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The summer term 2023 was a contemplating one for the Kitchen. Among the many tasks and projects that we find ourselves occupied with, we hardly found time for (digital) Kitchen meetings. And yet, the sessions that took place (27th April … Continue reading →

Two years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit us. Several waves of rapidly increasing numbers of infections rolled over us, and the current wave (at least in Germany) just doesn’t seem to subside. During the last two years, studying … Continue reading →

The term started with an empty kitchen and is about to end with an almost empty kitchen. Our Kitchen STS discussions have more or less successfully gone virtual and we can look back at three great sessions. Huge thanks to … Continue reading →

If you are allowed to walk through the corridors of the PEG building these days you find shut doors, no lights, no people around. The kitchen on the 3rd floor is empty. What a comfortable study environment this would be; … Continue reading →

We are happy to announce the visit of Dr. Tara Mehrabi from Karlstad University who will be talking about and discussing with us her work on “Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death Through a … Continue reading →

This semester’s last kitchen STS session takes place on July 10th, at 6pm – just this once not in the kitchen area but in room PEG 2.G 107. We will discuss the work of Lynn Margulis, more specifically the Gaia … Continue reading →

This month, our regular kitchen STS meeting will be replaced by an exciting outward event. On Wednesday, June 19th at 10 a.m., Gay Hawkins is here to discuss with us her recent work on plastic and material politics in a … Continue reading →

In our next session, to be held on May 15th, we’ll be discussing a chapter from John Hartigan’s recent book Care of the Species (2017). The text is an intriguing proposal for and a thorough exploration of “How to Interview … Continue reading →

Dear kitchen people. As most of you already know, Endre has left Frankfurt for a professorship in Munich. Even though we will truly miss him, Kitchen STS continuous. Franziska von Verschuer and I are taking care of the institution Kitchen … Continue reading →

In our next session, to be held on the 24th January, we’ll be discussing a manuscript by James Maguire and Brit Ross Winthereik – both from the IT University in Copenhagen. It’s about ‘datafication’ and the role data centres play in the ongoing … Continue reading →