Reading Group

We meet monthly at the Museum of Natural History to discuss different texts. Registration at NetzwerkNaturwissen@mfn.berlin.


The following dates have taken place with the following texts. Further information on the format can be found under Reading Circle.

01.10.2024: Blühdorn, Ingolfur; Dannemann, Hauke (2024): Nachhaltigkeit: Ein erschöpfendes Paradigma und ein Blick in die kommende Gesellschaft

18.06.24: Almiron, Núria; Tafalla, Marta (2019): Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation 

21.05.24: Pietropaoli, Matteo (2023): Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio-cultural reading

30.04.24:  Appel, Hannah (2019): Conclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds     

19.03.24: Tsing, Anna L. (2023): Invasion Blowback and Other Tales of the Anthropocene: An Afterword

13.09.23: Jared Margulies (2022): A political ecology of desire: between extinction, anxiety and flourishing

13.07.23: Laura M.F. Bertens, Ann Marie Wilson (2022): Wonder, Empire, Science: The Quagga and Other Extinctions on Display at Naturalis

14.06.23: Liana Chua (2020): Witnessing the Unseen. Extinction, Spirits and Anthropological Responsibility


17.05.23: Ursula K. Heise (2010): Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Cultures of Extinction

19.04.23: Michael Schnegg und Thiemo Breyer (2022): Empathy Beyond the Human. The Social Construction of a Multispecies World  

15.03.23: Shlomo Cohen (2014): The Ethics of De-Extinction

08.02.23: Dolly Jørgensen, Libby Robin, Marie-Theres Fojuth (2022): Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction      

11.01.23: Jairus Victor Grove (2017): The geopolitics of extinction. From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene 

14.12.22: Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Owen Gaffney (2020): Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies