Benno Werlen#
| Membership Number: | 5021 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.unesco-jena.de |
| Linkedin: | http://linkedin.com/in/benno-werlen-b5329839 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2018-03 UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability
- Since 2010-01 Founder and Executive Director of the International Year of Global Understanding: UNESCO Resolution 37C/63
- Since 2016-08 Chair of the IGU Research Group 'Global Understanding'
- 1997-04 - 2018-09 Chair of Social Geography, Insitute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2008-01 - 2016-12 Panel Member of the European Research Council (ERC). Panel: Environment & Society
- 2005-04 - 2006-04 Guest Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, Universtity of Geneva
- 2004-08 - 2016-09 Chair of the IGU Research Group 'Cultural Approach in Geography'
- 2001-02 - 2001-03 Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 2000-11 - 2000-12 Guest Researcher at the London School of Economics
- 1989-04 - Fall 1990-09 Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (UK) Member of High Table at Kings College, Cambridge
- 1988-10 - 1998-09. Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- 1986-06 - 1997-03. Associate Professor at the University of Zurich
Fields of Scholarship
- Everyday regionalization of power, information and symbolic attributions (public/private; gender; age; race; status etc.)
- Regionalist and nationalist discourses
- Social theory and human geography: Action theory in geography, cultural and social sciences
- Methodology and epistemology of social sciences and human geography
- Cultural dimensions of everyday geographies
- Global understanding for sustainability
- Societal ecology
- Political regionalism and nationalism/regional and national identities
- Analysis of globalization processes in action-centered perspective
- Globalization and urbanization processes
Honours and Awards
- Since 2019 Member of the Presidium of the United Nations Association of Germany - Section Central Germany
- Since 2018 UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability
- Since 2016 Advisor to the Taihu World Cultural Forum (China)
- Since 2013 President of the National German IGU Committee
- 2019 Best Practice Award by the European Commission. Erasmus Mundus+ APHELEIA Project
- 2016 Laureat d’honneur of the International Geographical Union lifelong contributions to geographical science
- 2015 Honnrary Guest of the American Assocaition of Geographers Annual Conference, San Francisco
- 2012 - 2014 Consultant Institute of Envrionment and Ressources, Taiwan
- 2005 Outstanding Teacher Award ffor best teacher of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (“Lehrpreis des Rektors”)
