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Maike Melles

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Postdoc in Ecological Anthropology @Czech Academy of Sciences - Frugality, drinking water and food waste in the NL PhD on dehesa landscape and heritage in Spain www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/staff/ma… cas-cz.academia.edu/MaikeMelles

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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join us for the 1st EcoAnthro Seminar after the summer break, 'Ecologies of Pleasure: Bonobos, zoos, and the politics of sexual knowledge' by Marianna Szczygielska (MPI for the History of Science) on Mon 14.9.,2 PM 🐒 Sign up here to participate online or in person: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 Welcoming abstracts for 'Ethical Foodscapes: Sites, flows and practices of more-than-human food sovereignty', a panel organised by Guntra Aistara, Daniel Sosna and myself @ViennaAnthropologyDays, 16-19 Feb 2027. Deadline: 12 Oct 2026. Full call & submission info: univie-vanda2027.eventsairsite.com
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join us for the 1st EcoAnthro Seminar after the summer break, 'Ecologies of Pleasure: Bonobos, zoos, and the politics of sexual knowledge' by Marianna Szczygielska (MPI for the History of Science) on Mon 14.9.,2 PM 🐒 Sign up here to participate online or in person: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Honoured to announce that I have received the Wilhelm Bender Dissertation Award by @goetheuni.bsky.social for my PhD thesis on the Spanish dehesa landscape. My deepest thanks go to the award's sponsor Wilhelm Bender, to my supervisor Roland Hardenberg & to everyone who supported me on this journey!
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New Entry by Melles, Sosna and Jehlička! "Examining concrete practices of exploitation reveals that extractivist attitudes towards human and non-human beings are by no means confined to capitalist economies." #resources #extractivism #capitalism #anthropology #sharing
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Using and valuing resources is a vital component of human life. Yet as much as resources such as water, land, or fuel contribute to the flourishing of communities, they also constitute objects of cont...
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
OUT NOW: Excited to share our entry on 'Resources' in the wonderful @anthroencyclo.bsky.social, a collaboration of RESOURCE project members Daniel Sosna, @petrjehlicka.bsky.social and myself. We discuss key anthropological and further contributions to the topic & where they align or dissent 👇
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Tobias Heinze @tbheinze.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
OUT NOW & Open Access: „Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe“, hg. v. Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller, @hstubenrauch.bsky.social und mir: campus.de/subjekte-der.... Das Buch versammelt theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf die Klimakatastrophe ... 1/3
Ein gedrucktes Exemplar des Buches "Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung" vor einem Bücherregal.Die erste Seite des InhaltsverzeichnissesDie zweite Seite des InhaltsverzeichnissesDie dritte Seite des Inhaltsverzeichnisses
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Join us tomorrow at 14:00 in Prague or online for Liana Chua's 'What Care Takes', the third lecture of our Department's Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series! 🌍
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Tobias Heinze @tbheinze.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hannover! Am 9. Juni, 19 Uhr veranstaltet das Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie eine Diskussion unseres Bands zu den „Subjekten der ökologischen Verwüstung“ im Elchkeller. Mehr Infos: fiph.de/Veranstaltun.... Thread zum Buch hier am ET (28.5.), ein Book Launch in FFM folgt im Herbst (stay tuned!).
Zu sehen ist ein Stapel, auf dem zwei Mal das Buch „Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung“ liegt.
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🦧🌿 Delighted to announce the next seminar 'What Care Takes: Affective politics and more-than-human contestations in a conservation frontier' by Liana Chua (University of Cambridge). To attend online or join us at the Department of Ecological Anthropology in Prague: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Excited about the upcoming lecture 'Towards Multispecies Food Sovereignty' by Guntra Aistara (CEU Vienna) on Monday, 30 March, at 14:00! 🌊🎣It is the second talk in the seminar series of the Department of Ecological Anthropology CAS 🇨🇿🌍 Join us in Prague or online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Rescheduled! The Ecological Anthropology Seminar by Slavomíra Ferenčuhová (Inst. of Sociology CAS) 'Beyond Environmental Sustainability: The social life of historical timber houses in Czechia', will take place on Wed, 25 Feb, at 2 pm🏠🇨🇿 Join us in person or online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New year, new Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series! In 2026, the Department of Ecological Anthropology Prague will be hosting 5 fantastic speakers. Join us online or in person for the first talk on 28 Jan by Slavomíra Ferenčuhová 🏠 Registration & series updates: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Tobias Heinze @tbheinze.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Übermorgen:
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Join us tomorrow at 2 pm for 'Conservation frontiers: Re-storying wilderness from the margins of Europe' by George Iordachescu, the final talk of this year's Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series 👇
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🌍Excited about our upcoming & final DEA seminar for 2025: Join us on Thu 20.11. at 14:00 online or in Prague for 'Conservation Frontiers: Re-storying wilderness from the margins of Europe' by @georgeiorda.bsky.social (Wageningen Univ.) ⛰️🐻🌳 More info & registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
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Tobias Heinze @tbheinze.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣 "Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe", erscheint mit Open Access im Frühjahr 2026 beim Campus Verlag in der Schriftenreihe des @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, hrsg. zusammen mit Thomas Barth, Ricarda Biemüller und Heiko Stubenrauch. www.campus.de/buecher-camp...
Zu sehen ist das Cover des Buches "Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe". Es besteht aus Textelementen und einem schmalen, dunkelgrünen Rahmen. Über dem Titel des Buches stehen die Namen der Herausgeber*innen und ein Hinweis auf die Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung.
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Big thanks to the four speakers for their fantastic contributions to our workshop on 'Un/commoning sustainability and its temporalities': Eriko Yamasaki, Sandra Calkins, Philipp Budka @philbu.bsky.social and André Thiemann - still ruminating over a stimulating exchange at #dgska2025
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🌍 Tomorrow at 2 pm: 'Clean enough? On measuring ecological cleanliness in Dutch surface waters', DEA seminar by Fenna Smits (University of Amsterdam) 👇
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join us for the next DEA Seminar: Fenna Smits, post-doctoral researcher in Anthropology at the UvAmsterdam, will explore measurements of cleanliness & concerns for more-than-human health in Dutch surface waters 💧🦠🧪 To participate online or in Prague, register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#Klöckner und #Merz wissen, dass queere Menschen im NS verfolgt und vernichtet wurden. Wenn sie jetzt queeren Aktivismus als "Zirkus" bezeichnen & sich zugleich mit "Nie Wieder ist jetzt" schmücken, ist das maximal zynisch. Die Shoah-Erinnerung ist keine Legitimierungsmaschine für rechte Politiken.
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🌍 Next week, Matt Watson (University of Sheffield, UK), the fourth speaker in the DEA's 2025 Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series, will be talking about 'Food Waste as the Fallout of Everyday Practices'. 🚮 To join us in Prague or online, register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Looking forward to the upcoming lecture of the DEA Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series: 'Food Waste as the Fallout of Everyday Practices' by @mattwtsn.bsky.social (University of Sheffield, UK) 🥦🍞🚮 Join us on Wednesday, 4 June, at 14:00 (CET) in Prague or online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Today at 15:00 (CET): Tereza Stöckelova's seminar 'Living as Inflammable Objects' at the Department of Ecological Anthropology in Prague 🔥 Join us in person or online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New starting time! Join us for Tereza Stöckelová's lecture 'Living as Inflammable Objects' next Tuesday at 15:00 (CET) 👇
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🦠🌡'Living as Inflammable Objects' by Tereza Stöckelová (Institute of Sociology CAS & Charles University) 🔥 The third lecture of the Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series at the Institute of Ethnology on Tuesday 6.5. at 14:00 (CET) 🌍 To join us online or in Prague: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tomorrow at 2 pm! Jan van Duppen's seminar on the temporalities of community gardening in Berlin 🌿 Organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropoloy in Prague. Join us in person or online: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Next week: 'Tuning into the Garden's Rhythms amidst the Climate Crisis?' 🌿 A special addition to our Department of Ecological Anthropology's seminar series by @jvdup.bsky.social next Thursday, 10 April, at 2 pm. Join us in Prague or online! 🌍 To register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🇳🇱 Hello Dutch-based Bluesky! 🇳🇱 I'm asking for help in my search for people who'd like to participate in our diary study on the use of water and leftover food. For our RESOURCE project, we're looking for households in the NL to keep a diary for 1 week / season, starting in the spring. Please share! 🙏
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🇳🇱 Hoi Bluesky Nederland! Ik vraag om je hulp bij het zoeken naar geïnteresseerde deelnemers voor een onderzoek naar het duurzame gebruik van water en voedsel 🚿🥖🍎 Voor het RESOURCE project zoeken we naar huishoudens in NL die vanaf de lente 1 week/seizoen een dagboek willen bijhouden. Delen a.u.b.! 🙏
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🇳🇱 Hoi Bluesky Nederland! Ik vraag om je hulp bij het zoeken naar geïnteresseerde deelnemers voor een onderzoek naar het duurzame gebruik van water en voedsel 🚿🥖🍎 Voor het RESOURCE project zoeken we naar huishoudens in NL die vanaf de lente 1 week/seizoen een dagboek willen bijhouden. Delen a.u.b.! 🙏
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🇳🇱 Hello Dutch-based Bluesky! 🇳🇱 I'm asking for help in my search for people who'd like to participate in our diary study on the use of water and leftover food. For our RESOURCE project, we're looking for households in the NL to keep a diary for 1 week / season, starting in the spring. Please share! 🙏
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌍 One week to go until Tania Murray Li's lecture in the seminar series organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropology @czechacademy.bsky.social in Prague! Join us in person or online 👇
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Paul Keil @paulgkeil.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20 register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Looking forward to this lecture today, organised by @mempop.bsky.social 👇
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Mirco Göpfert @goepfe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please note: the grotesque and absurd are not mere anecdotes and side effects of fascism but lie at the very heart of it rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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On dictators and clowns
In February 2022, Vladimir Putin, with a penchant for absurdly long tables and known as a bare-chested horseman and bear tamer, deployed a massive army to invade Ukraine, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky...
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Next week! To participate online or in person: bit.ly/3QtNisV
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Paul Keil @paulgkeil.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Next week on Tuesday Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz
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MEM:POP @mempop.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
An exciting hybrid event co-organized by our project on March 5 at The Institute of Ethnology in Prague with @jleser.bsky.social www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/The-...
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The Figure of the Wolf in German Far-Right Politics: Deliberations on Nature and Nationalism - The Institute of Ethnology CAS
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MEM:POP @mempop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
another great event by the fellows of the Department of Ecological Anthropology @czechacademy.bsky.social
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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Off to Prague next week to give some talks on sheepdogs, as well as biosecurity and animal disease. Details on my talk on sheepdogs below.
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🐕🔉 🇬🇧🌍 Join us for the upcoming seminar "Echoes of Silence: Breeds of Empire and the Global Geography of Sheepdogs" by @garethenticott.bsky.social on Tuesday 4 March at 14:00 (CET) in Prague and online! Organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropology CAS. Register here: bit.ly/3QtNisV 👈
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"Agro-ecological Imaginaries, Smallholder Ambitions, and the Dull Compulsion of Market Discipline"- Join us for the second lecture of the Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series by Tania Murray Li on Thursday 20 March at 14:00 (CET) in Prague and online 🌍 To register: forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#KeinVergessen: Wir gedenken Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kenan Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov, die am 19. Februar 2020 in Hanau ermordet wurden. Angehörige und Überlebende kämpfen bis heute um Aufklärung.
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tomorrow! 🐘 👇 To participate online: forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🐘 "Mediating a Caring Environment - Escorting elephants through a fragmented world"🌍 - the first lecture of the Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series 2025 by @paulgkeil.bsky.social on Thu 30 Jan at 14:00 (CET) in Prague and online. Register here: forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
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Michał Szaflarski @miszaf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
60 niemieckich uczelni i instytutów badawczych oraz dwa związki zawodowe opuściły platformę Muska #WyborczaBiz #Bluesky #Niemcy wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177...
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60 niemieckich uniwersytetów i instytutów naukowych rezygnuje z Twittera
'X nie wywiązuje się już ze swojego obowiązku promowania uczciwego dyskursu. Jako instytucje naukowe nie możemy tego zaakceptować' - oświadczyła Anja Steinbeck, rektorka Uniwersytetu Heinricha Heinego...
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Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Excited to announce the 2025 EcoAnthro Seminar Series at the Institute of Ethnology CAS in Prague and online! 🇨🇿💻 🌍 Incl. Environmental care & conservation, eco-imaginaries, bioethnography, waste & cleanliness. Kick-off on 30.1. by @paulgkeil.bsky.social To register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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