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.
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.
Author: Dr Nsah Mala. From 5-6 May 2025, BRIDGES Cologne participated in the 2025 Global Solutions Summit (#GSS2025) in Berlin (Germany) through our Hub Director, Dr Nsah Mala. Fondly referred to as the World Policy Forum, the Global Solutions Summit brings together diplomats, businesspeople, politicians, policymakers, civil society organisations (CSOs), students and youth, researchers and scholars to discuss global challenges and explore or suggest potential solutions to them.
Ecolit recently held their first public event, The Sound of Trees: A Symphony of Mindfulness, at the University of Cologne. The event featured biologist and musician Tarun Nayar, aka Modern Biology, along with resident artists from the South Asian diaspora: Senthuran (flute), Moonlit Brooks (poetry) and Zainab Lax (harp). In collaboration with Cologne's Forest Botanical Garden and urban mushroom farm, Pilzling, the event was an opportunity for collective experience and connection through place-based storytelling, music and poetry.
Author: Dr Nsah Mala. In the second edition of the BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights, by Dr Nsah Mala, BRIDGES Cologne Hub Coordinator, we shine a spotlight on the question of whether or not nonhuman animals can be considered as authors under German copyright law. We do this by discussing a recent publication by Prof Dr Roman Bartosch, Co-Director of BRIDGES and MESH at the University of Cologne, and Julia Kessel, Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law, FernUniversität in Hagen.
