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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Jan 24
Hello BlueSky! 🦋 We are MESH – the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities hub at the University of Cologne. Our mission? Tackling the cultural, ethical, and social dimensions of global environmental change. 🌍
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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 🌟

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November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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:
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November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📬 Have you already subscribed to our informative newsletter?

✉️ Don't miss out on events or news about our researchers

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September 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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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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September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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/...
August 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🍃 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...
August 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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🌿 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 ✍
July 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🌍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
July 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🧠🌍 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
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June 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🚨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
June 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🌍 "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
BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala - UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing
BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala
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June 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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📢 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
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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📣 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
May 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🔍 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...
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🧑‍🏫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. 🔗
April 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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📅 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
March 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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What if we saw early stone tools not as static inventions, but as evolving ecosystems? The new project ECOLITHIC, led by @shumon.bsky.social takes this radical view, bridging #humanities & #lifesciences to explore hidden patterns in #technologicalevolution. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🌍 How can #sharing help us tackle global challenges? Our initiative 'Sharing a Planet in Peril' builds a global, interdisciplinary network to explore #inequality, #environmentaljustice & #sustainablefutures. Now in the running for a #DFGExcellenceCluster! See more: sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com
About SAPP - Sharing a Planet in Peril
Sharing a Planet in Peril advances actionable knowledge concerning the socio-cultural dimensions of Global Environmental Change from an Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences perspective.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Hi again 🦋
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Climate Change Literacy
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Climate Change Literacy
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Hello BlueSky! 🦋 We are MESH – the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities hub at the University of Cologne. Our mission? Tackling the cultural, ethical, and social dimensions of global environmental change. 🌍
January 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM