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Futures of Sustainability
Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies
Futures of Sustainability

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"Futures of Sustainability" successfully launched

5 September 2019

On 02.09.2019, the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" was successfully launched. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner (4th from right) and Nathalie Karagiannis (not in the picture) from the Universitat de Barcelona (ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) as our first Fellows. Over the next four years, numerous other international guest researchers will come to our centre to promote the scientific exchange.

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Food is essential. It is at the core of human life and involves the whole of society and all social institutions. In this summer school, we’ll take a closer, interdisciplinary look at the table. What is on the table? What happens around the table? Where does the food come from? Who’s invited to the...

Karl-Werner Brand

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22.04.2025|Futures of Sustainability
New Fellow: Karl-Werner Brand

I am a sociologist and political scientist whose interests range from social history of Westerns societies and social movement research to environmental sociology and dynamics of social-ecological transformations – and their political and societal blockades – in different regions of the world. I am...