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Futures of Sustainability
Humanities Centre for
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Futures of Sustainability

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Second funding phase granted

30 March 2023

Good news from the German Research Foundation! The DFG's Joint Committee has decided to fund our Humanities Centre for another four years until 2027. The start of the second term is December 2023. In the new leadership team with Frank Adloff, Christine Hentschel and Stefan Aykut, we want to continue the work of the Humanities Centre and set new accents. The current spokesperson, Sighard Neckel, will continue to be a Senior Permanent Fellow of the Centre. News about postdoctoral and doctoral positions, Fellowships and Writers in residence will follow in the next months. Stay tuned.

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Vegetables

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29.04.2025|Futures of Sustainability
Eating together. Food, Ecology, and Conviviality

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...