Upcoming and Past

Bridging Futures: Connecting Today's Decisions to Tomorrow's Needs

The Bridging Futures event aims to inspire system change and foster holistic, ethically driven, future-oriented leadership. The day promises a vibrant showcase of the coalition's global impact and will culminate in the inaugural Bridging Futures Distinguished Public Lecture, delivered by Phan Thị Kim Phúc (Kim), UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and global peace advocate. Co-sponsored by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, The Wales Future Generations Commissioner, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Arizona State University Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory; Bridging Futures is grounded in a visionary and pragmatic core rationale, namely, to address the urgency and opportunity of this moment in history by connecting generations, sectors and ways of thinking to shape a more just, sustainable and compassionate future.

Start: 16 Jul 2025 @ 10:00:am
Finish: 16 Jul 2025 @ 9:00:pm

Location: Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Wales, UK

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)

a.r.t.e.s. forum 2025 - Disturbances

The a.r.t.e.s. forum 2025 will take place on 10th of July in the New Senate Hall in the university's main building. Everything will revolve around the topic of ‘Disturbance:s’. ‘Disturbance’ is a multifaceted term that can stand for disturbances of all kinds as well as for unrest in the political sense. We want to approach the term from different perspectives, with a thematic spectrum ranging from political events and their cultural processing to the creation and negotiation of normality in a social context.

Start: 10 Jul 2025 @ 9:45:am
Finish: 10 Jul 2025 @ 7:30:pm

Location: Main building, Neuer Senatssaal, Albertus-Magnus Platz 1, Cologne

GSSC Public Lecture: Irreversible Returns: Controversies Over Glacier Geoengineering in Chile

Global South Studies Center Public Lecture. Irreversible Returns: Controversies Over Glacier Geoengineering in Chile. In light of contemporary geoengineering proposals to mitigate the impact of mining and climate change on glaciers in Chile, this presentation analyses how glacier imageries in relation to human agency have changed among glaciologists in recent decades. It focuses on recent proposals by consultancies and mining companies to relocate glaciers.

Start: 26 Jun 2025 @ 5:45:pm
Finish: 26 Jun 2025 @ 7:15:pm

Location: Seminar Room S252, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln

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