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Futures of Sustainability
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Futures of Sustainability

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Call for Papers: Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology

10 February 2021

Call for Papers for the Conference of the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”
University of Hamburg, 24.-26. November 2021
Organisation: Philipp Degens, Iris Hilbrich, Sarah Lenz

Keynotes
- 24. November 2021: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
- 25. November 2021: Lara Monticelli (Copenhagen Business School)
- 26. November 2021: Dominic Boyer (Rice University)

Dates and deadlines
The digital conference is hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at Hamburg University.
Submission of abstracts (max. 500 words): 30.04.2021.
Submission of conference papers: 31.10.2021.

All information here.

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