Climate change has long been scientifically proven and is on many national agendas, and yet there are sceptics - voices that deny it or instrumentalize it politically. Recently, groups have been using the issue to push their agenda and stir up public opinion. They are defiant and even hateful towards people who are campaigning for a rethink. Climate change can be seen as one of the biggest challenges for social cohesion and at the same time as the unifying element, as we are all affected by the effects of climate change.

What can we do to stop climate change? How will my own life and health be affected by climate change? Can we still do something about climate change? What forms of climate change denial are there and how are far-right actors increasingly mobilizing against climate policy? Is the current debate even an opportunity to come together? How can this succeed?

We want to explore these and many other questions as part of the TUD Lectures PLUS "Social Cohesion" on May 16 in Bautzen. Dr. Manès Weisskircher, Head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA, Prof. Matthias Mauder, Chair of Meteorology, and Alice Freiberg, Head of the Research Unit of Occupational, Social and Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, will answer questions from the audience. The event will be moderated by Prof. Moritz Ingwersen, Junior Professor of North American Literature with a focus on future studies.

• June 18, 2024, 6:00 p.m., Fritz-Foerster-Bau courtyard at TU Dresden, Mommsenstraße 6 and on July 4, 2024 in Bautzen (tba)
• Advisors: Prof. Matthias Mauder, Chair of Meteorology, Dr. Manès Weisskircher is head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA (Right-wing extremism versus climate action?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden and Dr. rer. medic. Alice Freiberg, head of the research area of occupational/social/environmental epidemiology. She works at the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine at TU Dresden.
  Moderation: Junior Professorship Dr. Moritz Ingwersen, Junior Professorship in North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies
  
  The event is a joint project of the Directorate University Culture, the Dresden University of Fine Arts, Scientific and Art Collections, the podcast format YOU ASK we explain of the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine and the Galerie Ursula Walter and is supported by the Dresden University of Fine Arts.