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 conference takes up the comprehensive umbrella term »green culture«, which is suitable for cultural studies research on knowledge practices within an »ecological culture«: It highlights an emphatic understanding of »greenness« as a historically funded, positive value regarding the harmonic balance of culture and nature, yet it is nevertheless politically reflective and critical about man-made ecological destruction.
Ecological reflections in texts, images, and spaces put social relations towards nature on the touchstone. The presentations aim to work out and systematize the specifics and variety of Eastern European »green cultures« from the 18th century until today on several levels:
- on the level of literary and artistic procedures of nature representation as well as the canonization and hierarchization of corresponding forms and models;
- on the level of environmental semiosis, communication, and social practices;
- on the level of culture-specific forms of ecological knowledge. (full programme attached.
Programme and registration:
"Russian Ecospheres" 