The Centre

Welcome to Futures of Sustainability!

The DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies is a space for engaged international debate, bringing together doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and international fellows from a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to work collaboratively on a theory-driven analysis of the present in the face of a shrinking habitability of the planet. The Centre started its work in September 2019 for a first funding phase under the leadership of Sighard Neckel and Frank Adloff, and will start its second funding period in December 2023 under the leadership of Frank Adloff, Christine Hentschel and Stefan C. Aykut. The new phase is particularly dedicated to questions of social conflicts over environmental sustainability, futures in the face of crises and catastrophes, and different social relations with nature.