Katrin Klingan is a literary scholar, curator, and producer of art and cultural projects. From 2003 to 2010 she was the artistic director of relations, an international art and cultural program initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, where she curated and produced projects in the fields of the visual arts, theatre, documentary film, television, contemporary history, architecture, and radio. Katrin Klingan was previously programming dramaturge at Wiener Festwochen. As head of the Department of Literature and Humanities at Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2011, she was curator for the Anthropocene Project (2013-14), the four-year-program 100 Years of Now and the current program The New Alphabet. Her recent projects at HKW include Dangerous Conjunctures: Resituating Balibar/Wallerstein‘s “Race, Nation, Class” (2018) and the research endeavor The Technosphere Project 2015-19. Together with Christoph Rosol, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she is heading the Anthropocene Curriculum since 2013 with its current project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River (2018-19).