Events

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

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

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

Upcoming and Past

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

COP30 in the Amazon: Experience and challenges of Belém

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