Category: Allgemein
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Entropy Humanities
Since the 2010’s, energy humanities has become a growing field in Slavic Studies and beyond, seeking to explore the intricate connections between energy, culture, and society. However, in this exploration, energy’s thermodynamic counterpart has been neglected – the idea of entropy as an irreversible process resulting in the complete dissipation of energy and the end…
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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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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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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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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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Report: Second 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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Publication: Interdisciplinary conceptual history
With contributions about ecology in Eastern European terminologies such as dimensions of regulations within geographical contexts and the analysis of concepts of metabolism, semiotics and biogeocoenosis, the Leibniz Center for research on literature and culture (Leibniz Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung) published, together with our network member Tatjana Petzer and papers from the Russian Ecospheres…
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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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“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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