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Posted in News on Aug 05, 2025.

Celebrating Bridging Futures: UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Phan Thị Kim Phúc inspires at Peace and Futures Forum

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David recently played host to an extraordinary two-day gathering that brought together some of the world’s most thoughtful voices in sustainability, peacebuilding, and intergenerational dialogue. Organised by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES International Programme Office (IPO) at UWTSD, the inaugural Bridging Futures: Connecting Today’s Decisions to Tomorrow’s Needs took place at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on 16 July 2025. The event welcomed a diverse audience of policymakers, young leaders, Indigenous representatives, educators, and members of the public.

Posted in News on Aug 01, 2025.

New Project: "Zoogestures"

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).

Posted in News on Jul 31, 2025.

News from MESH: New Project and CfP: "Mediterranean Fragments: A Call for Creative Contributions on Marine Litter and Climate Action"

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.

Posted in News, Publications on Jul 28, 2025.

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere

This book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today, through a postcolonial lens.

Posted in News on Jul 24, 2025.

MESH Symposium Keynotes

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.