New overarching theme starting soon!🌱🦠🪲🦎🧍‍♂️ From April 1, 2024 we will focus on #Multispecies #Conviviality, exploring shared spaces with a heightened attentiveness to others’ presences & practices of cultivating mutually life-sustaining co-existence.

Eagerly awaiting the arrival of our new MESHmate Thom Van dooren who is joining MESH Research Hub from 2025 as the recipient of a prestigious Humboldt-Stiftung Research Prize: uni.koeln/HLHCB

Kicking off the summer semester with a Green Shoots talk by King’asia Mamati on the intersection between conservation and human-nonhuman relations in the Kenyan context. Come around: uni.koeln/2T9CQ

MESH is delighted to welcome Tanya Gautam & the EcoLit project funded by the BMBF. As a poet, educator and researcher, Tanya explores practices of eco-cultural education to develop ways of cultivating multispecies community futures.

New Paper by Shumon T. Hussain Out! Royal Society Publishing Universität zu Köln press release: uni.koeln/ZTZBM #multispecies #ecosystem_complexity #paleo_synanthropy

🌍🌡️Climate change: Facts are not enough. Humanity poses a threat to the Earth’s ecosystem. The MESH Research Hub investigates from a Humanities perspective why we are destroying our own existence – with open eyes. Read more👇 uni.koeln/XQ55A

MESH affiliated researcher Dan Smyer Yü presents his film on 'Human Kinship with Nature in the Tibetan Plateau' in conversation with Kate Rigby and Franz Krause for the Cologne International Forum Salon on May, 15: Registration via uni.koeln/YPRME

⚠️FILM SCREENING of »Ensouling the Mountain« rescheduled to 14 May, 2024 — 6 p.m.! With Dan Smyer Yü & Franz Krause & Kate Rigby Info & registration: cif.uni-koeln.de/events/salon#c… Event by Cologne International Forum in cooperation with MESH Research Hub

Job opportunities! We are happy to share two open positions for Master students ('WHB') 🤓MESH Research Hub within the HESCOR project: uni.koeln/Y25E7 & uni.koeln/M3J25. Become a part of our team, we are looking forward to your applications!

Are we biased towards protecting the 'beautiful'? Mariagrazia Portera from Florence will explore the question with us in this months' Research Fruits - come by and discuss with us: uni.koeln/EPM4P #EnvironmentalHumanities

Super excited to share the official launch of our UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing this October! #EnvironmentalHumanities

Dive into the work of 'Wohllebens Forest Academy' which is committed to the protection of forests in Germany and around the world in various ways - you can join from anywhere 🌎 as it is an online event, but please note that the talk will be in German: uni.koeln/NPFJ9

🙂 Delighted to announce that registration is now open for our next symposium: 'AI and Other Scientific Fables' (July 25-26, 2024, at ANU and online) with Sherryl Vint as the keynote speaker. Please register via Humanitix: events.humanitix.com/ai-and-other-s…

AvantGarden's second edition in 2024 is all about 'NatureWork' and includes readings and sound art (in German). There is an indoor/outdoor location - depending on which work space nature calls for... Check out the details and come around: uni.koeln/RY4VB

New PHDposition MESH Research Hub within the field of #EnvironmentalAnthropology available! Take a look at uni.koeln/PZNWX for details and apply by August 21, 2024. 📚🤓

🥳 MESH PHD-student Mars Briones, researching sociocultural dimensions of disaster preparedness & risk reduction in the Eastern Visayas, PHL, has been awarded a spot Future Earth's Pathways Autumn School on 'Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet' 🥳

The most recent Hub to join the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition of global Hubs is the BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing. We’re delighted to introduce you to our dynamic team of colleagues from The Cologne Hub. Discover more here: bridges.earth/hubs/cologne-h…

UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne: “One of the flagship research initiatives of this hub is the initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) Learn more here: sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com MESH Research Hub