31 March 2026

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.
No registration needed (unless otherwise noted).
Contact: futures.of.sustainability"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Kolleg-Forum: 08 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Roderick Condon (Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin): "Crisis Diagnoses and Futures of Sustainability"

Kolleg-Forum: 15 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Kübra Gümüşay (Author, Hamburg): "Just Futures, Real Utopias & The Politics of Imagination"

Kolleg-Forum: 22 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Frank Biermann (Utrecht University): "Planetary Crisis and Plurilateral Politics: Global Governance in the Age of Trump"

Kolleg-Forum: 29 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Aarti Gupta (Wageningen University): "Anticipatory Governance of Novel Technologies: The Case of Solar Geoengineering"
Cara Daggett (Fellow at Futures of Sustainability): "Fossil Fuels and the Family" 

Kolleg-Forum: 06 May 2026, 10:30 – 12:00 (in German!)
Ingolfur Blühdorn (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien): "Rhetorik der ökologischen Reaktion? Verteidigungsreflexe gegen das Trauma der Unhaltbarkeit" 

13.05.2026: NO Kolleg-Forum! due to University of Hamburg “Pfingsten Break”

Kolleg-Forum: 20 May 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Antje Daniel (University of Vienna): "Solidarity or the reproduction of inequality? North-South relations in contemporary youth climate activism"

Kolleg-Forum: 27 May 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Svjetlana Nedimović (Organizer and Activist, Sarajevo): ""For the Miners, Land and Water!": Organizing against Unjust Transition on the Peripheries"

Kolleg-Forum: 03 June 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Michael Schnegg (University of Hamburg): "Patience as Ecological Agency"

Public Lecture: 10 June 2026, 16:00-18:00! 
Hillary Angelo (University of California Santa Cruz): "Solar Struggles in Nevada: Climate Change, City-Hinterland Relations, the Question of Large-Scale Social Transformation"
In cooperation with the RTG “Urban future-making” at HafenCity University Hamburg
More info here and here.

Kolleg-Forum: 17 June 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Kezia Barker (Liverpool John Moores University): "Prepping and Apocalyptic Awakenings: From Anaesthetic Affects to Survival Mentalities"

Kolleg-Forum: 24 June 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Cancelled! No Kolleg-Forum

Kolleg-Forum: 01 July 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Julian Genner (University of Basel): "Surviving without caring? Imagining patriarchal masculinities among Germany’s preppers"

Kolleg-Forum: 08 July 2026, 10:30 – 12:00 (in German!)
Anita Engels (University of Hamburg: Book Release "Die Klimawende JETZT organisieren. Strategien gegen Stillstand und Ohnmacht“ 
With comments by:
Hanna Gäbel, Student M.A. Sociology, University of Hamburg
Ralf Helling, Managing Director, Verein Lenzsiedlung e.V., Hamburg

Kolleg-Forum: 15 July 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Lea Kammler (Futures of Sustainability): Speculative Futures: Contestations over Transformative Social-Ecological Justice in Global Energy Partnerships"
Marius Timmann Mjaaland (University of Oslo): "Futures consciousness and long-term governance"