Workshop of EASA´s Europeanist Network:
Overlappping crises in Europe (or a never-ending crisis)
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
2-3 November 2023

Keynote speakers:
Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, Universitat de Barcelona
Keith Hart, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London

This workshop will examine the concept of crisis, providing a holistic perspective, and approaches crises as interconnected remerging conditions. For more than a decade, public discourse has been focused on various crises, while at the same time, social scientists are trying to analyse these phenomena – e.g., the (ongoing) financial crisis of 2008, the European migration crisis since 2015, and, more recently, the COVID-19 related sanitary crisis and the so-called housing crisis across Europe.

Currently, war is ongoing in the heart of Europe, hand in hand with an energy crisis. Simultaneously, a potential food crisis is also in the horizon; and a new war between Greece and Turkey could re-establish the borders of Europe (and the European Economic Area [EEA]). The prevailing ongoing, overlapping crises (Capello 2020; Spyridakis 2013), calls for a discussion of the interweaved patterns. The 2023 EuroNet workshop invited presentations based on ethnographic research on crisis, a crisis that is not seen as an event or period of time, but as a chronic condition that creates new normalities (Knight 2019; 2021), and that is interrelated with each other.

Organisation:

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos (ICS – Universidade de Lisboa)

Panas Karampampas (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)

EuroNet contact: euronet.easa@gmail.com