KOSMOS-Lesung by Hermann Lotze-Campen
On 30 May 2024, Prof. Hermann Lotze-Campen will give a KOSMOS-Lesung on agricultural and food transformation. The agricultural economist will explain why such a transformation…
At the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), we aim to forge new paths towards sustainable futures. We conduct inter- and transdisciplinary research on land use change, integrative food systems, global water cycles, climate change adaptation, and infrastructures.
On 30 May 2024, Prof. Hermann Lotze-Campen will give a KOSMOS-Lesung on agricultural and food transformation. The agricultural economist will explain why such a transformation…
On 01 March 2024, Janine Hauer successfully defended her PhD thesis “Transforming the ricescape. A case study from Burkina Faso”, supervised by Prof. Jonas Ø.…
On 15 February 2024, economist Prof. Tilman Brück (HU Berlin & IGZ) gave a KOSMOS-Lesung at HU Berlin. In his lecture “Towards Zero Hunger”, he…
On 15 February 2024, the EdiCitNet project launched its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Making Cities Edible: Cultivating Sustainable Urban Environments”. This online course invites…
In the third episode of the series “The BUA and me – Protocols from the Excellence Network”, THESys Postdoc Desirée Hetzel reports on her work…
10 June 2024, 13.15-16.00
Hbrid: IRI THESys, Rudower Chaussee 26, room 3.25, & on Zoom
What if an independent public auditing institution specialized in controlling the entire federal management of climate protection? What tasks would such a national audit office for climate take on? How would it impact public accountability? The recent anthropological research project “Pre-enacting climate change knowledge”, based at the University of Vienna, addressed these questions of future climate governance (FWF TAI-663). Together with actors from academia, activism, public administration, and civil society, the project publicly explored the knowledge base and work practices of the Austrian Climate Court of Audit (in German Klimarechnungshof) as if the authority were already in operation. This talk discusses the project’s methodological approach of a multimodal real fiction, at the center of which was the conception and implementation of the activist campaign Klimarechnungshof Jetzt! (Climate Court of Audit Now!)
Milena D. Bister is Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies and head of “The Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations” at the Institute of European Ethnology, HU Berlin. Her research focuses on the linkages between multispecies health, anthropogenic climate change, and urban living.