Film Screening with SAPP Members Dan Smyer Yü, Kate Rigby and Franz Krause: Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau
Film Screening with SAPP Members Dan Smyer Yü, Kate Rigby and Franz Krause: Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau Ensouling the Mountain, directed by “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Dan Smyer Yü, chronicles a pilgrimage to Mt. Amne Machen (Amne Machin) in Qinghai Province, China, a sacred site for Tibetan communities. […]
MESH Featured in Cologne University Magazine: “Why We Are Destroying Our Own Existence – With Open Eyes”
MESH Featured in Cologne University Magazine: “Why We Are Destroying Our Own Existence – With Open Eyes” The research hub “Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities” (MESH) was featured in the latest edition of the Cologne University Magazine. Kate Rigby, director of MESH and Roman Bartosch, co-director of MESH are both members of the research […]
SAPP Member Jens Beckert Presents New Book “Verkaufte Zukunft” in Various Cities Across Germany
SAPP Member Jens Beckert Presents New Book “Verkaufte Zukunft” in Various Cities Across Germany For decades, we’ve known about global warming and its dangers, yet global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. According to Jens Beckert, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) and member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet […]
CRC-TRR 228 “Future Rural Africa’s” Exhibition aboard the “MS Wissenschaft”
The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Future Rural Africa” is one of several exhibitors on the “MS Wissenschaft”, a floating science centre on a former transportation ship measuring over a hundred meters in length, with interactive exhibits on socially relevant topics. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with various partner institutions including […]
B/OR/DER ST/OR/IES Exhibition at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne
B/OR/DER ST/OR/IES consists of an exhibition and a homepage. The exhibition intervention will take place from 25 May to 25 August 2023 in the permanent exhibition of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. Five stations inform about different aspects such as colonialism, the closed-door policy of Europe, discrimination – but also about criticism of borders and resistance […]
Exhibition: Black Germany 1880-1945
Exhibition30 November – 18 December 2017 Black Germany 1880-1945 The exhibition Black Germany employs a number of biographies, accompanied by photographic images, in order to look at the development of a Black Diaspora in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945. In doing so, it provides insights into the routes and reasons that brought African […]
