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

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 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

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

29 January 2016

Workshop: Urban Political Ecology: Reviewing the Linkages in the Debates for the Global South and North

Exhibitions

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

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

Excursions

June 6, 2023

GSSC Excursion – Rhenish Lignite Mining Area