Responsibility is often invoked in relation to the climate crisis to assign historical blame to high-emitting nations, indict extractive corporations, or moralize individual behavior. It has become an expansive and elastic lexicon for navigating the overwhelming reality of climate change. Yet, even as the climate crisis demands new forms of responsibility, it simultaneously unsettles the very terms through which responsibility has conventionally been understood.
In this conference, we aim to explore responsibility as a contested and generative concept, shaping how environmental harm is attributed and governed, while also opening possibilities for collective care and accountability.
While the call for papers for the conference is already closed (and the conference fully booked), we kindly invite you to register for:
- 07 October 2026, 10:00–11:45 AM: public Keynote Address by Julia Eckert (University of Bern): ›Responsibility in the Age of the Deal‹
- 09 October 2026, 1:00–2:30 PM: public Closing Keynote by Barbara Muraca (University of Greifswald): ›Responsibility as Radical Care: Learning to ‹Respond› from Feminist and Indigenous Traditions‹
