NewsPhoto: Design: Martin Kollmann16 July 2026|Futures of SustainabilityKeynotes at our Young Scholars' ConferenceWe are pleased to announce our upcoming Young Scholars’ Conference “Remaking Responsibility. Environmental Harm, Care, and Accountability”, taking place from 07-09 October 2026 at our Centre. While the call for papers is already closed (and the conference fully booked), we invite you to join us for the Keynote Address by...Photo: oekom6 July 2026|Futures of SustainabilityEinladung: Buchpräsentation (in German), Anita Engels: "Die Klimawende JETZT organisieren. Strategien gegen Stillstand und Ohnmacht“, 08 July, 10:30 - 12:00Der menschengemachte Klimawandel schreitet voran - die Klimawende stockt. Anita Engels (Universität Hamburg) fasst in ihrem neuen Buch zusammen, welche gesellschaftlichen Schlüsselprozesse den Stillstand verursachen. Aus der Analyse leitet sie Ansatzpunkte ab, wie die Rahmenbedingungen für die Klimawende verbessert werden...Photo: Design: Martin Kollmann2 July 2026|Futures of Sustainability"Unruly Climates, Contested Futures II” - Imaginaries, Framings, and Politics of Resistance in the Majority WorldWe 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 9 August 2026 to the following e-mail address: zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit@uni-hamburg.de.Editors: Antje Daniel (University of Vienna), Marie Jasser (University...Photo: Andrea Kane8 June 2026|Futures of SustainabilityInvitation: Hillary Angelo, "Solar Struggles in Nevada: Climate Change, City-Hinterland Relations, the Question of Large-Scale Social Transformation", 10 June, 16:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m., Reception afterwardsIt is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With...Photo: Marie Midtlid2 June 2026|Futures of SustainabilityNew Fellow: Marius Timmann MjaalandMarius Timmann Mjaaland is professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Oslo, working in the field of environmental philosophy, ethics, theology and phenomenology. He is heading the DEMOCRISIS research group at the Centre for Global Sustainability, with emphasis on Democracy and Climate Crisis across the...Photo: Andrea Kane1 June 2026|Futures of SustainabilityNew Fellow: Hillary AngeloHillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work combines historical sociology, critical social theory, and urban political economy and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and...Photo: Kezia Barker27 May 2026|Futures of SustainabilityNew Fellow: Kezia BarkerKezia Barker is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research considers the intersection between environmental futures and cultures of nature, particularly public responses to environmental insecurity, crisis-attuned subjectivities and framings of ecological threat. She has recently been...Photo: ZBOR21 May 2026|Futures of SustainabilityInvitation: ZBOR! For Miners, Land and Water - Film Screening and Discussion, 21 May, 19 p.m. - 21 p.m.A documentary on the struggles of EU peripheries against green transition turning into green colonialism. Powerful testimonies and alliance-building were filmed during a three-day gathering in Breza, a small coal-mining town near Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Balkans coal miners’ unions and land defenders...Photo: Svjetlana Nedimovic17 May 2026|Futures of SustainabilityNew Fellow: Svjetlana NedimovićBorn 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...Archive of current newsUpcoming Sustainability Events at Universität HamburgPost new eventMore Events22.07.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker23.07.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker29.07.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker30.07.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker05.08.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker06.08.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker12.08.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker13.08.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker19.08.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker20.08.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker26.08.2610:00 AMBlutspende - Mittwoch im Wiwi-Bunker27.08.2610:00 AMBloody Thursday im Wiwi-Bunker