• Gesellschaft, Transformation, Moderne: MA Gesellschaft und Kulturen der Moderne
  
  
• Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten: BA Social Sciences
  
  
• Sociology of the Future: BA Social Sciences
  
  
• Gesellschaft bauen. 'The Walking Dead' als Gedankenexperiment: BA Social Sciences, VIP, EUPeace Track

• „Migration aus kultursoziologischer und gesellschaftstheoretischer Perspektive“, Ringvorlesung „Grundwissen Migration“, Interdisziplinäres Studienangebot „Migration und Menschenrechte“ (StaMM), Universität Gießen, 09. Februar 2026 Veranstaltungen WiSe 2025/26 (Forschungsnetzwerk Migration und Menschenrechte)
  
  
• “What is Sustainability? Reflections about the Agenda of an Oxymoron”, 10th mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture research network (RN7), Rome, Jan. 21-23, 2026, European Sociological Association 
  
  
• “The (im)possibility of a civil society Botswana”, (Political) Botswana Conference, Mehr Demokratie e.V. & Heinrich Boell Foundation NRW, 05./06. December 2025, online Botswana: Was können wir von Afrikas ältester Demokratie lernen? | Boell Calendar 
  
  
• “Epistemic Disobedience and the Peripheries of the Center?”, Border Thinking from the Maghreb: Who Speaks for the Human in a Change of Epoch? International conference 12.-13. November 2025, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah – Sais, Fes, Morocco
  
  
• “The Future Being Shut Down: Ambiguities of the Anthropocene and of Modernity”, Workshop DFG Forschungskolleg Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit, Universität Hamburg, 16./17. October 2025
  
  
• “Modernity and the institution gap: How to govern sustainability?” EUPeace Conference
  
  
• “Advancing Justice, Peace and Inclusiveness in Times of AI”, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Pilsen, Czech Republic; 22-24 September 2025, EUPeace Conference 2025: Advancing Justice, Peace and Inclusiveness in Times of AI – EUPeace 
  
  
• “What is Sustainability? Reflections about the Agenda of an Oxymoron”, Keynote at: Sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development. PLUS closing conference, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, 02.-05. September 2025, Maputo, Mozambique, Home - Conferência PLUS - UP-Maputo 
  
  
• “Nature’s Revenge? A Third Nature in the Anthropocene”, V. ISA Forum of Sociology, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025, 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 
  
  
• “The Nature of Sustainability: Attempts for a Domestication of Third Nature”, conference
  
  
• “The Anthropocene as Third Nature: Contemporary Challenges and the Disruption of Past and Future”, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, April 03-04, 2025

• (ed. with M. Rompel & D. Simon) Climate Change in southern Africa, special issue of Journal of Southern Africa Studies, 2025 Journal of Southern African Studies – Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa.
  
  
• (ed. with A. Terblanché-Greeff, E. Alm) Climate Change and the Postcolonial, Wiesbaden 2025: Springer VS Climate Change and the Postcolonial | SpringerLink
  
  
• The Art of Not Being Art: Film as a Medium of Counter-Art, in: Lutz Hieber and Rainer Winter (eds.): Film as an Art of Society Aesthetic Innovations and Social Relations, Wiesbaden 2025: Palgrave Macmillan Film as an Art of Society: Aesthetic Innovations and Social Relations | SpringerLink
  
  
• Im Wald der Bilder. Der Wald im Comic, in: Kirsten von Hagen, Corinna Dziudzia (Hg.): (Re-)Mythisierungen des Waldes in Zeiten des Digitalen? Eine literarische und kulturhistorische Spurensuche, Stuttgart 2025: J.B. Metzler (Re-)Mythisierungen des Waldes in Zeiten des Digitalen?: Eine literarische und kulturhistorische Spurensuche | SpringerLink
  
  
• Der Comic ist das Populäre. Zur populärkulturellen Gestalt eines Mediums der Massenkultur, in: Rolf Lohse und Joachim Trinkwitz (Hg.): Der Comic und das Populäre, Berlin 2025: Bachmann Verlag Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag
  
  
• Gone are the Days: The Recent Western, the Imagination of Violence, and the Abandoning of the Hero, in: Martin von Koppenfels and Manuel Mühlbacher (eds.): Adventure at Arms. On the Narrative Formation of Violence, Paderborn 2024: Brill/Fink Adventure at Arms – On the Narrative Formation of Violence | Brill

• Workshop: Civil society and Green Transition in Botswana
  
  Prof. Jörn Ahrens, Justus Liebig University Giessen; Prof. Gabriel Faimau, University of Botswana; Dr. Pearl Lefadola, University of Botswana; Dr. Anja Peltzer, Justus Liebig University Giessen
  
  Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025; International Graduate Center of the Study of Culture (GCSC), JLU

PROGRAMM

09:15: Welcoming

09:30-10:30: Pearl Lefadola: Community agency for food security and Green
Transformation in Botswana

10:30-11:30: Anja Peltzer: Digital platform communication as gateways for
the civil society and Green Transformation practices in Botswana

11:30-13:00: Lunch Break

13:00-14:00: Elisabeth Alm: The Kgotla as ambiguous actor in the context of
civil society and Green Transformation in Botswana

14:00-15:00: Jörn Ahrens: Action and Perception of Climate Change Impact in
a Botswana village and the case of the civil society

15:00-15:15: Coffee Break

15:15-16:15: Gabriel Faimau: Civil Society and Reflexive Sustainability in Botswana: Reimagining Civic Engagement for Transformative Change

• Dokumentation als Geste. Probleme des dokumentarischen Comic am Beispiel von Joe Sacco
• Digital Key Topics Lecture Series - PLUS 
• Mediale Rekonfigurationen nicht unbedingt interaktiver Medien: Comic und Theater 
• Der Western der Gegenwart 
• Neue Normalität | Velbrück Wissenschaft Magazin Podcast  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zM8X8sRNU