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GCSC Book Launch Series II: "Narratives of Crises, Cultures of Resilience"

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Feb 18, 2021 from 05:00 to 06:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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online (Webex)

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This book launch will feature two recent publications which explore current notions of crisis and resilience and discuss the role of the humanities and social sciences in these debates.

 

The volume Europe’s Crises and Cultural Resources of Resilience (Trier, 2020) addresses the numerous perceived crises in Europe as well as the crisis of the very concept of Europe, which have been evoked socially and politically in recent years. It asks what cultural resources Europe has at its disposal to respond creatively to the crises and understand them as a productive moment. Its contributions with their interdisciplinary approaches in literary and cultural studies as well as in history, economics and sociology, explore the interwoven European narratives and discuss them as cultural techniques and strategies for the productive handling of manifold crisis experiences.

 

The special issue of Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift on the topic of Crisis Narratives/Narratives in Crisis (Volume 70, Issues 3-4, 2020) similarly argues that there has not only been a wide range of ever more crises of all sorts, but that we have also witnessed an inflationary use of the term crisis, and a concomitant proliferation of factual and fictional crisis narratives across various media. While the contributions cover a broad range of case studies and contexts from Brexit to racism to Covid-19 and climate change, they all offer close analyses and acute diagnoses regarding the role of narratives in these mediated scenarios, understanding “crisis” both as a key concept and as a dominant cultural pattern of narration. 

 

A brief presentation of the two publications will be followed by responses and new reflections by some of the contributors, as well as an open Q&A session inviting the audience to participate in the discussion.



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