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Forms of Ecological Knowledge in Russian Literature, Culture and History

About us

The interdisciplinary, DFG-funded research project Russian Ecospheres unites 15 scholars and offers a platform for new research approaches in the emerging field of ecocriticism.

What are the goals of Russian Ecospheres?

  • Becoming more interdisciplinary: Linking approaches in historiography with literary and cultural studies
  • Leaving the disaster road: Globalizing Russian ecological history and opening new research fields and questions
  • Approaching environmental form: Understanding the significance of form for modes of perception and discursive framing
  • Looking for the longue durée: Finding trajectories of ecological thinking from the 18th-century to the present

What are we doing within the network?

  • Organisation of conferences and workshops
  • Preparation of a handbook on Russian ecological thought
  • Publication and translation of basic Russian texts on ecology
  • Development of research infrastructure for further research in ecocriticism

Activities:

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…

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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…

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2025

These are the network’s activities in 2025: Entropy Humanities Since the 2010’s, energy humanities has become a growing field in Slavic Studies and beyond, seeking to explore the…

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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…

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