2022

These are the network’s activities in 2022:

Workshop: Noosphere – Ecosphere – Semiosphere

Together with Julia Lajus, professor at LMU Leipzig, our network member Julia Herzberg organized the workshop “Noosphere – Ecosphere – Semiosphere: Explorations into Environmental Thoughts” It took place in cooperation with the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, on October 6th 2022. Topic: The workshop addresses the current interest in conceptualizing the ongoing geological period of…

“Slavistik-Tag” Bochum

At the “Slavistik-Tag” Bochum, a congress of German Slavicists at the 22nd October 2022, our network organized two panels under the title “Spheres of Ecological Knowledge in Russian Culture and History”. While the first one was dedicated to a discussion of our research agenda with external panelists, the second panel included presentations of our own…

First Network-Conference

From 24th to the 26th June 2022, the first in-person meeting of our Russian Ecospheres network took place in Berlin. After online contacts and some preparatory group work earlier this year, the focus was on familiarizing ourselves with our fellow scholars and their work and on discussing relevant paradigms formative for our research. Interactive formats…

Network Kick-Off

We are pleased to announce the official start of our DFG-funded scientific network “Russian Ecospheres. Forms of Ecological Knowledge in Russian Literature, Culture and History”, which brings together literary, cultural, historical and natural scientists from Europe and North America. The aim of the network is to historically outline ecology as a figure of knowledge, a…

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