UC Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference: Crisis
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The University of California, Santa Barbara will hold an interdisciplinary global studies conference on a wide range of topics for scholars, both established and in the graduate stage, from the West Coast and beyond, under the general theme of crisis as salient feature of current global conditions. Crisis may thus be understood at every level, from the economic and financial to the environmental to problems of legitimacy and human security, to name a few.
The conference will include papers and panels that engage with crisis from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• Legitimacy crises of global/national institutions; crises of governance, the role of civil society
• Crises of hegemony, global rebalancing
• Whose/which crisis? Crisis and perspective (West and East, Global North and Global South)
• Crises of economic globalization/financialization/labor
• Immigration/human rights/security crises
• Biorisks and pandemics
• Energy/environmental crisis
• Forgetting/remembering histories of crisis
• The rhetorical and narrative dimensions of crisis
• Crises of religion/secularism/religious nationalism
• Identity(ies) crisis/cultures of crisis
Hosted by the Orfalea Center and the faculty of Global & International Studies at UCSB
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