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12 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

From Defeat to Resistance. What can we learn from the US nightmare?, 16 June, 18:00 (Apéro from 17:30)

Join us on the evening of 16 June (18:00, Apèro from 17:30) for a public panel discussion with Dana R. Fisher and Cara Daggett, two leading voices in US climate and political research. Together, we’ll examine the American case as a warning — and a source of lessons — for democratic and ecological resistance in times of...

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10 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Dana R. Fisher

Dana R. Fisher is a dynamic speaker and author who writes about activism, democracy and climate policy. She is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Governance...

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1 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Svjetlana Nedimović

Born and based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Having done her PhD on Hannah Arendt's work on imagination as a source of collective action (EUI, Firenze), Svjetlana Nedimović had briefly taught political theory in Sarajevo and then devoted herself to editorial work and, over the last 15 years, grassroots struggles for...

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30 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Carl Cassegård

Carl Cassegård has taught and researched as a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg since 2009, mostly in the fields of cultural sociology, social movement studies, and social theory. His research on how literature and popular culture can be used to trace shifting experiences of modernity and shifts in the ideal of...

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12 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Wie weiter mit der „Klimawende“?

Stefan C. Aykut diskutierte mit zum Thema "Wie weiter mit der ' Klimawende' ? beim Abendsalon Hadley's. Deutschland soll bis 2045 klimaneutral werden, so sieht es das Klimaschutzgesetz vor. Das Ziel ist also klar, der Weg dorthin ist es aber weit weniger. Sicher ist: Die Klimawende erfordert neben technischen und...

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12 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Kapitalismus am Limit, 4 June, 16:00-18:00h (in German)

Book presentation “Kapitalismus am Limit. Öko-imperiale Spannungen, umkämpfte Krisenpolitik und solidarische Perspektiven”

With author Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)
Comments: Sarah Lenz (Paderborn University), Kohei Saito (University of Tokyo)
Moderation: Frank Adloff (“Futures of Sustainability”, University of...

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29 April 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Eating together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality- 7-22 July

Food is essential. It is at the core of human life and involves the whole of society and all social institutions. In this summer school, we’ll take a closer, interdisciplinary look at the table. What is on the table? What happens around the table? Where does the food come from? Who’s invited to the banquet? And who’s not...

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22 April 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Karl-Werner Brand

I am a sociologist and political scientist whose interests range from social history of Westerns societies and social movement research to environmental sociology and dynamics of social-ecological transformations – and their political and societal blockades – in different regions of the world. I am working both...

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7 April 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Soziologie in Zeiten sozial-ökologischer Verwerfungen. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Vokabular

We are delighted to share a Call for Papers for our Ad hoc Group „Soziologie in Zeiten sozial-ökologischer Verwerfungen. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Vokabular“, organized by Frank Adloff, Stefan C. Aykut and Christine Hentschel at the 42. Congress of the DGS, 22.-26.09.2025. Find out more here (PDF) and here (link).

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