A conversation about repair, drawing on experiences from East Germany and South Africa.

A reflection on the contemporary conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine, offering three perspectives on the trauma of war and possibilities for repair.

Where is the Planetary? is a collective search for models of living together on Earth.

Knowledge of the onset of the Anthropocene is intimately connected to nuclear technoscience on the one hand and to the governance of environmental problems, such as atmospheric pollution, on the other.

Assessing the effects of artificial radioactivity on human bodies and natural environments has a special place in the history of risk regulation, and has provided a key basis for understanding and defining the anthropogenic danger to life on Earth.

Constellating three documents that mark a story of changing hopes for a better future, historian Julia Adeney Thomas advocates to recognize the immaterial power of ideas that gave birth to the Anthropocene.

Maria Rentetzi shares a personal encounter during a research trip to Hiroshima. What can we learn from the intense humanity inscribed in gestures of respect and apology to the survivors of the atomic bomb, an event at the dawn of the Anthropocene?

Research and artistic practice depend on exchange and openness to other perspectives. But how can artists and researchers approach blind spots in practice?

What can be learned from attuning to the specifics of vulnerability when artificial realities are interrogated?

Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.

Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.

The articulation of risk assessment and management as being at the heart of environmental justice is the focus of this seminar, which explores the paired concepts of risk and equity through lived experiences.

The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans.

Corporate personhood has rearticulated how agricultural giant Monsanto operates legally on the landscape.

Who is trusted to take care of others? Feminist science and technology studies scholar Kalindi Vora investigates the relationships between surrogates and commissioning parents.

What does it mean to share or feel another’s embodied experience?

Data, evidence, truth—these grades of the factual form an intricate reference system in which current social and juridical knowledge is established and maintained. How is factual knowledge constituted within and through the technosphere? The evening examines how the concept of legal truth and truth finding is bound to the technical production of certainty.

2009 was the year the United Nations COP15 took place in Copenhagen, infamous for the secret agreement drafted among the G20, the so-called “Danish Text.” In response, the Ambassador and spokesperson for the G77, Lumumba Di-Aping, called a press conference and addressed the plenary accusing the G20 of genocide. With Paul N. Edwards, Adrian Lahoud, and Alejandra Torres Camprubí.

The low-lying Maldive Islands face the problem of too much water. Melting ice far away is slowly inundating their homeland, posing an existential threat.

Using the Maldives as our (anthropo)scene, we explore how a monolithic and simplistic “We” can be questioned and reframed. Picture Lake Chad as an island of water in the desert and the Maldives surrounded by the rising “blue.”