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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📢 Join us for the "Fixing Futures Conference: Anticipation, Intervention, Aftermaths," 25–27 Nov 2026 at Goethe University Frankfurt! Researchers from STS, sociology, cultural anthropology & human geography explore technologies of anticipation and a present that appears to have lost its future.

Konferenzplakat auf dunkelblauem Hintergrund mit digitalem Kreis-/Radar-Muster. Titel: "Fixing Futures: Anticipation, Intervention, Aftermaths". Darunter: "Fixing Futures Conference 2026, 25–27 November, Goethe University Frankfurt, Eisenhower Room (IG 1.314)". Rechts eine Liste von Vortragenden. Unten Logos von Fixing Futures, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) und Goethe Universität Frankfurt sowie die URL www.fixingfutures.eu.

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We invite you to another lecture this month exploring models of futurity in the governance of climate change 🎙️ "Fixing Climate Futures - Beyond 'Anticipation'?" 📍 PEG 2.G107, Frankfurt 🗓️ June 23, 2026 | 6:15 pm 🎤 Stephen J. Collier (University of California, Berkeley)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join us for an upcoming lecture on how competing visions of coastal development shape ecological uncertainty in port cities: 🎙️ "Contesting Coastal Futures: Dredging and its (Geo)political Ecologies in Mombasa" 🗓️ June 11, 2026 | 6:15 pm | Frankfurt 🎤 Louis Cyuzuzo (University of Manchester)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We invite you to our next lecture exploring how technologies of generative AI are increasingly penetrating the social and political world 🎙️ "Zero Shot World: On the Political Logics of Generative AI" 📍 PEG 2.G107, Frankfurt 🗓️ June 9, 2026 | 6:15 pm 🎤 Louise Amoore (Durham University)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Join us for our semester-opening lecture by Maan Barua (University of Cambridge) on “The Metropolis and Metabolic Life.” @maanbarua.bsky.social 🗓️ Tue, 14 Apr 2026, 6:15pm 📍 PEG 2.G107, Goethe University More info on our website! 🔗

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We are excited to invite you to the book & panel presentation of 'We Will Rise Again: Cultivating Just Futures with/through Speculative Imagination' in dialogue with the exhibition Multispecies Members Club. 🗓️ Sun, 12 April 2026, 2pm 📍 Museum Giersch, Goethe University More info on our website! 🔗

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📣 As part of the 21st conference of the Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie (NGU), we’re pleased to invite you to the online lecture “World is a Verb: Just Transitions and Collective Care” by Giovanna Di Chiro. 🕑 February 27 2026 · 3 PM 📌 Join us on Zoom

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📣 Jan Gilles on Resocialising the Carbon Cycle 📣 We're excited to invite you to a talk by Jan Gilles on the carbon cycle and the promissory technology of carbon removal. 🕑When: 5 Feb 2026, 2:15pm 🗺️Where: Seminarhaus, room 0.106, Campus Westend Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

And on Tuesday, they will be giving a lecture on environmental grief in Mexico as part of our lecture series on more-than-human resistance.

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📣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-...

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📣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-...

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📣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

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

📣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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

📣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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📣 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.” (1/4⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📣 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)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌊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)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

📌 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).

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

📢 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) ⤵️

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

📌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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

📢 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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

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).

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

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).

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

📢 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/] 📝🔍

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

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⤵️)

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Information on the interesting lectures!

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

@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 ⤵️

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

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...

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

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. ⬇️

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

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!

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

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

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Fixing Futures RTG @fixingfutures.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

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!

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