Society for Critical Studies of Crisis (SCSC)

In 2021, the SCSC is organizing a series of webinars with scholars from around the world. The themes of the webinars are centered around the topic of the polarities of crisis in the global world, where crisis is simultaneously understood as an area of contestation and control.

What are crises? How can we conceptualise them? Why, and how should we study them with a critical lens? How is crisis experienced but also embedded in political strategies and discourses? With questions such as these, we commence a fortnightly webinar series which opens up debate and critically explores the nature of crises. The aim of the series is to promote the development of critical scholarship of crises and to establish a network of scholars interested in pursuing research and policy analysis of ‘crisis studies’.

Please click on each webinar’s link to read the abstract and attend through Zoom. Webinar links will be added as soon as possible.

Opening Webinars

Webinar 1: Scoping Critical Crisis Studies. (panel discussion)

**Rescheduled: 25 February 2021, 11:15-13:00 CET**

Date & time: 25 February 2021, 11:15-13, attend webinar

Moderator and Chair: Roger Zetter, Emeritus Professor, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, UK.

Co-Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Panelists:

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Janet Roitman, Professor, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, USA.

Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Webinar 2: Slow crisis: Social Perspectives and Relations within Critical Conditions.

Date & time: 15 February 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Chair: Henrik Vigh, Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Speakers:

Matthew Carey, Associate Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Henrik Vigh, Professor, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Webinar 3: Human Mobility in Times of Crisis: Legal and Political Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil. (panel discussion)

Date & time: 1 March 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Chair: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Panelists:

Isadora Gonçalves, Doctoral researcher, Department of Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.

Florian Hoffmann, Professor, Department of Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.

Discussant: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Webinar 4: Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India.

Date & time: 15 March 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Speaker: Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor, Centre of Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Discussant: Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Webinar 5: Crisis: Masculinities, Violences and Harm.

Date & time: 1 April 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Chair: Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Speakers:

Steffen Jensen, Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Denmark. 

Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor, Department for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Webinar 6: The Political Economy of Crisis.

Date & time: 15 April 2021, 10-12, attend webinar

Chair: Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Speaker: Erik Andersson, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Discussant: Catia Gregoratti, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Webinar 7: Racialising the Digital: Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again?

Date & time: 3 May 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Co-Chairs:

Helle Rydstrom, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Mo Hamza, Professor Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Sweden.

Speakers:

Ann Phoenix, Professor, Institute of Education, University College London and Swedish Research Council Kerstin Hesselgren, Guest Professor, Umeå University.

Discussant: Cristian Norocel, Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.

Webinar 8: Are Refugee Crises, Crises?

Date & time: 17 May 2021, 14-16, attend webinar

Chair: Roger Zetter, Emeritus Professor, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, UK.

Discussant: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor, Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director, UCL-Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK.

Webinar 9: Human Rights: a System in Crisis? *cancelled*

Date & time: 1 June 2021, 14-16

Unfortunately, this webinar has been cancelled.

Webinar 10: Crisis in Disasters and Conflicts.

Date & time: 15 June 2021, 10-12, attend webinar

Chair: Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden

Speaker: Dorothea Hilhorst, Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Discussant: Anne-Meike Fechter, Reader in Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK.