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16.07.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Maan Barua on “The Metropolis and Metabolic Life”

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06.07.2026 at 18:00

On Environment with Simon Richter: “Putting the Environmental Humanities to Work: Visual Storytelling for Climate Policy”

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02.07.2026 16:15 – 17:45

Christof Mauch on “Nature’s Gamble: Las Vegas and the Environmental History of the American West”

02.07.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Veronika Settele on “German Animal Farming as Monoculture: Changing Human–Livestock–Environment Relationships, 1950–2000”

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30.06.2026 12:15 – 14:15

International Colloquium with Daniel Dumas, Ursula Koy, Jennifer Mack, and Eduardo Melero Alonso

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25.06.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Lars Günther on “Climate Futures: Media Representations and Effects”

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23.06.2026 12:15 – 13:45

International Colloquium with Amy Moran-Thomas, Lydie Stokes Fialová, and Carolina Yacaman

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18.06.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Ferdinand Ludwig on “Trees, Time, Architecture! Design in Constant Transformation”

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17.06.2026 at 18:00

On Environment with Deborah Coen: “The Atmospheric Commons: Towards a Usable History of Climate Science”

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16.06.2026 12:15 – 15:45

International Colloquium with John Barry, Cindy Ott, and Elli D. Vartziotis

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11.06.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Gordon Winder on “Making Marine Spatial Planning, Blue Economy, and Just Transitions”

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09.06.2026 12:15 – 15:45

International Colloquium with Gözde Yıldız, Rossana Pennazio, Arno Pascht, and Jeannette Estruth

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02.06.2026 12:15 – 14:00

Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez, Ufuk Özdağ, Leticia Albuquerque, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer on “Rights of Nature—Comparative Analyses of Nonhuman Legal Status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey”

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28.05.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Christof Mauch on “What We Can Learn from Natural Catastrophes in History: Disaster Memory, Vulnerability, and Ecological Injustice in the USA and the Transatlantic”

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21.05.2026 12:15 – 13:30

“Reflections on Collaboratively Bringing Biodiversity Into Munich‘s Neighborhoods” with Monika Egerer and Theresia Endriß

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19.05.2026 12:15 – 14:00

International Colloquium with Karla Garcia and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey

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12.05.2026 12:15 – 14:00

International Colloquium with Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Marika Ceschia

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07.05.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Sean Burkholder on “Reimagining Coastal Infrastructure as a Landscape Practice”

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05.05.2026 12:15 – 14:00

Thinking Through Wet Lands: Lives and Landscapes In-Between

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30.04.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Herwig Stibor on “Lakes of Tomorrow: Exploring Ecosystem Services and Environmental Change”

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29.04.2026 at 18:00

On Environment with Bruno Carvalho: “Where Did the Future Go? Urban Planning and Environmentalism Then and Now”

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28.04.2026 12:15 – 13:45

International Colloquium with Alice Sundman and Thomas Heyd

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23.04.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Ralf Ludwig on “Why Scenarios? Geographical Perspectives on Climate Futures Between Utopia and Dystopia”

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21.04.2026 12:15 – 13:45

International Colloquium with Lucia Tedesco and Esther Jiménez

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16.04.2026 12:15 – 13:30

Roland Wenzlhuemer on “Salvage in/and Global History”

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14.04.2026 12:15 – 13:45

International Colloquium with Anna Mazanik and Mónica Bru

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05.02.2026 12:30 – 13:45

Gregg Mitman on “Thinking Like a Mountain”

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29.01.2026 12:30 – 13:45

Juliane Prade-Weiss on “Extractivism, War, and a History of Mass Violence: Lebedev’s Donbas Anthropocene”

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28.01.2026 at 18:00

On Environment with Nayanika Mathur: “Beastly Tales from the Himalaya: An Anthropology for the Anthropocene”

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22.01.2026 12:30 – 13:45

Kärin Nickelsen on “To Live Among the Stars: Artificial Environments in the Early Space Age”

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15.01.2026 12:30 – 13:45

Karen Pittel on “Water in a Heated World”

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14.01.2026 at 18:00

On Environment with Finola O’Kane: “Plantation Islands: The First Blueprints for Colonialism?”

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08.01.2026 12:30 – 13:45

Stephan Pauleit on “Transforming Urban Landscapes: Why Green Cities Are the Future”

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Maan Barua on “The Metropolis and Metabolic Life”

On Environment with Simon Richter: “Putting the Environmental Humanities to Work: Visual Storytelling for Climate Policy”

Christof Mauch on “Nature’s Gamble: Las Vegas and the Environmental History of the American West”

Veronika Settele on “German Animal Farming as Monoculture: Changing Human–Livestock–Environment Relationships, 1950–2000”

International Colloquium with Daniel Dumas, Ursula Koy, Jennifer Mack, and Eduardo Melero Alonso

Lars Günther on “Climate Futures: Media Representations and Effects”

International Colloquium with Amy Moran-Thomas, Lydie Stokes Fialová, and Carolina Yacaman

Ferdinand Ludwig on “Trees, Time, Architecture! Design in Constant Transformation”

On Environment with Deborah Coen: “The Atmospheric Commons: Towards a Usable History of Climate Science”

International Colloquium with John Barry, Cindy Ott, and Elli D. Vartziotis

Gordon Winder on “Making Marine Spatial Planning, Blue Economy, and Just Transitions”

International Colloquium with Gözde Yıldız, Rossana Pennazio, Arno Pascht, and Jeannette Estruth

Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez, Ufuk Özdağ, Leticia Albuquerque, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer on “Rights of Nature—Comparative Analyses of Nonhuman Legal Status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey”

Christof Mauch on “What We Can Learn from Natural Catastrophes in History: Disaster Memory, Vulnerability, and Ecological Injustice in the USA and the Transatlantic”

“Reflections on Collaboratively Bringing Biodiversity Into Munich‘s Neighborhoods” with Monika Egerer and Theresia Endriß

International Colloquium with Karla Garcia and Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey

International Colloquium with Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Marika Ceschia

Sean Burkholder on “Reimagining Coastal Infrastructure as a Landscape Practice”

Thinking Through Wet Lands: Lives and Landscapes In-Between

Herwig Stibor on “Lakes of Tomorrow: Exploring Ecosystem Services and Environmental Change”

On Environment with Bruno Carvalho: “Where Did the Future Go? Urban Planning and Environmentalism Then and Now”

International Colloquium with Alice Sundman and Thomas Heyd

Ralf Ludwig on “Why Scenarios? Geographical Perspectives on Climate Futures Between Utopia and Dystopia”

International Colloquium with Lucia Tedesco and Esther Jiménez

Roland Wenzlhuemer on “Salvage in/and Global History”

International Colloquium with Anna Mazanik and Mónica Bru

Gregg Mitman on “Thinking Like a Mountain”

Juliane Prade-Weiss on “Extractivism, War, and a History of Mass Violence: Lebedev’s Donbas Anthropocene”

On Environment with Nayanika Mathur: “Beastly Tales from the Himalaya: An Anthropology for the Anthropocene”

Kärin Nickelsen on “To Live Among the Stars: Artificial Environments in the Early Space Age”

Karen Pittel on “Water in a Heated World”

On Environment with Finola O’Kane: “Plantation Islands: The First Blueprints for Colonialism?”

Stephan Pauleit on “Transforming Urban Landscapes: Why Green Cities Are the Future”

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