Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Creator: Wagensohn, Tanja; Vickers, Paul
Title: The Return of Narratives
Subtitle: Conferene Report: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic
DOI: 10.15457/frictions/0021
Description:
Simple ideas, messages, stories that explain the world: these are things people need and use to create meaning. And all the more so when the complexity of the world becomes all too apparent. Stories and narratives are particularly effective when they address emotions, thus contributing to the ways we construct realities in our mind. Narratives help individuals to position themselves in society and find a place in an increasingly complex world. It could be argued that narratives provide answers and clarity amidst the confusion that intensifies during periods of crisis.
Over three days in May 2022, the international conference Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic, held at the University of Regensburg (UR), explored critically the diversity of crisis narratives that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic and its broader consequences. The event was organized by the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) at UR together with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America, a joint institution of the UR and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg.
Date of publication: 2022-11-16
Subjects: annual conference, area studies, covid, digital humanities, grand narratives, multiscalar, narratives, pandemic
Section: Current Debates
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