Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies
Futures of Sustainability

We are delighted to share a Call for Participation for the Young Scholars’ Conference: "Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice", taking place from 8–10 October 2025 at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability," University of Hamburg, Germany.

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This short conference film features some impressions from our Annual Conference 2024: “Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet“, 9-11 October 2024, organized by the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. The conference explored the entanglements of catastrophic...

Çaglar Yigitoğulları is a Theater maker, actor and performance artist.  After working for Istanbul City Theater for 15 years, 7 years ago he left Turkey because of the political oppression and limited freedom there. Since 2005 he has been producing his work in the field of performance. The main trigger of his solo work is...

All previous measures to protect nature have not been very successful so far. Could we legally force nature to be better protected? What if nature were given rights, if it became a legal subject?

Frank Adloff addressed these questions in an online lecture for students by invitation of the Public Climate School on November...

We are pleased to announce that the 6th volume of our book series "Futures of Sustainability" has been published by Campus:

"Das Scheitern des grünen Kapitalismus. Analysen, Aussichten, Alternativen
edited by Philipp Degens and Sighard Neckel

Green capitalism promises to get the ecological crisis under control through...

You are kindly invited to participate in our upcoming evening event on 27.11., 18:00, at Felix Jud Bookstore. The event will be held in GERMAN.

Wir freuen uns, Sie zu einer besonderen Veranstaltung einladen zu dürfen: zur Diskussion über das neu erschienene Glossar der Gegenwart 2.0 (hg. von Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne...