It was a pleasure, and frankly also quite an honor, to deliver alongside leading chemists the only keynote lecture by a non-chemist at this big international event at Mülheim//Ruhr on May 5 2025.
These events show how important it is for petromodernity research from the cultural sciences to get in touch and to keep contact to the practitioners of chemistry innovation.
It is important for both sides, since it is us to deliver topics and keywords that chemists interact with their work without noticing, and that otherwise might have not be mentioned at such conferences such as »Anthropocene«, »petromodernity«, »chemical geography«, »chemical cultural theory«, »Chemiewende«, »Geoanthropology«…
To adjust a famous quote: Chemists are the ones that are changing the world in different ways, but it will still take something like philosophers to interpret.