Welcome to our Centre!

12 September 2019

We are very pleased to welcome our Fellow Oona Morrow (PhD) from Wageningen University & Research (NL) at our Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies for a period of four weeks. During her stay in Hamburg her expertise in the research fields of Food Sociology, Diverse Economies and the Commons as well as her international network will definitely enrich the research work of our team. Furthermore, she will continue her work on publications.

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29.04.2025|Futures of Sustainability

Eating together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality

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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...