RECAS Fellow Vehap Kola explores how young people use digital spaces to imagine and organize ecological & political futures under pressure.

From weekly voice notes to policy hackathons, this project bridges the gap between digital life and civic action.

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Can we make "speculative rigour" a new academic standard?

Ali Aslan Gümüsay joins Vehap Kola to discuss "Prospective Theorizing"—how we can scientifically imagine desirable futures in an age of planetary emergency.

🗓️ May 28 | 12:00 PM CET
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@vehapkola.bsky.social presents a longitudinal study on eco-digital imaginaries in the Western Balkans, tracing how youth-led futures evolve. The research identifies shifting trajectories, ranging from institutional re-engagement and local cultivation to exit or blockage.

Took my Strategic Management students out of the classroom today and into the real conversation.

The students heard Mattias Goldmann on how CSOs can actually de-risk depollution for firms, so companies don’t have to start from zero.

Concluded a wonderful 7th @egosnet.bsky.social CESEE Paper Development Workshop at the University of New York Tirana, Albania. The workshop is an amazing tradition of EGOS, @orgstudies.bsky.social and @orgtheory.bsky.social supporting the early career scholars from Eastern Europe.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

William Shakespeare

An invited panelist at the 2nd „The Future 2030“ Conference of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Tirana, Albania.

In my utopia, academicians get free copies of The New York Review of Books not only because leisure is a revival of minds but mainly because reading non-academic literature helps us bring fresh waves of ideas to our rigorous shores.

Access to a cute library: it should be a basic human right.

It's a sunny-day Sunday in Tirana, Albania. 🇦🇱