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5 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

Invitation: International Workshop on Ecocide Law and Climate Litigation, 29 and 30th of January 2026

Despite scientific warnings and accelerating impacts, meaningful political measures to halt environmental destruction and hold corporate polluters accountable remain persistently insufficient. Environmental law, in particular, lags behind the imperative of bringing global development within planetary boundaries. Against...

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5 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Sandrine Maljean-Dubois

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois is a researcher at the CNRS and Deputy Scientific Director of the CNRS's Social Sciences and Humanities department, where she is in charge of the Law and Sociology division. She specialises in international environmental law, particularly biodiversity and climate change law, and more recently the...

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2 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Noah Walker-Crawford

Noah Walker-Crawford is a publicly engaged researcher who studies climate litigation from a socio-legal perspective. His current research examines how climate change attribution science shapes litigation. Noah holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. His doctoral research focussed on the moral...

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1 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Kübra Gümüşay

Kübra Gümüşay is author of the bestselling book »Sprache und Sein« (»Speaking and Being«) and founder of several award winning campaigns and organisations. She is host of the talk series »Utopia Talks« at Thalia Theater and »Widerstand & Leben« [»resistance & life«] at eeden. Her current research focuses on just futures...

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1 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Cara Daggett

Cara New Daggett is a political philosopher whose research explores energy and ecological politics through an intersectional feminist framework. She is an affiliate faculty member in political science at Virginia Tech, where she was an associate professor before moving to Germany. Between 2023 and 2025, she was a senior...

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1 January 2026|Futures of Sustainability

New Felllow: Maksim Khomiakov

Professor Maksim Khomiakov is a historical and cultural sociologist with a strong background in philosophy and intellectual history. His main research interests are historical-comparative sociology, sociology of modernity, social and political theory, philosophy, sociology of education and Western and Russian intellectual...

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1 December 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Now available with open access! Volume 6 of the Centre's book series "The Failure of Green Capitalism"

We are very happy to announce that the 6th volume of our book series "Futures of Sustainability" is now available with open access. You can read and download the book on the website of Campus.

Volume 6 with the title "Das Scheitern des grünen Kapitalismus. Analysen, Aussichten, Alternativen" edited by Philipp Degens und...

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29 November 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Interview with Frank Adloff at Deutschlandfunk Kultur

A few weeks ago Frank Adloff published his new book "Wirkliches und Mögliches in der Klimakrise. Perspektiven der Sozialwissenschaften im ökologischen Wandel". In the latest episode of the podcast series "Tacheles" from Deutschlandfunk Kultur he talks about the realities we need to face and possibilities that social...

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18 November 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Buchpräsentation mit Frank Adloff, 10. Dezember 2025, 16:00-18:00 Uhr

Bereits vor zwei Wochen erschien das neue Buch von Frank Adloff "Wirkliches und Mögliches in der Klimakrise. Perspektiven der Sozialwissenschaften im ökologischen Wandel", das mit Open Access beim transcript Verlag verfügbar ist. Dieses wird er bei uns im Centre unter der Moderation von Christine Hentschel und mit...

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