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Lena Schlegel

Lena Schlegel, MA

Doctoral candidate

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Lena Schlegel holds a BA in political science and sociology and an MA in peace studies and international relations from the University of Tübingen. For her master’s thesis on exploring the implications of posthumanist theory and ethics for energy transitions, she received the university’s sustainability award. Lena’s research is situated at the interface of human geography, environmental sociology, anthropology, and ethics, with a focus on feminist new materialisms, relationality, and care.

She has previously worked on disaster management and ethics of human-machine interactions at the International Center for Ethics (IZEW) in Tübingen and for the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUCLOH) at LMU Munich. Her teaching portfolio covers topics from global health and environmental governance to ecological emotions.

In her doctoral project, funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Lena explores societal responses to climate change with a focus on wildfires in southeast Australia. As a visiting researcher at the University of Melbourne in 2022–23, she explored “conflicts of care for the environment” in the aftermath of the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires in East Gippsland. Lena is also an avid photographer and uses her passion to combine science, art, and activism in raising awareness for environmental projects.

Publications:

  • with Nathaniel Otjen, Shannon Lambert, Hannah Della Bosca, and Blanche Verlie. “Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires.” Edge Effects, 6 June 2023, https://edgeeffects.net/multispecies-grief-megafires/.
  • “Photography as an ‘Art of Noticing’ Climate Loss in More-than-Human Relationships of Care.” SEI Magazine, no. 7 (2022–23): 16–21. https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-environment-institute/publications/reports/usyd_sei-magazine_mar-2023.pdf.
  • “Another World Was Possible: How Sociological Imagination Could Have Helped Solve the Climate Crisis.” In The 2051 Munich Climate Conference: Future Visions of Climate Change, edited by Benno Heisel, Theresa Spielman, Andreas Wehrl, and Christina Wehrl, 18–25. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839463840-004.
  • “Between Climates of Fear and Blind Optimism: The Affective Role of Emotions for Climate (In)Action.” Geographica Helvetica 77, no. 4 (2022): 421–31. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-421-2022.
  • with Leonie N. Bossert. “Anthropozentrismus (in) der Krise: Warum Probleme nicht mit der Denkweise gelöst werden können, die sie auch hervorgerufen hat [Anthropocentrism in Crisis: Why Problems Cannot Be Solved with the Same Mindset That Created Them].” GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 31, no. 1 (2022): 14–18. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.1.5.
  • with Leonie N. Bossert. “Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien: Warum Tierrechte und Naturschutz auch den Menschen nutzen [Environmental Ethics on Pandemics: Why Even Humans Can Benefit from Animal Rights and Nature Conservation].” GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 30, no. 2 (2021): 77–81. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.2.4.