman 2014). Professor Anders’ Center for Poetic Digital Education at Humboldt University builds on this digital culture, supporting individuals from elementary school age in developing their own senses of belonging and becoming empowered members of online communities. Various school projects reveal that children enjoy exchanging meaningful content through memes and demonstrate impressive interpretative skills when engaging with the literary ambiguity in children’s literature (Anders 2024).

The lecture will be held in German.

Participation is possible without pre-registration and is open to all interested parties.

Organiser:

Prof Dr Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Alia Rayyan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Dr Laura Goldenbaum (Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace)

Place and time:

11 December 2024,

6 to 8 pm

in Room 3 (Saal 3), ground floor, Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz.

Further information

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Petra Anders
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Petra Anders studied German, History, and Philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Vienna from 1992 to 1999. After completing her teacher training in Berlin, she worked as a teacher in Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg, and Hamburg. In 2010, she earned her doctorate at the University of Bremen with a dissertation on “Poetry Slam in German Instruction.” From 2011 to 2012, she was a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City (with a focus on Digital Storytelling and Cultural Studies). Her research interests include film and literature didactics, as well as education in a world that can also be shaped digitally. In April 2022, she received the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Teaching Excellence Award for 2021.  

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Parrot Terristories: Rethinking More-than-Human History, Conservation, Care, and Colonial Legacies

The transdisciplinary roundtable, which is part of Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories exhibition at TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater, investigates intersections of more-than-human global history, animal agency, conservation, care, and colonial legacies. The panel examines how African grey parrots make culture in freedom—expressing complex social behaviors, cognition, and adaptability—and how captivity disrupts these processes. This commodification of parrots serves as a lens for broader histories of exploitation and the ethical challenges of conservation. The roundtable further explores the role of indigenous knowledge and practices in rethinking conservation and highlights the need to decolonize approaches that reflect interconnected human and nonhuman histories. By critiquing the colonial provenance of natural history collections, the discussion reveals how power dynamics have shaped preservation ethics and interpretation. Linking these perspectives, the roundtable envisions equitable conservation and museum practices that emphasize shared responsibilities across species and cultures.

The event will be held in English.    

Caption: Ölpalme auf Danniel Mbahurire’s Land, Uganda 2022, Foto: HörnerAntlfinger (links); A. Goering, in Carl Hennicke, Der Graupapagei in Freiheit und Gefangenschaft, 1895 (rechts)


When:

Tour of the exhibition with artists Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger: December 12, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Round table: December 12, 2024, at 6  to 8.15 p.m.

Venue: TA T — Tieranatomisches Theater, Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, HU Berlin Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13/Haus 3

Roundtable Discussion at TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater

Participants

Nancy Jacobs, Brown University, Providence, is a historian and author of the book The Global Grey Parrot: The Worldwide History of a Charismatic African Animal https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/global-grey-parrot-worldwide-history-charismatic-african-animalhttps://www.brown.edu/news/2024-02-29/grey-parrots She is very much concerned with animals as historical actors and parrots as political, cultural, and world-making creatures. She is also interested in human efforts to improve life for parrots in captivity and to conserve the birds’ existence in their native forests.

 Katja Kaiser, Museum for Natural History Berlin, Research associate in the project “Guidelines for the handling of natural history collections from colonial contexts”. Katja Kaiser collaborated with Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger on their work “One of Thirtysix” that traces the provenance of single grey parrot specimen from the museum’s collection https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/about/team/katja.kaiser

André Krebber, guest fellow in cultural history and theory at LeipzigLab at Leipzig University and adjunct lecturer at the University of Kassel. André’s interested in knowledge cultures and how they shape and are shaped by human-nature relations with a particular focus on the role of nonhuman animals therein to respond to the current environmental crisis. In his forthcoming book The Forgotten Animal, he proposes an aesthetic practice of animal remembrance that makes the recognition of animal self-determination the foundation for overcoming appropriating relations to nature. https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen-und-institute/geschichte/lehrgebiet/sozial-und-kulturgeschichte-human-animal-studies/dr-andre-krebber

Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, Lecturer, Culture and Heritage Studies (CHS) at Bindura University, Zimbawe and Research Fellow at inherit. heritage in transformation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests include decolonising heritage conservation practices, African archeology, and museology.

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Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger are professors of multispecies storytelling at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and have been living together in a multispecies household with grey parrots for over 20 years. Their installations, videos and sculptures deal with relationships between humans, animals and machines and open up critical perspectives on changeable social constructs as well as utopian visions of equal interaction. Their communal living with non-human animals is characterised by shared social actions and how these produce a shared space. In 2014, Hörner/Antlfinger founded the interspecies collective CMUK with the grey parrots Clara and Karl, who are also contributing artistic works to the current exhibition.

Felix Sattler is head and curator of the TA T – Exhibition Research Space at the Centre for Cultural Techniques, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His curatorial strategy aims to foster dialogue between a variety of communities. Felix Sattler’s projects have addressed topics as diverse as the art and design history of unicellular algae, an archaeology of the multiple past, and the postcolonial controversies surrounding museums and human remains.

Contact:

Felix Sattler,  felix.sattler@culture.hu-berlin.de