Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies
Futures of Sustainability

I am a sociologist with broad interdisciplinary research interests in fields like food studies, critical agrarian studies, and gender studies. Within my discipline I connect mostly with environmental sociology and political sociology, and my academic work follows the role of social mobilization and state-society relations...

Due to the high demand and limited capacity at our venue, we would like to draw your attention to two options for participating in our conference:

We look forward to an exciting program on both evenings at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Both events are open to the public (while the rest of the conference...

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future since this is the primary focus for the playing out of crises.

Senses of the Future offers a wide-ranging discussion of theories of the future. It covers the main ideas of the future...

Norbert Ebert is a Sociologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His work is grounded in the critical sociology tradition of the Budapest School, which explores the negotiation and (dis)satisfaction of needs as a framework for analyzing contemporary social, economic and political processes. This perspective...

The purpose of this workshop (24.-25. October 2024 in Hamburg) is to reflect, together with Christian Bessy (Head of IDHES, ENS Paris-Saclay), on the role of perception in organized valuation. Drawing on ongoing research projects, we aim to jointly examine the ways in which the interpretation of sensory information shapes...

I am broadly interested in contemporary Chinese environmental politics. As a sociologist, I am more specifically interested in the human beings behind environmental politics, including bureaucrats and policymakers who wield environmental power and ordinary citizens who are on the receiving end of authority. Using...