Registration is open: Theme Week "Capitalism and Sustainability"

13 April 2021

Photo: E. Boßerhoff

Digital Theme Week, 03-07 May 2021

Recordings of the event on our YouTube channel Futures of Sustainability, Universität Hamburg

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 capitalism and invent new possibilities in the “combination of materials and forces” that actually make capitalism green? Or are there material limits to "green capitalism" that are inherent in the material properties of eco-systems, so that "creative destruction" is only destruction in the end? Must even "dynamic" capitalism ultimately fail because of the ecological question?

In the weeklong event series “Capitalism and Sustainability”, we are going to discuss these questions from different perspectives and in the scope of different events.

Further informationen here.

Registration is open:

Please register by sending an e-mail to: zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Registered participants will receive the Zoom access details shortly before the Theme Week. Until then, we kindly ask for your patience.

Please note, the Keynote (03 May) and the closing Lecture (07 May) will be held in English, while the Workshop (05 May) will be held in German.