Conference Film: Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet, 9-11 October 2024

2 December 2024

Photo: Art: Marie Klingelhöfer, Design: Martin Kollmann

This short conference film features some impressions from our Annual Conference 2024: “Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet“, 9-11 October 2024, organized by the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg. The conference explored the entanglements of catastrophic and hopeful thinking in the Anthropocene. It examined the role of hopeful attachments in the midst of the ongoing destruction of life-worlds. As more and more ecosystems and social fabrics are threatened, what forms of visionary, future-oriented politics might still emerge? Link to Youtube

Conference Website

Conference Flyer: Art: Marie Klingelhöfer; Design: Martin Kollmann

Photographies: Exhibition "Climate No Future“, Hamburg.

A film by Alexa Höber (freelance television author, Hamburg): https://www.alexahoeber.de/

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