Events

Movie & panel discussion `The Pickers´

This event consists of a film showing of "The Pickers" and panel discussion. '"The Pickers" is a journey to European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: in Southern Italy, Seydou from Mali is picking oranges. He has no contract and is paid per crate. He lives in a self-built hut in a settlement without water and electricity. Blueberries in Portugal, olives in Greece, strawberries in Spain – one million migrants are currently working in European fields. The pickers are the mobile workforce that fills our supermarkets’ baskets, most of them without contracts or minimum wages, some without papers or with high debts with agents.'

Start: 25 Apr 2025 @ 6:30:pm

Finish: 25 Apr 2025 @ 9:00:pm

Location: University of Cologne - Senatssaal der Universität Köln (Albertus-Magnus-Platz), 50931 Köln

MESH Research Fruits: Felix Dorn: A New Frontier of Decarbonization? Green Hydrogen in South America

Green hydrogen (GH2) is increasingly regarded as a key element of the global energy transition. In South America, GH2 projects have raised expectations for economic growth, job creation, and investment, while also being framed as pathways toward a CO₂-neutral future.

Start: 9 Apr 2025 @ 5:45:pm

Finish: 9 Apr 2025 @ 6:45:pm

Location: Felix Dorn (University of Vienna)

MESH Cross-pollinators Roundtable: The Beautiful Risks of Aesthetic Experience – A Public Conversation

This public roundtable brings together scholars from various fields in the humanities with a joint interest in the role of aesthetic experience in shaping, challenging, and transforming formal education in the humanities and in literary and cultural learning at school.

Start: 8 Apr 2025 @ 5:45:pm

Finish: 8 Apr 2025 @ 6:45:pm

Location: Auerbach Library, MESH (Weyertal 59, third floor), University of Cologne

GSSC Seminar Series: Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Systems as a Resilience Mechanism against Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the South

The lecture proposes to examine the pivotal role of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems as a resilience mechanism against climate change, approached through an interdisciplinary framework that draws on political science, law, political economy, cultural studies, and Indigenous environmental humanities.

Start: 8 Apr 2025 @ 1:00:pm

Finish: 8 Apr 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Location: Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne

CCHRI/Hub meeting in UK in collaboration with UN HDR

It has been argued that the Anthropocene is best understood as an unfolding and intensifying event of human‐influenced Earth system change, rather than simply a period of time with a start and – eventually? – an end. Interdisciplinary research on the Anthropocene is expanding rapidly, but the value of the concept is contested.

Start: 7 Apr 2025 @ 9:00:am