MESH Researcher Mars Briones Awarded Place at Future Earth’s Pathways Autumn School on “Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet”
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
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”
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 […]
Final Installment of GSSC Citizen Science Event Series on Textile Industry and Global Supply Chains
Final Installment of GSSC Citizen Science Event Series on Textile Industry and Global Supply Chains The final installment of the event series “Fair Trade? Textile Industry and Global Supply Chains” is taking place on Thursday, 11 July 2024 at the University of Cologne. In this session, a panel of five experts will discuss the topic […]
Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Delegation Travels to Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá to Discuss Cooperation Regarding Running Cluster Of Excellence Application
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
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 & […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Animals and Global Racial Capitalism in an Age of Misanthropy – Juno Salazar Parreñas
GSSC Public Lecture: Animals and Global Racial Capitalism in an Age of Misanthropy – Juno Salazar Parreñas The ERC Rewilding the Anthropocene, the research hub Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) and the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) invite you to this upcoming public lecture: Animals and Global Racial Capitalism in an Age of […]
Annual MESH Symposium 2024: Multispecies Conviviality
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 […]
Native Forest Riverside Ecosystems of the La Plata River: Digital Gallery at the Nexus of Science, Activism and Indigeneity
Native Forest Riverside Ecosystems of the La Plata River: Digital Gallery at the Nexus of Science, Activism and Indigeneity This virtual photographic exhibition is based on the book Native Forest. Riverside Ecosystems of the La Plata River released in December 2022 by the publishing house Hora Mágica in Argentina and funded by the Global South Studies Center […]
Wawili Toolbox: Mtu ni Watu – Disclosing Hidden Stories of Fieldwork
Wawili Toolbox: Mtu ni Watu – Disclosing Hidden Stories of Fieldwork The Wawili-Toolbox (named after the proverb: ‘Wawili hula ng’ombe’ – two people can manage to eat a cow – which symbolises the exigency for assistance in academic fieldwork) is an instrument designed to capture the results of the project on a scientific level. It is part […]
