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Activities

Below you can find an overview of the various activities utilized by our initiative to mobilize the full potential of the environmental humanities and social sciences in research on Global Environmental Change.

Conferences
  • 25 - 29 November 2024

Call for Applications: Pathways Autumn School
  • 19-21 March 2024

SAPP Member Ruth Hall Joins Opening Plenary of International Conference on Global Land Grabbing in Bogotá (Full Video)
  • 26 – 28 October 2023

MESH Symposium 2023 | Decolonial Cultural Ecologies
  • May 31 - June 3, 2023

ECAS 9 (European Conference of African Studies) “African Futures”
  • 21 October 2021

MESH Inaugural Symposium: Transformative Research for a World of Wounds
  • 11 - 12 December 2015

Conference: Europe and its Colonial Legacy- Postcolonial Perspectives on Europe

Public Lectures
  • 23 May / 18:30 (EST)

Science, Society and Sustainability – Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap: University of Cologne New York Office Hosts Panel Discussion Featuring Rector Joybrato Mukherjee, Michael Gerrard and Miranda Massie
  • 6 May 2024 / 16:00 - 17:30

CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa Public Lecture Series with Regina Birner: Digital Innovations for Smallholder Farming in Africa – Friends or Foes of Sustainability Transitions?
  • Summer Term 2024

Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Co-Organizes Event Series on Fair Trade and Global Supply Chains in Textile Industry
  • 4 April 2024

Interview with SAPP Member Claudia Leal: Minha Historia Ambiental – Conversas con Historiadores Ambientais
  • 16 April 2024 / 12:00 - 13:00

GSSC Seminar Series: Sweetening Cocoa – An Ethnography of Subnational Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon. With Anke Kaulard
  • 8 April 2024 / 11:00 - 12:30

GSSC Seminar Series: Rights of Nature in Ecuador – A Blueprint for Environmental Justice? With Dirk Hanschel
  • 9 April 2024 / 12:00 - 13:00

MESH Green Shoots: A Kincentric Lifeworld | Entangled Landscape and Identity in Cherangany Hills, Kenya
  • 1 February 2023 / 18:45 - 19:15 (CET)

MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Frank Matose
  • 14 December 2023 / 17:45 - 19:15 (CET)

MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Pavan Malreddy
  • 23 November 2023 / 8:30 (CET)

Grow at Home, Buy Local: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains in Northern Vietnam. Live stream of “Sharing a Planet in Peril” member Sandra Kurfürst’s Lecture at the University of Malaysia
  • 7 September 2023 / 11:30

Kate Rigby at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) Symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”
  • June 22, 2023

MESH Research Fruits – Public Lecture: Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene | Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum
  • 5 July 2023

GSSC Public Lecture: Friction in the moorlands of the Colombian Andes: A history of national parks and territorial state formation
  • 15 August 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00

GSSC Seminar Series: Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?
  • 12 July 2023 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Taming the Residual – Animals, Workers, and Cities in India 
  • 3 July 2023 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms
  • 6 June 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00

GSSC Seminar Series: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the EarthGSSC Seminar Series:
  • 13 January 2023

GSSC Public Lecture: Expanding the concept and practice of protected areas? A Brazilian take on convivial conservation
  • 19 January 2023 / 17:45

MESH Grassroots – Public Lecture: Building BRIDGES | Sustainability Science Coalition
  • 31 January 2023 / 12:00 - 13:00

GSSC Seminar Series: Book launch “Bosque Nativo”
  • 19 October 2022 / 17:45 - 19:15

Book Launch: Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation
  • 12 January 2022

GSSC Focus – Panel discussion: Beyond the Great Impasse: Varied Perspectives on Aggravating Environmental Crises Despite Growing Awareness
  • 27 January 2022 / 18:00

GSSC: Focus Global South – Ethno-graphic Stories of Rivers, Climate and Change: A Discussion with Comic Artists from Around the WorldGSSC: Focus Global South –
  • 10 April 2019 / 18:00

GSSC Focus Gloabal South: Ausbeutung trotz Zertifizierung? – Erfahrungen aus dem Kakaosektor
  • 24 January 2017 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization
  • 29 June 2016 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Crisis Conservation -Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature 
  • 13 January 2016 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Urban Gardening in Southeast Asia – Pre-/Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Ideas of Urbanism   
  • 19 November 2014 / 17:45 - 19:15

GSSC Public Lecture: Conserving Urban Greens in Indian Cities – Opportunities and Challenges

Workshops
  • 16 - 17 May 2024

Workshop: Infrastructures and their (Re-)Construction and Decays: Contesting Temporalities in the Global South
  • 16 - 17 May 2024

Workshop: Frontier Entaglements in Laos with SAPP Members Sandra Kurfürst and Dan Smyer Yü
  • 20 February 2024

Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) Members Come Together for Project Retreat in Cologne
  • 5 February 2024

Interdisciplinary Workshop – Rewilding Species, Landscapes, Society: Dialogues across the Humanities, the Social and the Natural Sciences
  • 15 - 17 June 2023

Workshop: Sustainability and Resilience in Agri-Food Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises
  • 7 September 2023 / 11:30

Kate Rigby at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) Symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”
  • July 3rd and 4th 2023

Workshop Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
  • September 28-29, 2023

Hybrid Workshop: Fables of Fulfillment | The Material Horse in the Context of Interspecies Literacy
  • 3 - 4 July 2023

Workshop: Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
  • 6 December 2022 / 12:00 - 13:00

MESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series: Work-in-Progress Seminar – Zooming out | Peripheral Places and the Planetary Novel in Latin AmericaMESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series:
  • December 15-17 2022

Network retreat at Steinfeld Abbey
  • 12 - 16 September 2022

A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology
  • 15 - 17 June 2022

Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop

Exhibitions
  • 14 May 2024 / 18:00 (CEST)

Film Screening with SAPP Members Dan Smyer Yü, Kate Rigby and Franz Krause: Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau
  • 9 April 2024

MESH Featured in Cologne University Magazine: “Why We Are Destroying Our Own Existence – With Open Eyes”
  • 14 March 2024

SAPP Member Jens Beckert Presents New Book “Verkaufte Zukunft” in Various Cities Across Germany
  • June 2023

CRC-TRR 228 “Future Rural Africa’s” Exhibition aboard the “MS Wissenschaft”
  • 25 May - 25 August 2023

B/OR/DER ST/OR/IES Exhibition at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne
  • 30 November - 18 December 2017

Exhibition: Black Germany 1880-1945

Miscellaneous
  • 14 May 2024 / 18:00 (CEST)

Film Screening with SAPP Members Dan Smyer Yü, Kate Rigby and Franz Krause: Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau
  • 29 April 2024

SAPP Members Sandra Kurfürst and Thomas Widlok are Constituting Members of the Ethics Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne
  • 10 April 2024

Humans Can Increase Biodiversity: Archaeologists from MESH Research Hub and University of Tübingen Examine the Role of the Evolving Human Niche in Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity Dynamics in Latest Publication
  • 9 April 2024

MESH Featured in Cologne University Magazine: “Why We Are Destroying Our Own Existence – With Open Eyes”
  • 4 April 2024

Interview with SAPP Member Claudia Leal: Minha Historia Ambiental – Conversas con Historiadores Ambientais
  • 20 March 2024

Book Announcement: Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters by SAPP Member Dan Smyer Yü to be Published Soon
  • 25 March 2024

Interview: SAPP member Frauke Kraas Joins German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Trip to Vietnam and Thailand
  • 1 March 2024

Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) Project by SAPP Member Javier Revilla Diez Receives Funding for Third Phase by German Research Fundation (DFG)
  • 27 February 2024

Paradise Lost: A Documentary by Claudia Leal and Pablo Mejila Trujillo
  • 27 November 2023

Video: Kate Rigby featured in “Spotlight” Series by Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
  • 12 December 2023

Video: SAPP Member Ruth Hall on the Dynamics of Land Use
  • 19 December 2023

Publication by SAPP Member Michael Bollig Among Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
  • 24 October 2023

GSSC Focus Global South: „Decoloniality and Scientific Freedom: Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?”
  • 16.10.2023

Publication: Making Heterogeneous Infrastructure Futures In And Beyond The Global South
  • August 2023

Four SAPP Members featured in project mapping of “Bridges: a humanities-led UNESCO coalition for sustainability”
  • 6.09.2023

Publication: Environmental Anthropology by Michael Bollig and Franz Krause
  • June 2023

Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby

Excursions
  • June 6, 2023

GSSC Excursion – Rhenish Lignite Mining Area

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Noah Kahindi

Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Classen-Kappelmann-Straße 24
50931 Cologne, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)221 47076657

E-mail: noah.kahindi@uni-koeln.de