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22 Ott 2025 10:00

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy

German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven

Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy
International Conference, 22 - 24 October 2025, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven

Organized by Katrin Kleemann (German Maritime Museum), Noemi Quagliati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), and Fabienne Will (Deutsches Museum)

Abstract
This interdisciplinary event will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore public communication strategies that integrate the planetary scale of water studies while maintaining a focus on human-water relationships at the local level. The intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss urge us to incorporate a planetary perspective into our thinking and actions more than ever before. The conference “Planetary Waters” addresses this challenge by examining water in its many forms—oceans, seas, inland waters, wetlands, and glaciers—through interdisciplinary dialogues that balance abstraction with empathy.
Key questions include: How can the complex effects of climate change on the hydrosphere be made accessible to diverse audiences? Can the humanities and museum exhibitions integrate a planetary perspective while conveying local dimensions in an engaging and empathetic manner? What role can visualization techniques play in this process? The conference draws on Blue Humanities to explore human-water relationships while advancing three central goals: deepening the planetary dimension in the humanities, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to water studies, and developing innovative public communication strategies. 
Bremerhaven’s rich maritime heritage makes it an ideal setting for the conference, which will be held at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute of Maritime History (DSM) in the Havenwelten district. Organized in collaboration with NICHE, the UNESCO Chair at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the event seeks to illuminate the vital and complex relationships between people and water.

The event will be held in English

Organized by
German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History; Deutsches Museum / Munich Science Communication Lab; NICHE / UNESCO Chair on “Water Heritage and Sustainable Development”

Call for Papers attached below 
(deadline:15 June 2025)

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History; Deutsches Museum / Munich Science Communication Lab; NICHE / UNESCO Chair on “Water Heritage and Sustainable Development”

Link

https://www.dsm.museum/en/calendar/conference-planetary-waters-a-challenge-between-abstraction-and-empathy

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