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 ».