We are pleased to announce that Prof. Agata Stanisz will join us at the t2m Annual Conference 2024 in Leipzig as the first keynote speaker. Prof. Stanisz will share her insights on the infrastructures in the Anthropocene.
Prof. Agata Stanisz is a socio-cultural anthropologist working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She is a field researcher, fieldrecordist, and methodologist in the trend of experimental ethnography. Her research interests are road studies/dromology, political ecology, environmental anthropology infrastructure and resistance studies. She researches infrastructural social protests, highways, expressways, but also forests and local roads. She traces their socioeconomic, political, visual and sonic dimensions and their relationship to the local management of natural resources. She has also conducted research among truck drivers in the context of European road transport and logistics regimes.