Climate change, species extinction or biodiversity loss: It has become obvious that the challenges of the present cannot be overcome alone. A comprehensive picture unquestionably requires a multitude of perspectives. The Museum für Naturkunde with its Netzwerk Naturwissen (Network of Nature Knowledge) is the venue for a collaboration with partners from Berlin and Brandenburg.
Reading circle: Netzwerk Naturwissen reads...
In our reading circle, we discuss a text on the topic of biodiversity crisis every month. We are happy to meet and exchange ideas with networkers, colleagues and others. Would you like to join us? Then please register at netzwerknaturwissen@mfn.berlin for our next meeting.
Our reading circle usually takes place on the last Tuesday of the month at 13:00 in the Museum für Naturkunde. The next dates, texts and possible deviations will be announced in advance on this page or communicated by email.
Next reading circle
- 27.01.2026; 1pm - 2pm: in the Museum. We will read the text 'Die Erziehung der Hirse' by Berthold Brecht - we can make the text available to you if you contact us.
Previous reads
- 16.12.2025: 'Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity' by Alexander Damianos
- 25.11.2025: 'Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist' - P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
- 28.10.2025: 'Fünf Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit' - Berthold Brecht
- 07.10.2025: 'Die Welt und die Erde' - David van Reybrouck
- 26.08.2025: 'Co-producing CITES and the African elephant.' - Jasanoff, Sheila
- 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' - 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: “The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics - John M. Meyer
- 24.09.2024: Nachhaltigkeit: Ein erschöpfendes Paradigma und ein Blick in die kommende Gesellschaft
- 16.07.2024, 1 - 2 pm ‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum (2020)
Anna Guasco - 18.06.2024, Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation (2019)
Núria Almiron & Marta Tafalla - 21.05.2024, Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio-cultural reading (2023)
Matteo Pietropaoli - 30.04.2024, Conclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds (2019)
Hannah Appel - 19.03.2024, Invasion Blowback and Other Tales of the Anthropocene: An Afterword (2023)
Anna L. Tsing - 18.10.2023, A Myth for the Sixth Mass Extinction: Telling Noah’s Story during a Climate Crisis (2022)
Nancy Menning - 13.09.2023, A political ecology of desire: between extinction, anxiety and flourishing (2022)
Jared Margulies - 13.07.2023, Wonder, Empire, Science: The Quagga and Other Extinctions on Display at Naturalis (2022)
Laura M.F. Bertens, Ann Marie Wilson - 14.06.2023, Witnessing the Unseen. Extinction, Spirits and Anthropological Responsibility (2020)
Liana Chua - 17.05.2023, Lost Dogs, Last Birds, and Listed Species: Cultures of Extinction (2010)
Ursula K. Heise - 19.04.2023, Empathy Beyond the Human. The Social Construction of a Multispecies World (2022)
Michael Schnegg und Thiemo Breyer - 15.03.2023, The Ethics of De-Extinction. (2014)
Shlomo Cohen - 08.02.2023, Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction (2022)
Dolly Jørgensen, Libby Robin, Marie-Theres Fojuth - 11.01.2023, The geopolitics of extinction. From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene. (2017)
Jairus Victor Grove - 14.12.2022, Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies. (2020)
Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Owen Gaffney