Call for Participation for the Young Scholars’ Conference: “Remaking Responsibility. Environmental Harm, Care, and Accountability”07-09 October 2026

5. Februar 2026

Responsibility is often invoked in relation to the climate crisis to assign historical blame to high-emitting nations, indict extractive corporations, or moralize individual behavior. It has become an expansive and elastic lexicon for navigating the overwhelming reality of climate change (Hentschel, 2022). Yet, even as the climate crisis demands new forms of responsibility, it simultaneously unsettles the very terms through which responsibility has conventionally been understood. In this conference, we aim to explore responsibility as a contested and generative concept, shaping how environmental harm is attributed and governed, while also opening possibilities for collective care and accountability.

Please find further information about the conference theme and the Call (PDF) on our website:
https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/kolleg/newsroom/2026-01-26-cfp-remaking-responsibility.html

Dates and Deadlines: 
Submission of abstracts (300 words) with a 100-word short bio by: 22 February 2026
Submission of conference papers: September 2026
Please send abstracts to: zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit@uni-hamburg.de (zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit"AT"uni-hamburg.de)[subject: Responsibility Abstract]