Author: cfab96
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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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Working group: Anthology
Members of the Russian Ecospheres network currently prepare an “Anthology of Russian Ecological Thought“. They attempt comprising translations of critical primary and secondary texts on ecology in the context of the Russian and Soviet empire. These texts are meant to become a valuable tool for familiarizing students and scholars with lines of ecological thought in…
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Workshop: Crossing Boundaries
Together with his colleague Helena Holzberger (LMU Munich), Russian Ecospheres member Timm Schönfelder is organizing a workshop titled “Crossing Boundaries. Human-Animal Relations from Post-Petrine Russia to the Soviet State (1725–1991)“. The workshop will take place on sight in Leipzig from 29th till 30th of June 2023. Motivation of analyzing human-animal relations “The study of human-animal…
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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…
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Annual ASEEES Convention
From the 10th to 13th of November, the second part of the annual “ASEEES” Convention takes part in Chicago. Here, the international forum for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies makes a broad exchange of infromation and ideas possible. By that, further work and intelectual vitality in these fields is engaged and sustained. “The 2022…
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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…
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“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…
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Imprint
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