Save the dates: Keynotes at the Young Scholars' Conference 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.

About the Conference:

Responsibility is often invoked in relation to the climate crisis to assign historical blame to high-emitting nations, indict extractive corporations, or moralize individual behavior. It has become an expansive and elastic lexicon for navigating the overwhelming reality of climate change. Yet, even as the climate crisis demands new forms of responsibility, it simultaneously unsettles the very terms through which responsibility has conventionally been understood. 

In this conference, we aim to explore responsibility as a contested and generative concept, shaping how environmental harm is attributed and governed, while also opening possibilities for collective care and accountability. 

Organized by Philipp Jacobi, Macario Lacbawan, Laura Affolter and Marco Hohmann (Futures of Sustainability).