The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Priority Programme at the University of Cologne, led by “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenberg, to investigate the sustainability and resilience of agri-food supply chains in times of crisis.
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.
A Dialogue between Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Thomas Widlok (University of Cologne). This webinar took place on 28 April 2025, exploring the dynamic interplay between commoning, sharing, and personal autonomy, drawing from ethnographic research on sharing economies and alternative exchange systems, while also engaging with recent developments in multispecies anthropology.
The Annual MESH Symposium 2025. This symposium takes storytelling as a site for the exploration, enactment, and unsettling of entangled human and nonhuman lives in the horizon of rapid environmental change.
