Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brand is a political scientist and has been a university professor for international politics at the University of Vienna since September 2007. He works on questions of capitalist globalisation, its critique and possibilities of political control, on international resource and environmental policy as well as on Latin America.
Sessions
20.
10:00
105 min
B120 The imperial mode of living: what is it, and how do we end it?
In "The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday life and the ecological crisis", Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen lay out how the practices and expectations about daily life which we have in the global...
Ecology and climate justice
W223
19.
14:00
105 min
F2.2 Climate - The big solutions we need for systemic change and climate justice
Global warming and climate change are reaching a tipping point in a "now or never" way. The already inadequate targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C cannot...
Ecology and climate justice
Audimax 1
18.
16:30
105 min
E106 Latin American debates at the time of the return of the "leftists”
The return of the left in Latin America is accompanied by fierce debates between political forces and social movements around extractivism, development models, the position of indigenous peoples...
Civil liberties, democracy
S102
19.
20:00
45 min
P - Plenary Strategy
The strategy debate aims to examine the possibilities of political influence of social movements in a plenary session and to find the most effective form of organisation for this. Starting from the...
Audimax 1