NIHAI: Norms in language-based Human-AI Interaction As misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories circulate ever more freely, trust in media, science, and government is eroding. This challenge will intensify further, as we increasingly communicate with, and by aid of, large language models. Our three-year research project seeks to devise principles for responsible LLM communication: Philosophically…
CHRYSES: Mapping Environmental Health Crises – Public Understanding through Myths and Science While humanity has faced countless Environmental Health Crises (EHC) throughout its history, in recent times such crises have increased rapidly, not only in their occurrence and intensity but also in their global spread and consequences. Developing humanities-based strategies to better understand EHC and…
Rehearsal photo from the production An Fear Liath written by Philip Doherty and adapted by Fran Nuñez. Produced by Fíbín Teo in association with Centro Dramático Galego and Tryater. Photograph by Bruno Pierrucci CoastARTS: Coastlines as Zones of Ecocultural Crisis – Shaping Resilience through Transnational Performance-based Arts CoastARTS treats the coastal areas of Europe and its former colonies as…
TiCToC: Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis It is often said that Europe is in polycrisis: Climate, economy, migration, democracy, armed conflict and academia are pertinent fields where crisis abounds. This project explores the temporal registers of crisis, the vernacular articulation of life in turmoil, and the cultural dynamics…
image used with the permission of the artist Jonah Sack Home in Crisis: Deconstructing ‘home’ in crisis – understanding intersecting crises through the lens of ‘home’ We all live our day-to-day lives in a state of climate crisis. We board planes and plough fields, we commute, we work, we collect water and build houses, we…
LIMINALWATER: Liminal Waterway Countercultures While most academics approach Europe from the perspective of the continent’s landmass, we explore the waterways that marks its peripheries or limits, especially its “liminal” waterways – those that mark edges or boundaries and therefore enable interesting things to happen. We focus on what we call liminal waterway countercultures, the creative…
CRIES: CRIses Established Singing. Investigations into the Inherent Potential of Collective Singing in Times of Social Crises in the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions This project investigates the role of collective singing during times of social crisis in the Baltic and Scandinavian regions, from ca. 1800 to the present. Singing together appears to be a universal…
CMD: The Crisis of Migration Discourse – A Participatory approach for a new lexicon of Migration CMD engages with the impact of discourses and policies that construct migration through the lens of crises on people using unauthorised routes to enter the EU and the UK and are as a result illegalised. To do so, CMD…
RELIDEM: Religious Realignments and Democratic Resilience – A Comparative Study of Religious Responses to (geo)political Crises The liberal democratic world order, once seemingly on a global rise, has entered a crisis. This crisis consists of several entangled dimensions. One central issue is the backsliding of democracy and the shift toward authoritarian leaders and systems, often…
RURALEX: Knowledge in Crisis – The Dynamics of Environmental Expertise amidst Rural Change The RURALEX project asks: How is people’s knowledge about the environment in rural parts of Europe changing, and how do such changes affect the social, cultural and ecological challenges currently faced by local communities? European rural areas have struggled in recent years…
