EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing
EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing A Graduate School on Multispecies Conviviality (MESHWell) Cologne | October 14–19, 2024 At a time of global biodiversity loss, climate disruption, and environmental degradation, wellbeing cannot be restricted to humans but needs to be seen as well through a planetary perspective and as a matter of multispecies conviviality. […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University)
GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University) Abstract: This presentation approaches current debates over mineral extraction in Latin America from a longue-durée historical perspective, asking how paradigms have shifted since the era of Columbus and Cabral. How have imperial or state imperatives driven or shaped […]
In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah Mala
In the Media: BRIDGES Coordinator Nsah MalaNsah Mala is an award-winning poet, writer, children’s author, communicator-journalist, and futurist. At the University of Cologne, he is Coordinator of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Global Coalition hub for Planetary Wellbeing, closely associated with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and the hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities […]
SAPP Members Pujo Semedi and Michaela Haug Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary of Tandem Research Training Program
SAPP Members Pujo Semedi and Michaela Haug Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary of Tandem Research Training Program The joint Tandem Research Training Program brings together students of Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Freiburg and the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Projects activities are carried out in alternating years in Germany and Indonesia, supervised by […]
New Publication: Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania
New Publication: Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Emmanuel Sulle (Global Faculty, Global South Studies Center and Aga Khan University, Arusha Principal Campus) and Richard Mbunda from the University of Dar es Salaam collaborated on an article on “Livelihoods and Contested Meanings of Land in Tanzania” […]
Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito
Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito Date: Monday, 9 December 2024 | 18:00 (CET) Venue: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Universitätsstr. 98, 50674 Köln The Anthropocene is marked by a planetary environmental crisis. Since we did not act in the last decades despite various warnings, the time left to […]
Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt Fellow
Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt FellowEthnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros joins the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) as Humboldt Fellow in October 2024. After a brief stint at the GSSC from October 2023 to January 2024, Amoros new fellowship has a duration of three years. “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Prof. […]
Exhibition: WE ARE NOT CARPETS
Exhibition: WE ARE NOT CARPETS I tell you my story “The beauty of those carpets, designed by the designer, lies in their design. But the beauty of this carpet resides in my heart.” Anne Beik Koohi WE ARE NOT CARPETS examines the centuries-long systematic marginalisation and exploitation of carpet weavers. What happens when they weave […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World
GSSC Public Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World Ian Scoones (Institute of Development Studies) Abstract: Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is […]
Clemens Greiner Starts Visiting Professorship at University of Vienna
Clemens Greiner Starts Visiting Professorship at University of Vienna Clemens Greiner, Scientific Manager of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) recently started a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna. In his research, Greiner connects global questions with small-scale ethnographic research. For example, […]
