News + Events 04.04. – 31.08.25 FIXING FUTURES – Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 4 April – 31 August 2025, MGGU – Museum Giersch of the Goethe University “Fixing Futures” – How Art and Science Are Renegotiating Our Futures How can we influence our futures in times of climate change and global crises? This exhibition shows how science and art don’t just predict … Read more „FIXING FUTURES – Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control“ 10.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr An Anthropologist under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture 10.06.2025, 6:15 pm, SH 5.105 | Dr. Andrea Ballestero In order to dwell on the aqueous formations we call aquifers, this talk examines some of the attempts people in Costa Rica make to move inwards, towards the center of the Earth. Neither caves nor mines, and more than just water volumes, … Read more „An Anthropologist under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture“ 14.06.25 14:00 Uhr Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures Symposium for the MGGU exhibition: Fixing Futures: Planetary futures between speculation and control How can art and science help us to imagine futures that are not yet visible? In a multidisciplinary symposium, the RTG's Dr. Steven Gonzalez and Dr. Julia Schubert bring together renowned … Read more „Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures“ 17.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics Lecture Series, Summer Term 2025 The Research Training Group “Fixing Futures” is excited to announce our upcoming lecture Series: “Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics.” In light of the complex interplay of regimes of … Read more „Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics“ 17.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr „Time for Rewilding: The More-than-human Politics of Nature Recovery in Europe“ Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford) Hybrid lecture | on site: SH 1.104 | via zoom: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/68167462379?pwd=oMOO9YmE1BhbmtXGFK910Jjyrack4d.1 Rewilding is a new approach to wildlife conservation that challenges the temporalities of orthodox approaches to identifying … Read more „„Time for Rewilding: The More-than-human Politics of Nature Recovery in Europe““ 27. – 28.06.25 Transdisciplinary Conference on Transfeminism Transdisziplinäre Tagung vom 27.06. bis zum 28.06.2025 der GRADE Initiative „Trans Studies“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Kooperation mit dem Cornelia Goethe Centrum und dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Fixing Futures“ Trotz zunehmender Auseinandersetzungen nehmen … Read more „Transdisciplinary Conference on Transfeminism“ 08.07.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr „From Resistance to Prefiguration: Advancing a Less-Anthropocentric Framework“ Carlotta Molfese (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Online via Zoom, https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/68167462379?pwd=oMOO9YmE1BhbmtXGFK910Jjyrack4d.1 Building on the paper “Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance” (Molfese 2023) in which I have reflected upon some of the … Read more „„From Resistance to Prefiguration: Advancing a Less-Anthropocentric Framework““
04.04. – 31.08.25 FIXING FUTURES – Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 4 April – 31 August 2025, MGGU – Museum Giersch of the Goethe University “Fixing Futures” – How Art and Science Are Renegotiating Our Futures How can we influence our futures in times of climate change and global crises? This exhibition shows how science and art don’t just predict … Read more „FIXING FUTURES – Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control“
10.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr An Anthropologist under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture 10.06.2025, 6:15 pm, SH 5.105 | Dr. Andrea Ballestero In order to dwell on the aqueous formations we call aquifers, this talk examines some of the attempts people in Costa Rica make to move inwards, towards the center of the Earth. Neither caves nor mines, and more than just water volumes, … Read more „An Anthropologist under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture“
14.06.25 14:00 Uhr Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures Symposium for the MGGU exhibition: Fixing Futures: Planetary futures between speculation and control How can art and science help us to imagine futures that are not yet visible? In a multidisciplinary symposium, the RTG's Dr. Steven Gonzalez and Dr. Julia Schubert bring together renowned … Read more „Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures“
17.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics Lecture Series, Summer Term 2025 The Research Training Group “Fixing Futures” is excited to announce our upcoming lecture Series: “Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics.” In light of the complex interplay of regimes of … Read more „Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials and Limitations for More-Than-Human Politics“
17.06.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr „Time for Rewilding: The More-than-human Politics of Nature Recovery in Europe“ Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford) Hybrid lecture | on site: SH 1.104 | via zoom: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/68167462379?pwd=oMOO9YmE1BhbmtXGFK910Jjyrack4d.1 Rewilding is a new approach to wildlife conservation that challenges the temporalities of orthodox approaches to identifying … Read more „„Time for Rewilding: The More-than-human Politics of Nature Recovery in Europe““
27. – 28.06.25 Transdisciplinary Conference on Transfeminism Transdisziplinäre Tagung vom 27.06. bis zum 28.06.2025 der GRADE Initiative „Trans Studies“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Kooperation mit dem Cornelia Goethe Centrum und dem DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Fixing Futures“ Trotz zunehmender Auseinandersetzungen nehmen … Read more „Transdisciplinary Conference on Transfeminism“
08.07.25 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr „From Resistance to Prefiguration: Advancing a Less-Anthropocentric Framework“ Carlotta Molfese (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Online via Zoom, https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/68167462379?pwd=oMOO9YmE1BhbmtXGFK910Jjyrack4d.1 Building on the paper “Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance” (Molfese 2023) in which I have reflected upon some of the … Read more „„From Resistance to Prefiguration: Advancing a Less-Anthropocentric Framework““
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