Workshop: Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation – Reflections on Research With the Gwich’in of Canada’s North

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Co-producing Knowledge with a First Nation: Reflections on Research with the Gwich’in of Canada’s North Attempts to enable symmetrical forms of knowledge production that minimize epistemological as well as other hierarchies between researchers and research participants take many forms. In Canada and elsewhere, Indigenous groups have established institutions for managing research activities in their territories […]

Call for Abstracts: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies

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Workshop: Elephant Modernities – Thinking Along Blurry Lines Between Humans, Elephants and Technologies This two-day workshop is dedicated to the topic of elephant modernities and invites experts to discuss and explore the lifeworlds of African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) in the Anthropocene. The concept of „elephant modernity,“ coined by „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member […]

EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing

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EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing A Graduate School on Multispecies Conviviality (MESHWell) Cologne | October 14–19, 2024 At a time of global biodiversity loss, climate disruption, and environmental degradation, wellbeing cannot be restricted to humans but needs to be seen as well through a planetary perspective and as a matter of multispecies conviviality. […]

Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

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Book Launch: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya The volume „Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya„, edited by „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Michael Bollig, Gerda Kuiper and Eric Kioko was published recently: Lake Naivasha, Kenya, is singular in its diversity. Major processes […]

SAPP Partner Institution Aga Khan University Hosts Webinar on „Partnerships and Innovations for Land and Climate Resilience“

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SAPP Partner Institution Aga Khan University Hosts Webinar on „Partnerships and Innovations for Land and Climate Resilience“ „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Emmanuel Sulle was among the speakers of a webinar on „Partnerships and Innovations for Land and Climate Resilience“ hosted by SAPP partner Institution The Aga Khan University. To celebrate World Environment […]

Emmanuel Sulle Co-Directs Field School at Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre

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Emmanuel Sulle Co-Directs Field School at Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) member Emmanuel Sulle is Assistant Professor & Research Director at the Aga Khan University’s (AKU) Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Station. AKU recently welcomed a cohort of 11 students and a professor from Simon […]

Workshop: Infrastructures and their (Re-)Construction and Decays: Contesting Temporalities in the Global South

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Workshop: Infrastructures and their (Re-)Construction and Decays: Contesting Temporalities in the Global South  16-17 May 2024 Venue:Ü3 SüdbauGeographisches InstitutOtto-Fischer-Straße 4 Speakers:Miguel Esteban (Waseda University, Japan)Sumit Vij (Wageningen University, Netherlands)Franziska Sielker (TU Wien, Austria) Registration:susanne.weber@uni-koeln.de Program Abstract Infrastructures, vital for societal functioning, operate at various levels, fostering connectivity. Traditionally propelling economic and transportation development, they facilitate […]

Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) Members Come Together for Project Retreat in Cologne

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In February 2024 all members of the research initiative „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) came together at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) in Cologne for a three day project retreat. The participants discussed how the research initiative will move forward, considering the recent invitation by the German Research Fundation (DFG) to submitt a […]

Interdisciplinary Workshop – Rewilding Species, Landscapes, Society: Dialogues across the Humanities, the Social and the Natural Sciences

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5-6 February 2024 Workshop organized by the ERC Rewilding, CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa and Global South Studies Center (GSSC). AbstractRewilding is a relatively new concept and practice in the field of conservation. The majority of academic work on rewilding stems from the biological and ecological sciences. The humanities and the social sciences only started […]

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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