New Publication: Land Use – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

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New Publication: Land Use – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member José Augusto Pádua is among the editors of this recently published volume of the Handbook „The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis“ which focuses on land usage. Summary The dual myths of virgin land to conquer and […]

GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Environmental Resilience – Decoding Ancient Rozvi Wisdom on Mountain Ecosystems as Disaster Management Solutions

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GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Environmental Resilience – Decoding Ancient Rozvi Wisdom on Mountain Ecosystems as Disaster Management Solutions GSSC Seminar Series 23 July 2024 Indigenous Environmental Resilience: Decoding Ancient Rozvi Wisdom on Mountain Ecosystems as Disaster Management Solutions Lesley Machridiza (University of Cologne) Abstract Since time immemorial, Indigenous communities have always perceived the landscape as […]

MESH Researcher Mars Briones Awarded Place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on „Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet“

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MESH Researcher Mars Briones Awarded Place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on „Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet“ Mars Briones, doctoral researcher at the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) hub, who is researching sociocultural dimensions of disaster preparedness and risk reduction in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines, has been awarded […]

CRC Future Rural Africa and ERC Project Rewilding the Anthropocene Jointly Contribute to Exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum

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CRC Future Rural Africa and ERC Project Rewilding the Anthropocene Jointly Contribute to Exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum Future Rural Africa Project A04 Future Conservation and the ERC project “Rewilding the Anthropocene”  are featured in the current exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum titled “The Hare is the Death of the Hunter Culture and Nature of Southern Africa”. The […]

Sandra Kurfürst Joins Roundtable at EuroSEAS 2024 on „The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia – Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities“

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Sandra Kurfürst Joins Roundtable at EuroSEAS 2024 on „The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia – Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities“„Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Sandra Kurfürst will join a panel on „The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia – Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities“ at the 13th conference of the European Association for Southeast […]

Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Delegation Travels to Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá to Discuss Cooperation Regarding Running Cluster Of Excellence Application

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Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Delegation Travels to Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá to Discuss Cooperation Regarding Running Cluster Of Excellence Application In May 2024, a delegation from the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), consisting of „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) members Michael Bollig and Clemens Greiner, travelled to the Universidad de los […]

Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Political Identity

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Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Political Identity In late June 2024 Prof. Kwame Anthony visited the University of Cologne and presented a guest lecture titled „Political Identity“. The event was organized by the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), the University of Cologne’s Englisches Seminar I and stimmen afrikas in cooperation with Bonn Center for Dependency & […]

Annual MESH Symposium 2024: Multispecies Conviviality

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Annual MESH Symposium 2024: Multispecies Conviviality Save-the-Date | University of Cologne | October 17–19, 2024 The research hub Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) is part of the reseach iniative „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP). The focus of this year’s annual MESH Symposium lies on the co-creation of mutually life-sustaining forms of multispecies co-existence in […]

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Noah Kahindi

Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
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E-mail: noah.kahindi@uni-koeln.de