Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies
Futures of Sustainability

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...