MESH
@mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities @UniversityofCologne
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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. 🌍
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 🌲🌟
December 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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
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
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
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 🌍✨
Through Congo Basin Futures, he explores alternative paths for one of the world’s most culturally and ecologically rich regions 🌍✨
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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 🌍✨
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.
📅 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.
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🎬 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.
📅 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...
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/resea...
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
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...
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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...
mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Reposted by MESH
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")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
🌊 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/...
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
🌊 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/...
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...
🏛️ 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
🍃 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...
🏛️ 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 ✍
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
🌿 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 ✍
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
🎙️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
🌍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
🎙️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...
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...
June 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🧠🌍 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...
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
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
🚨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
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
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
bridges-hub.cologne
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🌍 "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
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
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
📢 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
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
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
📣 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
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...
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
🔍 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...
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. 🔗
🗓️ 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
🧑🏫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 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
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
March 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📅 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
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
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
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
🌍 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.
sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🌍 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
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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. 🌍