16 September 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: 14 October 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Andreas Weber (Author, Biologist, and Philosopher, Berlin): "Nondual experience as philosophical practice"

Kolleg-Forum: 21 October 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Cordula Kropp (University of Stuttgart): "Technopolitics in Material Regimes"

Kolleg-Forum: 28 October 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Joshua Matanzima (The University of Queensland): "Becoming renewable energy zones: deploying clean energy infrastructure on abandoned mines for sustainable development" 

Kolleg-Forum: 04 November 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Sari Pietikäinen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): "Reconfiguring Arctic futures with salmon: assemblage thinking for the politics of living at the climate frontline"

Kolleg-Forum: 11 November 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
tbd

Kolleg-Forum: 18 November 2026, 10:30 – 12:00 (in English)
Book presentation with Stefan C. Aykut: “Die Klimamutation: Verhandlungen, Geopolitik, Demokratie”

Kolleg-Forum: 25 November 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Stefan Höhne (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)): "Cultures of the Cryosphere - Histories and Futures of Artificial Cooling"

01 December 2026, 17:00, Public Lecture at HafenCity University Hamburg
Cordula Kropp (University of Stuttgart): title tbd
Please note: This event will take place at HafenCity University Hamburg and is organized in cooperation with the Research training group (RTG) ‘Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale’ at HafenCity University Hamburg. 
More infos here soon

Kolleg-Forum: 02 December 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
tbd

Kolleg-Forum: 09 December 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Jacob Blumenfeld (Centre for Social Critique, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): "Aesthetics of Transition in the Moment of its Failure"

Kolleg-Forum: 16 December 2026, 10:30 – 12:00
Marco Hohmann (Futures of Sustainability): "What Remains. Rethinking Extraction through Waste in Southern Greenland"

Kolleg-Forum: 06 January 2027, 10:30 – 12:00
tbd

Kolleg-Lecture: 13 January 2027, 17:00-19:00!
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School): "Coded Power: How to End Digital Despotism and Reclaim our Data"
More information on registration soon

Kolleg-Forum: 20 January 2027, 10:30 – 12:00
Robert Schmidt (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): "Zones of Density. Contemporaneity (Zeitgenossenschaft) and the Conflictuality of the Present"

Kolleg-Forum: 27 January 2027, 10:30 – 12:00
Carlos R. S. Milani (State University of Rio de Janeiro): "The Global Politics of Climate Obstruction"