NewsPhoto: Art: Marie Klingelhöfer; Design: Martin Kollmann18 July 2024|Futures of SustainabilityHopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet, 9-11 October 2024What orientations towards the future are emerging as intertwined ecological, social, and political crises intensify? The conference explores the entanglements of catastrophic and hopeful thinking in the Anthropocene. In particular, it examines the role of hopeful attachments in the midst of the ongoing destruction of...Photo: Yifei Li1 July 2024|Futures of SustainabilityNew Fellow: Yifei LiI 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...Photo: Alev Takil on Unsplash27 June 2024|Futures of SustainabilityPerceiving and Reflecting Organized Valuation, 24-25 October 2024, HamburgThe 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...Photo: Art: Marie Klingelhöfer; Design: Martin Kollmann6 June 2024|Futures of SustainabilityWhen Power Goes Green, 10 July 2024How does the climate emergency engender new configurations of power? And how does it reinforce existing ones? In this workshop, we want to examine the recent entanglement between authoritarian power and the contemporary climate crisis. More specifically, we look into (1) how and why authoritarian leaders have utilized...Photo: politybooks4 June 2024|Futures of SustainabilityCarbon Societies: The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels, 26 June 2024, 03:30-06:00 p.m.The climate crisis is humanmade due to burning fossil fuels. Peter Wagner’s book delves into the reasons behind the trajectory of escalating fossil fuel use. Factors like population growth, desire for freedom from want, and profit-seeking have shaped history. However, pursuing social objectives hasn't inevitably led to...Photo: Stefan C. Aykut4 June 2024|Futures of SustainabilityPodiumsdiskussion zum Klimawende Ausblick 2024, 25. Juni 2024, 18.30 UhrDas Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) lädt herzlich ein zu einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Klimawende Ausblick 2024 mit dem Titel „Die Gesellschaft der Klimawende“ im Rahmen der CSS Lecture Series „After Sustainability“ und in Kooperation mit der DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe „Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit“ Stefan C...Photo: Art: Marie Klingelhöfer, Design: Martin Kollmann3 June 2024|Futures of SustainabilityStructural problems in climate reporting, 13 June 2024, 04:00-06:00 p.m.The climate crisis poses an acute threat to our livelihoods, yet it is usually only one topic among others in the media coverage. This does not do justice to the urgency and complexity of the crisis. It distorts public perception - and thus also influences the ability of politics, business and society to react to the scale...Photo: Netzwerk Rechte der Natur7 May 2024|Futures of SustainabilityDie Rechte der NaturAm 25.04. 2024 war Frank Adloff für einen Vortrag mit dem Thema "Die Rechte der Natur - Eine wichtige Chance in Zeiten der Postnachhaltigkeit" zu Gast beim Netzwerk für die Rechte der Natur. Das Video können Sie hier abrufen.Photo: iStock: ronstik23 April 2024|Futures of SustainabilityWidersprechen oder TotschlagenAm 12. April ist eine Podcast-Folge der Golden Record Studios mit Frank Adloff auf Spotify erschienen:"Widersprechen oder Totschlagen"Wie begegnen wir den Polykrisen unserer Zeit? Und sollte man fremden Intelligenzen nicht erst einmal Vertrauen schenken, anstatt sie zu bekämpfen? Hier der Link zum Podcast.Hier der Link zum...Archive of current newsUpcoming Sustainability Events at Universität HamburgPost new eventMore Events12.09.2410:00 AMHamburg Innovation Summit 2024