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1 September 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Interview with Frank Adloff about Climate Change

Everyone knows it, but hardly anyone is doing anything: despite the obvious consequences of climate change, little progress is being made on climate protection. This is also due to the fact that the measures are voluntary. And a lack of solidarity, says Frank Adloff. The whole interview (in German) can be found here.

Sören Altstaedt defending his PhD-Thesis

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17 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Successful PhD-Thesis Defense by Sören Altstaedt

Dear Sören - congratulations on the successful defense of your PhD thesis "Ecologizing Tomorrow. The Clash of Future-Cultures in the 1970s “Limits to Growth” Debates"!

Sören Altstaedt is a former research associate of the “Futures of Sustainability”.

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12 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

From Defeat to Resistance. What can we learn from the US nightmare?, 16 June, 18:00 (Apéro from 17:30)

Join us on the evening of 16 June (18:00, Apèro from 17:30) for a public panel discussion with Dana R. Fisher and Cara Daggett, two leading voices in US climate and political research. Together, we’ll examine the American case as a warning — and a source of lessons — for democratic and ecological resistance in times of...

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10 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Dana R. Fisher

Dana R. Fisher is a dynamic speaker and author who writes about activism, democracy and climate policy. She is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Governance...

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1 June 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Svjetlana Nedimović

Born and based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Having done her PhD on Hannah Arendt's work on imagination as a source of collective action (EUI, Firenze), Svjetlana Nedimović had briefly taught political theory in Sarajevo and then devoted herself to editorial work and, over the last 15 years, grassroots struggles for...

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30 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

New Fellow: Carl Cassegård

Carl Cassegård has taught and researched as a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg since 2009, mostly in the fields of cultural sociology, social movement studies, and social theory. His research on how literature and popular culture can be used to trace shifting experiences of modernity and shifts in the ideal of...

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12 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Wie weiter mit der „Klimawende“?

Stefan C. Aykut diskutierte mit zum Thema "Wie weiter mit der ' Klimawende' ? beim Abendsalon Hadley's. Deutschland soll bis 2045 klimaneutral werden, so sieht es das Klimaschutzgesetz vor. Das Ziel ist also klar, der Weg dorthin ist es aber weit weniger. Sicher ist: Die Klimawende erfordert neben technischen und...

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12 May 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Kapitalismus am Limit, 4 June, 16:00-18:00h (in German)

Book presentation “Kapitalismus am Limit. Öko-imperiale Spannungen, umkämpfte Krisenpolitik und solidarische Perspektiven”

With author Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)
Comments: Sarah Lenz (Paderborn University), Kohei Saito (University of Tokyo)
Moderation: Frank Adloff (“Futures of Sustainability”, University of...

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29 April 2025|Futures of Sustainability

Eating together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality- 7-22 July

Food is essential. It is at the core of human life and involves the whole of society and all social institutions. In this summer school, we’ll take a closer, interdisciplinary look at the table. What is on the table? What happens around the table? Where does the food come from? Who’s invited to the banquet? And who’s not...

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