The Australian Academy of the Humanities, of which MESH Director Kate Rigby is a member, invited her to write a blog on the work of MESH and its links with long-standing Australian eco-humanities research. You can read it here: humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Open Call! Community organisers, artists, educators, activists, and researchers are invited to contribute to the Wondrous Relations festival, happening 7–9 September 2026 in Cologne
📩 Submit by 31 March 2026
📧 info@ecolit.cologne
🔗 More info via the link (ecolit.cologne/open-call-fo...)
#opencall
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The projects focus on language, discourse & societal challenges in climate change contexts.
Many thanks to Dr Carolin Schwegler for supervising the student projects 🙌
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/education/ec...
#MESH #ecolinguistics #environmentalhumanities #climatechange #studentresearch
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We’re happy to share 4 excellent student research posters from Discourse- & Ecolinguistics, developed within the MESH research environment at the University of Cologne 🌍
Presented at the 19th Winter Meeting, an international conference on environment, health & education.
🚨 Digitale Freiwillige im Einsatz!
Wusstest du, dass Social Media & Online-Teams heute helfen, Krisen schneller zu bewältigen? 💻🆘
📅https://mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/grassroots/grassroots-stefan-martini-2
#mesh #krisenbewältigung #multispecies #uniköln #unicologne #Kölnevent #VOST #Kölnerfeuerwehr
Collaboration over isolation: Policy Insights #3 shows how science-policy platforms can make nature-based solutions more inclusive—driving sustainable climate and biodiversity strategies locally and globally. 🌍✨
Read them here: bridges-hub.cologne
#MESH #interdisciplinarity #uniköln #multispecies
Spontaneously in the mood for some interesting input?
🌍 Bringing together education, environment, and health across disciplines and borders, discussing "Hope in Times of Global Change"
🔗 Link for joining online & more Information: hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting
The MESH-Team wishes you a lovely, peaceful and regenerative festive season and a happy New Year. Thank you for following, sharing, and taking part in our events and activities, your support already make this planet a little more habitable. We look forward to seeing you in the new year 🌲🌟
A night to remember! 🌿
Kate Rigby represented MESH at the @humboldt-foundation.de annual dinner, sharing insights on the environmental humanities with some of Germany's top research funders and government ministers 📚
With just a touch of humour 🦢, she reminded everyone why this field matters
Honouring Nsah Mala’s visionary work as he wins the Dubai Foresight Awards in Foresight for the Planet 🌿
Through Congo Basin Futures, he explores alternative paths for one of the world’s most culturally and ecologically rich regions 🌍✨
🎬 Filmscreening | More Than a Fish Kill
📅 December 4, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. (Admission 5:45 p.m.)
📍 Turistarama, Cologne
🎟️ Free entrance with registration -> mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
The screening will be followed by a podium discussion with film producer Vic McEwan and MESH Director Kate Rigby.
Join us for an inspiring MESH Research Fruits Lecture with Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch (LMU Munich, Rachel Carson Center) as we explore how disaster memory, vulnerability, and ecological injustice shape our understanding of the past - and our path into the future 🌟
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/resea...
This workshop with Prof. Dr. Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) invites participants to critically examine how diagrams and visual discourses construct temporalities in ecological thought. To register please follow this link:
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
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I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
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🌊 Stories of Marine Litter through Art, Poetry, and Data! 🎨🖋️
Students from EUniWell universities are invited: Poetry, Visual Art, Data Storytelling – show the environmental crisis in the Mediterranean🌟
📅 Deadline: 25 August 2025, 23:59 CET
📩 More information online: www.euniwell.eu/news-events/...
🍃 Our new MESH Leaves are published now! They are the creative results of our Autumn Academies group work
🏛️ The EUniWELL MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing(October 14-19 2024)
✨ You can find them on our Bridges Hub Blog (link here or in bio)
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/mags-mesh-le...
🌿 INSIGHTS from the MESH Masterclass & Writing Workshop 🌍
On July 14, a group of students, scholars, and writers stepped into the forest to explore how fieldwork becomes fiction, and how storytelling can carry multispecies voices through fire, threat, and transformation ✍
🌍Join us on Zoom for two powerful keynotes at the MESH Symposium
🎙️Keynote I: (Re)creating Multispecies Connections
🗓️11 July | 5:00–6:15 pm(UTC+2)
👤Alexa Weik von Mossner
🎙️Keynote II: Multispecies Storytelling
🗓️12 July | 10:00–11:00 am(UTC+2)
👤Thom van Dooren
🔗https://lnkd.in/gXNrQ5YS
🧠🌍 It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Island
Today Dr. Joshua Wodak presents his new book "Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth" — a lyrical and unsettling journey through ecological upheaval.
📍17:45–19:15 | MESH, EAI Library
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/resea...
🚨CANCELLED 🚨
We are really sorry to inform you that our Grassroots Lecture („Digital Volunteers in Crisis Response” by Stefan Martini) has to be cancelled last minute today.
A replacement date will be announced as soon as possible.
Stay updated on our website:
👉 www.mesh.uni-koeln.de
🌍 "Planetary wellbeing is the bedrock of all flourishing"
At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES
📢 Can animals be authors?
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice
📣 Registration now open!
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH
🔍 BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights launched! 🚀
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.
Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
🧑🏫Kicking off the summer semester with two exciting (on-site) events next week:
🗓️ April 08: Cross-Pollinators Roundtable – A conversation on aesthetic education & the 'beautiful risk'
🗓️ April 09: Public Lecture with Felix Dorn – Green Hydrogen in South America – Join us!
More info in comments. 🔗
📅 Save the Date for our Annual Symposium 'Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds' on July 11–12, 2025, as we explore how ecological crises reshape #human&nonhuman coexistence & what #resilience can look like across species.
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
