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Here you can find all latest events, publications, and news from the Panel on Planetary Thinking.
| Title | Description | Start Date | Image | |
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| July 8, 2024 | Planet B. Szenische Lesung (Das Parlament für die Zukunft) (german event) | In the final part of the ‘Parliament for the Future’ series, a Parliament of Animals is established in the Gießen town hall. As the global climate catastrophe intensifies, humans continue to destroy the habitat of other organisms. Is a good existence for all beings on this planet still possible? In the Gießen Parliament of Animals, various species raise their voices and defend their right to be heard. | Jul 08, 2024 08:00 | ||
| Call for applications PLANETARY FUTURES Competition Vol. III | The Panel on Planetary Thinking is announcing the Planetary Futures Competition for the last time within the period of 2022-2025. The aim of this competition is to provide financial support for transdisciplinary research projects that are in the preparatory phase for third-party funding applications. Application deadline is July 07, 2024. | Jul 07, 2024 12:00 | ||
| June 13, 2024 | Team excursion through Bergwerkswald to Kletterwald Giessen | The Panel says goodbye to Planetary Times summer fellow Connor Cook with a hike through Giessen’s Bergwerkswald that culminated in a visit to the forest adventure park “Kletterwald Gießen”. | Jun 13, 2024 12:00 | ||
| June 05, 2024 | Adenike Oladosu appointed as the "ECW Climate Champion" | On this year’s World Environment Day, Adenike Oladosu, our former fellow in Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program is named the “ECW Climate Champion” by Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. | Jun 05, 2024 12:00 | ||
| June 03, 2024 | Masterclass "Environmental Humanities: Natural History and Literatures in English" (IPP Masterclass) | The upcoming Masterclass, led by Prof. Dr. Clara Dawson, reflects upon different aspects of the Environmental Humanities and how its methods apply to different lines research by integrating perspectives from experts. It is targeted at anyone interested in new developments in the Environmental Humanities. With impulses by Panel Core Team members Liza Bauer and Meike Wiegand. | Jun 03, 2024 02:00 | ||
| Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres | Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres by Planetary Times fellow and Media Artist Connor Cook will be held from May 28-29 at Kunsthalle Giessen (our collaborative partner). The two-day workshop by Cook and Synthetic Biologist Darren Zhu comprises of a roundtable discussion on the theory of an “Informatic Evolution of the Planet”, a film screening & discussion, creating immersive audiovisual worlds using a Raspberry Pi enabled bioreactor (Pioreactor) as well as an audiovisual performance by the artist. The link to the full event report can be found here. | May 28, 2024 03:00 | ||
| May 21, 2024 | First workshop in the "Planet B" series (Clemens Finkelstein) | Panel on Planetary Thinking research associate Clemens Finkelstein is teaching a workshop series at Deichtorhallen Hamburg during the exhibition "Survival in the 21st Century". This events topic is "Geologic Planetarity" | May 21, 2024 03:30 | ||
| May 13, 2024 | Rezepte mit Zukunft: Wie geht eigentlich nachhaltiges Kochen? Kochshow mit Veganatural Gießen (Das Parlament für die Zukunft) (german event) | As nutrition can also contribute to climate protection, in the fifth part of the series “The Parliament for the Future,” we focus on the topic “Recipes for the Future: How does sustainable cooking actually work?” Together with the Giessen restaurant Veganatural and journalist Michaela Maria Müller, regional cuisine will be reinterpreted in a resource-conscious way at the Stadttheater. | May 13, 2024 07:00 | ||
| May 10, 2024 | City Walk with Dr. Markus Dietz (Das Parlament für die Zukunft) | What would cities be without urban nature, and how can cities be developed in the future to accommodate both humans and wildlife? Following up upon this question, the Panel, in collaboration with Stadttheater Giessen, organizes a city walk through the Philosophenwald and the Wieseck-Aue with biologist Dr. Markus Dietz. | May 10, 2024 08:00 | ||
| May 3, 2024 | „Religion in Krisen – Lösung oder Teil des Problems?“ (Discussion Panel, german event) | What can religious communities, spiritual thinking, and pastoral care contribute to planetary thinking? Claus Leggewie discusses this with the author Otto Kallscheuer and theologians from Gießen. | May 03, 2024 06:00 |