Category: activities
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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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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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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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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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Network Conference 2023: Forms of Ecological Knowledge
From the 14th to 16th of July 2023, the first public conference of our network will take place under the topic “Forms of Ecological Knowledge. DFG Network “Russian Ecospheres”. It will take place at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich. Concept Our network members will meet in a public conference lasting several days, in which…
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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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