Crisis and society: Goethe Lecture on 20.03.2019
On Wednesday, March 20, Dr. Peer Illner, postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt, spoke on the topic: Crisis and Society: A Catastrophic History.
Crisis and society: A disaster story
Protecting society from natural disasters has always been an established government task in the USA. What happens if this social consensus is revoked in times of anthropogenic climate change and civil society has to pay for its own disaster protection in the future? The lecture explores this question in contemporary case studies from Hurricane Katrina to Superstorm Sandy.
More about Dr. Peer Illner
Dr. Peer Illner studied sociology, philosophy, media studies and visual culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After research stays at the Humboldt University and the University of the Arts in Berlin, he completed his doctorate at the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research at the University of Copenhagen.
Illner's research interests include disasters and crises, political economy, disaster capitalism and urbanism, and 20th century art and architecture. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders".
His first monograph "Disaster in Crisis" is published by Pluto Press.