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Response-Abilities. Professing the Study of Culture in Times of Disruption, Entanglements, and Transformation

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GGK/GCSC Anniversary Conference

Response-Abilities. Professing the Study of Culture in Times of Disruption, Entanglements, and Transformation

Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK)
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Justus Liebig University Giessen

25–26 June 2026

 

Please register for attendance here until 15 June.

Preliminary Programme

Check out the preliminary programme here.

Conference Abstract
In times of experienced polycrisis, fundamental disruption, and far-reaching transformations, the number of profound challenges seems incalculable. At both the socio-political and academic levels, enormous complexity and multiple interdependencies pose the task of counteracting resignation, despair, and indifference, of developing suitable analytical and practical approaches, and of outlining new forms of agency. This intensifies entanglements among diverse constituencies (culturally, non/human, different interests and ontologies, etc.) and on and between various scales of crisis processes. How can one respond to these increasing relational intensities through conceptual and methodological means, given that they are often politically, socially and culturally met with denial and exclusion?
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Schedule

  • early June 2026 – Publication of final Programme

  • 15 June 2026 – Registration Deadline

  • 25–26 June 2026 – Anniversary Conference

  • 8 July 2026 – Anniversary Party

Contact

For questions, please contact our Office Management at 
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The conference is organised by the GGK/GCSC Management Team and Executive Board. 
The programme has been compiled under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl, apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Basseler, Dr. Jens Kugele.