Reimagining Europe: De-colonizing Historical Imaginaries, Disciplinary Narratives in Folklore and Ethnology and Beyond.
- Start date: 13th Jun 2024
- End date: 14th Jun 2024
- Online and at the Herder Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg – Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Reimagining Europe' Extended Deadline: 22 March
Online and at Herder Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung (Marburg, Germany) Event dates: 13-14 June 2024
Europe can be approached from various angles: as a geographical, political, and economic historical entity; as an embodiment of cultural diversity rooted in national, regional, and local identi...
Conspiracy Theory and Culture
- Date: 22nd Jun 2024
- Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Conspiracy Theory states that nothing is how it is reported, that everything you know is wrong, and that sinister forces are controlling everything for their own, dark motivations. Opposing this dark pantomime are the lone hero truth-tellers, from David Icke to Donald Trump, Alex Jones to the gnomic, anonymous Q.
Conspiracy culture has moved to the centre of society, bringing with ...
Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming crises through traditional narrative from antiquity to the present
- Start date: 24th Jun 2024
- End date: 3rd Jul 2024
- History Museum of the University of Athens and Antiparos island
The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as being humanity’s voice, long-shared, with which to respond to harsh realities; to times of crisis; and to distress that impacts entire communities. In such times of transition and upheaval myth and narrative serve to ameliorate the inimical stereotyping, bigoted notions...