Goethe Institut Athens - Ecological Translation

April 28, 2026

Symposium, exhibition and Lumi screening at Goethe-Institut Athen 28 & 29 April 2026

Ecological Translation brings together experts from across law, science, technology, policy, and art, to develop the implications of digital conservationist strategies. What do scientists mean when they argue that we can directly translate the radical alterity of bats and whales into the idiom of English syntax? No single area of expertise can address the complexity of climate change independently. Ecological Translation develops an interdisciplinary symposium and exhibition to facilitate public engagement with, and understanding of, the opportunities and threats articulated by new technological and scientific approaches to climate change. The term ‘ecological translation’ refers both to the imagined possibility of translating between humans and nonhuman life; but also to the notion of ‘ecology’ that emerges through correspondence of different disciplinary imaginations of nature and the place of humans therein.

Participans: Bernhard Siegert, Armen Avanessian, Alexander Damianos, Daphne Dragona, Adriaan Eeckels, Orit Halpern, Katerina Gregos, Iwona Janicka, Jussi Parikka, Luke Rendell, Max Ritts, Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Pratyusha Sharma, Tiziana Terranova, Yvonne Volkart, Joanna Zylinska, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Kyriaki Goni, Nona Inescu, Agata Ingarden, Bill Kouligas, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Zoë Paul, Jenna Sutela, Elahe Rajabiani, Eleni Riga, Periklis Terlixidis, Katerina Tzortzatou