UCD Humanities Institute

From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis Call for Papers

This call for papers is for the first symposium in a series of three which will be rolled out in 2025/26. The three symposia will result in peer-reviewed publications.

This interdisciplinary symposium will analyze the profound shift from the modern idea of crises as an exceptional state requiring urgent crisis management towards permacrises and polycrises as the ontological condition of a world at risk in the 21st century. To be sure: the evidence of a world entangled in poly- and permacrises is overwhelming: soaring energy and food prices; the erosion of democracy and the rise of political extremism; the uncontrolled advancement of AI and cyber insecurity; the climate crisis and species extinction; large-scale involuntary migration in response to warfare and the climate change; biodiversity loss, the increase in natural disasters and extreme weather events are just some examples of cascading, connected and overwhelming crises.

Click the arrow for the full call. Deadline: 21/03/25