MESH Research Fruits – Public Lecture: Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene | Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum
MESH Research Fruits Public Lecture: Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene | Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University, Sydney) andThom van Dooren (University of Sydney) June 22, 2023 | 17.45 – 19.15 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OGDue to the library’s seating capacity, please register via e-mail: smaasse3uni-koeln.de […]
Workshop Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Organized by GSSC affiliate Ognien Kojanic, this workshop of the Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA) within the EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) turned Cologne’s Alte Feuerwache, a popular activist-cultural center, into a 2-day laboratory for dissecting the complex relationship between capitalism, fascism and the environment. The contributions ranged from wolf politics in Germany, to […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Friction in the moorlands of the Colombian Andes: A history of national parks and territorial state formation
Claudia Leal (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia & Global Faculty, University of Cologne) Abstract: In Latin America, the Great Acceleration brought unprecedented urban growth, generating a race to provide water for millions of citizens who came to view this service as a right. In parallel, national parks—developed as a form of state territoriality aimed at […]
Hybrid Workshop: Fables of Fulfillment | The Material Horse in the Context of Interspecies Literacy
September 28-29, 2023 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OG and zoom (as well as in the field) IN ORDER TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK – REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vcOGrqT8iHdS4bJkD9YsH-NBz3qBOM7Ya MESH | Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, UoCGSSC | Global South Studies Center, UoCSFB 1252 | Prominence of Language, UoC The event is part of […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?
GSSC Seminar Series 15 August 2023 Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities? Michael Kleinod, Freya Purzer, Julia Rongen (Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne) 12:00-13:00 The public discussion about the restriction of freedom of speech under the banner of the so-called „Cancel Culture“ is increasingly manifesting […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Taming the Residual – Animals, Workers, and Cities in India
Taming the Residual: Animals, Workers, and Cities in India Ajay Gandhi (Leiden University) Abstract: This Public Lecture draws from a book manuscript on Old Delhi, male workers and residents there, and the urban condition in north India. A work of anthropology, it theorizes the wider state of postcolonial modernity. To do so, the lecture develops […]
Workshop: Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment 3 – 4 July 2023 Workshop of the EASA Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA), EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) Capitalism has produced ongoing environmental crises. Degradation, mass extinction, and violent conflict about resources dominate the relations between ecology, communities, and economy. While the signs of environmental collapse appear as […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms
Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms Alexandra Coţofană (Zayed University, UAE) Abstract: The keynote presentation uses several years of research in Romania to address questions at the intersection of fascism and economy. In Romania, entire segments of the population understand the landscape as sentient and accept narratives in which the landscape acts […]
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Kate Rigby one of the co-editors of a recently published book entitled „Religion, Materialism and Ecology“ that is part of the Routledge „Environmental Humanities“ book series that covers anything „from microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends“. Description This timely […]
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:
GSSC Seminar Series 6 June 2023 Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the Earth Jonathan DeVore 12:00-13:00 This paper conceptualizes the misrecognition involved in claims about mastery over human and other nature in the Anthropocene, drawing comparative insight from one of […]
