Interdisciplinary Workshop – Rewilding Species, Landscapes, Society: Dialogues across the Humanities, the Social and the Natural Sciences
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 […]
Workshop: Sustainability and Resilience in Agri-Food Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises
In June 2023 Peter Dannenberg, member of the research initiative „Sharing a Planet in Peril“ (SAPP) co-organized and co-hosted a workshop on „Sustainability and Resilience in Agri-Food Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises“ together with Alexander Follmann from the University of Cologne’s Institute of Geography and Global South Studies Center (GSSC). Among the participants […]
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 […]
Workshop Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Organized by GSSC affiliate Ognien Kojanic, this workshop of the Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA) within the EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) turned Cologne’s Alte Feuerwache, a popular activist-cultural center, into a 2-day laboratory for dissecting the complex relationship between capitalism, fascism and the environment. The contributions ranged from wolf politics in Germany, to […]
Hybrid Workshop: Fables of Fulfillment | The Material Horse in the Context of Interspecies Literacy
September 28-29, 2023 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OG and zoom (as well as in the field) IN ORDER TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK – REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vcOGrqT8iHdS4bJkD9YsH-NBz3qBOM7Ya MESH | Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, UoCGSSC | Global South Studies Center, UoCSFB 1252 | Prominence of Language, UoC The event is part of […]
Workshop: Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment
Capitalism, Fascism, and the Environment 3 – 4 July 2023 Workshop of the EASA Network Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA), EASA Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE) Capitalism has produced ongoing environmental crises. Degradation, mass extinction, and violent conflict about resources dominate the relations between ecology, communities, and economy. While the signs of environmental collapse appear as […]
MESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series: Work-in-Progress Seminar – Zooming out | Peripheral Places and the Planetary Novel in Latin AmericaMESH Greenroots / GSSC Seminar Series:
MESH Green Shoots Work-in-Progress Seminar: Zooming out | Peripheral Places and the Planetary Novel in Latin America Professor Dr Bieke Willem (University of Cologne) December 6, 2022 | 12.00 – 13.00 | GSSC, 3.03(Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne) Grasping the Anthropocene through the lens of the Humanities means not only being able to imagine scales of […]
Network retreat at Steinfeld Abbey
Our retreat was a foundational event for this research network: our diverse group of researchers, and including Critical Friends from Latin America, India, China, Southeast Asia and Europe, had the opportunity to envision and design composition, program and methodology of this network in a series of focused workshops. Shortly before Christmas at a quaint, historical […]
A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology
A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology 12-16 September 2022 Background The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape is hosting a Spring School on The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa, in collaboration with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of […]
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop
Plantation Knowledge: An International Workshop 15.06.2022 The fraught and complex legacies of the plantation—historically, environmentally, socially, politically, economically—currently occupy a center stage of interdisciplinary scholarship. Site to the brutal exploitation of human and natural resources, the plantation was a veritable laboratory of new techniques of agricultural production, labor control, and carceral governance. Taking up this […]
