MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026📚 Research Fruits This lecture reinterprets Donghak 東學 (Eastern Learning), a nineteenth-century Korean religious-philosophical movement, through salim—the Korean concept of enlivening—as ecopoiesis: the continual bringing-forth and regeneration of a shared world of life. 🔗https://shorturl.at/YfeMN 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026👀 If you haven't managed to visit one of our smaller events yet, you probably haven't seen the beautiful Wienand-Haus, where we are located! 🌱 We look forward to welcome you at the Erich-Auerbach-Institute library! Keep up to date via our socials, newsletter and website -> mesh.uni-koeln.de 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 20/08/2026🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Kate Rigby, Director of MESH, on winning the Beatrice-Primus-Forschungspreis 2026! The University of Cologne's Faculty of Arts and Humanities has awarded this year's research prize to Prof. Rigby for her monograph 'Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction'.👏 000
Reposted by MESH Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026New paper with Dominik Ohrem exploring the prospects of human-animal histories of (co)learning (and, more generally, horizontal knowledge exchange and innovation among species). #multispecies #animal @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @hescor.bsky.social 🏺🦣🧬🦫🐻❄️🐎🐦 humanimalia.org/article/view...humanimalia.org Learning Environments with Other Animals | Humanimalia Humanimalia 034
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📚 New Release: "Unsettling Extinction" is out now! Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the environmental humanities🌱 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📍 Our BRIDGES poster was on display at the Sustainability Forum! We were proud to showcase the work of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, by MESH and GSSC, with support from EUniWell, at the UoC 🌍 Great conversations: Thank you to everyone who stopped by! 🙌 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 05/08/20262/2 After discussing the more-than-human history of the mound, we explored this space through creative activities. We mapped its more-than-human worlds, practised attentive observation and participation by drawing details, and sketched soundmaps listening closely to our surroundings. 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 05/08/20261/2 In the midst of the last heatwave we gathered for a field trip. With Serenella Iovino's reflections on wounded landscapes in mind, and carrying water bottles, caps, paper and pencils we climbed the rubble hill of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki park. 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 29/07/20262/2 Conference "Thinking and Designing Futures" 📅 Oct 1–2, 2026 📍 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Apostelnkloster 13–15, Cologne 🗣️ Language: primarily German 🆓 Free (and certifiable as continuing professional teacher training) 📝 Register by Sept 15, 2026: shorturl.at/f2LEP 📄 Program: shorturl.at/Zi96Y 031
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 29/07/20261/2 Young people in educational institutions are especially affected by future decisions. Their perspectives and needs will guide the interdisciplinary educational conference "Thinking and Designing Futures": How can we enable young people to develop visions of the future and actively shape them? 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026As planetary crises deepen, communities across the Global South continue to imagine and practice more just and livable futures. 📅 July 23–24, 2026 📍 Auerbach Library, MESH, University of Cologne (Weyertal 59, back building 3rd Floor, 50937 Köln) (Hybrid) 🔗 Registration: shorturl.at/Y7PGO #GSSC 001
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In this masterclass, Dr. Ananya Roy Pratihar explores Amitav Ghosh’s *The Nutmeg’s Curse* and *Ghost-Eye* to examine the entanglements of colonial histories, ecological transformation and planetary justice. 📅 17.07.2026 🕝 2:30-4:00 pm 💻 Online Registration is required: shorturl.at/9Scvd 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026On 17 July, the University of Cologne's 2026 Johan Rockström will be in conversation with MESH Director, Kate Rigby (in English) 💬 🕐 12:00pm 📍Tagungsraum (Seminargebäude, Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Köln) Registration is necessary: amp.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/anmeldung-amp 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In this lecture, Professor Dr. Saswat Samay Das explores how the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari can be brought into dialogue with decolonial thought to imagine new forms of planetary coexistence and the humanities. 📅 16 July 2026 🕒 3:00–4:30 pm (CET) 💻 Online 🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/resea... 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 02/07/2026✨Seminar Series | Treaty Histories, Residential Schools, and Indigenous Futures: Public Scholarship as Indigenous Method✨ 📆 07 July 2026, 12:00-13:00h 📍 GSSC, Room 3.03 🗣 Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta Read more ➡ gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun... 001
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Throwback to the 4th Sustainability Forum at the UoC, held under the theme "Sharing a Planet" 🌍 MESH was involved with Kate Rigby, Tanya Gautam, Nsah Mala, Franz Krause & the BRIDGES Hub 📸 Photos: Ludolf Dahmen, Department of Sustainability and MESH | UoC 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Throwback to the MESH Retreat we had earlier this year 🌱 At the Wohllebens Waldakademie we learned about our precious forests and discussed what the future of MESH holds 💫 Tanya Gautam documented the day with some amazing pictures, which will help us to hold these memories close 📷 #MESH #retreat 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 10/06/20262/2 The Plurality of WaterS: The @unesco_most_bridges_coalition_ Policy Insights n.4 show how the social and cultural dimensions of waters need to be considered 🌍✨ Read them here: bridges-hub.cologne #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 10/06/20261/2 The Plurality of WaterS: The @unesco_most_bridges_coalition_ Policy Insights n.4 show how the social and cultural dimensions of waters need to be considered 🌍✨ Read them here: bridges-hub.cologne #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026🗺️ sketch, map, explore. In our third Fieldwork & Fiction Masterclass, we dive into the wounded urban landscapes of Cologne. 📅 June 24 | 9am–4pm | MESH, Cologne Registration required by June 21 👉 form.jotform.com/261532124773... #MESH #interdisciplinarity #environmentalhumanities #uniköln 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026📄Come to our Cross-Pollinator! 📅June 23, 2026 | 12:00-13:00 📍 GSSC, 3.03 (Classen-Kappelmann-Str. 24, 3rd floor, 50931 Cologne) 🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/cross... #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #planetaryhealth #uniköln #unicologne 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 13/05/2026In todays '60 Seconds of Research' MESH Doctoral Researcher Ryan Shea presents his work 📚 #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #planetaryhealth #uniköln #unicologne 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 06/05/2026🐝 Exciting news! The Bees for Peace website has officially relaunched, now available in both English and German! 🌍 Explore the new site and find out how you can get involved: 🌐 www.beesforpeace.org 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026📖 Exciting news: The special issue "Decolonial Hope: Planetary sustainability and literary responses" (2026), guest edited by MESH Humboldt Research Fellow Goutam Karmakar, is now available open access! 🔗 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/6... #DecolonialHope #OpenAccesstandfonline.comJournal of Postcolonial WritingDecolonial Hope: Planetary sustainability and literary responses; Guest Editors: Goutam Karmakar and Janet M. Wilson. Volume 62, Issue 1 of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 001
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Our doctoral researcher Ryan Shea is giving a talk at the Phänomenologische Werkstatt meets Lecture Series. 📌 The Extinction of Experience 📅 May 8th | 2:00 - 3:30 pm 📍 Husserl-Archiv, Kerpener Str. 30, 50937 Köln 💻 or Zoom: unikoeln.zoom.us/my/breyer 110
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026📖 Exciting news: The article "Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons" (2024), featuring MESH Director Kate Rigby as one of its co-authors, is now available open access! 🔗 Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/953845 #EnvironmentalHumanities #OpenAccess 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026🌿 On 7 May, MESH Cross-pollinators brings together PhD students and postdocs from across the environmental humanities for a roundtable on research methods. 📍 Auerbach Library, MESH | Weyertal 59, 3rd floor 🕓 4:00–7:00 pm | Refreshments afterwards #MESH #EnvironmentalHumanities #CologneEvents 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 16/04/2026In todays 60 Seconds of Research MESH Doctoral Researcher Mars Briones presents his work 📚 #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #decolonial #cultural #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #humanities #hope #climatechange #planetaryhealth #uniköln 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026In todays 60 Seconds of Research MESH Doctorate Researcher Katrin Klandt presents her work 📚 #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #decolonial #cultural #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #humanities #hope #climatechange #planetaryhealth #uniköln 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Join us next week for this interesting Work-In-Progress Seminar by Christoph Lange 🌊 🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/green... 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026🎥 MESH is now on YouTube! There you can find interesting full-length lectures from 2023 until now. 🔗 Follow us to stay up to date! Find us via the handle @MESHunikoeln or via this link: www.youtube.com/@MESHunikoeln 📚 Already uploaded lectures by Alison Pouliot, Anne Pattel-Gray & James Ogude 010
Reposted by MESH Kirstin Drenkhahn @drenkhahnk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026@mesh-research-hub.bsky.social 021
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 19/03/2026In todays 60 Seconds of Research MESH Junior Research Group Leader Shumon Hussain presents his work 📚 #MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #decolonial #cultural #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #humanities #climatechange #planethealth #uniköln 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Congratulations to Thom van Dooren on receiving the prestigious Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences from the BBVA Foundation! We are proud to celebrate this remarkable recognition of Thom! You can read the article here: www.biophilia-fbbva.es/en/noticias/... #biophilia 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The Australian Academy of the Humanities, of which MESH Director Kate Rigby is a member, invited her to write a blog on the work of MESH and its links with long-standing Australian eco-humanities research. You can read it here: humanities.org.au/power-of-the...humanities.org.auAdvancing Environmental HumanitiesA new humanities research hub brings international researchers together to reshape our knowledge of global environmental challenges. 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Open Call! Community organisers, artists, educators, activists, and researchers are invited to contribute to the Wondrous Relations festival, happening 7–9 September 2026 in Cologne 📩 Submit by 31 March 2026 📧 info@ecolit.cologne 🔗 More info via the link (ecolit.cologne/open-call-fo...) #opencall 100
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 05/02/20262/2 The projects focus on language, discourse & societal challenges in climate change contexts. Many thanks to Dr Carolin Schwegler for supervising the student projects 🙌 🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/education/ec... #MESH #ecolinguistics #environmentalhumanities #climatechange #studentresearch 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 05/02/20261/2 We’re happy to share 4 excellent student research posters from Discourse- & Ecolinguistics, developed within the MESH research environment at the University of Cologne 🌍 Presented at the 19th Winter Meeting, an international conference on environment, health & education. 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 22/01/2026🚨 Digitale Freiwillige im Einsatz! Wusstest du, dass Social Media & Online-Teams heute helfen, Krisen schneller zu bewältigen? 💻🆘 📅https://mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/grassroots/grassroots-stefan-martini-2 #mesh #krisenbewältigung #multispecies #uniköln #unicologne #Kölnevent #VOST #Kölnerfeuerwehr 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Collaboration over isolation: Policy Insights #3 shows how science-policy platforms can make nature-based solutions more inclusive—driving sustainable climate and biodiversity strategies locally and globally. 🌍✨ Read them here: bridges-hub.cologne #MESH #interdisciplinarity #uniköln #multispecies 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Spontaneously in the mood for some interesting input? 🌍 Bringing together education, environment, and health across disciplines and borders, discussing "Hope in Times of Global Change" 🔗 Link for joining online & more Information: hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The MESH-Team wishes you a lovely, peaceful and regenerative festive season and a happy New Year. Thank you for following, sharing, and taking part in our events and activities, your support already make this planet a little more habitable. We look forward to seeing you in the new year 🌲🌟 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 18/12/2025A night to remember! 🌿 Kate Rigby represented MESH at the @humboldt-foundation.de annual dinner, sharing insights on the environmental humanities with some of Germany's top research funders and government ministers 📚 With just a touch of humour 🦢, she reminded everyone why this field matters 040
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Honouring Nsah Mala’s visionary work as he wins the Dubai Foresight Awards in Foresight for the Planet 🌿 Through Congo Basin Futures, he explores alternative paths for one of the world’s most culturally and ecologically rich regions 🌍✨ 010
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🎬 Filmscreening | More Than a Fish Kill 📅 December 4, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. (Admission 5:45 p.m.) 📍 Turistarama, Cologne 🎟️ Free entrance with registration -> mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw... The screening will be followed by a podium discussion with film producer Vic McEwan and MESH Director Kate Rigby. 020
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Join us for an inspiring MESH Research Fruits Lecture with Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch (LMU Munich, Rachel Carson Center) as we explore how disaster memory, vulnerability, and ecological injustice shape our understanding of the past - and our path into the future 🌟 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/resea... 000
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 04/11/2025This workshop with Prof. Dr. Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) invites participants to critically examine how diagrams and visual discourses construct temporalities in ecological thought. To register please follow this link: mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw... 000
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Reposted by MESH Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 02130
MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · 21/08/2025🌊 Stories of Marine Litter through Art, Poetry, and Data! 🎨🖋️ Students from EUniWell universities are invited: Poetry, Visual Art, Data Storytelling – show the environmental crisis in the Mediterranean🌟 📅 Deadline: 25 August 2025, 23:59 CET 📩 More information online: www.euniwell.eu/news-events/... 010