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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Katajun Amirpur Joins Panel Discussion on Women’s Rights in Iran
Katajun Amirpur Joins Panel Discussion on Women’s Rights in Iran „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Katajun Amirpur is a professor at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World and the university’s Representative for Racism Criticism. She is an expert on Iranian culture and diasporas, cultural relations between […]