CARMAH Lab
Our lab is a critical site for developing new anthropological perspectives on archives, museums, and heritage through comparative ethnographic research. It is in dialogue with the institute’s CARMAH research area and its commitment to Berlin as a contested public heritage field. It continues the work of the long-standing “museums lab”, which has been convened since 2015 under the auspices of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH).
The lab brings together perspectives of researchers, students, and practitioners, activists across the university and beyond. Spanning critique and practice, it offers the space to develop ideas, concepts, projects in a critical, supportive, and careful way. It connects faculty, research, teaching, curation, and public anthropology done by this research area. The lab is a communicative research development area for students and researchers, creating a space for support and critique. The lab understands itself as a membrane between public heritage and museum practices and anthropological research at universities.
If you would like to propose an activity, conversation, or work-in-progress presentation to be discussed in the lab, please contact the current lab convenors. The lab meets regularly during the semesters. To stay up to date, register via our CARMAH newsletter and mailing list.