[ecrea] Call for Participants, "Living in Liquid Worlds"

*/_Call for Participants_/*

*Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh*

“Living in Liquid Worlds”

*March 10, 2018*

*Edinburgh, Scotland*

This is a call to participate in a workshop and discussion day at the 
University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the 
Humanities on March 10th 2017. Designed to bring together scholars of 
media, environment, sociology and systems theory, the one day event will 
involve a keynote from University of Amsterdam Professor of Media Mark 
Deuze and an afternoon session following a presentation from the 
University of York’s Dr Philip Garnett.

Working on the concept of liquidity as both a material process and a 
sociological idiom, participants are sought to take part in discussions 
about how we understand the huge environmental and technological changes 
at the centre of the human-earth relationship. What does the instability 
of liquid economics, communications and climate change mean for our 
global cosmopolitanism, what new genres and social relations does this 
create, and what kind of modernity will we experience in the coming 
decades as all that is solid melts into air and water?

As climate change begins to destabilise complex but relatively 
predictable global systems, how do we move from crisis to resilience, 
and from solid understandings of the world to complex ‘liquid’ readings? 
Moreover, how can the concept of liquidity and the associated ideas of 
fastness and complexity help us to grasp the changes going on around us?

The day will not involve the formal presentation of papers, but is 
designed as a focal point for researchers interested in communication of 
the global future, from journalists to climate scientists. The 
conversations from the day will be edited into a broadcast-quality 
podcast featuring interviews with participants, and will conclude with a 
drinks reception and meal for participants.

We also wish to maximise participation by early careers scholars (PhD 
and post-doc) and are seeking funding to facilitate this. Attendees will 
be expected to participate in discussions and if possible to bring 
perspectives from their own research, and a number of readings and 
points to consider will be made available before the event.

Applications to attend are now live. To apply please use the contact 
link on the event homepage. Successful applicants will then be invited 
to confirm attendance and to opt in to evening events via a registration 
link.

The event homepage can be found here: 
https://livinginliquidworlds.wordpress.com/

A small administration fee will apply, but this will be waived for PhD 
students.
Any questions can be directed to (dominic.hinde /at/ ed.ac.uk).


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