Conference: The Planetary in Crisis

This conference positions planetary storytelling as a key methodological and conceptual entry point to engage with the planetary crisis from an ethnographic perspective. Storytelling — through mutual listening, conversation, and dialogue, positioned in their ontological context — serves as a tool to render the universalised dimensions of the planetary crisis more relational, tangible, and reflective. Sharing experiences of environmental loss and hope with a wider audience may also hold a healing potential. At the same time, such narratives can evoke eco-anxiety, rupture, or feelings of isolation. Further, storytelling’s performative dimension may inspire new ways of thinking and acting. By bringing these dimensions into conversation, the conference aims to expand the methodological, conceptual and imaginative repertoire for rethinking the planetary crisis and its multi-scalar manifestations across diverse contexts.

Keynote speakers: Elizabeth DeLoughrey (University of California, Los Angeles); Anne Johnson (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City); Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo); Michael Uzendoski (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito)

Organization: This event is part of the Reinhart Koselleck-Project on Planetary Healing: Transformation, (De)colonization and Climate Change, convened by Eveline Dürr and the Planetary Healing Research Group (LMU Munich)

Please note that this is a hybrid event. Please register until 28 September 2026 and let us know if you participate online or in person: planetary.healing@ethnologie.lmu.de

Venue: LMU Munich, Geschwister Scholl Platz 1, Main Building, Room M 203

More Info and Program: Here

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