Cfp der DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit" für Jahreskonferenz

20. März 2024

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for their Conference: 

Call for Papers

Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet

Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”

at Universität Hamburg

9–11 October 2024

What orientations towards the future are emerging as intertwined ecological, social, and political crises intensify? The conference explores the entanglements of catastrophic and hopeful thinking in the Anthropocene. In particular, it examines the role of hopeful attachments in the midst of the ongoing destruction of life-worlds. As more and more ecosystems and social fabrics are threatened, what forms of visionary, future-oriented politics might still emerge? What promises are made at a time when the future seems lost (Garcés 2023)? Where are people investing in alternative “architectures of possibilities” (Simone 2020), and to what effect?

Please download the complete call here [pdf].

Please send your 250-word abstract and a short bio-note to: futures.of.sustainability"AT"uni-hamburg.de by April 30, 2024 [subject: Hope Abstract]

Support for travel and accommodation costs will be offered for successful applicants.