MESH Inaugural Symposium: Transformative Research for a World of Wounds
Friday, 21st October 2022 International House, Seminar Room (Ground Floor) 9:30 “Writing Extinction” Hybrid WorkshopPanellists: James Bradley, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Richard Kerridge; Chair: Greg Garrard 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Panel 1Presentations by Willis Jenkins (Virginia), Carrie B. Dohe (Toronto), and Greg Garrard (British Columbia); Chair: Kate Rigby 12:30 Lunch 1:30 ECR Meeting (Wienand Haus library)Chair: Carolin […]
A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology
A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology 12-16 September 2022 Background The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape is hosting a Spring School on The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa, in collaboration with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of […]
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop 15.06.2022 The fraught and complex legacies of the plantation—historically, environmentally, socially, politically, economically—currently occupy a center stage of interdisciplinary scholarship. Site to the brutal exploitation of human and natural resources, the plantation was a veritable laboratory of new techniques of agricultural production, labor control, and carceral governance. Taking up this […]
GSSC Focus – Panel discussion: Beyond the Great Impasse: Varied Perspectives on Aggravating Environmental Crises Despite Growing Awareness
At the height of the conflict around the village of Lützerath, this GSSC Focus event tackled the dilemma that global ecological crises aggravate despite a generally growing awareness that fundamental change is required and, notably, despite the political commitment and economic means to address these existential problems. The engaged debate between a group of concerned […]
GSSC: Focus Global South – Ethno-graphic Stories of Rivers, Climate and Change: A Discussion with Comic Artists from Around the WorldGSSC: Focus Global South –
Ethno-graphic Stories of Rivers, Climate and Change: A Discussion with Comic Artists from Around the World January 27, 2022, 6-8pm Cöln Comic Haus, Bonner Str. 9, 50677 Köln Artists from Senegal, Myanmar, Canada and Brazil are currently creating a comic with stories from river deltas in their countries, cooperating with a group of anthropologists from the University […]
GSSC Focus Gloabal South: Ausbeutung trotz Zertifizierung? – Erfahrungen aus dem Kakaosektor
Ausbeutung trotz Zertifizierung? – Erfahrungen aus dem Kakaosektor Vortrag: Friedel Hütz-Adams (SÜDWIND) Die Bezeichnungen „zertifizierter Kakao“ und „nachhaltiger Kakao“ werden oft synonym verwendet. Diese Gleichsetzung ist jedoch falsch. Zwar kann die Einführung einer Zertifizierung von Kakao dazu beitragen, den Weg der Kakaobohnen von der Plantage bis ins Supermarktregal transparent zu machen. Dadurch wird die Möglichkeit […]
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 […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization
Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll University of Birmingham Art practices in the Pacific islands complicate any neat classification as either craft, contemporary art or traditional ritual, individually or collectively authored. These binaries of commodification can be productively updated through global examples that are linked by […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Crisis Conservation -Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature
Crisis Conservation: Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature Bram Buscher Wageningen University In this presentation, I will discuss the impacts of the current surge in large-scale resource extraction and wildlife crime, and the conservation responses they elicit. Recent political ecology literature points at three reasons why this surge differs […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Urban Gardening in Southeast Asia – Pre-/Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Ideas of Urbanism
Urban Gardening in Southeast Asia: Pre-/Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Ideas of Urbanism Sandra Kurfürst University of Cologne, Germany This paper investigates the precolonial and colonial legacies of urban gardens in Southeast Asia, linking these legacies to current trends of urban gardening. In Southeast Asian cities, agricultural subsistence production has long been associated with […]
