Public Lecture: A New Frontier of Decarbonization? Green Hydrogen in South America (Felix Dorn, University of Vienna)
A New Frontier of Decarbonization? Green Hydrogen in South America Felix Dorn (University of Vienna) Green hydrogen (GH2) is increasingly regarded as a key element of the global energy transition. In South America, GH2 projects have raised expectations for economic growth, job creation, and investment, while also being framed as pathways toward a CO₂-neutral future. […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change – An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South
GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change – An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South Adam Kyomuhendo (University of Cologne) The lecture proposes to examine the pivotal role of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems as a resilience […]
Talk: Minor Epic: Reflections on Displacement, World-Making, and the Possibility of a Different Anthropoetry (Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota)
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 Hybrid Public Roundtable Discussion | A Covenant for the Earth: An Introduction to Islam and Ecology
MESH Hybrid Public Roundtable Discussion | A Covenant for the Earth: An Introduction to Islam and Ecology December 03, 2024 | 6.00 – 8.00 pm International House – Kringsweg 6, 50931 Cologne Click here for registration & Zoom link. Co-hosted by the Cologne International Forum and the University of Cologne’s research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental […]
MESH Research Fruits: Assessing the Links Between People and (more than Human) Nature: a Pluralistic Framework for the Science-Policy Interface – With Sandra Díaz
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)
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
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
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
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”
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 […]
