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23 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Climate resilience in the Philippines

Our Research Associate Macario Lacbawan writes in East Asia Forum that moralizing climate resilience masks corruption and weak governance. You can read the whole commentary here.

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15 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Panel Discussion with Frank Adloff

Every year Hamburger Horizonte organises a series of events regarding exchange about topics that deserve special attention in science and society. This year Hamburger Horizonte concentrated on water as an essential resource for life that is threatened by climate change, pollution and distribution conflicts. Therefore on the...

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8 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Kolleg-Lecture by Maarten Hajer, 14 October 2025, 18:00-20:00

We kindly invite you to register for our upcoming Kolleg-Lecture:

14 October 2025

17:30 Apéro
18:00-20:00 Kolleg-Lecture
Maarten Hajer (Utrecht University): "Beyond Captured Futures - Re-imagining Environmental Politics"
Moderation: Stefan C. Aykut (Futures of Sustainability)

Maarten Hajer is Distinguished Professor of Urban...

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6 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Antje Daniel

Antje Daniel is a sociologist whose interests range from political and environmental sociology to socio-ecological transformation and the future and utopia, as well as gender and intersectionality. She has worked in various regions of the world, including Europe (Austria), Latin America (Brazil, Chile) and Africa (Southern...

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1 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Conference Keynote by David Schlosberg, 9 October 2025, 18:00-20:00

"Climate Turbulence, Justice, and Democratic Experimentation"

Apéritivo: from 5:30pm
Keynote: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Fingerfood Dinner: 8:00pm-9:00pm

Keynote:
David Schlosberg (University of Sydney)
"Climate Turbulence, Justice, and Democratic Experimentation"

Panel Discussion:
Kübra Gümüşay (Hamburg), author of the bestselling book...

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1 October 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Kerstin Lopatta

Kerstin Lopatta’s research focuses on sustainability reporting, sustainable finance, financial accounting, auditing, and corporate governance, with a particular emphasis on how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors impact companies and society. She is regarded as an expert in the development and review of new...

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30 September 2025|Futures of Sustainability

In der Katastrophe denken

Our Panel at the 42. Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) (in German): "Soziologie in Zeiten sozial-ökologischer Verwerfungen. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Vokabular", featured in Soziopolis (in German). More information on the panel here.

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29 September 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Cornelius Heimstädt

Cornelius Heimstädt is a sociologist whose research lies at the intersection of economic sociology, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). His work focuses on how start-ups and venture capital firms engage with questions of sustainability. He earned his doctorate at the Center for the Sociology...