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4th Annual Network Conference
Our fourth and final annual meeting of the DFG-funded research network Russian Ecospheres will take place in the context of “Climate Change Adaptation” from the 27th of February till 1st of March 2025 at GWZO in Leipzig. Together with scholars from various disciplines, including historiography, geography, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and the natural sciences,…
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Roundtable: ASEEES Annual Convention 2024
Our Roundtable at ASEEES Annual Convention 2024 in Boston On Sunday, November 24th 2024, the Russian Ecospheres network held a roundtable at the ASEEES Annual Convention in Boston, titled “Russian Ecospheres Research Network Roundtable: Concepts of Scale in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union”, in continuation of our third annual meeting at GWZO Leipzig in…
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Report: Third 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…
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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 the avant-garde from an ecocritical perspective. The event will take place on sight on the 12th and 13th of April, at Princeton University Campus in the Aaron…
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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 extremes in historical perspective“, taking place in Leipzig at sight from the 27th of February untill the 1st of March 2025. Preliminary Content: As meeting the 1.5-degree…
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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 of scale. Like music and maps, studies of relations between culture and nature need scales which are socially produced and imply normative models (Ram 2016). Popularized first…
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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…
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Obituary 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 the age of 54. We give our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues and want to honour Julia’s character and her contributions within her family and…
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55th 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 the 19th to 20th October and on sight, in Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, from the 30th of November till 3rd December 2023. The ASEEES is the largest and…
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Honoring Research: The ASEEES Award Ceremony
Held in this fall, the 55th annual convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies (short ASEEES) honors distinguished contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. It is the largest and most important association for the field of Slavic and Eastern European Studies and therefore vital for the exchange and further…
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