Worldmaking and Ecological Justice: Challenges Around the Globe and a Dialogue with China
Worldmaking Workshop
11.07.2025 – 12.07.2025
Location: IBZ Munich, Amalienstraße 38, 80799 Munich
Conveners: Barbara Mittler, Jonatan Palmblad, Christof Mauch
In the concluding workshop of “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China,” a collaboration between Heidelberg University and the Rachel Carson Center, scholars from all over the world will meet with Chinese researchers to discuss the relationship between worldmaking and ecological justice.
Considering who perpetuates and who suffers from environmental degradation, the framework of ecological justice has rendered visible new dimensions of social injustice around the globe. The framework has the power to radically transform the way we understand the world, thereby constituting a worldmaking more attuned to earth’s ecological dynamics. Because worldviews differ radically between cultures and sciences, it is important to bring about a dialogue across cultural, political, and disciplinary divides.
To sign up for the workshop, please register before 4 July via events@rcc.lmu.de. Please also find the workshop program below.
This workshop is organized in collaboration with Speak4Nature, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie-funded staff exchange action of the European Commission, with the specific object of transferring both theoretical and empirical knowledge related to the techniques that assert the voice of nonhuman nature in social and legal instances. Read more about the Rachel Carson Center’s and LMU Munich’s involvement in the project here.