Center for German and European Studies

25th Anniversary

12:00 - 1:00 pm Festive Luncheon (vegan)

• Welcome/MC: Sabine von Mering, CGES Director
• Greeting: Dorothy Hodgson, Dean of Arts and Sciences
• Greeting: Dr. Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany to the New England States
• Greeting: Mary Fischer, Associate Director, Sustainability Programs, and Colleen Hitchcock, Chair of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor in Biology

1:00 - 2:05 pm

Keynote: Professor Simon Richter, Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania: “Plan D: Moving to Germany as the Final Dutch Climate Adaption Strategy”

2:20 - 3:40 pm Panel on Climate Justice:

• Prakash Kashwan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and an Affiliated Faculty at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University: “Ecological Justice in the Age of Climate Crisis”
• Barbara Dombrowski, climate photographer: “A Lens on Climate Justice”
• Tonny Nowshin (via Zoom), “Decolonizing Degrowth”
• Facilitator: Toni Shapiro-Phim, Associate Professor of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation and Co-Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts & Liz Sandoval '25, Major: Business/Psycholgy

4:00 - 4:45 pm Book Launch: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future.

(Brandeis University Press, April 2023) 

• Luisa Neubauer (via Zoom) 
• Alexander Repenning
• Bill McKibben
• Sabine von Mering, CGES Director

Moderator: Miriam Wasser, WBUR

4:45 - 6:00 pm CHARRETTE “Let's Talk About Climate and What We Can Change”

Led by Phoebe Dolan, Co-Director, Maine Youth Power, alumna

6:00 - 6:10 pm Greeting by Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz

6:10 - 6:40 pm Keynote by Bill McKibben  

6:40 - 7:00 pm Q&A with Bill McKibben 

Facilitators: 

• Zev Carlyle '23, Major: Business, Minor: History
• Andie (Miranda) Sheinbaum '24, Major: Environmental Studies, Minors: Legal Studies and English
• Ana Delfina Mejía Cerdas '25, Majors: Economics, International and Global Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Development, Minors: Latin American Studies, Social Justice and Social Policy

CGES Donors

We would like to extend a sincere thank you to our supporters for their generosity in donating to CGES. As a part of our 25th anniversary, we would like to recognize donors who contributed to our celebration this year as well as helped us to continue our important work.

• Heidi Keller Moon
• Margaret E. Ward
• Margie & Tony Lee
• Gail Finney
• Luise F. Pusch and Joey Horsley
• Nicholas Alexander Brown
• Maike Byrd
• Dante Diwan
• Robin Feuer Miller
• Sandy Resnick & John Field
• We express our gratitude to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for supporting our work.