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• 01 jui 2013

  Lille

  Call for papers - Modern

  Humanity and the challenges of the contemporary world

  Man and catastrophes

  Over the last few decades our increasingly complex and globalized world has witnessed a constant increase of disasters, cataclysms and natural or provoked catastrophes. What has man been doing and what can he do, when confronted with catastrophes for which he is responsible and with which he has to deal ? A vast issue for humanity is the need to decide how to act either individually or collectively in the face of disasters. Our focus will be on man’s actions and reactions when facing catastrophes. The questions of responsability and conscience are particularly relevant in an interconnected world which is characterized by an unprecedented acceleration in time and space. Crossing research in human and social sciences and in the exact sciences can shed light on the complexity of man’s behaviour and that of state policies.

   

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