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SUMMARY:Utopias are dead. Long live Utopias!
DESCRIPTION:A characteristic feature of current diagnoses of the present – 
 whether they originate in the social or the natural sciences – is a gloomy 
 outlook on emerging futures. In the rising tide of interconnected polycrise
 s, global challenges and “Zeitenwenden”, utopias are facing difficult times
 . Although they have always been ‘non-places’ by name, today they seem even
  more distant, perhaps even dead.Against this backdrop, we want to critical
 ly assess the potential of utopias in socio-political future-making. Do the
 y have a future at all? And if so, how should our understanding of utopias 
 and utopian practice be reshaped in and for the 21st century? What real-wor
 ld examples might help to re-envision utopia today?These and further questi
 ons will be discussed with two eminent scholars working on the topic of uto
 pias. Opportunities for exchange with and among the audience will be facili
 tated. The discussion will be accompanied and documented by an artist via g
 raphic recording.\n\nWe look forward to welcoming:\n\nProf. Dr. Mathias Tha
 ler is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh and has
  published widely on utopias, hope and failure in relation to the climate m
 ovement. His monograph “No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Chan
 ged World” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.Prof. Dr. Da
 vina Cooper is Professor of Law and Political Theory at King's College Lond
 on and researches utopian, transgressive and radical forms of state and non
 -state governance. Her monograph “Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of 
 Promising Spaces” was published by Duke University Press in 2014. \n\nThe e
 vening will be held in English and moderated by Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski (A
 ssistant Professor of Sociology, Violence and Security at the University of
  Hamburg and Young Academy Fellow at the Academy of the Sciences in Hamburg
 ).\n\nEntry is free of charge, but registration under zukuenfte.der.nachhal
 tigkeit@uni-hamburg.de is required.\n\nThursday, 14 November 2024, 18-20h, 
 followed by an informal receptionLocation: DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe „Zuk
 ünfte der Nachhaltigkeit“Gorch-Fock-Wall 3 (doorbell sign „Nachhaltigkeit“)
 , Room 102120354 Hamburg\n\nThe event is jointly organised by Lukas Bäuerle
 , Vincent Gengnagel, and Nina Perkowski, Young Academy Fellows from the Aca
 demy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg (ASHA), and the DFG Humanities C
 entre “Futures of Sustainability.”
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