We are particularly looking forward to this event in which the DELTA project is involved, with Franz as chairperson, and are pleased to welcome Susan Crate as one of the panel guests and also one of our project's external partners.
The roundtable will take place at COLABOR (Vogelsanger Str. 187, 50825 Köln) and will begin at 7pm.
A more detailed description of the event is as follows:
Donald Trump’s presidency is as real as global climate change. What should we expect from the coming years for the development of climate-related policies, international relations, and greenhouse gas emissions? The current US leadership has sent strong signals that environmental issues are not among their priorities. During his first weeks in office, the new president has issued a series of decrees and statements aimed at curbing previous climate change adaptation policies. Because climate change is a global phenomenon, this trajectory is likely to affect people throughout the world.
This roundtable brings together an environmental anthropologist, an US law scholar and a political scientist to discuss the possible consequences of Trump’s presidency for global climate change, both institutionally and for vulnerable populations. To what extent are his statements and decrees mostly metaphorical hot air with little traction? And in what ways can and will his administration produce hot air materially by hastening climate change and jeopardizing people’s lives and livelihoods?
The Anthropologist is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger (Ironbound Films). At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America and Susan Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters’ perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change brought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers and rising tides.
Panel guests:
- Susan Crate (Environmental Anthropology, George Mason University)
- Kirk Junker (US American Law, GSSC, University of Cologne/Director International Master of Environmental Sciences Programme (IMES))
- Detlef Sprinz (Political Science, PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Chair: Franz Krause (Anthropology, GSSC, University of Cologne)
Venue:
Colabor, Vogelsanger Str. 187, 50825 Köln, 19.00
Free entry