The interdisciplinary, DFG-funded research project Russian Ecospheres unites 15 scholars and offers a platform for new research approaches in the emerging field of ecocriticism.
What are the goals of Russian Ecospheres?
- Becoming more interdisciplinary: Linking approaches in historiography with literary and cultural studies
- Leaving the disaster road: Globalizing Russian ecological history and opening new research fields and questions
- Approaching environmental form: Understanding the significance of form for modes of perception and discursive framing
- Looking for the longue durée: Finding trajectories of ecological thinking from the 18th-century to the present
What are we doing within the network?
- Organisation of conferences and workshops
- Preparation of a handbook on Russian ecological thought
- Publication and translation of basic Russian texts on ecology
- Development of research infrastructure for further research in ecocriticism
Activities:
Conference: Modernism and its ‘Environments’
In the two-day event, coordinated by our network member Elena Fratto, participants of the conference “Modernism and its ‘Environments’” will revisit literary texts and cultural products of Russophone modernism and…
Keep reading
Call for Papers: Adapting to climate change and climate extremes in historical perspective
Network Members in cooperation with the GWZO call for papers until the 30 June 2024 for the upcoming event with the Title “Adapting to climate change and climate…
Keep reading
3rd Annual Conference: Scales of Ecology
After two inspiring meetings on spheres and forms, our third convention at GWZO Leipzig from the 5th till 7th of July 2024, will be dedicated to the problem…
Keep readingWorkshop: Post-Soviet Ecologies – Art & Theory
In a joint online-event of the Russian Ecospheres Network and the Posthuman Studies Lab, participants of the workshop “Post-Soviet Ecologies – Art & Theory” discuss contemporary ecological issues…
Keep readingObituary of Julia Obertreis
In silent mourning and with much grief we hereby must say goodbye to our valued network member and appreciated colleague Julia Obertreis who passed unexpectedly last week at…
Keep reading55th annual ASEEES convention
The Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies invites to this years 55th annual convention! Held in this fall, the ASEEES hosts a two-piece event virtually from…
Keep reading
"Russian Ecospheres" 