MESH Green Shoots: A Kincentric Lifeworld | Entangled Landscape and Identity in Cherangany Hills, Kenya
MESH Green Shoots Work-in-Progress Seminar: A Kincentric Lifeworld | Entangled Landscape and Identity in Cherangany Hills, Kenya King’asia Mamati April 9, 2024 | 12.00 – 13.00 | GSSC, 3.03(Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne) This paper sheds light on the intersection between landscape and human-environment relations in the Kenyan context, with a particular focus on the Sengwer ethnic community. […]
MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Frank Matose
MESH Research Fruits Lecture |The Violence of Conservation in Africa: Rethinking Alternatives Associate Prof. Frank Matose (University of Cape Town, South Africa) February 1, 2024 | 17.45 – 19.15 | online IN ORDER TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK – REGISTRATION REQUIRED:https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvfuGvpjsuHdA5zUdb9-MK8ePgorVsDJ1y In the lecture I draw upon our recent book in which we conceptualize violence in conservation […]
MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Pavan Malreddy
MESH Research Fruits Public Lecture | This Planet, These Waves, and My Suitcase: Ethics and Ecopoetics of Contemporary Migrant Literary Cultures PD Dr Pavan Kumar Malreddy (Goethe University Frankfurt) December 14, 2023 | 17.45 – 19.15 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OGDue to the library’s seating capacity, please register until December 10 via e-mail: smaasse3uni-koeln.de This talk […]
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 […]
