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TCC #5: Biodiversity and Climate Change

1:00 - 2:30 pm ET (US)

19 - 20.30 Uhr (DE)

Zoom Webinar

About the Event

Join us for our fifth transatlantic climate conversation (TCC) and our first in cooperation with our third partner- AFAS - the African Climate and Environment Center - Future African Savannas, a cooperation between the Universities of Bonn/Cologne, the University of Nairobi, Kenya and Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, one of the DAAD's Global Centres for Climate and Environment.

About the Speakers

Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne where his key interests lie in the environmental anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa. His current research projects

focus on the social-ecological dynamics connected to large-scale conservation projects, the commodification of nature and the political ecology of pastoralism. He is the author of Shaping the African Savannah. From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia (2020), Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment (2006), co-author of African Landscapes (2009) with O. Bubenzer, Pastoralism in Africa (2013) with M. Schnegg and H.P. Wotzka, and Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs (2017) with D. Anderson. Together with Franz Krause he just published "Environmental Anthropology. Fields of Engagement and Contemporary Challenges" (2023), an introduction into the disciplinary field containing chapters on climate change, biodiversity loss and the anthropocene.