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19 March 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Job opportunity at the Centre

We ´re delighted to share this job opportunity at our Centre. Click here to read the announcements:

Post-doc (100%, one position):
in German
in English

We are looking forward to your application!

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12 March 2025|Futures of Sustainability

SUSTAIN-ABILITY, 25 April, 19:30 (in German)

Um das Leben in der gegenwärtigen Konstellation ökologischer, politischer und demokratischer Krisen zu erhalten, bedarf es neuer Fähigkeiten, die unsere Verletzlichkeit und Verwundbarkeit ins Zentrum stellen. In der kritischen Zone, die wir bewohnen, müssen wir mit Bedacht agieren, und jeden Schritt, den wir von nun an...

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4 March 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Sociology in times of socio-ecological crises, transformations and dislocations.

We are delighted to share a Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue at Soziale Welt (Guest editors: Stefan C. Aykut, Frank Adloff, Christine Hentschel). Please find out more about the call here (PDF).

We welcome contributions that offer innovative theoretical propositions, critical analyses, and speculative perspectives...

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4 March 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Ulrich Brand

Ulrich Brand is a political scientist at the University of Vienna who is interested in the obstacles and potentials of emancipatory socio-ecological transformations and just transitions. His work is rooted in critical theory, especially critical political economy and political ecology, and together with others he developed...

Book presentation in Seoul, 21 February 2025

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25 February 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Justice now! A story of the ecocide resistance movements that change the world.

We are very proud to announce the publication of the book "Justice now! A story of the ecocide resistance movements that change the world" (in Korean, published by May Books) by our post-doc Juneseo Hwang. He presented his book at two book launch events on 21 February (Seoul, in the picture) and Samcheok (25 February).

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18 February 2025|Futures of Sustainability

"Unruly Climates, Contested Futures” - Imaginaries, Framings, and Politics of Resistance in Europe

We are delighted to share a Call for Book Contribution. Find out more about the call here (PDF). We invite authors to submit an extended abstract of 2–3 pages by the end of February 2025 to the following e-mail address: zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit@uni-hamburg.de
Editors: Antje Daniel (University of Vienna), Frank Adloff...

Alumni Conference 2025 SUSTAINABILITY AND APOCALYPSE

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30 January 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Sustainability and Apocalypse

How to think sustainability and apocalypse together? Christine Hentschel presents keynote at the Alumni Conference on Sustainability and Apocalypse at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies, University of Heidelberg.

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16 January 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Eva von Redecker

Eva von Redecker is a philosopher and nonfiction writer. Her work, translated into more than a dozen languages, focuses on property, social change, domination and liberation. Her latest book, Bleibefreiheit (“The Freedom to Stay”) proposes to think of freedom in temporal terms as “abundance of fulfilled time”...

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17 December 2024|Futures of Sustainability

Triggerpunkt Klimaschutz?, 29 January, 18:00-20:00h (in German)

Book presentation “Triggerpunkte. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft”

With author Linus Westheuser (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
Comments: Katharina Zimmermann (University of Hamburg), Anna Fünfgeld (University of Hamburg)
Chair: Stefan C. Aykut (“Futures of Sustainability”, University of Hamburg)

In view of...

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