Authoritarian movements, artificial intelligence, climate change, global pandemics… The idea of ‘humanity’ is being unsettled, fragmented, and displaced across multiple domains. Can ‘humanity’ still function as a shared point of reference? 

On Tuesday 16 December, from 2 p.m., we gather at Edições do Saguão, in the Lisbon neighbourhood of Alvalade, to question the relations between human and other humans, human and other species/Nature, and human and other (technical) things, in a meeting-debate we called ‘The Crises of the Human’.

In addition to IN2PAST researchers with relevant work on these topics, namely from IHC, CRIA, IHA and CESEM, you will be joined by Sanjay Seth and Rahul Rao, from the University of St Andrews (Scotland); Martin Savransky, from the University of Bath (England); Tiago Saraiva, from Drexel University (USA); and also colleagues from CIUHCT / NOVA FCT, CEComp – Centre for Comparative Studies / ULisboa and CES / UC.

This meeting is part of a joint initiative between the Associate Laboratory IN2PAST and the University of St Andrews regarding the preparation of future international projects and supported by the Research Innovation Scotland International Collaboration Fund, which ‘aims to promote connectivity between Scotland and European research partners with the aim of strengthening existing, and seeding future, research relationships and creating paths to European research funding’.