Conference at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Verona, November 14th-16th 2024.

Crises, disasters, destructions.

Deadline: September 9th, please send your applications (short abstract, ca 300 words) to theresia.dingelmaier@ggs.uni-augsburg.de

The costs of attending the conference will be covered. The network and the conference offer ideal conditions for establishing interdisciplinary and subject-specific international contacts and cooperations.

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In recent decades, the topic of environmental disasters and climate crisis has attracted increasing interest, not only among researchers and scholars, but also and above all among the public, especially the younger generations.Recent environmental disasters such as (to name but a few) the drought in Catalonia, the fires in Canada and Australia, and the floods in Italy and China, underline the urgency of the subject and the direct involvement of every single citizen in an issue that is becoming more and more pressing

every day.
In addition to this, the precarious geopolitical balances further aggravated by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the wars in the Middle East, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its socio-economic consequences, have contributed to fuelling a sense of uncertainty and instability in many ways.
Starting from these thematic cues, the second meeting of the European Graduate Collaboration Conference intends to investigate the themes of disaster, crisis and destruction from both a physical and metaphorical point of view, from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
Contributions may cover different disciplines and investigate not only the underlying causes of sudden and disastrous change, but also the consequences, solutions and reactions that such changes may cause from a physical, moral, psychological, cultural and social perspective.
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Crisis, disaster and destruction, therefore, not only as a negative experience, but also as an opportunity for rebirth and renewal according to the etymological meaning of the term from the Greek κρ?σι? “choice, decision, decisive phase”.

Topics may include but are not limited to thematic fields such as the following:
-Humanities in times of crisis and crisis in the humanities
-Forms and narratives of contemporary uncertainty: from pandemic to new wars
-Crisis and prospects for revival
- Institutions and citizenship in times of crisis
-Age of anxiety, age of new possibilities

-Climate change and social identity

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The conference will be opened by a keynote lecture, details of which will be finalized in the

coming weeks.

The GGS and the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Verona look forward to meeting you in Verona