Talk: Minor Epic: Reflections on Displacement, World-Making, and the Possibility of a Different Anthropoetry (Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota)

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Talk: Minor Epic: Reflections on Displacement, World-Making, and the Possibility of a Different Anthropoetry (Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota) November 28, 2024 | 16.00 | GSSC (Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne ) Anthropologists who have turned to poetry have often claimed to do so as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic […]

MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz

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MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz Lecture | Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface Professor Dr Sandra Díaz (Córdoba National University, Argentina) The international environmental science-policy interface has […]

GSSC Public Lecture: Pay Dirt: Five Centuries of Latin American Extraction Revisited – Kris Lane (Tulane University)

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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 […]

Auerbach Lecture: Marx’s Communism in the Age of the Planetary Crisis – With Kohei Saito

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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 […]

GSSC Public Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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Noah Kahindi

Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Classen-Kappelmann-Straße 24
50931 Cologne, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)221 47076657

E-mail: noah.kahindi@uni-koeln.de