MAXIMILIAN GREGOR HEPACH
is post-doctoral researcher and project coordinator of Weather Reports: Wind as Media, Model, Experience. He recently defended his PhD in Geography at the University of Cambridge titled “Is climate real? A phenomenological approach to climate and its changes”. His current research focuses on the phenomenology of (elemental) media. Email. GitHub.
Areas of specialisation
phenomenology, media theory, cultural geography
Background
- PhD in Geography, University of Cambridge (2018-)
- MA in Philosophy, University of Freiburg (2017)
- BA in Philosophy, University of Vienna (2015)
Select publications
2022
“Ephemeral climates: Plato's geographic myths and the phenomenological nature of climate and its changes”, in: Journal of Historical Geography.
2021
“Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography”, in: Progress in Human Geography.
“Is climate real?”, in: The Philosopher.
2017
“A Phenomenology of Weather and Qi”, in: Journal of Japanese Philosophy.
Scholarships
- Cambridge European Scholarship (2018-2022)
- Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship (2018-2022)
Teaching
Department of Arts and Media, University of Potsdam
BA European Media Studies (2022-)
- What is a phenomenon? Introduction to phenomenology (of media) (2022-23)
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
MPhil Anthropocene Studies seminars (2020-22)
- What changes with climate change? Indigenous, feminist, and phenomenological approaches to climate(-change) (2021-22)
- Getting a feel for the Anthropocene: on technology and shame (2020-21)
Geography undergraduate supervisions (2019-2020)
- Living with Global Change (2020)
- Understanding Cultural Geographies (2020)
- Environmental Knowledges & the Politics of Expertise (2019)
Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Teaching assistant (2017-2018)
- Logical and Critical Reasoning (2018)
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (2017)
Organised panels at
- American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (New York, 2022)
- German Society for Media Studies (Innsbruck, 2021)
Presented at
- Doctoral Workshop of the German Society for Phenomenological Research (Jena, 2021)
- Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies (Innsbruck, 2021)
- 25. Congress of the German Philosophical Society (Nürnberg, 2021)
- Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (London, 2021)
- ASLE (Online, 2021)
- Uncommon Senses III (Montreal/Online, 2021)
- American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (Online, 2021)
- Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Vancouver, 2019)
- German Geographers Congress (Kiel, 2019)
- Atmospheres of Shared Emotion Workshop (Vienna, 2019)
- Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference (Warwick, 2018)
- Cultural Histories of Air and Illness Conference (Warwick, 2018)
- Graduate Conference of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum (Citta di Castello, 2017)
- European Network of Japanese Philosophy Conference (Brussels, 2016)
- East-West Philosophers’ Conference (Honolulu, 2016)
- Congress of the Austrian Philosophical Society (Innsbruck, 2015)
- Phenomenology and Health Conference (Oxford, 2015)
- Modern European Philosophy and its Politics Conference (London, 2013)
- XXIII. World Congress of Philosophy (Athens, 2013)