Reading Group

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


Our next reading circle will take place on December 16th, 2025, 1pm to 2pm. We will be discussing the text 'Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity' by Alexander Damianos

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

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