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Fixing Futures RTG
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"Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in
Contemporary Societies" is a DFG-funded Research Training Group at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
For more info check out our webside: fixingfutures.eu
📣Lecture by Dr. Alejandro Esguerra: "The Politics of Beginning"
Fixing Futures is excited to bring you our next lecture given by @aesguerra.bsky.social
🕕Tue, 4 November 2025, 6:15pm
📍Seminarhaus Westend Campus, SH 4.104
🎫no registration needed

more information: fixingfutures.eu/2025/10/the-...
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📣Lecture by Ben Anderson 📣
'Too much, too little': Ben Anderson investigates the 'Politics of Intensity in Crisis Times'

🕓23 Oct 2025, 4:15 pm
📍PEG 1. G192, Westend Campus

more information: fixingfutures.eu/2025/09/too-...
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📣Book Launch for New Ben Anderson Book "The Politics of Feeling"📣
Ben Anderson (Durham University) is discussing his new book in conversation with the RTG's own Florian Skelton and Sophia Leipert. Chair: Julia Schubert (all Goethe University).

🕕21 Oct 2025, 6:15
📍SH 1.101, Westend Campus
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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„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.
Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie
Auf dem Weg in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft
ngumweltsoziologie.wordpress.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📌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:
Zukunftsvisionen in Zeiten der Krise
Ein Gespräch über die Ausstellung “Fixing Futures”
asta-zeitung.de
August 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📣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...
July 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
📣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...
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📣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⤵️)
June 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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"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/
June 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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)
June 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📣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⤵️)
May 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📣 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⤵️)
May 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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...
April 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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
March 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
📣 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)
March 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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!
December 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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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
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM
🌊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)
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
📌 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).
November 25, 2024 at 2:46 PM
📣 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
New Doctoral Researcher Positions RTG „Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies“ – Fixing Futures
fixingfutures.eu
November 24, 2024 at 6:21 PM
📢 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) ⤵️
August 6, 2024 at 2:49 PM
📌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⤵️)
July 5, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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⤵️)
July 3, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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⤵️)
July 2, 2024 at 2:14 PM
📢 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⤵️)
June 12, 2024 at 2:41 PM