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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.

News
  • May 2025

Thomas Widlok Awarded Leo Spitzer Prize for Academic Excellence
  • April 2025

Environmental Justice in Africa: GSSC Associate Member Dennis Agelebe’s New Book Examines Cultural and Legal Impacts
  • 28 April 2025 / 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)

GSSC Commoning Dialogues: Sharing, Commoning and Autonomy
  • 11-12 July 2025

Annual MESH Symposium 2025 | Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds
  • April 2025

Peter Dannenberg Awarded Funding for Priority Programme at the University of Cologne to Investigate the Sustainable and Crisis-Resilient Design of Supply Chains
  • 3 April 2025 / 19:00

“Pluriverse”: Voices from Around the World – Discourses for a Just Future
  • 27 - 29 March 2025

Workshop: More than Research
  • 9 April 2025 / 17:45 - 19:00 (CEST)

Public Lecture: A New Frontier of Decarbonization? Green Hydrogen in South America (Felix Dorn, University of Vienna)
  • 17 - 18 March 2025

Workshop: Human-Carnivore Co-Adaptation – Exploring Changing Behaviours, Perceptions and (Research) Practices
  • 17 March 2025 / 15:30 - 17:00 (CEST)

Sandra Kurfürst Hosts Seminar on Urban Biodiversity During “Cologne Kids’ University”
  • February 2025

University of Cologne and Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) in Bogota Embark on New Institutional Partnership
  • 8 April 2025 / 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)

GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change – An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South
  • 17 - 18 February 2025

José Augusto Pádua Joins Seminar on “Regionalizing the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Conversation between the Global South and North” at University of Bielefeld
  • 2025 - 2029

DFG Approves New Project on Rangeland Degradation in Namibia
  • January 2025

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher in VolkswagenStiftung Project “Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power”
  • 2025

DAAD-Project “DiaMiGo II – Dialogue on Migration Governance in the Euro-Mediterranean Region – 2025-2026” Between University of Cologne and American University in Cairo Approved for Funding
  • December 2024

Project on “Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power“ Approved for Funding by Volkswagen Foundation
  • 28 November / 16:00

Talk: Minor Epic: Reflections on Displacement, World-Making, and the Possibility of a Different Anthropoetry (Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota)
  • 3 December 2024 / 18:00 -20:00

MESH Hybrid Public Roundtable Discussion | A Covenant for the Earth: An Introduction to Islam and Ecology
  • November 2024

Nsah Mala Named Chairperson of Newly Created Mbessa Kingdom Indigenous Commission for Future Generations and Sustainability in Cameroon and Africa
  • November 2024

Luregn Lenggenhager Awarded SNSF Starting Grant: Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change
  • November 2024

Fenny Nakanyete Completes University of Cologne & UNAM Cotutelle PhD
  • 22 August 2024

José Augusto Pádua Joins Panel at World Congress of Environmental History Chaired by Claudia Leal
  • October 2024

UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub Cologne Officially Launched at MESH Symposium
  • 24 - 27 October 2024

SAPP Member Sandra Kurfürst Co-Organizes Social Sciences Session at Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium
  • October 2024

MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian
  • 15 November 2024

Workshop: Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation – Reflections on Research With the Gwich’in of Canada’s North
  • 28-29 January 2024

Call for Abstracts: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies
  • 24 October 2024 / 17:45-19:15

MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz
  • 14-19 October 2024

EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing

Conferences
  • 11-12 July 2025

Annual MESH Symposium 2025 | Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds
  • 22 August 2024

José Augusto Pádua Joins Panel at World Congress of Environmental History Chaired by Claudia Leal
  • October 2024

UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub Cologne Officially Launched at MESH Symposium
  • 24 - 27 October 2024

SAPP Member Sandra Kurfürst Co-Organizes Social Sciences Session at Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium
  • September 2024

Call for Panels: ECAS 2025
  • August 2024

SAPP Member Claudia Leal Elected President of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations
  • November 2024

MESH Researcher Mars Briones Awarded Place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on “Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet”
  • 23 - 25 July 2024

Sandra Kurfürst Joins Roundtable at EuroSEAS 2024 on “The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia – Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities”
  • 17-19 October 2024

Annual MESH Symposium 2024: Multispecies Conviviality
  • 5 June 2024

SAPP Partner Institution Aga Khan University Hosts Webinar on “Partnerships and Innovations for Land and Climate Resilience”
  • 25 - 29 November 2024

Call for Applications: Pathways Autumn School – Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet
  • 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
  • 9 April 2025 / 17:45 - 19:00 (CEST)

Public Lecture: A New Frontier of Decarbonization? Green Hydrogen in South America (Felix Dorn, University of Vienna)
  • 8 April 2025 / 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)

GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change – An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South
  • 28 November / 16:00

Talk: Minor Epic: Reflections on Displacement, World-Making, and the Possibility of a Different Anthropoetry (Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota)
  • 3 December 2024 / 18:00 -20:00

MESH Hybrid Public Roundtable Discussion | A Covenant for the Earth: An Introduction to Islam and Ecology
  • 24 October 2024 / 17:45-19:15

MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz
  • 6 November 2024 / 17:45 (CET)

GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University)
  • 9 December 2024 / 18:00

Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito
  • 10 October 2024

GSSC Public Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World
  • 23 July 2024

GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Environmental Resilience – Decoding Ancient Rozvi Wisdom on Mountain Ecosystems as Disaster Management Solutions
  • 23 - 25 July 2024

Sandra Kurfürst Joins Roundtable at EuroSEAS 2024 on “The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia – Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities”
  • May - July 2024

Final Installment of GSSC Citizen Science Event Series on Textile Industry and Global Supply Chains
  • 26 June 2024

Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Political Identity
  • 4 July 2024 / 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)

GSSC Public Lecture: Animals and Global Racial Capitalism in an Age of Misanthropy – Juno Salazar Parreñas
  • 24 April 2024

Katajun Amirpur Joins Panel Discussion on Women’s Rights in Iran
  • 4 June 2024 / 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)

GSSC & MESH Seminar: Sublime Landscape, Carbon Sink and Marginal Environment: Approaching Wetlands in Culture-literature and Anthropology with Nsah Mala and Franz Krause
  • 15 May 2024 / 18:30 (CEST)

Katajun Amirpur and Michaela Pelican Join Discussion on “Cancel Culture at the University of Cologne” Against the Backdrop of the Discussion Surrounding the Albertus Magnus Professorship 2024
  • 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?

Workshops
  • 28 April 2025 / 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)

GSSC Commoning Dialogues: Sharing, Commoning and Autonomy
  • 27 - 29 March 2025

Workshop: More than Research
  • 17 - 18 March 2025

Workshop: Human-Carnivore Co-Adaptation – Exploring Changing Behaviours, Perceptions and (Research) Practices
  • 17 March 2025 / 15:30 - 17:00 (CEST)

Sandra Kurfürst Hosts Seminar on Urban Biodiversity During “Cologne Kids’ University”
  • 17 - 18 February 2025

José Augusto Pádua Joins Seminar on “Regionalizing the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Conversation between the Global South and North” at University of Bielefeld
  • 3 December 2024 / 18:00 -20:00

MESH Hybrid Public Roundtable Discussion | A Covenant for the Earth: An Introduction to Islam and Ecology
  • 15 November 2024

Workshop: Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation – Reflections on Research With the Gwich’in of Canada’s North
  • 28-29 January 2024

Call for Abstracts: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies
  • 14-19 October 2024

EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing
  • 28 August 2024 / 15:30 - 17:00 (CEST)

Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
  • 5 June 2024

SAPP Partner Institution Aga Khan University Hosts Webinar on “Partnerships and Innovations for Land and Climate Resilience”
  • 14 May 2024

Emmanuel Sulle Co-Directs Field School at Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre
  • 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
  • 3 April 2025 / 19:00

“Pluriverse”: Voices from Around the World – Discourses for a Just Future
  • September 2024

In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah Mala
  • 2024

Exhibition: WE ARE NOT CARPETS
  • March 2024 - February 2025

CRC Future Rural Africa and ERC Project Rewilding the Anthropocene Jointly Contribute to Exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum
  • May 2024

Native Forest Riverside Ecosystems of the La Plata River: Digital Gallery at the Nexus of Science, Activism and Indigeneity
  • 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
  • May 2025

Thomas Widlok Awarded Leo Spitzer Prize for Academic Excellence
  • April 2025

Environmental Justice in Africa: GSSC Associate Member Dennis Agelebe’s New Book Examines Cultural and Legal Impacts
  • April 2025

Peter Dannenberg Awarded Funding for Priority Programme at the University of Cologne to Investigate the Sustainable and Crisis-Resilient Design of Supply Chains
  • February 2025

University of Cologne and Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) in Bogota Embark on New Institutional Partnership
  • 2025 - 2029

DFG Approves New Project on Rangeland Degradation in Namibia
  • January 2025

Vacancy: Postdoctoral Researcher in VolkswagenStiftung Project “Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power”
  • 2025

DAAD-Project “DiaMiGo II – Dialogue on Migration Governance in the Euro-Mediterranean Region – 2025-2026” Between University of Cologne and American University in Cairo Approved for Funding
  • December 2024

Project on “Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power“ Approved for Funding by Volkswagen Foundation
  • November 2024

Nsah Mala Named Chairperson of Newly Created Mbessa Kingdom Indigenous Commission for Future Generations and Sustainability in Cameroon and Africa
  • November 2024

Luregn Lenggenhager Awarded SNSF Starting Grant: Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change
  • November 2024

Fenny Nakanyete Completes University of Cologne & UNAM Cotutelle PhD
  • October 2024

UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Hub Cologne Officially Launched at MESH Symposium
  • October 2024

MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian
  • September 2024

In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah Mala
  • 2024

SAPP Members Pujo Semedi and Michaela Haug Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary of Tandem Research Training Program
  • October 2024

New Publication: Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania
  • October 2024

Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt Fellow
  • September 2024

Clemens Greiner Starts Visiting Professorship at University of Vienna
  • September 2024

Michael Bollig Meets With University of Cologne New York Office to Discuss Future Collaboration
  • August 2024

SAPP Member Claudia Leal Elected President of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations
  • August 2024

Clemens Greiner and Britta Klagge Investigate Ancillary Infrastructure in Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects and Provide Detailed Policy Recommenations in Recently Published Article
  • 13 August 2024

“Multispecies Encounters in Conservation Landscapes in Southern Africa”: Recently Published Special Issue of Anthropology Southern Africa Edited by Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig
  • 13 August 2024

Interview: Future Rural Africa Researcher Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete Completes dual PhD Programme on the Impact of Commercialisation of Forest Products on Indigenous Communities in Namibia
  • July 2024

New Publication: Land Use – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
  • May 2024

Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Delegation Travels to Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá to Discuss Cooperation Regarding Running Cluster Of Excellence Application
  • May 2024

Native Forest Riverside Ecosystems of the La Plata River: Digital Gallery at the Nexus of Science, Activism and Indigeneity
  • June 2024

Wawili Toolbox: Mtu ni Watu – Disclosing Hidden Stories of Fieldwork
  • June 2024

The Southern Buffalo Fence: A Short Film By Wisse van Engelen
  • 14 May 2024

Emmanuel Sulle Co-Directs Field School at Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre
  • 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
  • 27 - 29 March 2025

Workshop: More than Research

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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