28. November 2024 - Buchvorstellung

Samuel Dolbee (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
In Kooperation mit III. Schwerpunkte

Kommentar : Nazan Maksudyan (CMB)

Abstract: In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and revealing how they shaped both the environment and people's imaginations from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages, Dolbee details environmental, political, and spatial transformations in the region's history by tracing the movements of locusts and their intimate relationship to people in motion, including Arab and Kurdish nomads, Armenian deportees, and Assyrian refugees, as well as states of the region. With locusts and moving people at center stage, surprising continuities and ruptures appear in the Jazira, the borderlands of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Transcending approaches focused on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire or the creation of nation states, Dolbee provides a new perspective on the modern Middle East grounded in environmental change, state violence, and popular resistance.

15. November 2024 - Projektvorstellung

Eine Veranstaltung der Klimaschutz-AG

Vortrag und Diskussion mit Coline Ruwet (Brüssel / Louvain)

Bio : Docteure en sociologie de la Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale de l’Université de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgique), Coline Ruwet est Professeure Associée à l’ICHEC Brussels Management School. Ses travaux portent sur la gouvernance et le déploiement de la transition socio-écologique, en particulier ses dimensions subjectives et culturelles. Ses publications récentes portent notamment sur la soutenabilité sous le prisme de notre rapport au temps. Au sein d’équipes interdisciplinaires, elle a également coordonné des projets portant sur l’économie de la fonctionnalité et les pédagogies de la transition.

06. November 2024 - Buchvorstellung

Mark Goodale

17. April 2024 - Buchvorstellung

„Inutilité Publique“ ( F.Graber, 2022, Editions Amsterdam)  présenté par l'auteur, Frédéric Graber (CNRS/CMB)
In Kooperation mit I. Schwerpunkt

Les grands projets d’aménagement sont une cible privilégiée des mouvements écologistes. Dénoncés comme « inutiles et imposés », ces projets font l’objet de multiples résistances. Pourtant, la notion d’utilité publique est au cœur de leur légitimation par les pouvoirs publics français. Car aux yeux de l’administration, l’utilité publique ne renvoie pas à l’idée générale de bien commun, c’est un principe au nom duquel il est juridiquement possible de transformer l’état du monde, en sacrifiant certaines populations et environnements. La conformité ou non d’un projet à ce principe résulte d’une procédure administrative ancienne et méconnue, l’enquête publique, mise en scène par excellence du consentement de tous. 

16 -18 Oktober 2023 - Workshop

We live in times of multiple crises. Governance strategies for crisis response, especially in terms of prevention and preparedness, are confronted with cascading and intertwined processes resulting in extensive delimitations and interactions between social, political and economic dynamics. Especially for the cases of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic the governance of multiple crises has to cope with high degrees of urgency, uncertainty and complexity. This workshop aims to critically rethink governance in times of multiple crises by assessing crises responses of political decision makers, scientific experts and society in the context of climate change and pandemics. It invites theoretical and empirical research contributions that focus on one of the two crisis phenomena.

The PhD-Workshop is organized within the framework of the research project “Multiple Crises. Covid-19 and the Entanglements of Public Health, Security and Ecology in Europe” – funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) – in cooperation with Sciences Po, Paris. It will bring together scholars from different academic traditions in an interdisciplinary and interactive work environment. During a three-day event, the highlighted research axes will structure the exchange on theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to researching multiple crises. In the beautiful environment of the Villa Vigoni at the Lago di Como, this coming together will be enriched by a trilateral roundtable and other input sessions in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Frédéric Keck (CNRS/EHESS), Prof. Elena Esposito (University of Bielefeld & University of Bologna), Jun. Prof. Ulrike Zeigermann (University of Würzburg), Prof. Dr. Jay Rowell (Centre Marc Bloch), Dr. Carola Klöck (Sciences Po, Paris) and Dr. habil. Frédéric Graber (CNRS/EHESS). Other goals of the workshop are to provide a space for networking and for developing collaborative publication projects.

Organized by:
Gabriel Bartl, Judith Hardt

11 - 14 September 2023 - International Summer School

Program of the Summer School

Organized by:
Benjamin Beuerle (Centre Marc Bloch), Claire Bouillot (CERES/ CEA), Marine Fauche (CERES/ University of Montpellier), Marc Fleurbaey (CERES/ Paris School of Economics), Bastien Fond (Centre Marc Bloch/ University of Caen), David Fopp (Centre Marc Bloch), Corinne Robert (CERES/ INRAE)
With the help of :
Chloé Risbourque (Centre Marc Bloch), Valentin Denis (Centre Marc Bloch/ ENS), Camille Desrayaud (Centre Marc Bloch/ Hertie School of Governance)

The Summer School has been rendered possible by the generous support of
The École Normale Supérieure
The Franco-German University

05 September 2023 - Book Presentation

Lecture of the book Marx in the Anthropocene with the author - Kohei Saito.

Conversation with Cannelle Gignoux and Marius Bickhardt.

« In the wake of the publication of the German translation of his bestseller 'Capital in the Anthropocene', we are pleased to welcome the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito for talk about his academic book 'Marx in the Anthropocene. Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism' (Cambridge University Press 2023). Saito will give a presentation on chapter four entitled 'Monism and the Non-identity of Nature', where he engages critically with a wide range of environmental scholarship in the fields of ecological marxism (J. B. Foster, J. Moore, A. Malm, A. Hornborg), marxist geography (D. Harvey, N. Smith), ecosocialism (K. Soper), feminism (S. Barca) and history (D. Chakrabarty). Saito's thesis is that « methodological dualism turns out to be indispensable to any critical theory of nature in the Anthropocene ». Presentation : 45min, Discussion: 1h15, Moderation : Cannelle Gignoux & Marius Bickhardt ».

12. Mai 2023 - Workshop

Organisator:innen: Gabriel Bartl, Sabine Ries, Anja Röcke, Elsa Tulmets

Der Workshop verfolgt das Ziel, einen interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen Soziologie, Internationale Beziehungen, Rechtswissenschaften, Ökonomie und Psychologie zu initiieren und die vorhandenen Herangehensweisen und Perspektiven auf Resilienz miteinander zu vergleichen. Aus diesem Dialog möchten wir auch Anregungen für eine kritische Diskussion des Konzepts erhalten. Dies halten wir gerade in Anbetracht der aktuellen Relevanz des Resilienz-Themas im öffentlichen Diskurs für bedeutsam, da in diesem Diskurs die verschiedenen möglichen Bedeutungen und damit verbundenen Implikationen des Themas in der Regel nicht reflektiert werden.

03. Mai 2023 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit der französischen Botschaft

Fridays for future, Extinction Rebellion, End Fossil Occupy. New social movements have emerged, mobilizing young generations around ecological and climate change issues. These movements have invented new forms of protest – like school strikes – or developed civil disobedience actions in new ways. They raise new intergenerational questions and present new types of demands, not only on expected political measures, but also on the kind of knowledge that should be taught at schools or universities and on the ways in which social change should be negotiated.

In cooperation with Arte, the event will start with a preview of a 30 minutes documentary film: “Der Widerstand der "Letzten Generation"?” by Beate Schwartz (Spiegel TV, 2023).

Panellists:

• Tom Chevalier (CNRS, SciencesPo, Rennes)
• Anaëlle Vergonjeanne (CERI, SciencesPo, Paris).
• Gregor Hagedorn (Naturkundemuseum, Berlin, Biologist and cofounder of Scientists for future)
• Darya Sotoodeh (activist and spokesperson, Fridays For Future)

Moderator : Marius Bickhardt (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

29.-30. November 2022 - Workshop

Workshop im Rahmen des CMB-CCC-Projekts 2022

22. November 2022 - Podiumsdiskussion

In Kooperation mit dem Climate Change Center, Berlin Brandenburg (CCC)

The panel discussion is the kick-off event in a series of symposiums organized by the research focus Environment, climate, energy of the Centre Marc Bloch in cooperation and with the support of the Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg. The symposiums are dealing with climate and energy policies in metropolitan areas (Berlin/Brandenburg, Île-de-France, Kyiv Oblast) in the context of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Actors and researchersfrom Kyiv Oblast, Paris/Île-de-France and Berlin/Brandenburg will address the question of how to face the acute energy crisis without delaying the urgently needed socio-ecological transformation in light of the climate crisis.  How can we – in the given metropolitan context – secure energy supply without worsening the climate crisis and aggravating social imbalances? How could the above mentioned territories cooperate and support each other on these questions in the context of the current war, but also beyond this acute context in order to contribute to the “socio-ecological transformation”? Options of action of local and regional actors in the metropolitan areas are the focal point of the roundtable.

With:

• Tamara Burenko  (Kyiv Oblast): Irpin City Council, State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine.
• Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig (Berlin): TU Berlin, Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg, MCC.
• Dr. Charlotte Halpern (Paris): Sciences Po Paris, Centre for European studies and comparative politics.  
• Marie-Laure Falque Masset (Île-de-France): Climate Energy department of the Institut Paris Région, FEDARENE.

Moderation: Dr. Benjamin Beuerle (Berlin): Centre Marc Bloch.

11.-12. November 2022 - Workshop

Gemeinsamer Workshop mit dem Forum Nachhaltigkeit am Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie der Universität Würzburg
Ort : Würzburg