The Centre organises a wide range of events – from public lectures, seminars and workshops to more interactive artistic formats with our fellows, writers and artists-in-residence, the Centre's postdoctoral and doctoral researchers, and our colleagues at University of Hamburg.

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. 

• Save the dates: Keynotes at the Young Scholars' Conference 2026, 07 + 09 October 2026

  We are pleased to announce our upcoming Young Scholars’ Conference “Remaking Responsibility. Environmental Harm, Care, and Accountability”, taking place from 07-09 October 2026 at our Centre.
  While the call for papers is already closed (and the conference fully booked), we invite you to join us for the Keynote Address by Julia Eckert (University of Bern) on 07 October 2026, 10:15-11:45 AM, and the Closing Keynote by Barbara Muraca (University of Greifswald) on 09 October 2026, 1:00-2:30 PM.
  Registration for both Keynotes will possible here in due time before the Conference.

• 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 Mjaaland (University of Oslo): "Futures consciousness and long-term governance"

• Kolleg-Forum: 08 July 2026, 10:30 – 12:00 (in German!)

  Anita Engels (Universität 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: 01 July 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Julian Genner (University of Basel): "Surviving without caring? Imagining patriarchal masculinities among Germany’s preppers"

• Kolleg-Forum: 24 June 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Cancelled! No Kolleg-Forum

• 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"

• 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” at HafenCity University Hamburg
  More info here and here. 

• Kolleg-Forum: 03 June 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Michael Schnegg (University of Hamburg): "Patience as Ecological Agency"

• 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"

• Film Screening and Discussion, 21 May, 19 p.m. - 21 p.m.

  "ZBOR! For Miners, Land and Water"
  By: Dragan Stanimirović and Združeni balkanski otpor i rad/United Balkans Resistance and Labour
  With an introduction by organizer Svjetlana Nedimović (Sarajevo) and cultural theorist Gal Kirn (Frankfurt Oder/Ljubljana).

• 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" 

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

• Kolleg-Forum: 06 May 2026, 10:30 – 12:00 (in German!)

  Ingolfur Blühdorn (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien): "Rhetorik der ökologischen Reaktion? Verteidigungsreflexe gegen das Theorem der Unhaltbarkeit"

• 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: 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: 15 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Kübra Gümüşay (Author, Hamburg): "Just Futures, Real Utopias & The Politics of Imagination"

• Kolleg-Forum: 08 April 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Roderick Condon (Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin): "Crisis Diagnoses and Futures of Sustainability"

• Workshop, 25-27 March

  "Rights of Nature - Nature as a Subject"
  Keynote by Andreas Weber: "Die Gabe des Lebens. Eine Ökologie der Wirklichkeit".

• Klimawende Ausblick 2025, 03 February, 16:00 - 18:00

  Präsentation und Diskussion, im Anschluss Apéro, alle Infos hier

• Workshop, 29 and 30 January

"Ecocide Law and Climate Litigation", organized by Juneseo Hwang, Laura Affolter und Stefan C. Aykut. All info here.

• Kolleg-Forum: 21 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Macario Lacbawan (Futures of Sustainability): "Between Escape and Return: Foraging, the Smart City, and Life at the Edge of a Blasted World"

• Kolleg-Forum: 14 January 2026, 10:30 – 12:00

  Maxim Khomyakov (Fellow at Futures of Sustainability): "Rational mastery over the world in constellations of Russian modernity"

• Kolleg-Forum: 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"