Events

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

Finish: 8 Apr 2025 @ 6:00:pm

Location: Birmingham/UK

"Pluriversum": Voices from around the world - discourse for a just future

Concert, images and voices with Patricia Gualinga and Grupo Sal. State-of-the-art development policy impulses and information from all over the world are combined with wonderful music by Grupo Sal and fascinating projections by Johannes Keitel. The overall project consists of a series of live conversations with researchers, activists and politicians from continents involved in major social and environmental policy debates.

Start: 3 Apr 2025 @ 7:00:pm

Finish: 3 Apr 2025 @ 10:00:pm

Location: Forum Volkshochschule im Museum am Neumarkt Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50676 Köln

Upcoming and Past

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

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

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

CCHRI/Hub meeting in UK in collaboration with UN HDR

"Pluriversum": Voices from around the world - discourse for a just future