The Institute for Change Management and Management Development and the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Associate Professor Martin Hultman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden). The talk will take place on Tuesday, March 18 2025, from 16:00 to 18:00 in Sitzungssaal 6 (AD.0.090). Martin's talk will be followed by a comment by Dr. Corinna Dengler (WU) and rounded up by an open discussion. After the talk there will be an opportunity to deepen the conversation over snacks and drinks.

If you want to attend the talk, please send an email to ign@wu.ac.at by March 17.

Title: Survival. Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological Masculinities at the end of Anthropocene.

Abstract: A fossil fuel monster has heated the planet and is blocking the transformative action needed to stop the Earth from tipping into a state of Omnicide. The monster, theorized as primary (vested interest denial), secondary (ideological ecomodernism)  and tertiary (infrastructural identities) climate obstruction is rooted in a long history of colonial fossil fueled hetero-patriarchal domination of our planet. In this talk, based upon a forthcoming book, Martin outlines the theory of fossil fuel monstrous climate obstruction and proposes the lever of Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological masculinities as transformative interventions to do away with blockages.

Bio: Associate Professor Martin Hultman, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate and environmental issues in a variety of journals, more than ten books and his work is translated to seven languages. Awarded Alumni of the Year from Linköping University 2021, recognized as the most influential academic in Gothenburg 2019 he heads the global research network Center for Studies of Climate Change Denial (CEFORCED) and leads three research programs on masculinities & environment, climate denial and Rights of Nature. Recent books include Ecological masculinities (2018), Upphettning (2020), Men, Masculinities and Earth (2021) and Climate Obstruction (2022).