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Benno Werlen was appointed holder of the UNESCO-Chair in May 2018. From 1997 to 2018, he held the Chair of Social Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has researched and taught geography at the Universities of Fribourg, Kiel, Zurich, Cambridge, Salzburg, Geneva, Nijmegen, and at the ETH Zurich. Benno Werlen is the founder and executive director of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU)External link, which the three global science bodies of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities proclaimed in 2016. He has served as a member of the European Research Council (ERC) and advisor to the World Cultural Forum Taihu. In 2016, he was awarded the International Geographical Union's Lauréat d'HonneurExternal link for his scientific lifetime achievement. In his research, Benno Werlen focuses on the theory and methodology of geography, globalization, and the regionalization of everyday geography, societal relationships with space, place images and urban/regional development, cultural dimensions of geographical practices, global sustainability, as well as political regionalism and nationalism.

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Dr. Martin Repohl, Sociologist and Political Scientist. Studied political science, sociology and social theory at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the University of Leipzig, as well as at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig. M.A. in Political Science in 2015 and M.A. in Social Theory in 2018. Afterwards PhD student and scholarship holder at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt of the University of Augsburg with Prof. Dr. Jens Soentgen. 2021 Research stay at the Polissia National University in Zhytomyr, Ukraine and teaching assignments at the FSU Jena, the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and the Anhalt Dessau University of Applied Sciences. 2023 Doctorate as Dr. phil.

Martin Repohl's research interests include materiality, things and their inherent dynamics from a sociological and philosophical perspective. The sociology of world relations, the theory of the lifeworld, and phenomenology. He is also interested in alternative relationships to nature and the world, aesthetics, qualitative research and holistic didactics, as well as environmental policy and public policy analysis.

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