Humanities and Resilience: Critical Perspectives

4 July, 2022

*All times in GMT+1 (London time)

Meeting Room, 50 Gordon Square, University College London

• *12.30 hrs - 13.30 hrs: Lunch (for those in London)
• 13.30 hrs - 13.45 hrs: Introduction/Presentation – Stephen Hart
• 13.45hrs-15.45hrs

Panel 1: Theories of Resilience in the Humanities

• Nicolás Lema - Chair/Respondent
• Vincent Legeay -  “‘How each particle, when it bangs into another, either bounces back or passes on a part of its motion’: On a famous Spinozist occurrence about the resilience problem, and its  inadequacy”
• Anna Wienhues -  “Sustainability: why we still should start from here”
• Andrea Lehner -  “Resilience or transformative encounters that open us to new possibilities of world-making in precarious times?”

• Break - 15.45 hrs -16.15 hrs
• 16.15hrs - 18.15 hrs

Panel 2: Exploring Resilience through film

• Camila Gatica Mizala – Chair
• Jennifer Alpert - “Resilience as National Imaginary in Post-Dictatorship Argentinean Cinema”
• Molly Geidel - “Discovering Women's Resilience: The Development Film in the 1970s”
• Niall Geraghty – Respondent

5 July, 2022

*All times in GMT+1 (London time)

Meeting Room, 50 Gordon Square, University College London

• *13.00 hrs - 14.00 hrs: Lunch (for those in London)
• 15.00 hrs -17.00 hrs

Panel 3: Exploring Resilience Through Catastrophe and Theology

• Nicolás Lema - Chair/Respondent
• Carlos Fonseca (Cambridge University): “After the End: History, Nature and Catastrophe in Latin America”
• Stephen Hart (University College London) - “How to Become a Resilient Counter-Reformation Saint: Santa Rosa de Lima”
• Celia Cussen (Universidad de Chile) - “Martín de Porres and the enduring attraction of a Black healer”