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 25.03.2025, from 1 to 2 p.m featuring the following text: '"Collective Feelings" or, The Impressions Left by Others' by Sara Ahmed

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

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