2 November 2023 Housewarming event of the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS)

12 October 2023, by CSS

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The Center for Sustainable Society Research celebrates the inauguration of its new premises at Max-Brauer-Allee 60 and cordially invites you to a lecture [in English] as part of the CSS Lecture Series "After Sustainability", followed by a reception with finger food and drinks!

Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (NWU)
„Environmental Law After Sustainability“

In this lecture, Louis Kotzé, Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK, talks about how humans, through our social regulatory institutions, consciously, but most often unconsciously, contribute to the deepening planetary crisis instead of addressing it. Many of these institutions, such as law, and specifically environmental law, have been created to protect nature. But through its cornerstone principle of sustainable development that environmental law fully embraces and promotes, law as an instrument to direct human behavior has become unable to keep humans within the limits of the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space. He will attempt to expose the principle of sustainable development for the predatory, neoliberal, capitalist principle that it is, and will show that the major paradigm shift we urgently require to confront the planetary crisis will ultimately depend on unconditionally rejecting this principle in favor or far more radical principles centered on notions of care, humility, and co-existence that collectively recognize and respond to the vulnerability of the entire Earth system. The talk concludes by briefly exploring the emerging notion of ‘Earth system law’, which offers a promising framework to reimagine a post-sustainability alternative for law in the Anthropocene.

With a greeting by the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit [in German].

The poster of the event is available here. The schedule is available here [in German only].

Date: 02.11.2023
Time: 18:30 to 20:00 o'clock, afterwards reception with finger food and drinks
Venue: Max-Brauer-Allee 60, 20765 Hamburg, lecture hall 030

*** German Version ***

Das Center for Sustainable Society Research feiert die Einweihung der neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Max-Brauer-Allee 60 und lädt herzlich ein zu einem Vortrag im Rahmen der CSS Lecture Series „After Sustainability“ sowie im Anschluss zu Empfang mit Fingerfood und Getränken!

Keynote Lecture
Prof. Dr. Louis Kotzé (NWU)
„Environmental Law After Sustainability“

In this lecture, Louis Kotzé, Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln, UK, talks about how humans, through our social regulatory institutions, consciously, but most often unconsciously, contribute to the deepening planetary crisis instead of addressing it. Many of these institutions, such as law, and specifically environmental law, have been created to protect nature. But through its cornerstone principle of sustainable development that environmental law fully embraces and promotes, law as an instrument to direct human behavior has become unable to keep humans within the limits of the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space. He will attempt to expose the principle of sustainable development for the predatory, neoliberal, capitalist principle that it is, and will show that the major paradigm shift we urgently require to confront the planetary crisis will ultimately depend on unconditionally rejecting this principle in favor or far more radical principles centered on notions of care, humility, and co-existence that collectively recognize and respond to the vulnerability of the entire Earth system. The talk concludes by briefly exploring the emerging notion of ‘Earth system law’, which offers a promising framework to reimagine a post-sustainability alternative for law in the Anthropocene.

Das Plakat zur Veranstaltung ist hier verfügbar. Der Ablaufplan ist hier verfügbar.

Datum: 02.11.2023
Uhrzeit: 18:30 bis 20:00 Uhr, im Anschluss Empfang mit Finger Food und Getränken
Veranstaltungsort: Max-Brauer-Allee 60, 20765 Hamburg, Hörsaal 030