Author Biography

Anna Nübling is a postdoctoral researcher at global dis:connect. She studied History and Art History at the University of Heidelberg and pursued her PhD as a member of the DFG research training group Globalization and Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. In 2022, she defended her doctoral thesis, which treated time capsules in high modernity and examined what philosophy of history such capsules imply. In addition to philosophy of history (especially notions of evolution and progress), her research interests include the history of preservation and the idea of transmission and legacy, the history of notions of the global as well as pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. They all merge in her current research project about the search for extraterrestrials.