Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Climate Science in Court

This panel discussion focuses on climate litigation, which is becoming a powerful tool in shaping policy and bringing about more stringent action against climate change. In these lawsuits, big emitters of greenhouse gases – companies and governments alike – are increasingly being held responsible for climate change and accountable for inaction. Three prominent panelists including…

Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Decolonizing Academia

The event explored how coloniality influences knowledge production within academia and what alternatives exist to end the reproduction dynamics of injustice within our own research practices. Two key experts; Dr. Noa K. Ha, acting Scientific Director at the Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) and Dr. Antony Pattathu, founding member of the Interdisciplinary Center…

Conference: Global Tax Justice

Issues of global tax justice have received increasing philosophical attention in recent years. Two major threads of the debate concern (a.) international tax competition and tax evasion, and (b.) proposals for taxes to be levied on the global level. (a.) Even if taxes are raised, at least for the time being, by individual states only,…