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https://cure.uni-saarland.de/app/uploads/2026/10/Etkind.jpg1086724Alexander Etkind defended his PhD in Russian cultural history in Helsinki (1998) and has supervised more than thirty PhD students in Europe. He has been a professor at the Central European University in Vienna, where he founded the Open Society Hub for Politics of Anthropocene (2022–2026); at the European University Institute at Florence (2013–2022); and at Cambridge University, where he was also a fellow of King’s College (2004–2013). He is the author of many books on cultural and intellectual history, most recently Nature’s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021) and Russia Against Modernity (Polity Press, 2023, now available in ten languages, including German and Ukrainian). His current interests are climate politics, comparative history of empires, colonialism and decolonization in Eastern Europe, and critical theory of revanchism.