25-27 September 2025 | Interdisciplinary Symposium 2: Temporalities of permacrisis: pasts, presents, futures | Tallinn University
Dates: 25-27 September 2025  Judy Carroll Deeley-350x349.JPG)
Venue: Tallinn University, Estonia
Building on Reinhart Koselleck’s foundational work on crisis as a mode of temporalisation, this interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the conceptual, experiential, creative, and political dimensions of the transition from crisis as an exceptional state to permacrisis as a sustained condition of an entangled world. How does the notion of an “age of permacrisis” challenge modern historicity, particularly the linear articulation of past, present and future that has underpinned dominant historical and political narratives?
In a moment marked by ecological collapse, warfare, massive technological disruptions by AI and robotics, the rise of autocracy, a culture of disinformation, and a general erosion of democracy globally, we invite scholars, artists and practitioners to engage with and interrogate the new condition of permacrisis.
Building on the first symposium in Dublin (22–24 May 2025), this second meeting will be hosted by Tallinn University and will seek to address a series of questions, in particular focusing on the anthropocentric assumptions of crisis discourse, and exploring how the idea of permacrisis might open onto more entangled, multiscalar, multispecies, or planetary perspectives.
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Image credit: Abstract 2025 collage and oil on paper 25 x 25 cm (c) Judy Carroll Deeley