Benno Werlen#
| Membership Number: | 5021 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENT, SPACE AND SUSTAINABILITY |
| 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 2021-03 Founder and Chair, The Jena Declaration (TJD)
- Since 2018-03 UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability
- Since 2010-01 Founder and Executive Director, International Year of Global Understanding: UNESCO Resolution 37C/63
- Since 2016-08 Chair, IGU Research Group 'Global Understanding'
- 2019-09–2021-12 Fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
- 2016-04-2019-08 Associated Fellow, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
- 2008-01-2016-12 Panel Member, European Research Council (ERC). Panel: Environment & Society
- 2008-09-2015-12 Guest Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen
- 2005-04-2006-04 Guest Professor in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Universtity of Geneva
- 2004-08-2016-09 Chair, IGU Research Group 'Cultural Approach in Geography'
- 2001-02-2001-03 Visiting Scholar, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 2000-11-2000-12 Guest Researcher, London School of Economics
- 1997-04-2018-09 Chair of Social Geography, Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 1996-04-1997-03 Assistant Professor on Population Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 1995-10–1996-03 Guest Professor in Human Geography, University of Salzburg/Austria
- 1989-04-1990-09 Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge (UK) Member of High Table at Kings College, Cambridge
- 1988-10-1998-09 Lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- 1986-06-1997-03 Senior Assistant and Lecturee, University of Zurich
Fields of Scholarship
- Globalization and urbanization processes
- Global understanding for sustainability
- Cultural dimensions of everyday geographies
- Methodology and epistemology of social sciences and human geography
- Political regionalism and nationalism/regional and national identities
- Social theory and human geography: Action theory in geography, cultural and social sciences
- Everyday regionalization of power, information and symbolic attributions (public/private; gender; age; race; status etc.)
- Societal ecology
- Regionalist and nationalist discourses
- Analysis of globalization processes in action-centered perspective
Honours and Awards
- Since 2020 Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
- Since 2019 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 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)
- 2025 Distinguished Fellow, The International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)
- 2013–2021 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”)
