Perspectives on the climate crisis
The lecture series will take place in a variety of formats – lectures, panel discussions and workshops – and will address exciting and highly topical issues that raise questions about the state of the modern subject in the climate crisis.
Due to the escalating climate crisis, the Green Office of the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) is organising a series of events on the climate crisis at the interface between psychoanalysis, sociology and economics/politics during the coming winter semester, from the beginning of October to the end of November.
The events will address questions such as:
- What is the current state of science?
- Where do we stand with regard to the so-called tipping points?
- What are ecological limits and where is there potential room for change?
- How do children and young people view the climate crisis – what (unconscious) feelings and fantasies accompany growing up and becoming an adult under these circumstances?
- What impact do protest movements have on social change? And what does working with climate activists look like?
- and many more.
Events in the series:
08.10. 7pm, Stromstr. 2, Lecture Hall 1
- Is it all too late? What can science (still) do to counteract climate change? – Prof. Dr. Florian Heyd (in German)
18.10. 7pm, Stromstr. 2, Lecture Hall 1
- Growing up in the context of the climate crisis – or: What do we want? Climate Justice! A psychoanalytical perspective - Kathrin Hörter (in German)
14 November, 7 p.m., Stromstr. 2, Lecture Hall 1
- The Destruction of Nature, Capitalisms and Post-Growth Perspectives - Insights and Outlooks from a Political-Economic Perspective – Dr. Athanasios Karathanassis (in German)
23.11. 10.00-16.00 Alt-Moabit 91b Room 03a+03b
- The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition. A workshop - Paul Hogget (in English)
28 November, 7 p.m., Stromstr. 2, Lecture Hall 1
- Emancipatory practice or manic defence? Discussion round on climate activism - Felix Anderl, Birgit Zech, Michael Bilharz, moderated by Max Nahrhaft (in German)