Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies
Futures of Sustainability

Digital Theme Week, 03-07 May 2021

Are capitalism and sustainability compatible? If so, under what conditions do capitalist economies succeed in finding answers to the multiple ecological crises? Is it impossible that "creative destruction" (Schumpeter) as a mode of capitalist dynamics might also “creatively” destroy fossil...

From April to September, Stefan Aykut (University of Hamburg) will be a Fellow at our Centre. He will use his fellowship to continue working on the main features of a sociology of limitation. On the one hand, the role of global climate conferences will be in the foreground, where new political forms of governance and forms...

The pandemic and climate change both force us to pose the question: What labour must be suspended to avoid disaster and what labour must continue? In the years to come, the debate about green transition will...