Category: activities
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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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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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First Network-Conference
From 24th to the 26th June 2022, the first in-person meeting of our Russian Ecospheres network took place in Berlin. After online contacts and some preparatory group work earlier this year, the focus was on familiarizing ourselves with our fellow scholars and their work and on discussing relevant paradigms formative for our research. Interactive formats…
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