„Hurra, die Welt geht unter!“ Zur Transformation und Gestaltung lebenswerter Zukünfte im Zeichen interdependenter Krisen Tagung der Nachwuchsgruppe #Umweltsoziologie, 26./27. Februar 2026, TU Dortmund ⚠️Call for Papers bis 15.09.

📌Future visions in times of crisis 📌 In the current student newspaper ‘No Limits’, @juliaschubert.bsky.social & Steven Gonzalez talk about the exhibition “Fixing Futures” and give insights into the joint reflection on open futures. The interview can be found in german under the following link:

📣Today is the last lecture of our lecture series for this semester, this time online! Carlotta Molfese will speak on “From Resistance to Prefiguration: Advancing a Less-Anthropocentric Framework.” For more information, check out our website: fixingfutures.eu/2025/05/from...

📣Tomorrow, the second event in our lecture series will take place! We are excited to welcome Jamie Lorimer via Zoom for a talk on “Time for Rewilding: The More-than-human Politics of Nature Recovery in Europe.” For more information, check out our website: fixingfutures.eu/2025/05/time...

📣This week, the symposium “Seeing the Unforeseeable: Art, Science, and the Imagining of Futures” will take place on Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Museum Giersch. You'll find details and the program in this post! (1/5⤵️)

"Gleichheit in der Zeit? Intergenerationelle Perspektiven des Rechts" Vortrag von Prof. Gabriele Britz in der Reihe „Zukunft gestalten“ 📆12.06, 18 Uhr 📍Museum Giersch (@goetheuni.bsky.social) ➡️normativeorders.net/veranstaltungen/gleichheit-in-der-zeit-intergenerationelle-perspektiven-des-rechts/

Today, the first event in the lecture series “Re-configuring Resistance: Implications, Potentials, and Limitations for More-than-Human Politics” will take place! We are excited to welcome Mona Lilja and Mikael Baaz for their lecture “What We Talk About When We Talk About Resistance (Today).” (1/2)

📣We kindly invite you to our upcoming public lecture, 'An Anthropologist Under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture', presented by Prof. Andrea Ballestero, on Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 6 pm (ct) in Room SH 5.105. (1/2⤵️)

📣 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.” (1/4⤵️)

OUT NOW: Wohin gehen die Zukünfte des Planeten? Grundsätzlich fehlt es nicht an Ideen zur Gestaltung möglicher Zukünfte, wie die Ausstellung FIXING FUTURES im Museum Giersch der @goetheuni.bsky.social und das gleichnamige Buch zur Ausstellung zeigen. #MGGU neofelis-verlag.de/verlagsprogr...

One week from today, the exhibition ‘Fixing Futures - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ opens at the Museum Giersch. You can find more information about the exhibition on our website: fixingfutures.eu/2025/03/fixi... We look forward to seeing you there! @goetheuni.bsky.social

📣 FIXING FUTURES - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control 📣 We are excited to announce that the exhibition ‘Fixing Futures - Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ will take place at MGGU (Museum Giersch of the Goethe University) from 5 April to 31 August 2025! (1/5)

Figuring out how to write in English over the past few years has been both a challenge and a pleasure, and I was thrilled to have the chance to engage in these conversations with PhD students from @fixingfutures.bsky.social!

Ich freue mich, diesen Vortrag später heute zu halten! The World Will Become Brazil: Modified Mosquitoes and the Limits of Situated Knowledges in Times of Planetary Transformations – Goethe University Frankfurt @fixingfutures.bsky.social

🌊Troubling waters – mehr-als-menschliche Meere‘ - Gespräch und Performances🌊 In der Mittwochsbar „Wetter Mi.“ im SCAPE° dreht sich am 4. Dezember um 18:30 Uhr alles um das Meer: Ein interdisziplinäres Ensemble erkundet, wie wir in Beziehung zum Meer und damit verbundenen Lebensformen stehen. (1/3)

📌 We are looking forward to today's lecture on ‘Predictive policy assemblages. The role of scenarios, models and future-knowledge in energy policy stability and change’ by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut. The lecture will take place at 6:15 pm in room IG 1.314 (IG-Farben-Haus).

📣 A little reminder: The DFG-funded RTG „Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies“ invites applications for 8 doctoral researcher positions at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Applications can still be submitted until 26th of November 2024

📢 We are glad to announce that the DFG research training group „Fixing Futures“ will offer 8 doctoral researcher positions at Goethe University in Frankfurt, starting May 1, 2025! (1/2) ⤵️

📌We kindly invite you to our next public lecture on ‘Unruly collaborators: Rendering waves and microbes in more-than-human ethnographies’, offered by Prof. Heather Paxson and Prof. Stefan Helmreich on Tuesday, 9. July 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G111. (1/2⤵️)

We kindly invite you to the public lecture ‘Lying fallow: dichotomies and negotiations’, offered by Dr. Anna-Katharina Laboissière (University of Oslo) in the Biotechnologies, Nature and Society Colloquium on Thursday, 04.07.24, at 4-6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107. (1/2⤵️)

See you today! 👋

📢 We kindly invite you to our next public lecture on 'Climate Changed Futures: On Anticipatory Action in the Climate Emergency', offered by Prof. Ben Anderson on Tuesday, 2. July 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107. (1/4⤵️)

**LECTURE CANCELED** Unfortunately, the lecture with Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut has to be canceled today due to illness. For information on other upcoming events, feel free to visit our website: fixingfutures.eu/news-events/

See you today!

We kindly invite you to attend a public lecture on "Predictive policy assemblages. The role of scenarios, models and future-knowledge in energy policy stability and change", offered by Prof. Stefan Aykut on Monday, 13. May 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107 (1/3).

We kindly invite you to attend a public lecture on "Constructing ‚Anti-Racist‘ Authoritarian Science, 1950-Present ", offered by Prof. Jenny Reardon on Thursday, 2. May 2024, at 4 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G 107 (1/4).

📢 Excited to share our new blog post: "Fixing as Repair"! Dive into our reflections from the Great Repair exhibition.🛠️ Exploring conceptions in STS & beyond, resonating with academic discourse, and opening new perspectives! Check it out here: [fixingfutures.eu/2024/03/fixing-as-repair/] 📝🔍

@josefbarla.bsky.social, a member of the Fixing Futures team, is organizing a symposium on biohybrid objects with Dr. Marco Tamborini - on March 7 (10am-7pm) at the Goethe University (Casino 1.811). We would be pleased to see you there! Infos about the lectures can be found in the comments ⤵️

Diesen Donnerstag, 19 Uhr findet die Veranstaltung »Zwischen individueller Freiheit und sozialer Sicherheit – eine Utopie« aus der Reihe »Der utopische Raum« statt. Vorab hat Eva von Redecker der Frankfurter Rundschau ein Interview gegeben: www.fr.de/politik/eva-...

The lecture by Dr. Lindsay Poirier takes place today, you are welcome to come by!

We kindly invite you to attend a public lecture on "Fixing Accountability: Materializing and Mobilizing Disclosure Datasets", offered by Dr. Lindsay Poirier on Wednesday, 14. February 2024, at 6 pm (ct) in room PEG 1.G107 (1/3⤵️)

@josefbarla.bsky.social, a member of the Fixing Futures team, is organizing a symposium on biohybrid objects with Dr. Marco Tamborini - on March 7 (10am-7pm) at the Goethe University (Casino 1.811). We would be pleased to see you there! Infos about the lectures can be found in the comments ⤵️

We kindly invite you to attend our next public lecture offered by Prof. Dr. Luigi Pellizzoni (Firenze) on Tuesday 23th January at 6pm ct, room PEG 2.G107 (Campus Westend) on "Will the future ever begin? On the logic of non-linear anticipations" For more info check fixingfutures.eu/2024/01/lect...

We kindly invite you to attend a public lecture offered by Prof. Jörg Niewöhner on Tuesday, 16. January 2024, at 6pm (ct), room SH3.105. The lecture will focus on how metabolic, immune, and endocrine processes are inhabited by the political economies of our past and present. ⬇️

Last week, we went to the Taunus for our first retreat together. There we discussed the projects of the PhDs and PostDocs. It was great fun!

Einladung zum Gastvortrag: "Weltverbesserungstechnologien" von Henning Laux, am 07.12., im Kolloquium Biotech., Natur und Gesellschaft (Barla/Lemke), am Campus Westend (PEG 1.G107) 16-18h c.t. Mehr Infos: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/146473142/Weltverbesserungstechnologien____Vortrag____Henning_Laux

What are "contemporary societies"? What does "anticipation" mean? And why do we need to bring the two terms together? You can get to the bottom of these questions on our brand new website: fixingfutures.eu!

Grégoire Chamayou »Catastrophic Communities. On the Political Dilemmas of Disaster Governability« Am 12. Dezember, 16 Uhr findet die nächste Vorlesung der Internationalen Ringvorlesung statt. Weitere Informationen unter: www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/c...