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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Conference on "Disaster Knowledge"
DESCRIPTION:Disastrous events such as sudden volcano eruptions\, the insidious extinction of species\, unexpected industrial disasters\, predictable financial or political-social crises cause the collapse of patterns and structures of human action and interpretation. The expectancy of disasters threatens the existing order of things and confront the present with a radically uncertain future. But it also challenges the scientific knowledge\, institutionalized in universities\, scientific societies\, and academies since the early modern period\, and its claim of validity. But it also concerns questions of representability and imaginability. Here\, aesthetic concepts and artistic processes are key\, even though – in the face of disaster – they can also meet their limits or expand them towards the hitherto unthinkable. The conference will investigate how disasters and the expectancy of disasters have changed and are still changing the orders of knowledge\, how they are dealt with aesthetically\, narrated in literature and how they are fuelled\, perpetuated\, or overcome by narration. \n\n\n\nEtymologically\, the notion “catastrophy” connects the idea of falling or tumbling (κατά\, “downwards”) with the idea of turning around (στροφή). In this way\, it can be linked to metaphors which are crucial for the description of scientific “turns\,” from Descartes’ “tabula rasa” to “paradigm shifts” that scholars refer to in the proclamation of new orders of knowledge. Such disruptions of knowledge can be welcomed as a long overdue supersession of traditional worldviews\, but they can also be met with severe resistance or provoke hesitant skepticism. Disruptions can be caused by external events\, like the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that shook the Enlightenment’s optimistic view of human progress\, but they can also be a reaction to internal crises of epistemic orders. In both cases\, they bring dramatic humiliations of collective world views in their wake. \n\n\n\nAgainst this background\, the conference’s focus lies primarily on the affective dimensions of disasters: moments of shock\, disturbance\, and horror that correspond to the suddenness of the event\, as well as moments of profound bewilderment\, wonder\, curiosity and doubt that are connected to the temporality within which science and art come to terms with disasters. \n\n\n\nOrganizationThis conference is organized by the interdisciplinary Sinergia research project\, The Power of Wonder: The Instrumentalization of Admiration\, Astonishment and Surprise in Discourses of Knowledge\, Power and Art\, led by Mireille Schnyder (University of Zurich)\, Nicola Gess (University of Basel)\, Ulrich Bröckling (University of Freiburg) und Hugues Marchal (University of Basel). \n\n\n\nVisit The Power of Wonder website \n\n\n\nCOVID-19The conference is planned to take place at the University of Zurich\, subject to circumstances relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. Should these circumstances prevent holding the conference live\, it will take place in a digital format. The date of the conference is confirmed and immovable though due to it being the final event of the Sinergia research project\, The Power of Wonder. \n\n\n\nSee the call for papers
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/interdisciplinary-conference-on-disaster-knowledge/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221109T080000
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SUMMARY:make\, unmake\, remake: Society for Utopian Studies Conference
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URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/make-unmake-remake-society-for-utopian-studies-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221110T000000
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SUMMARY:2022 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The meeting will be held jointly with the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel. A pre-conference symposium will be held on November 9\, 2022.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/society-for-ethnomusicology-annual-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Hilton New Orleans Riverside\, 2 Poydras Street\, New Orleans\, Louisiana\, 70130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221111T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221112T170000
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SUMMARY:South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the 2022 conference is “Change.”  \n\n\n\n\nLearn more here
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/south-atlantic-modern-language-association-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221111T080000
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SUMMARY:118th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
DESCRIPTION:The theme for the 119th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference is “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian.” \n\n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/118th-annual-pacific-ancient-and-modern-language-association-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221116T080000
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SUMMARY:From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History\, Literature\, and Culture
DESCRIPTION:This conference will discuss the role of the humanities in addressing trapped life\, social distancing\, and the history of epidemics and pandemics. In this context\, an epidemic is understood as a temporally and spatially limited increased occurrence of disease with a uniform cause in human populations. Unlike an epidemic\, a pandemic is not spatially limited.1  \n\n\n\nEpidemics and pandemics are also recurring themes fictionalized in literary and cultural texts. Coping with such crises is illustrated through textual and figurative narratives and helps to express emotional and critical responses. Well-known cinematic and serial examples that depict pandemics and discuss the outbreak of a new airborne disease include Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion\, Christian Alvart’s Sløborn\, and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Russell T. Davies’ Years and Years discusses\, among other things\, what global impact the detonation of an atomic bomb has on the social life of a family. Stephen King’s The Stand tells the story of a world that must build a new form of order and society after an outbreak of a superflu. Also\, comics deal with pandemics and epidemics and depict the coping\, social distancing\, and isolation figuratively. These include Budd Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff\, Edwina Dumm’s Cap Stubbs and Tippie\, and Dann Collins’ Sarszilla. These imaginaries often make important contributions to educating\, edifying\, and documenting the experience of dealing with the global challenges of epidemics and pandemics.2 \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 virus\, which is primarily airborne\, has led to a redefinition of the concept of human health\, air in general\, and air pollution in particular. As airborne diseases reflect an interaction between humans and their ecological environment\, we would like to call for proposals that include topics from the health sciences and medical humanities perspective. This conference will trace the history of epidemic and pandemic disease\, as well as airborne viruses. Air as such becomes a vehicle\, as the transmissibility of viruses also to a certain degree results in and happens because of air pollution. The conference will address topics such as contagion and transmission\, zoonotic diseases\, infections\, death\, air\, air pollution by viruses\, social distancing in relation to history\, media representations of disease and medicine\, and vaccine controversies in an era of pandemics. \n\n\n\nThe purpose of this conference is to generate discussion among scholars\, writers\, and artists about the history of pandemics\, the issues they raise\, and the reflections (thinking\, feeling\, behaving) they provoke. Therefore\, the event calls for a critical examination of medicine\, ecology\, crises\, planetary health\, and the future\, and aims to demonstrate to the audience the urgency and importance of interdisciplinary research\, with particular attention to the relationship between humans\, history\, health\, and the environment.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/from-the-black-death-to-covid-19-airborne-diseases-in-history-literature-and-culture/
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