Events

Ecocide: Harm, Responsibility & Lived Realities

This interdisciplinary event brings together legal and anthropological perspectives to critically examine the emerging crime of ecocide and the broader challenges of addressing large-scale environmental harm.

Start: 24 Jun 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Finish: 24 Jun 2025 @ 10:00:am

Location: Seminar Room, Chair for US-American Law, University of Cologne Aachener Straße 201, 50931 Köln and Online

MESH Research Fruits Lecture: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Island.

MESH Research Lecture by Dr Joshua Wodak. A researcher, writer, and artist whose work explores what it means to not only be alive during the current upheaval (climate crisis, Anthropocene, Sixth Extinction Event et. al.), but to be alive to upheaval itself. That is: how to live on an inherently unstable Earth, and in an inherently catastrophic cosmos. A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Joshua Wodak’s Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence.

Start: 24 Jun 2025 @ 5:45:pm

Finish: 24 Jun 2025 @ 7:15:pm

Location: MESH, EAI Library, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3rd floor

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.

Global South Studies Center: Commoning Dialogues: For a Blue Planet: Water Commons and ‘Commoning’ in the Climate Crisis

A Dialogue between Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Andrea Muehlebach (University of Bremen) The initial image of Earth, seen from space, resonated deeply with the early environmental movement, crystallising in the iconic "blue planet" metaphor: a cosmic treasure we are entrusted to protect in common. Yet, are we truly fulfilling this stewardship?

Start: 16 Jun 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Finish: 16 Jun 2025 @ 8:00:pm

Location: Online

Upcoming and Past

Ecocide: Harm, Responsibility & Lived Realities

MESH Research Fruits Lecture: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Island.

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

Global South Studies Center: Commoning Dialogues: For a Blue Planet: Water Commons and ‘Commoning’ in the Climate Crisis