No Registration neededKolleg-Forum, Summer Term 2025Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, door bell sign "Nachhaltigkeit", room 1021

11 March 2025

Photo: UHH/Hansen, Design: Martin Kollmann

The Kolleg-Forum is our regular discussion format during the semester, usually taking place on Wednesdays at 10.30 at Gorch Fock Wall 3, door bell sign Nachhaltigkeit, room 1021. Get in touch if you have suggestions for additional events, and feel free to bring your colleagues and friends to all of our events. No registration needed. Contact: futures.of-sustainability"AT"uni-hamburg.de

09 April 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Eva von Redecker (Philosopher, Brandenburg countryside): "Isolated Liberty. On the ecological indifference of liberal freedom" 

16 April 2025, 10:30– 12:00
Peter Niesen (University of Hamburg and Collegium Lyon): "Political Sufficiency for Animals"

23 April 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna): "International competitiveness as major obstacle for social-ecological transformations"

30 April 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Michael Schnegg and Julian Jasper Sommerschuh (University of Hamburg): "How to be hopeful about climate change"
Comment by Macario Lacbawan (Futures of Sustainability)

07 May 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Benno Fladvad (University of Hamburg): "Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action"

14 May 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Juneseo Hwang (Futures of Sustainability): “Uneasy Questions in the Politics of Rights of Nature”

21 May 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Frank Adloff (Futures of Sustainability) and Frédéric Vandenberghe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ)): "Prospects of Convivialism and Commensalism"

04 June 2025, 16:00 – 18:00 (in German)
Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna): Book Presentation (in German) "Kapitalismus am Limit" 
Comments: Sarah Lenz (Paderborn University), Kohei Saito (University of Tokyo)
Chair: Frank Adloff (Futures of Sustainability)

11 June 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 
Carl Cassegard (University of Gothenburg): "Critical Theory in Catastrophic Times"

18 June 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Svjetlana Nedimović  (Organizer and Activist, Sarajevo):
"Green Future, Grey Present? United Balkans Resistance and Work against Energy Transition"

25 June 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 
Philipp Jacobi (Futures of Sustainability): "Degrowth in the backpack of a more-than-human ethnographer – Some theoretical reflections"

02 July 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 
Anita Engels (University of Hamburg): "What to do about climate change: From realistic assessments to non-dystopian suggestions?”

09 July 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
tbd

16 July 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Jan Wilkens (University of Hamburg): "The Dark Sides of Climate Justice: Contesting Just Transitions in a Warming World"