The CISR research community continues to secure competitive funding to advance critical investigations into crisis inequalities and social resilience. Recent and ongoing grant applications include interdisciplinary and international collaborations:
InterResilience: Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis (2022-2025), funded through The Hamburg University and Lund University Fund. (Dienefelt, Thorén, Hjärpe, Rydström, and Zwar).
“Preppers for Security in Sweden” – Funded by Vetenskapsrådet (2023-2026). (Stern, Turner, Agius, Karlsson Franck, and Georgi).
Invitation to attend a workshop organized by Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR), Funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University, under the Strong Research Area Initiative
We are excited to announce a workshop on Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR), designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the basics and key concepts in this field. We believe this workshop will be instrumental in fostering collaboration, sharing knowledge, and enhancing skills in crisis and social resilience research.
This workshop, therefore, invites participants to explore the analytical potential of the two complex and multifaceted concepts, crisis and (social) resilience. The participants are encouraged to consider the following questions: “what does it mean to live in times of crisis?”, “for whom is a crisis a crisis and why?”, and “what does it mean to be resilient in the face of diverse crises across different sociocultural contexts?” In the workshop, we specifically focus on various forms of resilience to capture how people deal with precarity and hardship in specific contexts framed by crisis to mitigate, cope with, and maybe even identify new potentialities.
Format: The workshop will consist of four sessions, consisting of 4-5 presenters, including a keynote presentation, and interactive discussions.
Purpose: The primary goal of this workshop is to critically study ‘crisis’ and ‘resilience’ conceptually, empirically, and methodologically and how such notions are embedded in socioeconomic and political realities. It aims to enhance participants’ understanding of key concepts, provide hands-on experience, and foster networking and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Sessions with Keynote Speakers:
Conceptualizing Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience
Social Resilience and Migration
Gender and Intersectionality
Digital Culture and Meme “Track”
Date and Time: May 28-29, 2024.
Workshop Registration: Please ensure you complete your registration before May 1st, 2024, using the following link: https://forms.gle/vgHFi2fABBghqPtR8
Venue:May 28 School of Social Work, Socialhögskolan, Sh108; May 29 Eden, Room 236
Related to the Resilience Initiative, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
Current activities
Tuesday meetings: Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) Network
Meetings are held every second Tuesday during the spring of 2024. In these meetings, we identify innovative and critical approaches to social resilience as intersected with crisis inequalities. Everybody is welcome! The next meeting will be held on January 23, 15.15-16.45.
Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis: Nov 16, 2023 as well as an upcoming symposium in Hamburg, Germany, in June 2024. Collaboration funded by the ‘Lund-Hamburg Grant’, which includes scholars from the social sciences, law, psychology, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and Lund University.
Thematic workshop: Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience
28-29 May 2024 The aim of the workshop is to critically examine conceptualizations of crisis (including ‘polycrisis’) and social resilience and how they may entangle in various social worlds.
Nils Gustafsson, Lund University: Resilience Initiative at Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University.
Helle Rydstrom, Lund University: “InterResilience -Interdisciplinary Resilience Mechanisms in Crisis”.
Chair: Henrik Thorén
09.30-10.30: Julian Reid, University of Lapland: Is an Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Resilience Possible?
(45 mins presentation + 15 minutes Q&A)
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
Chair: Anne Dienelt
10.45-11.45: Samantha Copeland, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands: Scales, relations and components: Interdisciplinary Resilience as Fugue
(45 mins presentation + 15 minutes Q&A)
11.45-13.00: Lunch
Chair: Larissa Zwar
13.00-13.20: Azher Hameed Qamar, Lund University: Concept of social resilience as a social construct and its interdisciplinary connections
13.25-13.45: Sara Kauko, Lund University: Cultural imaginaries of social resilience: Reflections from Argentina.
13.50-14.10: Martin Lundqvist, Lund University: Memetic social resilience? Exploring memes about political violence in present-day Belfast, Northern Irelan
14.15-14.45: Coffee break
Chair: Helle Rydstrom
14.45-15.05: Henrik Thorén, Lund University: Values in Resilience Research
15.10-15.30: Anne Dienelt, University of Hamburg: Resilience and the Legal Discipline
15.35-15.55: Larissa Zwar, University of Hamburg: Resilience in the care context of (older) adults
16.00.-16.20: Soumi Banerjee, Lund University: Performing Agency in Shrinking Spaces: Acting Beyond the Resilience–Resistance Binary
16.20-16.40: Mine Islar, Lund University: Himalayan glacier change and society responses.
16.40-17.00: Break
17.00-17.30: Concluding discussion
In preparation for this session, please consider what themes, issues, and questions need to be further or differently studied to advance the field of resilience studies, as related to various crises. The session is intended to allow for reflections on the possibility of collecting contributions to a Special Issue on Resilience.
18.00: Dinner: Before November 13, participants confirm if they will join the dinner.
Under the Lifelong Learning (EduLab) theme, an interdisciplinary course on Crisis will be held (online) in the spring of 2024. The course aims at bridging between academia and the ambient society.
Course Content:
The course provides an insight into how crises disrupt lives, livelihoods, and societies, and the ways in which they might be twisted for political purposes. Focusing on thesocio-economic inequalities imbued in crises, the course analyses how crises impact on the human rights of various social groups as related to the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030). The course sheds light on the building of social resilience through crisis mitigation and coping strategies. Through critical dialogue with crisis scholarship, the course introduces analytical tools for the examination of crisis powers, politics, precariousness, and potentialities. The course offers insights into how crisis experiences, realities, and policies are configured in local and global contexts due to factors such as gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. As disciplinary crisis approaches eschew the multi-dimensional complexities and dynamics of crisis, the course is interdisciplinary and thus includes various disciplinary understandings of crisis. In doing so, the course provides insight into different theoretical, empirical, and methodological aspects of crisis. Participants are introduced to themes such as the interdisciplinary character of crisis, crisis and climate, crisis and labour, crisis and technology, crisis and care, and crisis and conflict zones.
Course Title: GNVED1
Crisis – Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6 credits (Department of Gender Studies) Kris- Kritiska och tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv, 6 högskolepoäng (Genusvetenskapliga institutionen) Second Cycle / Avancerad nivå.
Information:
For further details, please contact Lund University EduLab project leader or the course administration at the Department of Gender Studies, which hosts the course.
Symposium on Running into Ruin with Eyes Wide Open: Can Slow-motion Crises be Prevented from Turning into Catastrophes?, University of Hamburg, October 27-28, 2023.
Workshop on Revisiting Polycrisis, International Development Studies, Sussex, UK, October 12-13, 2023.
The Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR) area, which is a result of collaboration between the Social Resilience Group and the Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC), will carry out a series of meetings and activities on the Lund University campus during the fall of 2023.
Schedule:
September 12th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
September 26th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
October 10th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
October 24th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
November 7th: M102 (Hus M, Department of Gender Studies)
November 28th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
December 19th: Sh238 (Socialhogskolan conference room on the 2nd floor)
The scheduled time for each meeting is from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
Symposium:
November 16-17:InterResilience Symposium. Funded collaboration between Hamburg University, Germany and Lund University. For more information: INTERRESILIENCE : International : Universität Hamburg (uni-hamburg.de) The Symposium will be held in Biskopshuset in Lund and the School of Social Work, Lund University.
For further details, please contact coordinators Soumi Banerjee at: soumi.banerjee@soch.lu.se or Helle Rydström at: helle.rydstrom@genus.lu.se
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