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We are pleased to invite you to the First European Blue Sky Conference:
Landscape of Crises - A New Age of Uncertainty


November 7-9, 2013, Budapest, Castle District
Táncsics Mihály st. 7, Institute of Musicology, Bartók Hall

Why are we still struggling to overcome the prolonged global crisis? What are we learning about the human condition today? Sensing the growing concern in societies about rapid social, economic and political changes, and the need among experts and academics to communicate beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries, the Institute for Social and European Studies has initiated a series of events called “Blue Sky Conferences”. The purpose of the first conference is to provoke discussions with experts from wide disciplinary backgrounds: sociologists, economists, natural scientists, political scientists, cultural analysts, artists, philosophers and theologians. 

The conference examines the questions: 

Are we approaching a new “Great Transformation”? Are we at the dawn of a new economic and civilizational epoch which is beginning to crystallize new rules of social conduct, wealth distribution, economic, social and political economic organization? Are we entering an Age of New Certainties: new rules, a new logic, a new systemic coherence that is waiting to be discovered? Many people are seeking solutions to the current global crisis trying to reveal these new certainties. 

Alternatively, are we facing the coming of a New “Axial Age”? There is a growing belief that the crisis is increasingly multi-dimensional where history, society, culture and religion, the environment and ecology, beliefs and behaviour play important roles – and in this cacophony, we have no clue to the background logic of the age that is coming. Would we be, then, entering a New Age of Uncertainty, in which all we know is that we need to restart everything from scratch? Human existence has always been full of uncertainty, but there have been epochs where uncertainty and the awareness of uncertainty intensifies. Is this the age we are entering? 

Whether a new Great Transformation, or a new Axial Age, the question remains the same: do contemporary guardian institutions, societies and nation states provide adequate answers to questions arising from the current crises? Can they answer the call of people who are uncertain, even afraid, of the future? What new challenges do we face in order to cope with this uncertainty in life as well as in science? What new kinds of thinking and acting are required?

Speakers and discussants include: 
Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Falk, Benjamin Barber, Terry Eagleton, Louk de la Rive Box, Elemér Hankiss, Stephen Whitefield, and other distinguished scholars from Hungary and abroad.



REGISTER TO OUR CONFERENCE AT info at ises.hu 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ONLINE AT www.ises.hu 

CONFERENCE ON FACEBOOK AT https://www.facebook.com/events/234575473373374 


Contact: Péter Csigó, csigo at mtapti.hu 


The conference will be a UNESCO event.

Organised by the Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES)
Co-organizers: Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ▪ Institute of Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences ▪ Central European Policy Centre, Budapest ▪ Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO ▪ 
Sponsors: Ministry of Human Resources ▪ National Cultural Fund (NKA) ▪ Hungarian National Bank 





Prof. Dr. habil. Andrea Peto

http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/andrea_peto
Papers available at: http://ceu.academia.edu/AndreaPeto
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