US anthropologist Naveeda Khan from Johns Hopkins University spoke at the Cluster of Excellence about the complex interrelationship between religious traditions, climate change and the experience of hunger. In her lecture, Khan shed light on this relationship by examining how the Muslim population along the South Asian river Jamuna in Bangladesh deals with climate crises such as hunger. The researcher, herself a native of Bangladesh, emphasized not only the political dimensions of famine but also the metaphysical and spiritual meaning of the everyday handling of food.
