Sustainability in a national and international context – Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies

About this research field

This field of research includes natural resources, climate change and climate induced migration, global handling of environmental phenomena.

Projects

Global Interdependence? Newness and Tradition in the 21st Century

International Conference

Led by: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert

Year: 2005

Funding: DFG
Knowledge for Tomorrow: Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities in Sub Saharan and North Africa

The project “Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa” opens the possibility for research partnerships between German and African researches. At the same time, it promotes high-ranking humanists and social scientists on their way to a professorship and supports them in building international partnerships and academic networks. Furthermore, this project contributes to the education of young scientists and to the capacity building at African universities.

Led by: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald

Team: Rahel Kühne-Thies, M.A., Afrikanische Geschichte, Historisches Seminar und Petra Rothenhäuser, Verwaltung, Historisches Seminar

Year: 2013

Funding: VolkswagenStiftung

Duration: 2013 - 2022

© Knowledge for Tomorrow
TRUST - Transdisciplinary | rural and urban | spatial transformation

TRUST aims to concentrate the research activities in the field of spatial transformation, to build up an interdisciplinary network, and to be a partner of choice for society, industry, public administration and politics; thus continuing the long tradition of spatial research at the Leibniz University Hannover.

Team: Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald, PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert & Dr. Hinnerk Onken

Year: 2016

© Isabel Winarsch für VolkswagenStiftung
Dissertation: An Atlantic siglo de oro. Literature and Oceanic Movements in the early 17th century

Published as: „Ein atlantisches Siglo de Oro: Literatur und ozeanische Bewegung im frühen 17. Jahrhundert“ (Berlin, Boston, de Gruyter 2017) | Supervision: Prof. Dr. Anja Bandau

Led by: Dr. Mark Minnes (Romanisches Seminar)

Year: 2017
Dissertation: Neo-Extractivism and Social Inequalities in Ecuador

Published as: Der Neo-Extraktivismus und die Bürgerrevolution: Rohstoffwirtschaft und soziale Ungleichheiten in Ecuador“ (Wiesbaden, Springer 2019) | Supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert

Led by: Dr. des. Sebastian Matthes (Institut für Soziologie)

Year: 2019