MID-TERM CONFERENCE OF ESA - COMPLEXITIES OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY

Date : 4th October 2018 to 5th October 2018

Place : Lithuania, Kaunas

Website :https://shmmf.ktu.edu/riskconference/#1521120506884-566aa80c-925a

Contact Person:Aiste Balzekiene

Description:

Complexity poses distinctive challenges to citizens, policy-makers, social organizations and systems and, moreover, to the social scientists studying them. Core concepts within social scientific studies of risk and uncertainty, such as trust, have been understood by some (most notably Luhmann) primarily in their function as reducing complexity in everyday encounters and relationships. Renn’s studies of risk governance, meanwhile, suggest that policy-makers’ approach and depth of engagement with publics should reflect the relative causal complexity around the risks being addressed. These are two more established analytical orientations among many theoretical frameworks addressing complexity, and each has its own particular ways of defining and conceptualizing various forms of complexity, and of relating complexity to wider socio-physical environments. Studies of risk and uncertainty furthermore involve methodological complexities, often interdisciplinary in nature, and these will be also addressed in the conference. This meeting – the Mid-Term Conference of the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty research network (RN22) within the European Sociological Association – will address the salience of complexity for studying social processes around risk and uncertainty, through keynotes, panel discussions and a number of paper sessions. Although the event will have a more specific focus on the theme of complexity, this is an open call for papers which explore aspects of risk and uncertainty across a broad range of sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives.

MID-TERM CONFERENCE OF ESA - COMPLEXITIES OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY will be held in Kaunas,Lithuania on date 2018-10-05

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 20th May 2018

Keynote Speakers : Sakari Taipale „Ageing in a Digital Society, Dealing with Risks and Uncertainty“ Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Research Group Leader in Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Editor of “Social Robots from Human Perspective” (Springer, 2015), “Digital Technologies and Generational Identity” (Routledge, 2018) Esther Versluis „The European Regulatory State at Risk? The EU as a Regulator of Complex Policy Problems“ Professor

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