Reading Group
Our next reading circle will take place on January 27th, 2026, 1 to 2pm. We will be discussing the text 'Die Erziehung der Hirse' by Berthold Brecht. We can make the text available to you upon request.
The following dates have taken place with the following texts. Further information on the format can be found under Reading Circle
16.12.2025: 'Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity' by Alexander Damianos
25.11.2025: "Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist" by P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
28.10.2025: 'Fünf Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit' by Berthold Brecht
07.10.2025: 'Die Welt und die Erde' by David van Reybrouck
26.08.2025: 'Co-producing CITES and the African elephant.' - Sheila Jasanoff
29.07.2025: 'Zone of Critical Flows: The Mar Menor as a Critical Zone Observatory' - Usón et al.
24.06.2025: 'New Transitions from Human Rightsto the Environment to the Rights of Nature' - Susana Borràs
27.05.2025: 'Reconnecting with nature for sustainability' - Ives et al. (2018)
29.04.2025: 'Collective Feelings" or, The Impressions Left by Others' by Sara Ahmed
25.03.2025: 'Emotions, power, and environmentalconflict: Expanding the ‘emotionalturn’ in political ecology'
25.02.2025: 'the challenge of ontological politics' by Isabelle Stengers
14.01.2025: Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care - María Puig de la Bellacasa, 2012
03.12.2024: Sultana, F. (2022): Critical climate justice. The Geographical Journal, 188, 118–124
05.11.2024: Meyer, John M. (2024): “The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics
24.09.2024: Blühdorn, Ingolfur; Dannemann, Hauke (2024): Nachhaltigkeit: Ein erschöpfendes Paradigma und ein Blick in die kommende Gesellschaft
18.06.2024: Almiron, Núria; Tafalla, Marta (2019): Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation
21.05.2024: Pietropaoli, Matteo (2023): Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio-cultural reading
30.04.2024: Appel, Hannah (2019): Conclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds
19.03.2024: Tsing, Anna L. (2023): Invasion Blowback and Other Tales of the Anthropocene: An Afterword
13.09.2023: Jared Margulies (2022): A political ecology of desire: between extinction, anxiety and flourishing
13.07.2023: Laura M.F. Bertens, Ann Marie Wilson (2022): Wonder, Empire, Science: The Quagga and Other Extinctions on Display at Naturalis
14.06.2023: Liana Chua (2020): Witnessing the Unseen. Extinction, Spirits and Anthropological Responsibility
17.05.2023: Ursula K. Heise (2010): Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Cultures of Extinction
19.04.2023: Michael Schnegg und Thiemo Breyer (2022): Empathy Beyond the Human. The Social Construction of a Multispecies World
15.03.2023: Shlomo Cohen (2014): The Ethics of De-Extinction
08.02.2023: Dolly Jørgensen, Libby Robin, Marie-Theres Fojuth (2022): Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
11.01.2023: Jairus Victor Grove (2017): The geopolitics of extinction. From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene
14.12.2022: Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Owen Gaffney (2020): Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies