Workshop: Sustainability and Resilience in Agri-Food Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises
In June 2023 Peter Dannenberg, member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) co-organized and co-hosted a workshop on “Sustainability and Resilience in Agri-Food Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises” together with Alexander Follmann from the University of Cologne’s Institute of Geography and Global South Studies Center (GSSC). Among the participants […]
Four SAPP Members featured in project mapping of “Bridges: a humanities-led UNESCO coalition for sustainability”
BRIDGES is a global sustainability science coalition organized within UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). As a humanities-led coalition that is not limited to the humanities, BRIDGES promotes transformative collaborations across academic domains of the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in partnership with diverse communities. In June 2023 the BRIDGES Coalition began […]
Publication: Environmental Anthropology by Michael Bollig and Franz Krause
Environmental Anthropology – By Michael Bollig and Franz Krause Michael Bollig is the speaker of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and member of the reseatrch initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril”. Franz Krause is also a member of the GSSC and is the director of the “Delta” research project that looks at how global […]
Kate Rigby at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) Symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”
As the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) starts its 5th year, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is organizing a symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” on 6 and 7 September 2023 to highlight and celebrate the innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers. Read more about […]
“Home Away From Home”: Zeit Campus Article on Louis Makafui Mawusi and the M.A. Programme “Culture and Environment in Africa” (CEA) at the UoC’s Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
In a recent article the German media format Zeit Campus reports on Louis Makafui Mawusi, a student who grew up in Ghana and who is currently enrolled in the “Culture and Environment in Africa” (CEA) M.A. programme at the University of Cologne. The study programme focuses on pre-historical, historical, and contemporary political ecology of the […]
GSSC Excursion – Rhenish Lignite Mining Area
This excursion took international guests of the GSSC into a hotspot of environmental conflict in Germany, the lignite mining area just at Cologne’s doorstep. Due to the extension of various mines and the attendant destruction and resettlement of villages – despite the state’s proclaimed “energy turn” – the area has become a focal point for […]
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 […]
