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Humanities Centre for
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Futures of Sustainability

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Events

  • 30 November - 01 December 2023

    Finanzen in Gesellschaft
    ZUR TRANSFORMATION DES NEXUS VON GELD, POLITIK UND SOZIALWELT
    Herbsttagung der DGS-Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie

  • 03.-28. November 2023

    Movie series "TENSE FUTURES - FUTURE TENSES. Um/Welten im Film", curated by Anna Grabo
    All information on the movies and venues on our event website

  • 27 September 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

    Exchange Meeting (hybrid event) with our Fellow Andreas Malm (Lund University)

  • 14-15 September 2023

    Annual Conference "The Failure of Green Capitalism: Findings, Objections, Alternatives"
    All information about the programme and registration can be found on our event website.

  • 12 July 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Miriam Lang (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar): "Is it really about money? - Exploring pathways for climate reparations from a pluriversal perspective"

  • 05 July 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Joost de Moor, PhD (SciencesPo): "Democracy for the Anthropocene? Future imaginations in the Swedish ‘Climate Parliament’"

  • 28 June 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Yannick Kalff (Universität Osnabrück): "Techno-fixes for Future?! Promising and disappointing technology and its social embeddedness"

  • 21 June 2023, 06:00 p.m.-08:00 p.m.

    KOLLEG-LECTURE (hybrid event): Presentation by Prof. Bronislaw Szerszynski, PhD (Lancaster University): "On relating human time and planetary deep time: science, politics and spirit"

  • 14 June 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Madhulika Banerjee, PhD (University of Delhi/Fellow at The New Institute): "‘Other’ Knowledges to the Rescue: The Climate Crisis and the Way Forward"

  • 07 June 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Tawanda Jimu, Ph.D. (University of Cape Town): "Science to Practice - Networked governance of sustainability transitions in an African university"

  • 31 May 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Tom Hawxwell (HafenCity Universität Hamburg): "Radically different futures? How transformation-oriented research imagines the future of mobility"

  • 24 May 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Vedran Horvat (Institute for Political Ecology): "Political Ecology on European Semi-Periphery: Limits and Opportunities for Research and Action"

  • 22-23 May 2023

    Workshop: "Scholar-Activism and Transformative Knowledge: A North-South Workshop"
    DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” supported by two Fellows of The New Institute (Hamburg)
    Organized by Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff, Prof. Madhulika Banerjee, PhD, und Dr. Tobias Müller

  • 10 May 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Tobias Müller (Fellow at The New Institute / Visiting Scholar at Yale University): "Transforming planet and politics: intersectional justice, democracy and decolonization in the global climate movement"

  • 03 May 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Kira Meyer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel): "Sustainable freedom. On the natural embeddedness of human beings and its significance for a conception of freedom"

  • 26 April 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Philipp Jacobi (Universität Hamburg): "What Can Be Gained From Critical Proximity? A More-Than-Human Ethnography on Reindeer and the Green Transition in the North of Sweden"

  • 19 April 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Simon Dalby, PhD (Wilfrid Laurier University): "Rethinking Environmental Security: Firepower, Geopolitics and the Future"

  • 12 April 2023 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran (Universität Hamburg): "Limits and Crises of the Anthropocene: Between Conflict and Cooperation"

  • 05 April 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Hannes Krämer (Universität Duisburg-Essen): "Zukunft versprechen. Hackathons als Organisation und Modus der Bearbeitung des Kommenden"

  • 15 February 2023, 06:00-08:00 p.m. (CET)

    “Politics of the Gift“: A convivial evening at the Centre (hybrid event)
    Book Launch and Apéro with Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff (Humanities Centre)
    Frank Adloff: Politics of the Gift. Towards a Convivial Society. Book series: Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022. Link
    Comments by: Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Andrew Stirling, PhD (University of Sussex Business), Prof. Matthias Thiemann, PhD (SciencesPo)

  • 08 February 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Prof. Andrew Stirling, PhD (University of Sussex Business School, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit): „From control to conviviality in technology governance: precaution and sustainability in pathways for transforming modernity“

  • 25 January 2023, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

    Digital KOLLEG-LECTURE: Lecture by Prof. Matthias Thiemann, PhD (SciencesPo, Centre d`études européennes et de politique comparée, Paris): „Central banks’ engagement with climate change: agents of control, transformation or modernization?“
    Comment by Prof. Dr. Aaron Sahr (Hamburg Institute for Social Research HIS)

  • 18 January 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Marcel Sebastian (TU Dortmund):
    „Emotion work in the slaughterhouse: how slaughterers deal with emotional work requirements”

  • 11 January 2023, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre):
    „Future Cultures – A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Social Nexus of Future-making Practices"

2022 Archive

  • 07 December 2022, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Barbara Muraca (University of Oregon, Department of Philosophy, Eugene):
    „The rights of (colonial) nature? Decolonial perspectives for environmental justice in the pluriverse“

  • 07 December 2022, 11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Discussion with Prof. Dr. Barbara Muraca (University of Oregon, Department of Philosophy, Eugene), Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Stefan C. Aykut (Universität Hamburg):
    „Der IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Interface Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Value-Assessment und die (vielfältige) Bewertung von Natur: kritische Reflexionen aus einer Insider-Perspektive“

  • 22-24 November 2022

    Online Conference "Climate Coloniality: Mechanisms, Epistemologies, Spaces of Resistance"
    All information can be found here

  • 16 November 2022, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Antônio Inácio Andrioli (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - UFFS):
    „Soja, aber so nicht: Ernährungssouveränität in Zeiten des Soyaceno in Brasilien“

  • 02 November 2022, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by PD Dr. Frank Wendler (Universität Hamburg):
    „Politische Räume der Klimagovernance. Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Politisierung und policy-Stabilität“

  • 18-19 August 2022

    Forum Wirtschaftsphilosophie 2022: "Theorien der Wirtschaft in Zeiten ökologischer Krisen"
    Organization: Dr. Philipp Degens (Humanities Centre)

  • 13 July 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Marco Hohmann (Universität Hamburg):
    Presentation of the dissertation project „Aufwertung und Entwertung. Ökonomien und soziale Prozesse des Upcyclings“

  • 06 July 2022, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Discussion with Dr. Tanja Busse (author and moderator, Hamburg) and Christopher Schrader (science journalist and author, Hamburg): "Brauchen Journalismus und Wissenschaft ein anderes Selbstverständnis, um auf die multiplen existenzbedrohenden Krisen des Anthropozän zu reagieren?"
    Inputs by Dr. Nicolas Schoof (University Freiburg), Kristian Lilje (Nabu-Station Münsterland), Prof. Dr. Torsten Schäfer (Hochschule Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann (University Hamburg).

  • 29 June 2022, 02:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre):
    "'Die Grenzen des Wachstums' 1972 - Über Doomsday-Propheten, Wachstumshäretiker und zelotische Simulationen"

  • 22 June 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Katharina Block (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg):
    "Sorgebeziehungen der Ökologisierung: Überlegungen zu einer soziologischen Theorie der Sorge"

  • 08 June 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Christopher Schrader (science journalist and author, Hamburg):
    "Klimaforschung auf dem Weg von der Physik zur Soziologie"

  • 31 May - 01 June 2022

    Annual Conference "Planet und Gesellschaft. Die Grenzen nachhaltiger Zukünfte" (at Warburg-Haus)
    For the detailed program and registration see our German website.

  • 18 May 2022, 02:00 - 04:00 p.m. (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Daniela Russ (University of Toronto)
    "Working Nature – Ein Buchprojekt"

  • 11 May 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Text discussion with Dr. Sarah Lenz, Dr. Philipp Degens and Iris Hilbrich (Humanities Centre):
    "Analysing Infrastructrues in the Anthropocene"

  • 05-06 May 2022

    Conference "Digitale Transformationen im Gesundheitswesen" (in German, physical event planned)
    Program (PDF); Registration required via cristian.eberlein@uni-hamburg.de
    Organization: Dr. Sarah Lenz, Christian Eberlein

  • 04 May 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Katharina Hoppe (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main):
    "Der Gegenwart antworten: Elemente einer post-anthropozentrischen Soziologie nach Donna Haraway"

  • 27 April 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Frederico Salmi (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul):
    "Climate politics in the Brazilian arena interconnected with a diversity of local and global actors in a sociological perspective"

  • 21-22 April 2022

    "Facing Catastrophes: Eine Soziologie der Verantwortung für das Anthropozän"
    Workshop at Universität Hamburg, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability"
    In cooperation with the "Out of the dark" lecture and workshop series, Universität Hamburg
    Organization: Frank Adloff, Christine Hentschel, Katharina Hoppe

  • 21 April 2022, 6:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-LECTURE: Presentation by Prof. Alexis Shotwell (Carleton University, Canada):
    "Ethical orientations toward repair in climate change"
    You can watch the video of the lecture on our Youtube-channel.

  • 06 April 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Melanie Pichler (University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, Vienna):
    "Politische Dimensionen sozial-ökologischer Transformation. Strategien - Interessen - Konflikte"

  • 09 February 2022, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (CEST)

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre):
    "Pre-Assembling the Atmosphere – A Situational-Analysis of the Future-making Practices in Early Numerical Weather Prediction in the 1940s and 50s"

  • 20-28 January 2022

    Digital Theme week "Degrowth - South and North"
    with contributions by Vandana Shiva, Jason Hickel, Ashish Kothari, Shrishtee Bajpai and Ariel Salleh
    Organization: Frank Adloff, Philipp Degens, Sarah Lenz (Humanities Centre)

2021 Archive

  • 07 April 2021, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Digital Workshop: "Ecological Crisis and the Question of Concrete Labour"
    Contributors:
    Max Ajl (Wageningen University, Netherlands), Stefania Barca (Uppsala University, Sweden), Alyssa Battistoni (Harvard University, USA), Ulrich Brand (Vienna University, Austria), Bue Rübner Hansen (Jena University, Germany), Emanuele Leonardi (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Nora Räthzel (Umeå University, Sweden), Manuela Zechner (Jena University, Germany)

  • 03 - 07 May 2021

    Theme week "Capitalism und Sustainanbility"
    Contributors:
    Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University), Ulrike Herrmann ("die tageszeitung", Berlin), Lisa Knoll (Universität Hamburg), Klaus Dörre (Universität Jena), Ali Aslan Gümüsay (Universität Hamburg), Jin-Wook Shin (Chung-Ang University Seoul)

  • 19 May 2021, 10-12 a.m.

    Digital KOLLEG-LECTURE: Presentation by Dr. habil. Tanja Bogusz (Fellow at the Humanities Centre):
    "Biodiversität und Gesellschaft. Zur Transformation von Natur-Kultur-Beziehungen im Anthropozän"

  • 23-24 June 2021

    Digital Workshop "Doing Biodiversity - Experimental knowledge transformations for sustainable futures"
    Inputs by Claire Waterton and Helmut Hillebrand
    Organisation: Tanja Bogusz, Frank Adloff, Benno Fladvad and Iris Hilbrich

  • 09 June 2021, 10-12 a.m.

    Digital KOLLEG-FORUM: Dr. Benno Fladvad (Humanities Centre):
    "Konfliktfeld Energiewende: zu den politischen Geographien (un)gerechter Übergänge" (Ideenskizze für ein Forschungsprojekt)

  • 09 July 2021, 2-5 p.m.

    Digital Workshop: "The Global Opportunity Structure for Climate Action. Theorizing Global Societal Agency towards Decarbonization" For more information, please see Workshop program (PDF)
    Contributions: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (American University, Washington, DC), Felix Anderl (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung), Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre), Franziska Müller (Universität Hamburg), Bruno Turnheim (INRAE and Lisis, University Paris-Est)
    Organisation: Stefan C. Aykut, Antje Wiener
    In Cooperation with: Excellence Cluster on Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)

  • 02 July 2021, 4 - 6 p.m.

    Digital Workshop: "Imaginaries of Transformation: Looking back from the Future"
    For more information, please see Workshop Flyer (PDF)
    Contributors: Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Nottingham), Amaranta Herrero (Barcelona Sustainable Food Capital, University of Tromsø)
    Organization: Manuela Zechner (Jena University), Iris Hilbrich (Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg )
    In cooperation with the "MovE" research project‘s strand on "Transversal and translocal connections across ecology and care", Jena University.

  • 14 October 2021, 1:15-5:15 p.m.

    Digital Workshop "Die Geschlechter-Dimension der Nachhaltigkeitspolitiken und ihre Evaluation" (in German)
    Contributions: Christine Bauhardt (HU Berlin), Thomas Barth (LMU München), Beate Littig (Fellow at our Centre and at IHS Wien), Angela Wroblewski (IHS Wien), Brigitte Ratzer (TU Wien), Arn Sauer (UBA Berlin)
    Organisation: Beate Littig

  • 18-22 October 2021

    Theme Week: "Luchas por la tierra y alimentación en América Latina/ Land and Food Struggles in Latin America"
    Keynote: Tatiana Roa Avendaño
    Contributions: Federico Demaria, Laura María Gutiérrez Escobar, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Jens Newig, Marco Antônio Teixeira, Renata Campos Motta, Astrid Ulloa, Angela Alonso, Francisca Fernández Droguett, Barbara Unmüßig, Antônio Andrioli, Susan Paulson
    Organization: Frank Adloff, Benno Fladvad, Martina Hasenfratz

  • 04-05 November 2021

    Workshop (in German): "Organisation und Bewertung von Nachhaltigkeit" with Arbeitskreis Organisation und Bewertung (Arbeitskreis der DGS-Sektion Organisationssoziologie), Program (PDF, in German)
    04.11.21: 01:30-5:15 p.m., 05.11.21: 09:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m

  • 08-09 November 2021

    Workshop: "Akademisches Schreiben - Essayistisches Schreiben. Techniken für einen flüssigen und verständlichen Stil."
    with: Andrea Roedig (Herausgeberin wespennest)

  • 17 November 2021

    Digital KOLLEG-LECTURE: Presentation by Anna Clot-Garrell, PhD (Universitat de Barcelona):
    "Voices of Emergency: a sociological approach to the politics of imagined (un)sustainable futures"

  • 24 November 2021

    Digital KOLLEG-LECTURE: Keynote by Sheila Jassanoff (Harvard Kennedy School)
    "Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age"
    Kick-off of the Young Researchers conference (Link) on 24 -26 November 2021 (see below)

  • 25-26 November 2021

    Young Researchers Conference "Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology". (Link to the event site)

  • 02-03 December 2021

    "Digitale Nachhaltigkeit oder nachhaltige Digitalisierung? Sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit."
    3. Annual Meeting of the Working Group »Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für die Soziologische Theorie«, Berlin
    In cooperation with University of Passau and the Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG)
    For more information see the program (PDF).

  • 06 December 2021

    Digital Discussion "Rechte der Natur - Ein Weg aus dem Artensterben?" (via Zoom Webinar),  Program (PDF)
    Keynote: Alberto Acosta "Die Rechte der Natur oder das Recht auf Leben"
    Organization: Frank Adloff, Tanja Busse

2020 Archive

  • 08 January 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Wolfgang Denzler (Universität Hamburg):
    "Die Entpolitisierung der Nachhaltigkeit"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 15 January 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre):
    "Die Zukunftssoziologie im Anthropozän – Für eine allgemeine Ökologie der Zukunft"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 22 January 2020, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

    Theory Workshop "Tribunal der Arten"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 22 January 2020, 2-4 p.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Konrad Ott (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel):
    "Umweltethik und Gerechtigkeit - Über die normativen Grundlagen der Nachhaltigkeitsidee"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 29 January 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Discussion with Christophe Bonneuil (Centre de recherches historiques (CRH), Ehess-Cnrs)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 05 February 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen (University Basel):
    "Nachhaltigkeit und Religion"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 06 February 2020, 10 - 12 a.m.

    Workshop with Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen (Universität Basel):
    "Zukunftsvisionen von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 10 February 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    Discussion with Prof. Dr. Antonio Inácio Andrioli (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - UFFS)
    Event in cooperation with: Agrar Koordination & FIA e.V.
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 12 February 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Sarah Lenz (Humanities Centre):
    "Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung"
    Presentation by Dr. Philipp Degens (Humanities Centre)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, room 1021

  • 29 April 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Paper by Timo Wiegand: "Sustainability between social and economic demands: economic justifications based on guidelines, certificates, benchmarks and awards"

  • 06 May 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Presentation by Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino (Universität Hamburg):
    "Der Instrumenten-Mix in der deutschen Klimapolitik: Zwischen Wählerwille und Wirksamkeit"

  • 13 May 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Text discussion: An ecomodernist Manifesto (http://www.ecomodernism.org/)

  • 20 May 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Text discussion: Andrew Abbott (2019): "Prozessuales Denken - Reflexionen über Marx und Weber"

  • 27 May 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    Presentation by Leonhard Anzinger (Universität Hamburg), Presentation of the Master Thesis:
    "Der Effektive Altruismus und die Gabe - ein Theorievergleich"

  • 17 June 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Dr. Sarah Lenz (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit. Für eine konventionstheoretische Perspektive auf zwei gesellschaftliche Großprojekte"

  • 24 June 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff (Director, Humanities Centre) and Iris Hilbrich (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Practices of sustainability and their naturecultures"
    Discussion of the dissertation project of Iris Hilbrich (Humanities Centre)

  • 01 July 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Hegemonizing the Energy Futures of Sustainability – Modernization as Cultural Project of Power"
    Dr. Philipp Degens (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Towards sustainable property? On the relation between ownership and sustainability"

  • 09 July 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM
    Dr. Benno Fladvad (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Rethinking democracy in times of crises: towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of public action”
    Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel (Director, Humanities Centre) and Martina Hasenfratz (Humanities Centre), Outlook: Paper in Social Science Information, Special Issue, Vol. 60 No. 2. (2021):
    "Climate Emotions and Emotional Climates - The Emotional Map of Ecological Crisis and the Blank Spots on our Sociological Landscapes"

  • 20-21 October 2020

    Workshop series (digital): 20.10.2020: 12:30 p.m. - 14:30 p.m., 21.10.2020: 10:30 a.m. - 13:30 p.m.
    "Countermapping and diagrams for co-research"
    Manuela Zechner, PhD (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) and Bue Rübner Hansen, PhD (Webster University, Vienna)

  • 05-06 November 2020

    Young Researchers Conference

  • 04 November 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Lisa Knoll (Fellow at the Humanities Centre):
    "Nachhaltigkeitsmärkte im Vergleich. Zur Transformation von Staatlichkeit."

  • 11 November 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Michael Seemann (Lecturer and author, Berlin):
    "Die Macht der Plattformen. Hegemonie und Kontrolle digitaler Infrastrukturen"

  • 18 November 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Dr. Jonathan Symons (Macquarie University, Sydney):
    "Ecomodernism"

  • 25 November 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-LECTURE in the KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Robert van Krieken (The University of Sydney): "The Civilizing Process and Sustainability"

  • 26 November 2020, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (CET)

    Digital Workshop "Global sustainability and varieties of modernity"
    Joint Workshop with the research group "Varieties of modernity in the current global context: the role of BRICS and the Global South" at Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg (Russia), director: Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona).
    Trajectories of Modernity
    - Peter Wagner: "Reviewing the historical trajectories of modernity: biophysical resources and socio-ecological transformations"
    - Ekaterina Purgina [belongs to session on "Valuing Nature"]: "Sights and scars of imagined geography: journeys through environmental disasters in post-Soviet countries"
    - Frank Adloff/Iris Hilbrich: "Natures of Sustainability: Ecosystem Services, Rights of Nature, and Geoengineering"
    - Maxim Khomyakov: "Russian interpretations of modernity and their focus on mastery"
    Valuing Nature
    - Philipp Degens: "Sustainable Property Imaginations and the Ownership of Nature"
    - Ksenia Muratshina: "Environmental evaluation of large-scale international economic projects in the BRICS countries"

  • 02 December 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Manuela Zechner, PhD (Aristotle University Thessaloniki):
    "The ecological crisis as an impasse of care: mapping ways out of systemic carelessness"

  • 09 December 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Bue Rübner Hansen, PhD (Webster University, Vienna):
    "No interest but the interest in breathing - reconsidering interest beyond property and citizenship"

  • 09 December 2020, 6-7:30 p.m.

    Panel discussion
    "Konvivialität - Die Zukunft unseres Zusammenlebens"
    Participants: Judith Döker (Künstlerin), Siri Hummel (Maecenata Institut), Cem Özdemir (B‘90/Die Grünen), Bernd Ulrich (Die Zeit), Teresa Koloma Beck (UBw München)
    Moderation: Frank Adloff (U. Hamburg) und Sérgio Costa (Mecila Merian Center/FU Berlin)
    live via YouTube

  • 16 December 2020, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Sören Altstaedt (Humanities Centre):
    Presentation of the dissertation project "Die Ökologisierung der Zukunft"

2019 Archive

  • 18 September 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Oona Morrow (Wageningen University & Research):
    "Imagining Alternative (Food) Waste Futures through Community Composting in New York City"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 02 October 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona):
    "Historisches Unrecht – globale Gerechtigkeit"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 16 October 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Discussion, Text by Cornelius Castoriadis
    Moderation: Benno Fladvad and Sarah Lenz (Humanities Centre)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 23 October 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide):
    "Castoriadis, Social Imaginaries, Autonomy"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 30 October, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presenation by Tanja Busse ('Journalist in Residence'):
    "Public Sociology"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 06 November 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Discussion: Texts by Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona)
    as well as Johann P. Arnason.
    Input von Nathalie Karagiannis (Universitat de Barcelona):
    "Two productive tensions in Castoriadis"
    Moderation: Benno Fladvad and Sarah Lenz (Humanities Centre)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 13 November 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Aurea Mota, PhD (Universitat de Barcelona):
    "The Ontic Imaginary of Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: an Initial Exploration"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 20 November 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentation by Prof. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex):
    "Looking at Sustainability from the Perspective of Critical Theory"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 27. November 2019, 10-12 a.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Presentatino by Martina Hasenfratz (Humanities Centre):
    "Menstruationspraktiken in einer Gesellschaft der Nachhaltigkeit"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Raum 1021

  • 27. November 2019, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

    Book presentation and discussion: "This is not economy. Aufruf zur Revolution der Wirtschaftswissenschaft" with Christian Felber
    Comments by: Arne Heise (Universität Hamburg) and Maximilian Klopp (Arbeitskreis Plurale Ökonomik Hamburg)
    Moderation: Frank Adloff (Director, Humanities Centre)
    Von-Melle-Park 9, Hörsaal

  • 29 November 2019, 2-6 p.m. (from 6 p.m.: Reception)

    OPENING CONFERENCE "Imaginationen von Nachhaltigkeit"
    Opening lecture by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke (University Konstanz)
    With contributions by Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide), Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex), Aurea Mota (Universitat de Barcelona), Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona) and others
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 03 December 2019, 5-7 p.m.

    Book presentation "Social Imaginaries – Critical Interventions" by Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide)
    with Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona)
    Moderation: Frank Adloff (Humanities Centre)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1026

  • 11 December 2019, 6-8 p.m.

    KOLLEG-LECTURE: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner (Universitat de Barcelona):
    "Fortschritt und Nachhaltigkeit"
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021

  • 18 December 2019, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

    KOLLEG-FORUM: Book presentation "Anthropozän zur Einführung" with Prof. Dr. Eva Horn (University Vienna)
    Comments by: Frank Adloff and Philipp Degens (Humanities Centre)
    Moderation: Sighard Neckel (Director, Humanities Centre)
    Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, Seminar room 1021