Lecture Series
Windows on Environment & Society: Research at LMU Munich
12.04.2018
Time: Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:00,
First session: 12 April 2018,
Location: RCC, Leopoldstr. 11a, 4th floor conference room.
Credit Points: 3 ECTS (pass/fail)
Photo Credit: Ursula Münster.
Professors from across LMU Munich—who are incidentally all members of the academic board of the Doctoral Program in Environment and Society—present this lecture series, which showcases research into environmental questions from history, law, theology, sociology, geography, anthropology, and geology.
Our current program:
| 12.04.2018 | Christof Mauch Ecological Crises and Slow Hope for the Future |
| 19.04.2018 | Henrike Rau Doing More with Less? Critical Approaches to Sustainable Consumption |
| 26.04.2018 | Jens Kersten Urban Biodiversity |
| 03.05.2018 | Bernhard Gill Epistemic Logic and Everyday Practices: The Evolution of Energy Consumption in Private Households |
| 17.05.2018 | Simone Müller Where Does All the Waste Go? Ghost Acres, Garbage Imperialism, and the Global Waste Economy |
| 24.05.2018 | Karen Pittel Climate Policy—A Social Dilemma? |
| 07.06.2018 | Gordon Winder Making the Blue Economy |
| 14.06.2018 | Eveline Dürr Back to Nature? Ecotourism and Indigeneity in Mexico |
| 21.06.2018 | Julia Herzberg A Cold Empire: Exploring Frost, Ice, and Snow in Russian History. |
| 28.06.2018 | Markus Vogt From Human Ecology to Ecological Humanity: Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene |
| 05.07.2018 | Helmuth Trischler The Anthropocene: A Challenge to the Environmental Humanities |
| 12.07.2018 | Anke Friedrich The Limits of Plate Tectonics: Landscapes, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes in Continental Interiors |