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We're still there! Covid-19 interrupted us but obviously won't stop us.
On the contrary: there's even more food for thought and debate now...
As an in-between step to our next conference in Budapest (20/21 May 2022) we will hold an online colloquium at 14 January 2022, 14.00 - 17.30
Reflections on a post-covid landscape
From grieving to hopeful & therapeutic solidarities
With: Renata Salecl, Jan Slaby and Fabian Bernhardt
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Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization are convening a colloquium on the emerging post-covid landscape, to illuminate lessons we can draw from all that has been lost during Covid, and to consider the possibilities that this liminal world-historical moment opens up; to give a reading of the extraordinary times we are living through, an analysis and formulation that is both critical and hopeful. Our event will be a colloquium in the form of ‘illuminations’ (after the model of Walter Benjamin, like facets of a prism, casting light from several different angles); seeking reflective equilibrium located in a dialectical tension between ‘critical reflections’ and ‘hopeful horizons.’
Questions we hope to discuss: