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News from Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) The Volkswagen Foundation is funding ZOOGESTURES, a new project on interspecies learning and technical invention in early human evolution with 1.3 million euros over four years. The project is co-led by MESH researcher Dr. Shumon T. Hussain (Cologne), philosopher and anthropologist of technology Dr. Johannes Schick (Siegen) and cognitive primatologist Prof. Dr. Cat Hobaiter (St Andrews, UK).
Students across the EUniWell Alliance are invited to submit creative projects that explore the issue of marine litter in the Mediterranean using at least one of the following expressive approaches: Poetry and improvised performance, Visual Art or Data storytelling.
This year’s Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) Symposium tackled the topic of “Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds” featuring keynotes from Alexa Weik von Mossner and Thom van Dooren which were streamed via Zoom and are therefore attenable all over the world.
UNESCO BRIDGES General Assembly to gather international leaders, indigenous voices, and changemakers in Wales! The UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition is proud to announce its General Assembly event, Bridging Futures: Connecting Today’s Decisions to Tomorrow’s Needs, will take place July 16–17, 2025, at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea.
In the lead-up to the 3rd UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, two linked side events held in Bangkok on June 23 and 24 convened an extraordinary gathering of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers across sectors and regions.