These are the network’s activities in 2023:
Workshop: 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 as problems of art and theory. The online workshop took place on December 12th at 6pm (CET). Workshop Idea The event consists of three parts: an introduction…
Report: Second Network Conference
Following our initial meeting at Freie Universität Berlin in June 2022, our second annual meeting, entitled “Forms of Ecological Knowledge”, took place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on July 14 – 16. Our speakers explored ecological ideas and practices as forms, not only in the sense of artistic form, but also with respect to the history of…
Conference: Green Cultures in Eastern Europe
Invitation to the International Conference June 28th – 30th 2023 GREEN CULTURES IN EASTERN EUROPE —REPRESENTATION, PRACTICE, KNOWLEDGE The shift towards ecological aspects in Eastern European modernity gave rise to knowledge practices and interdisciplinary concepts such as »geobiosfera«, »ėkologicheskaia kul’tura«, »geopoėtika«, as well as corresponding cultural and artistic forms of representation of human-nature interactions. The…
Reading Group: Cybernetic Ecology
Within the network a reading group on cybernetic ecology has been formed which will start its activities in spring 2023. Preliminary topics: The reading group will discuss post-war theories of cybernetic ecology (e.g. by Howard and Eugene Odum, Gregory Bateson, Ramon Margalef) and its Soviet reception, theories of cybernetic modelling of ecosystems such as forests…
Call for Papers: Conference on Hydro-poetics
The Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin invited paper proposals for a conference on “Hydro-poetics: an Ecocritical Perspective on Eastern European Arts (1960s-1990s)”. The conference, coordinated by Russian Ecospheres member Susanne Frank, will be held in Berlin from the 5th till 7th of October 2023. Water as a cultural…
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