Video Release - Precarious Water Futures and the End(s) of World(s)
Precarious Water Futures and the End(s) of World(s) - Insights from an International Symposium
Following the 2023 Annual Conference in Chile, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Heidelberg University, Germany, held an International Symposium on “Precarious Water Futures and the End(s) of World(s). An Integrative Dialogue Across Disciplines and Societies” in New Delhi. The symposium was organized by CAPAS in collaboration with the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP), New Delhi (India), the School of Environmental Sciences (SES), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), the Rachel Carson Center (RCC), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and the South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University (Germany).
The Symposium opened on November 13, 2024, with a public fireside chat featuring five experts discussing the Aquatic Polycrisis, which was followed by an engaged audience of over 200 participants. From November 14-16, nine thematic panels, three discussion rounds, and a special lecture followed, all of which explored water futures. Water issues are debated in many conferences, but mostly separated by disciplines and methodologies, which poses problems to integrative solutions. This international symposium brought together scholars of the humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering from Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia, in order to explore the complex and intertwined interrelationships of water emergencies in times of climate crisis and the related looming end(s) of world(s).
This video captures some of the issues addressed at the symposium and contains interviews with some of the participants from various disciplines.
Organisation Committee of the Symposium: Rolf Scheuermann, CAPAS, Heidelberg University (Chair) Suboor Bakht, Heidelberg University Office for South Asia Thomas Meier, CAPAS, Heidelberg University Ute Hüsken, SAI, Heidelberg University Marcus Nüsser, SAI, Heidelberg University Shail Mayaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) N. Janardhana Raju, JNU Rita Brara, Ashoka University Jörg Gengnagel, University of Würzburg
A special thanks to Alejandra Rojas, CAPAS, Heidelberg University, and Gabar Chauhan, Heidelberg University Office for South Asia, for their continuous administrative support!
Credits: Director, Sound and Production: Gregor Kohl Co-Directors: Melanie Le Touze; Rolf Scheuermann, Nicole Rodriguez Interviewees: Prabhat Kumar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, CAPAS Fellow 2023–2024; Nisha Paliwal, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur; Tarun, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Mona Das, Satyawati College, University of Delhi; Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, University of Warwick; Sara Ahmed, Centre for Water Research, IISER-Pune; Punyasloke Bhadury, Centre for Excellence in Blue Economy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata; Friederike Reents, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; Amrita DasGupta, SOAS, University of London; Rahi Soren, Jadavpur University; Eva Andrea Krannich, University of Augsburg / Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society; Gideon Mathson, Shiv Nadar University
