The conversation centres on the multifaceted relations of care that connect humans and plants in contexts of migration. Hilal Alkan is particularly interested in practices of “emplacement” – that is, how people situate themselves in new places and come to feel at home. As part of her research, Hilal Alkan visited people in their homes and gardens and invited them to show her their plants. Her interlocutors spoke about where the plants came from, how they were cared for, and what stories and memories were connected to them. In the conversation, Hilal Alkan also describes this method as “plant-prompted life story collection”
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In July 2025, Laurens Schlicht spoke with our colleague Sana Chavoshian about her newly published book "Martyrs and Stones in Iran’s Post-War Politics". The book begins with the traumatic legacy of the Iran–Iraq War, the brutal conflict fought between 1980 and 1988. Only a year earlier, in 1979, the Iranian Revolution had overthrown the Shah, and Iran had been declared an Islamic Republic. The war soon became one of the defining events in the Republic’s early years.