Stakes of Democracy: Trust, Nature and Value in Times of Crises

Stakes of Democracy: Trust, Nature and Value in Times of Crises

Crises are disruptions where democracy-as-usual becomes visible and rendered explicit. Crises are key for examining and understanding what we stand to lose if democracy fails. In other words, crises are key events that articulate and make tangible what is at stake in democracy. And what is at stake is trust, nature, and value.

The research project and research group (University of Oslo) researches the democracy-crisis relation by approaching crises as key moments for understanding how democracies work and proceed. The project investigates what is at stake in democracy in times of crises and starts from the hypothesis that Trust, Nature, and Value are key matters of concern and at the core of that is at stake.
Stakes of Democracy ask questions like:

-How are trust materialized, sustained and disrupted?

How and by which means is value negotiated and turned into valuation struggles?

What are the little tools and specificities of Nordic Democracies and do such consensus-oriented political cultures act and react in times of crisis?

Thursday 14.November: 17:30 - 20:30

Felleshuset, , Rauchstraße 1, 10787 Berlin

Panel discussion

Introduction Stakes of Democracy –Prof. Dr. Kristin Asdal, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, & Prof.Dr. Helge Jordheim Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo

Panel discussion moderated by Kristin Asdal

Prof. Dr. Anders Ekström, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Helge Jordheim, Department of cultural studies and oriental languages, University of Oslo

Prof. Bernd Henningsen, Honorary professor Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen, Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum.

The event is part of the programme to mark the 25th anniversary of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, in cooperation with the University of Oslo and the Henrik Steffens Professorship at the Nordic Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin

Host or Publisher Felleshus der Nordischen Botschaften Berlin