Crises abound: our economies, democracies, social relations, cultural identities, and the very planet that we live on are subjected to repeated and increasingly severe shocks. Have we entered an age of chronic crisis?
From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the event will explore conceptual and theoretical approaches that might help us better to understand, engage with, and respond to our time as a time ‘out of joint’.
Meet our speakers and chair
Miguel de Beistegui is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and honorary professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books, most recently Thought under Threat: On Superstition, Spite, and Stupidity.
Demetra Kasimis () is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Cambridge. She teaches and writes about democracy and its dilemmas in ancient and contemporary contexts and is the author of The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy. She was formerly Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Jonathan White () is Professor of Politics and Deputy Head of the 杏吧论坛 European Institute. He has held visiting positions at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg), Harvard, Stanford, the Humboldt University, Hertie School, Sciences Po in Paris and the Australian National University. His latest book is In the Long run: The Future as a Political Idea.
Abby Innes () is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at 杏吧论坛. She has published widely on the political economy of Central Europe and drew on this background for the comparison of Soviet and neoliberal economic regimes in Late Soviet Britain. In more recent years Abby has focused her research and teaching on the political economy of the green transition in Europe.
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