Grow at Home, Buy Local: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains in Northern Vietnam. Live stream of “Sharing a Planet in Peril” member Sandra Kurfürst’s Lecture at the University of Malaysia

Grow at Home, Buy Local: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains in Northern Vietnam Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst. Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) member Prof. Sandra Kurfürst will be featured in the fourth edition of this year’s “Sustainability Discourse”, organized by the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) of the National University of Malaysia […]
Kate Rigby at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) Symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”

As the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) starts its 5th year, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is organizing a symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” on 6 and 7 September 2023 to highlight and celebrate the innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers. Read more about […]
MESH Research Fruits – Public Lecture: Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene | Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum

MESH Research Fruits Public Lecture: Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene | Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University, Sydney) andThom van Dooren (University of Sydney) June 22, 2023 | 17.45 – 19.15 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OGDue to the library’s seating capacity, please register via e-mail: smaasse3uni-koeln.de […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Friction in the moorlands of the Colombian Andes: A history of national parks and territorial state formation

Claudia Leal (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia & Global Faculty, University of Cologne) Abstract: In Latin America, the Great Acceleration brought unprecedented urban growth, generating a race to provide water for millions of citizens who came to view this service as a right. In parallel, national parks—developed as a form of state territoriality aimed at […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?

GSSC Seminar Series 15 August 2023 Decoloniality and Academic Freedom – Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities? Michael Kleinod, Freya Purzer, Julia Rongen (Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne) 12:00-13:00 The public discussion about the restriction of freedom of speech under the banner of the so-called “Cancel Culture” is increasingly manifesting […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Taming the Residual – Animals, Workers, and Cities in India

Taming the Residual: Animals, Workers, and Cities in India Ajay Gandhi (Leiden University) Abstract: This Public Lecture draws from a book manuscript on Old Delhi, male workers and residents there, and the urban condition in north India. A work of anthropology, it theorizes the wider state of postcolonial modernity. To do so, the lecture develops […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms

Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes – Fascist Responses to Economic Colonialisms Alexandra Coţofană (Zayed University, UAE) Abstract: The keynote presentation uses several years of research in Romania to address questions at the intersection of fascism and economy. In Romania, entire segments of the population understand the landscape as sentient and accept narratives in which the landscape acts […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the EarthGSSC Seminar Series:

GSSC Seminar Series 6 June 2023 Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the Earth Jonathan DeVore 12:00-13:00 This paper conceptualizes the misrecognition involved in claims about mastery over human and other nature in the Anthropocene, drawing comparative insight from one of […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Expanding the concept and practice of protected areas? A Brazilian take on convivial conservation

Henyo T. Barretto Filho (University of Brasília, Brazil) Abstract: The notion of convivial conservation emerged, among other issues, to overcome both the dichotomies constitutive of the naturalist ontology that impregnate much of conservationism and the capture of mainstream conservation by the neoliberal configuration. Given Brazil’s longstanding and complex historical experiences with indigenous lands, extractivist reserves […]
MESH Grassroots – Public Lecture: Building BRIDGES | Sustainability Science Coalition

MESH Grassroots Public Lecture: Building BRIDGES | Sustainability Science Coalition Professor Dr Steven Hartman (University of Iceland) and Professor Joni Adamson (Arizona State University) January 19, 2023 | 17.45 [5.45 pm] GMT+1 | via zoom To register and receive the zoom link for this event, please contact Claudia Veltman (claudia.veltman[at]uni-koeln.de) In this online public lecture, Professor Steven Hartman (University […]