Events

Knowledge on Nature and the Nature of Knowledge

September 23- September 24, 2026
Schwanenwerder, Berlin (Inselstraße 27- 28, 14129, Berlin)

In this workshop we want to explore how knowledge on “Nature”, environmental destruction and related forms of resistance is produced, is circulating and translated. This can include quite different foci: the global political economy of knowledge; the role of Indigenous territories; knowledge born out of environmental struggles and conflicts, working (conditions) at European Universities, explorations within histories of ideas, the rise of authoritarianism and much, much more.
How do specific conditions influence the topics studied, the translations undertaken, the political commitments made or not made? Why is it important to ask these questions and how to study them? Ultimately: what do we have to know about knowledge production and how do we have to act on this knowledge in order to create knowledge that is apt to answer to the violence brought upon humans and non-humans?

The workshop will be the first event of the research project “Looking across Worlds for Environmental Justice”, where researchers from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, King’s College London and Humboldt University of Berlin empirically research how environmental knowledge is produced and translated in different contexts in and between Ecuador and Europe.

Everyone is warmly invited to participate. Prior registration is needed (we will provide lunch for everyone). Please register by 12.9.2026 at .