Liza Bauer

Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking

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Liza B. Bauer is the Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking and is currently researching the different forces and powers that living, non-living, and technological actors exert on the planet and society. She also leads the interdisciplinary research section " Human-Animal Studies " together with her colleague Theresa Braun and has been bringing various animal issues to the public as part of event series since 2018. In May 2022, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis, which deals with the representation of so-called livestock animals in literature and their cultural and ethical functions. An updated version of the work has been published in August, 2024, under the title Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species by Palgrave Macmillan. In February 2024, an article she co-authored with Nora Castle on the fictional representation of animals that have been enabled to speak human language through biotechnology has been published. In addition to several other cultural and literary essays, one of her published works is a contribution to Simone Horstmann's open access anthology Interspezies Lernen , where she develops guidelines for a literature course that is sensitive to animals. Her master's thesis, which deals with the representation of animals in the poetry of William Blake, was published in 2019 by Marburger Büchner Verlag.

2025. “Asking Animal Questions: Literary Animal Studies and the Polycrisis”, in: Pfalzgraf, M., Tabouratzidis, A. S., and Nünning, A. (eds.) New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies , REAL. Narr Francke Attempto, 2025, pp. 245-270.
2025. Leggewie, C., Hanusch, F., Bauer, L.B.: "Differenz verstehen: Warum Vielfalt politischer Zündstoff ist" in: Kulturwandel: Transformation als kulturelle Aufgabe. politische ökologie, 02: 24-31.
2025. “[Review] Don’t Look Away: On the Restorative Forces of Writing in a Scattered World of Slaughter. Hayley Singer’s Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead . Upswell, 2023, 180pp, Pb, ISBN; 978-0-6455369-9-7.”, Animal Studies Journal 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.14453/asj.1563
2024. Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species . London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
2024. Bauer, L.B., und N. Castle: "Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête ”, in: Castle, N., and Champion, G. (eds.) Animals and Science Fiction . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
2024. Knowing Animals Podcast. Episode 232: Postanimal Companion Species with Liza Bauer. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bFnXaOH1vWz8IJx3ule64?si=alRDCYzCSRKDcPOmzPl_lg&nd=1&dlsi=7aa1946132634ec0
2023. Josh Milburn: Episode 209 - Teaching Literary Animal Studies with Liza Bauer. [Audio-Podcast]. In: Knowing Animals . https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-209-teaching-literary-animal-studies-with-liza-bauer
2022. "Reading to Stretch the Imagination: Exploring ‘Livestock’ Animal Representations in Literary Thought Experiments." In: Andreas Hübner (ed.), Multispecies Futures: New Approaches to Teaching Human-Animal Studies . Berlin: Neofelis, 95-114. https://neofelis-verlag.de/media/pdf/be/e8/42/OA_9783958084025.pdf
Hanusch et al. 2022. "Der Wald als Mitakteur? Das Fallbeispiel einer planetaren PolitikPlanetare Waldpolitik." Politische Vierteljahresschrift: D a s Planetarische Politisch(e) Denken 63, 703–728 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-022-00433-3 .
2021. "Mit anderen Tieren leben. Lernen an der Schnittstelle zwischen fiktiven Tiertexten, lebendigen Tieren und tierethischen Bestrebungen." In: Simone Horstmann (ed.): Interspezies Lernen: Grundlinien interdisziplinärer Tierschutz- und Tierrechtsbildung. Bielefeld: Transcript.
2021. “Eating Kin or Making Kin? Farm Animal Representations in Twenty-First Century Fiction”, in Nünning, A., and Scherr, A. (eds.) Literature & Literary Studies in the 21 ^st Century: Cultural Concerns – Concepts – Case Studies. Trier: WVT.
2021. "'Four Legs in the Evening': Postanimal Narration in Adam Roberts’ B ête (2014)." SubStance 50.3: 53-73.
2021. "Introduction: Ecocriticism and Narrative Form." SubStance 50 (3): 3-13.
2020. "On Stories of Life, Death, and Resilience: Human-Animal Bonds for a Multispecies Becoming-With." KULT_online , no. 6 (April).
https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2020.1019
2020. "Of Animal Love and Abuse: Exploring Ambivalent Human-Animal Relationships in Tiger King (2020) during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture #9. https://www.on-culture.org/journal/perspectives/animal-love-abuse/
2019 . Am Not I / A Fly Like Thee?’ Human-Animal Relations in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Marburg: Büchner Verlag 2019.
2019. “Living With Companions: On the Peaceful Coexistence of Humans and Other Animals”. KULT_online , no. 59 (July). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.279
2019. "Conference Report on "Forms at Work: New Formalist Approaches in Literary Studies.“ KULT_online , no. 57 (January). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.244

Clemens Finkelstein

Former Scientific Researcher at the Panel on Planetary Thinking

Clemens Finkelstein

Clemens Finkelstein is a historian of the built environment and theorist in the planetary humanities. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, a PIIRS Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and a Scientific Researcher ("Planet as Method” project) as well as Affiliated Fellow at the Panel on Planetary Thinking. His dissertation “Architectures of Vibration: Environmental Control, Seismic Colonialism, and the Frequency of Life, 1898-1928” investigates the evolutionary epistemic shift and materialized cosmologies of vibration in the transimperial entanglements of Germany and the US at the intersection of architecture and geophysics. In three parts, it assesses vibration as a modern medium defining colonial and environmental contamination, cultural imperialism, and the technoscientific coupling of human and planetary bodies that waver at the edge of global war and ecological catastrophe.

Books

Finkelstein, C., Hartl, C., Kessler, M.: Planetary Forest (eds.). Berlin: DISTANZ, 2024.

Book chapters

Finkelstein, C.: Planetary Disequilibrium (Redux), in Colomina, B., Axel, N., and Hirsch, N. (eds.): Sick Architecture . Cambridge/MA: MIT Press, 2024. [forthcoming]
Finkelstein, C.: Colonial Waves from Apia to Yap: Technoscientific Network Architectures of German Expansionism in Oceania, in Falser, M. (ed.): Para-colonial - Colonial - Post-colonial. Influences and Transactions in the Architecture of Oceania . Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. [forthcoming]
Finkelstein, C.: Vibration als Phänomenotechnik in den Umweltkonzeptionen der Moderne, in Fehrenbach, F., Isengard, L. Micheluzzi, G. & Zumbusch, C. (eds.): Wahrnehmungskräfte - Kräfte wahrnehmen: Dynamiken der Sinne in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. [forthcoming]
Finkelstein, C.: The Vibration Sense: Pallaesthesia, Sensory Substitution Design, and the Reformation of a Sixth Sense in the Early Twentieth Century, in Kettler, A., & Tullett, W. (eds.): The Routledge History of the Senses . London: Routledge, 2024. [forthcoming]
Finkelstein, C.: Seismischer Kolonialismus, Architektur und die Triangulierung der Welt. Das Geophysikalische Samoa-Observatorium in Apia (1902-1914), in Falser, M. (ed.) Deutsch-koloniale Baukulturen: Eine globale Architekturgeschichte in 100 visuellen Primärquellen . Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München, 58-61. Passau: Klinger, 2023.

Journal articles

Leggewie, C., Hanusch, F., Bauer, L., Hartl, C., Finkelstein, C.: Das Planetarische Politisch(e) Denken. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly , 63:4, 703-728, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-022-00433-3 .
Finkelstein, C.: Vibrascapes. Contact Zones and Planetary Media. koozArch , June, 2022 . https://www.koozarch.com/essays/vibrascapes.
Finkelstein, C.: Planetary Disequilibrium. e-flux Architecture. May, 2022. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture/453873/planetary-disequilibrium/.
Finkelstein, C.: Spatialising Imponderables: Vibratory Logics of Environmental Control. trans 40: Phantasma . 43-48, 2022.
Finkelstein, C.: Crafting Interiority, or the Evolutionary Objectivity of Vibrating Worlds. react/review , vol. 2: The Spirit in the Shadow . 26-56, 2022.

Interviews

Morley, M.: The Unheard Symphony of the Planet. The New York Times : 15, February 19, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/arts/seismology-raspberry-shake-earth.html.

Erik Meyer

Former Lecturer, political scientist and co-author of the Panel on Planetary Thinking

Erik Meyer

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Erik Meyer is an author, lecturer and consultant. His research and application-related projects deal with the digital transformation of politics. In 2019 he published a book in which he explores the tension between participation and platformization in comparative perspective (Campus). He compiled several online resources for the German Agency for Civic Education and in 2020 received a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Bochum), where he researched algorithmic public spheres. Before becoming a freelancer, he worked in various academic positions as a political scientist, dedicated to inter- and transdisciplinary research in digital media: He was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Essen) and at the Collaborative Research Centre “Memory Cultures” at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where he also served as Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture.

7/2020 – 11/2020

Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies ( cais.nrw ), topic: „Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2020 im Kontext der Plattformisierung politischer Kommunikation: Algorithmische Öffentlichkeit und datenbasierte Kampagnenführung“

Since 2020

Collaboration at the Panel on Planetary Thinking at the Justus Liebig University Giessen

3/2019 – 7/2019

Expert opinion on „Digital Disinformation and European elections 2019“ ( Gliederung ; © Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

10/2017 – 2/2018

Expert opinion on „ Algorithmische Öffentlichkeit: von der US Wahl 2016 zur Bundestagswahl 2017 “ ( Gliederung ; © Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

3/2017 – 6/2017

Expert opinion on „ Digital Participation “ { Executive Summary }
(Inventory of formats of political participation in Germany)

4/2015 – 4/2017

Research Assistent at the Hessen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, project #GlobalPop

5/2011 – 6/2011

Preliminary study „ US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012 & politische Kommunikation “ (Campaign organization and funding, elections mediatization)

4/2009 – 3/2011

Scientific Assistent at the Department of Political Science at the Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen

7/2008 – 3/2011

Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the JLU

2003-2008

Research Assistant for the special research area „Erinnerungskulturen“ at the JLU, subproject „ Visualisierung und Virtualisierung von Erinnerung – Geschichtspolitik in der medialen Erlebnisgesellschaft “

2000-2002

Research Assistent for the special research area „Erinnerungskulturen“ at the JLU, subproject „Erinnerungskulturen im politischen Konflikt – Geschichtspolitische Debatten im vereinten Deutschland“

1999

Research Assistent at the Department of Political Science at the JLU

1995-1998

PhD Dissertation as a scholarship-holder of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung:
Die Techno-Szene. Ein jugendkulturelles Phänomen aus sozialwissenschaftliches Perspektive.

1992

Founding member of the working group for Political, cultural and communication research in the social sciences ( SPoKK )

SoSe 2018

Guest lecturer Master Program „Master of Public Policy“ at the NRW School of Governance: Digitale Kampagnenführung

WS 2017/2018

Seminar „Wahlen in der Mediengesellschaft: Wahlkämpfe im Zeitalter von Web 2.0“ at the Institut for Sociology at the Philipps University Marburg

SoSe 2016

Guest lecturer Master Program „Master of Public Policy“ at the NRW School of Governance: Praktiken der Politik „Digitales Informationsmanagement“

WS 2014/2015

Postgraduate university course in „Politische Kommunikation“ at the Donau-Universität Krems: Neue Formen der politischen Kommunikation durch das Internet

Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

WS 2010/2011

Lecture Mediendemokratie

Proseminar Modernes Regieren