CULTMIND Resilience Workshop 20-21 May 2025
A two-day interdisciplinary and multi-regional workshop on resilience was organised at CULTMIND on May 20th and 21st, 2025. The aim of the workshop was to foster conversations on the social, public and ethical implications of resilience as an organizing concept in recent medical research. Participants were invited to respond to the concept and practice of resilience in a 5 minute presentation drawing from their own geographical and disciplinary approaches.
They were asked to reflect, in their own field, on where the language and narrative of resilience comes from and what it means, what it captures and what it neglects? They were asked to reflect on how resilience can be thought otherwise, by bringing objects, themes, cases, texts, ideas to better illustrate their interventions/critiques.
Participants were historians, anthropologists, psychologists, literary scholars and artists. They were Katrina Bugaj, Magda Buczek, Marilia Fotopoulou, Christina Fogarasi, Susan Grayzel, Peter Leese, Johanne Sindberg Østergaard, Lamia Moghnieh, Shilpi Rajpal, Mike Pettit and Kate Sheese.
Eventually, the group engaged in a mapping and visualising exercise of resilience. You can see a summary of their conversation here.
