Announcement: International Symposium “Healing in the Damage”

On June 5, 2025, IDK principal advisor Eveline Dürr is hosting the international symposium “Healing in the Damage: Novel Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements.” The event starts at 2 pm at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and can also be attended online. IDK guest professor Libertad Chávez-Rodríguez (CIESAS México) is one of the speakers.

The symposium explores the concept of “healing” in the face of the severe consequences of climate change. While the Anthropocene is often seen as a planetary crisis that raises concerns about human existence and the future habitability of the planet, this event seeks to move beyond notions of devastation and damage. Instead, the focus will be on practices that emerge in response to such crises, aiming to heal disturbed, disrupted, or otherwise harmed human-environment relationships. Through the lens of healing, the symposium emphasizes the importance of centering Indigenous and local perspectives in scholarly inquiry, highlighting their potential to generate innovative responses to climate change and foster social transformation.

This event also marks the launch of the Reinhart Koselleck Project on Planetary Healing: Transformation, (De)colonization and Climate Change, led by the planetary healing group at LMU Munich.

Convenor: Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich)
Speakers:

• Libertad Chávez-Rodríguez (CIESAS México / Guest Professor at the IDK)

• Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich)

• Jutta Gutberlet (University of Victoria, Canada)

• Adrienne Johnson (Wilfrid Laurier University)

• Alexii Sigona (University of California, Berkeley)

• Cristián Simonetti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Venue: IBZ, Amalienstr. 38, 80799 Munich
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2025 – via email to: planetary.healing@ethnologie.lmu.de

More Information and Full Program:
https://www.planetaryhealing.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/symposium-healing-in-the-damage/