In Berlin und im Online Live stream

"Agriculture has to be part of the solution", Fresco states in her acceptance speech.

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Venue: ZEF Conference Room and Online

An event (in German language) organized by Stiftung Wissen der Sparkasse KölnBonn. Scientific co-leadership by Professor Jan Börner, (ZEF/Uni Bonn).

This week's "Alternative Wednesday" will remind us of the consequences of the ever increasing demand in gold. The double feature screening of two short documentaries by Aljazeera will be shown on Wednesday, October 10.

ZEF will host an international academic conference on “Agricultural knowledge and knowledge systems in post-Soviet societies” on September 12 – 13, 2013. International experts will meet to discuss issues such as cultures of knowledge production and sharing.

The first major Crossroads Asia conference on "Figurations of Mobility" will be held from November 22-24, 2012 in Berlin. This conference aims to provide a forum to discuss approaches of figurational sociology with the objective to re-conceptualize Area Studies. Theoretical advantages and shortcomings will be related to concepts such as networks or translocality and empirical case studies.

The competence network 'Crossroads Asia' convened an international conference on 'Figurations of Mobility' in Berlin on November 22-24. Conrad Schetter, acting director of ZEF, chaired the kick-off panel on figurational analysis within the context of area studies.

This workshop at ZEF continued the research efforts on urban climate change adaptation within the International Consortium for Comparative Water and Development Studies (ICCWaDS), in which ZEF has been collaborating with SOAS in London and the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, since 2011.