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. […]
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
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 The Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities has commenced its work at the beginning of the summer semester 2024. It evaluates the ethical validity of future […]
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
Humans Can Increase Biodiversity: Archaeologists from MESH and University of Tübingen Study the Role of the Evolving Human Niche in Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity Dynamics in Latest Publication Cultural diversity is likely to have an overall positive effect on the biodiversity of ecosystems. The homogenization of human life forms may therefore be regarded as an […]
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 […]
Interview with SAPP Member Claudia Leal: Minha Historia Ambiental – Conversas con Historiadores Ambientais
Interview with SAPP Member Claudia Leal: Minha Historia Ambiental – Conversas con Historiadores Ambientais “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Claudia Leal is an associate professor in the department of history at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and member of the University of Cologne’s Global Faculty. She was recently featured in […]
Book Announcement: Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters by SAPP Member Dan Smyer Yü to be Published Soon
Book Announcement: Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters by SAPP Member Dan Smyer Yü to be Published Soon “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Dan Smyer Yü and Jelle J.P. Wouters co-edited a book on “Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters” that is set to be published in the summer of 2024 as part of a […]
Interview: SAPP member Frauke Kraas Joins German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Trip to Vietnam and Thailand
Interview: SAPP member Frauke Kraas Joins German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Trip to Vietnam and Thailand. In January 2024, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil travelled to Vietnam and Thailand. “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Professor Frauke Kraas from the UoC’s Institute of Geography accompanied them […]
Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) Project by SAPP Member Javier Revilla Diez Receives Funding for Third Phase by German Research Fundation (DFG)
Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) Project by SAPP Member Javier Revilla Diez Receives Funding for Third Phase by German Research Fundation (DFG) The Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) aims to promote research on topics such as long-term welfare dynamics, rural-urban and urban-rural migration, agricultural transformation, intergenerational aspects of households, and the long-term impacts […]
Paradise Lost: A Documentary by Claudia Leal and Pablo Mejila Trujillo
Claudia Leal, member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) teamed up with director Pablo Mejila Trujillo to tell the story of “studying the jungle in a country at war”: In 2002, after the kidnapping of Akisato Nishimura, Japanese primatologists and Colombian biologists were forced to abandon one of Latin America’s most […]
Video: Kate Rigby featured in “Spotlight” Series by Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
This episode of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s “Spotlight” video-series features Kate Rigby, member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP), Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne and director of MESH. In the episode, Prof. Rigby talks about her many contributions to environmental humanities […]
