Newsletter
18.10.2021 | 16:00 CET
Chair: Prof Dr. Angelika Epple (Bielefeld University)
16:00 CET Welcome
Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple (Vice Rector for International Affairs and Diversity, Bielefeld University)
Dr. Christina Norwig (German Ministry of Education and Research / BMBF)
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier (Director CALAS – Maria Sibylla Merian Center, Bielefeld University)
16:30- 18:00 CET Panel: The Challenge of the Anthropocene: Dialogue with the Non-Human World
Prof. Dr. Jörn Ahrens (Collaborative Research Project "The Social Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainability Innovation in the Global South". Subproject: Development & Discourse, Gießen University)
“The Anthropocene as Third Nature: Contemporary Challenges and the Disruption of Past and Future”
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Wrigley-Asante (Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa - MIASA: Sustainable Governance: Environment, Democracy and Conflict Management, University of Ghana)
"Reflections on Africa and the Anthropocene: Climate Change Adaptation Practices in Rural Ghana”
Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
“We are all Earthlings. Challenges for Historians in a More-than-Human World”
18:15 – 19:15 CET Interregional Dialogue
Prof. Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) and Dr. Franz Mauelshagen (Bielefeld University)
“Climate Change in the Anthropocene”