Events

Masterclass & Writing Workshop on Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds

MESH Master Class: on Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds How do we, scholars and creative writers, write about disasters in multispecies worlds? How do we move between fieldwork and fiction? In connection with the 2025 MESH symposium on Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds, we organize a writing workshop associating field observations and creative writing, as a masterclass with Thom van Dooren, Mariagrazia Portera, Heidi Bayoumy, and Burak Sezer.

Start: 14 Jul 2025 @ 9:00:am

Finish: 14 Jul 2025 @ 5:00:pm

Location: Meeting and Starting point: MESH, EAI Library, 3rd floor, (Weyertal 59 (back building), 50937 Cologne) Field Observations: Königsforst, Cologne Afternoon Session: GSSC, Rom 3.03, 3rd floor (Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 50931 Cologne)

MESH Annual Symposium ‘Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds’

There is growing evidence that the cumulative impacts of industrial societies on several vital Earth systems are reaching or have passed critical thresholds.

Start: 11 Jul 2025 @ 9:00:am

Finish: 12 Jul 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Location: University of Cologne

COP30 in the Amazon: Experience and challenges of Belém

Public Lecture: Ana Claudia Cardoso. This public lecture will discuss three dimensions: Cities in the Amazon; Belém in focus; and Contradictions and Possibilities brought about by COP 30.

Start: 25 Jun 2025 @ 11:45:am

Finish: 25 Jun 2025 @ 1:15:pm

Location: Seminar Room S252, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln

Urban Materiality and Inequality - Rethinking Social and Ecological Challenges in the Global South

In an interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology, architecture and urban planning, geography and cultural studies, researchers will discuss the long-standing and multiple links between materiality and inequality, how they are currently analysed, and what potentials remain for new insights and why.

Start: 24 Jun 2025 @ 1:43:pm

Finish: 25 Jun 2025 @ 1:43:pm

Location: Seminar Room 3.03, Global South Studies Center

Enabling Ethical AI for Present and Future Generations in a Time of Heightened Global Insecurity

A side event of the 3rd Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. This mini-symposium addresses a range of urgent issues in the present era of global turbulence and heightened insecurity. The symposium foregrounds questions concerning the potential for developing ethical AI systems that can promote human security. Discussions will also take on the pressing need to ensure a trajectory for AI development that can safeguard the integrity of social-ecological systems at risk due to threats of anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. Finally, the event foregrounds the question of how increased social cohesion can be enabled and developed through scientific and AI literacy, futures literacy, education and training initiatives capable of preparing populations for the challenges of the 21st century.

Start: 23 Jun 2025 @ 1:00:pm

Finish: 23 Jun 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Location: Centara Grand at CentralWorld Bangkok, Thailand. Room tbc.

Upcoming and Past

Masterclass & Writing Workshop on Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds

MESH Annual Symposium ‘Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds’

COP30 in the Amazon: Experience and challenges of Belém

Urban Materiality and Inequality - Rethinking Social and Ecological Challenges in the Global South

Enabling Ethical AI for Present and Future Generations in a Time of Heightened Global Insecurity