No Registration neededKolleg-Forum, Winter Term 2025/2026Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, door bell sign "Nachhaltigkeit", room 1021

15 October 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

15 October 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Maarten A. Hajer (Utrecht University): "The Making of Captured Futures: a Discussion of Research Priorities and Methods" 
With Comments by Delf Rothe (IFSH) on Chapter 2, Lea Kammler (Futures of Sustainability) on Chapter 3, Philipp Jacobi (Futures of Sustainability) on Chapter 5, Lucile Maertens (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Stefan C. Aykut (Futures of Sustainability) on Chapter 7. 
These Comments refer to the book on the book "Captured Futures. Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics" by Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen. 

22 October 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Antje Daniel (University of Vienna): "How inclusive should the climate justice movement be? Claims and disputes surrounding intersectionality"

29 October 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Lucile Maertens (Geneva Graduate Institute): "'Let's not forget about the environment!' International organizations and agenda-keeping in a world of crises"

05 November 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Cornelius Heimstädt (Fellow at Futures of Sustainability):"The Climatization of Venture Capital"

12 November 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Leon Wansleben (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies):"For a Sociology of Advanced Energy Transitions"

19 November 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Cassiopea Staudacher (Futures of Sustainability): "Tragedy of Time: A Sociology of Asynchronicites in the Nuclear Anthropocene"

26 November 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
tbd

03 December 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 
Alejandro Esguerra (University of Bielefeld):  "The Politics of Beginning: The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation"

10 December 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
Kerstin Lopatta (University of Hamburg): "Simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards - Drivers of Transformation?"

17 December 2025, 13:00-14:00 (!)
Eray Çayli (University of Hamburg): "Faultlining: The Racial and Gendered Politics of Earthquake Risk and Resilience" 

07 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Noah Walker-Crawford (London School of Economics): "Climate science on trial: evidentiary strategy in climate litigation"
Sandrine Maljean-Dubois (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University): "Use of science in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on obligations of states in respect of climate change"

14 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Maxim Khomyakov (Fellow at Futures of Sustainability): "Rational mastery over the world in constellations of Russian modernity"

21 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Macario Lacbawan (Futures of Sustainability): - title tbd -

28 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Cara Daggett (Fellow at Futures of Sustainability): - title tbd -