PUBLICATIONS
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book
Upcoming: Seeds for Democratic FuturesSeeds For Democratic Futures offers thought-provoking and policy-relevant approaches to democratizing contemporary states and societies.
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book
Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-illiberalismEconomic Policies and Performance for Sustainable Democracy
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report
Academic Year 2022/2023This annual report represents the first year of operation of our Academic Directors, Markus Gabriel and Anna Katsman, covering the Academic Year from September 2022 to the end of June 2023.
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report
For the Years 2020–2022In this report, with a foreword by our Founding Director Wilhelm Krull, we outline the evolution of our program and research architecture in the founding and construction phase, as it entered its second full year of fellowship work in 2022.
LATEST MEDIA
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recording
"We have reason to act." Jay Bernstein on Earth Citizen SolidarityWhy we need an ecocide convention: In this lecture recording, Jay Bernstein talks about our complicity in a "slow genocidal ecocide," why we need to act, and how we can act.
Jay Bernstein | Events | News |
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public event
Inspiration Talk with Rahel JaeggiWe invite you to a talk and open discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Social Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Events |
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join us
The OKOBI ModelThe OKOBI Model leverages Africapitalism to tackle unemployment in Africa through shared entrepreneurship and collective ownership. This is an invitation to explore partnerships with OKOBI in support of sustainable entrepreneurship and inclusive economic growth in African regions.
Kenneth Amaeshi | Africapitalism: Shared Entrepreneurship for Economic Development |
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report
Why we need a global food transitionAt our pre-conference event for the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, we emphasized the interconnectedness of food systems with climate change and biodiversity loss, and called for more ambitious structural changes rather than incremental adjustments. Read more about three approaches to making food systems better for people and our planet.
José Luis Chicoma | Jessica Duncan | Sayed Azam-Ali | Maja Groff | The Future of Food: Power and Biodiversity | Planetary Governance | Events |
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Dialogues and Critical InquiresAt this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, we contributed two events that brought together critical thinkers to highlight the power of literature as tools for social change.
Akwugo Emejulu | Kohei Saito | Black Feminism and the Polycrisis | Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning | Events | News |
PROGRAMS
Our programs are guided by focused research questions connected to the areas of the Human Condition in the 21st Century, the Future of Democracy, and Socio-economic Transformation. They are year-long collaborative research groups composed of about three fellows led by a program chair. Fellows live and work in the Warburg Ensemble for the duration of the program.
2024/25
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Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning
How can we create a fairer, sustainable society amidst global crisis, using a democratic 'war economy' and redefined concepts of freedom and progress?
This program explores the concept of a democratically driven 'war economy' as a means to reshape society towards equality and sustainability amidst global crises. It aims to redefine notions of freedom and progress in response to the unfolding planetary catastrophe.
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Africapitalism: Shared Entrepreneurship for Economic Development
How are community-based businesses economically empowering rural and urban Africa?
Capitalism receives criticism for its negative impacts, despite its benefits. Efforts to reform it are underway. Based on the concept of Africapitalism, this program explores fit-for-purpose capitalism and promotes shared entrepreneurship rooted in communal ties, offering a blueprint for addressing poverty and inequality. The program emphasizes the importance of indigenous approaches to economic empowerment in Africa and aims to contribute to the global discourse on the transformation of capitalism.
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Futures of Capitalism: Radical Democracy and the Financial Imagination
How do the workings of financial markets shape our social reality, and how can practices of speculation and distortion become tools of radical democratic imagination?
The Futures of Capitalism program seeks to develop a new language for analyzing, critiquing, and reforming the complex configurations through which finance exerts its influence. Bringing together scholars and artists representing diverse fields of research and practice, our work will be organized around three interconnected streams, each reflecting a core tenet of capitalist dynamics: technology, society, and politics.
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The Future of Food: Power and Biodiversity
How can harnessing biodiversity enable progressive power shifts in the food system?
Without a significant, proactive, and sustained long-term change in the power forces defining food, which includes recognizing the pivotal role of biodiversity and the imperative to diversify food production and consumption, it is hard to imagine achieving sustainable, healthy, inclusive, and fair food systems. In this project, we will address these and other challenges by identifying obstacles arising from power asymmetries and offering multidisciplinary and systemic solutions. We will provide a comprehensive analysis on biodiversity and power, developing concrete multidisciplinary recommendations to promote food systems diversification.
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Planetary Governance
How can planetary governance reform proposals be implemented?
This program will tackle the implementation of the Climate Governance Commission's report Governing Our Planetary Emergency to refine, sharpen, and move forward with the implementation of critical climate governance reform.
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Bitter Victory: Is Victory possible in the 21st Century?
Terror, violence, and wars persist relentlessly, affecting every corner of our planet. Civil and civic, socio-political, economic, scientific, and cultural discourses are contaminated by the pervasive presence of militant rhetoric and warrior-like language. Our project aims to dissect and compare the evolution of victory doctrines and explore their implications on the termination of violence and establishment of peace.
FELLOWS
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Camille Meyer
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
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Giulia Dal Maso
University of Venice Ca' Foscari, National University of Singapore
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María Fernanda Mideros Bastidas
University of the Andes
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Naomi Nwokolo
UN Global Compact Network Nigeria
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Maria Etemore Glover
Impact Investors Foundation, CEO
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Donald Amaeshi
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
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Kirstin Munro
The New School for Social Research
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Jude Chukwunyere Iwuoha
University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
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Onya Idoko
UCL, Co-Programme Leader & Lecture
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Nicolás Rovegno Arrese
Fisheries Transparency Initiative, Regional Coordinator for Latin America
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Liz Willetts
Strategic Advisor and Consultant Biodiversity and Health, Planetary Health, and One Health
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Cima Sholotan
IHS Nigeria Limited - Director, Sustainability and Corporate Communications