In our Book Club, we meet every last Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss the book of the month: what moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas.

This week on the menu: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman.

From the Cosmos to the Commons marks the beginning of the programme conceived by City Curator Joanna Warsza. Since 2024, the project has been hosted by Kunsthaus Hamburg.

Please join us for a book discussion "On Breathing".

We invite you to a public talk with Dr. Drew Pendergrass, an environmental scientist and a co-author of Half-Earth Socialism (2022).

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu unserer nächsten Let's Talk Books-Veranstaltung: "Bodenschätze" von Isabel Feichtner, im Gespräch mit Tim Wihl und Maximilian Petras.

Join us for a talk with Leor Zmigrod as she explores the roots of ideological beliefs and how they connect to the brain and our everyday ways of thinking.

On June 10–11, 2025, THE NEW INSTITUTE convenes Collapse Finance, the inaugural workshop of the Global Consortium for Re-thinking Capitalism.

In our Book Club, we meet every last Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss the book of the month: what moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas.

This week on the menu: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk.

The Africapitalism program is holding a conference from 4 to 6 of June. This event is focused on transforming Africa’s economy through innovation, sustainability, and inclusive growth.

The event, Working with Informality: Food, Livelihoods, and the Path to Resilient Communities, organized by THE NEW INSTITUTE together with TMG Research in Berlin, focuses on the essential contributions of the informal sector to global development, particularly within food systems.

Join us for the event, Governance Innovations to Address Earth System Risks: How We Safeguard Human Flourishing, and participate in an open discussion about how science and policy can collaborate to address one of the defining challenges of our time.

Join us on May 22 at Thalia Theater Hamburg when Sasha Waltz and Olafur Eliasson are awarded with the Helmut Schmidt Future Prize 2025.

Climate neutrality remains the goal in the fight against climate change. But the necessary steps are repeatedly being slowed down worldwide. Journalist Stephanie Rohde talks to sociologist Jens Beckert and economist Susanne Dröge from the Federal Environment Agency about realism in climate policy and the question: What is Plan B for the climate?

How emotions steer politics – and what helps counteract them? Our fellow Fritz Breithaupt will speak at a public event at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

In his talk, Jens Beckert will explore why inclusive visions of the future have lost their influence in today's society. He argues that it's not just a matter of telling better stories, but of understanding the social conditions that make visions of the future powerful.

In our Book Club, we meet every last Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss the book of the month: what moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas.

This week on the menu: Revolutionary Petunias by Alice Walker.

In our Book Club, we meet every last Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss the book of the month: what moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas.

This week on the menu: Middlemarch by George Eliot.

Our Fellow Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou to open the Berlin Salon of The PolyOpportunities

We invite you to a public event with our fellow Minna Salami who will present her new book 'Can Feminism be African: A Most Paradoxical Question'.

This workshop explores the urgent need to restructure and deconstruct the economies of the Global North in response to multiple crises, particularly the climate crisis. Bringing together current debates on degrowth, planning and democracy, it aims to identify key questions for policy and research, hosted by the DFG Research Group "Futures of Sustainability" and THE NEW INSTITUTE.

"Shared Reading" is about reading literature - together & aloud, mostly short stories and poems. We engage in a casual and open conversation about the texts, express our thoughts and listen to each other. The focus is on the previously unknown text, nobody has to prepare - everyone comes as they are, and texts will be provided by Christiane. This new ‘way of reading’ from Liverpool enables us to have an intensive, inspiring, mindful reading experience.

Please note, this Bookstore Event will be held in German.

We invite you to Co-LABorate 2 Stakeholder Workshop: Preserving and Transferring Indigenous Knowledge in a Digital World.

We invite you to a lecture and open discussion with Jose Luis Vivero where he will reframe food as a commons, a public good and a human right.

The Future of Food program is holding an Advisory Committee meeting from 4 to 6 March 2025. The Advisory Committee members will contribute their expertise to develop strategies that integrate biodiversity as a key driver of transformation.

Watch now: How a diverse food system could unlock sustainability, better health, and social equity — insights from global experts

We are pleased to share a short film about our recent Africapitalism Conference. Representatives from the African Union, Nigeria, Kenya, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the private sector joined us to discuss how Africapitalism can generate new opportunities for sustainable, inclusive growth.

We invite you to a public talk and open discussion with Vivien Schmidt, a scholar of political science and international relations, specializing in European integration, democratic governance, and the role of ideas and discourse in policy-making.

In our Book Club, we meet every last Tuesday at 6 pm to discuss the book of the month: what moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas.

This week on the menu: Clear by Carys Davies.

Philosophical Café at Literaturhaus Hamburg: Our fellow Bernhard Pörksen will speak about "The Politics of Listening and the Art of Openness".

We invite you to a lunch talk and discussion with Max Haiven, a researcher of capitalism, social movements, financialization, and the imagination.

"Shared Reading" is about reading literature - together & aloud, mostly short stories and poems. We engage in a casual and open conversation about the texts, express our thoughts and listen to each other. The focus is on the previously unknown text, nobody has to prepare - everyone comes as they are, and texts will be provided by Christiane. This new ‘way of reading’ from Liverpool enables us to have an intensive, inspiring, mindful reading experience.

Please note, this Bookstore Event will be held in German.

The Planetary Governance program is hosting an international expert meeting from February 3-7, 2025. The meeting will focus on the proposal to reform UNEP and establish a Global Environment Agency (GEA).

Bernhard Pörksen, Wolfgang Schmidt and Nicole Deitelhoff discuss the art of listening at Bucerius Law School.

We meet every last Tuesday to discuss the book of the month. What moved us, challenged us, puzzled us, or sparked new ideas? This week's menu: On the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

A discussion by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Kenneth Amaeshi

Our Fellow Daniel Halliday presents books that have shaped his lives, his thinking and his work. This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

We invite you to an evening with Kohei Saito at Nachtasyl in conversation with Joachim Lux und Christina Bellingen.

Are you in Lagos? Then join Minna Salami for the pre-publication event for her new book, “Can Feminism Be African?”

Join us on December 5th at the Felix Jud Bookstore for a discussion with Sayed Azam-Ali about his latest book "The Ninth Revolution: Transforming Food Systems for Good.

On Wednesday, December 4, "Bitter Victory" will host a panel discussion exploring the evolving concept of victory and asking what kind of victory is possible in the 21st century.

Please join us for a book launch for the second book in our book series THE NEW: Seeds for Democratic Futures

Our Fellow Aaron Benanav presents books that have shaped his lives, his thinking and his work. This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

A workshop of the program "Beyond Capitalism: From Market to Planning: A Marxist Perspective," which explores the question of what comes after neoliberal capitalism.

Our fellow Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou will give a talk at Goethe University Frankfurt that examines the ways in which speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives.

We invite you to our second Inspiration Talk and open discussion with Rahel Jaeggi, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Social Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Our fellow Andrew Doss presents books that have shaped his life and his thinking (including little anecdotes about the books we all love so much). This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

We invite you to a talk and open discussion with Jay Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, on the topic Earth Citizen Solidarity.

The philosopher Jonna Bornemark and the author and TNI advisory fellow Minna Salami present and discuss the books that have shaped their understanding of knowledge beyond Eurocentric, patriarchal, technobureaucratic, and rationalist thinking.

At "Shared Reading", we read literature together (aloud), mostly short stories and poems; in a completely casual and open way, we chat about the texts, express our thoughts and listen to each other. The focus is on the previously unknown text, nobody has to prepare - everyone is welcome to come as they are.
This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

We invite you to a conversation with political sociologist Akwugo Emejulu & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Missy Magazine Dominique Haensell.

Is a system overhaul the only way to a future worth living? Historian Yuval Noah Harari and philosopher Kohei Saito will be discussing this question at Frankfurter Buchmesse

At this pre-event of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, we will present and discuss concrete ideas for resilient food systems with leading researchers and policy-makers.

Canceled – We open our doors for the Hamburger Stiftungstage!

On August 19-30, we will host the third committee meeting of the global anti-corruption court.

Join us on Wednesday, July 31, at the Bookstore as Johann Hinrich Claussen and Liane Bednarz present two new books that decipher the line between conservative and right-wing.

A workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE, June 24-25, exploring "webfare" as a form of digital welfare.

Join us on Thursday, June 20 for an open discussion with Maha Marouan on the dimensions of loss in selected fiction.

A workshop by the program 'Governing the Planetary Commons' exploring whether the tipping elements could function as a new "constitution" for law and governance in the Anthropocene.

Dr. Wesam Amer will speak about his ongoing project on Hamas' digital communication strategies and discourses amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

The "Black Feminism and The Polycris" group is hosting the event 'From Crisis to Liberation: Art, Talks, Film & Music' at THE NEW INSTITUTE on Friday, June 14.

We are pleased to welcome Mary McAleese as the keynote speaker of our two-day workshop on "Religions in Transformation to Sustainability".

We are excited to host this workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE from June 12-13, 2024 and honored to have former President of Ireland Mary McAleese as the keynote speaker for the event.

Is reading a remedy for polarization? The role of non-fiction books in democratic discourse – a conversation at THE NEW INSTITUTE.

An evening lecture with Jennifer C. Nash, guest of the program "Black Feminism and the Polycrisis", who invites us to think about the meanings of the word 'intersectionality'.

We are excited to host this workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE from June 5-6 exploring the prospects of recoupling moral and economic progress by way of both democratic and economic measures.

On Wednesday, June 5, the Reclaiming Common Welth program will host a workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE to explore how knowledge institutions can be designed to better accommodate transformative and transdisciplinary modes of research.

MARKK hosts a screening of the movie ”Black Feminism & the Polycrisis", made by our eponymous research program.

How can we contribute to constructive public debates? To answer this question, we convened a workshop with key figures from communication studies, journalism, activism, and politics.

An evening lecture with Cara Daggett, guest of the "Governing the Planetary Commons" program, examining the political relationship between ecomodernity and petro-masculinity as twin figures of domination.

A lunch talk with Susan Arndt, guest of the program "Black Feminism and the Polycrisis", discussing intersectional solidarity as a mode of intervention.

With Thomas Lambusch, Stefan Gruber, Azul Lebrija Castillo, Lisa Jaspers, Benny Adrion, Noah Schöppl and Jörg Richert.
The first workshop is about the society of tomorrow: what characterizes it? How does a sense of community develop? How does social cohesion work and how can we encourage people to show solidarity?

A lunch talk with Mazviita Chirimuuta, exploring the historical and social context of the invention of computers and AI.

Our fellow Karen Morrow presents books that have shaped her life and her thinking (including little anecdotes about the books we all love so much). This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

A evening lecture with Sabelo Mcinziba discussing the inherent problematic of a seemingly progressive constitution's inability to resolve South Africa's most central issue: land.

Jackie Grassmann and Georg Diez in conversation.
The SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL is a place where craftsmanship is learned, where the tools for our collective survival are taught - and writing is one of these tools. Artist and author Jackie Grassmann talks to curator Georg Diez about writing as a way of understanding one's own life and creating new paths.

Ece Temelkuran and Georg Diez in conversation.
We need new words for a new world. Democracy consists of rules and abstraction: freedom, equality, fraternity - but how do these concepts relate to love, beauty, grief, anger? The writer Ece Temelkuran and the curator Georg Diez present their project of a vocabulary for the 21st century - and invite participants to expand this vocabulary and find new words for a new reality.

Srećko Horvat and Georg Diez in conversation.
What does learning mean in our societies? Philosopher Srećko Horvat talks to Georg Diez about his experiences in founding an experimental school on the Croatian island of Vis, the School of Social Autonomy. The conversation serves as an introduction to the concept and idea of the SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL.

A lunch talk with the guest of the program "Black Feminism and the Polycrisis" Toni Haastrup.

Join us for our next Let's Talk Books event: “Think Like a Commoner” by the author David Bollier, in conversation with our fellow Stefan Gruber.

Meredith Whittaker receives the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2024

A Weekly Lecture on Political Engagement with Mary Scudder.

On May 13-15, 2024, the program Reclaiming Common Wealth will convene a three-day workshop on Infrastructures of Commoning at THE NEW INSTITUTE.

A lunch talk with David Bollier discussing opportunities and challenges of the Commonsverse.

A lunch talk with Azucena Morán on deliberative institutions as a governance basis.

Our fellow Akwugo Emejulu presents books that have shaped her life, her thinking and her work. This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

We are excited to host the screening of 'Fireball' followed by a discussion with one of the film's directors, Clive Oppenheimer.

Together with Felix Jud Bookstore, we invite you to celebrate the Week of Freedom of Expression.

From 9-11 April, an international group of distinguished lawyers and jurists met at THE NEW INSTITUTE.

Join us for our next Let's Talk Books Event: “Wild Democracy. The Right to Protest” by the author (and fellow) Tim Wihl, in conversation with our fellows Bruno Leipold and Rahel Süß.

Michael Hampe on bridging the gap between indigenous knowledge, science, and philosophy.

A public workshop on community, water and environmental stewardship

The feeling of a moral obligation to make climate friendly choices – how is it connected to beliefs about climate change, and does it motivate climate friendly behavior?

A Weekly Lecture by our program Reclaiming Common Wealth

What is the market value of land? How should it be determined? – A workshop by our program Reclaiming Common Wealth

A workshop by Cassandra Ellerbe on African diasporic and shamanic practices

A Lunch Talk with Augusto Lopez-Claros

Or is it simply a fraud? – A Weekly Lecture with Costas Lapavitsas

In celebration of International Women’s Day, activists and academics from South Africa, Finland, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United States will discuss the feminist fiction and non-fiction books that have shaped their lives.

Our Fellow Shota Gelovani presents books that have shaped his lives, his thinking and his work. This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

Celebrating female visions for the future in a workshop by our fellow Akwugo Emejulu

A Weekly Lecture on Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Society

At "Shared Reading", we read literature together (aloud), mostly short stories and poems; in a completely casual and open way, we chat about the texts, express our thoughts and listen to each other. The focus is on the previously unknown text, nobody has to prepare - everyone is welcome to come as they are.
This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

Claus Leggewie on right-wing radicalism, old pressures and new cleavages

Meredith Whittaker in conversation with Anna Katsman, Thomas Gegenhuber, THE NEW INSTITUTE fellows and festival participants of the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftsfestival.

Why 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.

Minna Salami discusses non-dualist knowledge and black feminist perspectives on the polycrisis, and how they are intertwined with decolonisation and identity.

Our Fellows Carole Bloch and George Ellis present books that have shaped their lives, their thinking and their work. This is a joint event with Felix Jud Bookstore. The event is free and open to the public.

A workshop by our programs Reclaiming Common Wealth and Governing the Planetary Commons

Deploying the Full Potential of the Great Transformation ushered in by Black Feminists

A Lunch Talk on Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Society

A Weekly Lecture on the Ontology of Human Being

A Weekly Lecture with Charmaine Misalucha-Willoughby

We are excited to host a workshop on the topic of "Human-Friendly Worldviews" on the 13th of February 2024.

Introducing a new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

Together with Felix Jud Bookstore, we invite you to celebrate the works of Virginia Woolf, whose voice continues to resonate with contemporary discussions on gender equality.

This workshop by our program "Governing the Planetary Commons" facilitates a deep dive into the many complex issues arising from proclaiming and governing the planetary commons.

A Weekly Lecture by Duncan French on the crisis of international law

A Weekly Lecture with our fellow Karma Ura.

A workshop at THE NEW INSTITUTE by the program Reclaiming Common Wealth exploring a urban-rural land policy for a social-ecological transformation.

Our Weekly Lecture by Radha D'Souza on corporation-states, law, and dualist imaginations.

A talk on finding a new theoretical framework for Egalitarian Justice.

In the context of the overarching theme 'The Human Condition in the 21st Century,' our Academic Director, Markus Gabriel, along with alumni Takahiro Nakajima, fellow Xudong Zhang, and intellectual Paul Pickering, is hosting this year's Winter Institute—a three-day conference at THE NEW INSTITUTE in Hamburg.

A workshop on the intricate interplay of gender dynamics, societal evolution, and the pressing challenges presented by contemporary environmental issues.

A Weekly Lecture on how Chat Interventions can improve political conversations online.

Join us live as Markus Gabriel and Andrej Zwitter present and break down the concept of "New Enlightenment" at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

A Weekly Lecture on creatively holding the tension between Artificial Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence.

The internationally acclaimed author Benjamín Labatut presents his new book MANIAC in an interview with Jan Ehlert (NDR) at THE NEW INSTITUTE on Friday, October 13.

A Weekly Lecture about the impossibilities of intersectional solidarity.

From 26-30 August, an international group of distinguished lawyers and jurists are meeting at THE NEW INSTITUTE to draft a treaty for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court.