Save the Date: 9.3.24 Kölner Kongress "Mensch und Meer - Wie erzählt man von einer Katastrophe ohne Ereignis?"Dr. habil Tanja Bogusz speaks at the "Kölner Kongress"

27 February 2024, by CGG

Photo: Tanja Bogusz

8-9. March 2024

Dr. habil Tanja Bogusz will speak at the Kölner Kongress "Erzählen gegen die  Krise", organized by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Her talk "Mensch und Meer – Wie erzählt man von einer Katastrophe ohne Ereignis?" will take place on Saturday, at 11.30 o'clock at the PD Konferenzraum.

"Sailor's yarn, storm tides and Expeditions into the unknown: The relationship between human beings and the sea is as old as human history itself. No wonder: the sea was there long before humans became a relevant factor in the development of the Earth's history.

At the latest since the debate about the Anthropocene, the human influence on the state of the world's oceans has been a topic of debate in the natural sciences. Plasticisation, climate change, the melting of the polar ice caps and the decline of important marine species have been incorporated into scientific data surveys and subsequent appeals for marine protection.

What is less well known is that the social and cultural sciences have also recently begun to take a closer look at the sea. Under the collective term "marine social sciences", they are investigating social aspects of sea-human relationships. And so sociologists and cultural scientists are setting off on sea voyages in Frisian mink and rubber boots, driven by the vision of a "sociology of the sea" in the age of the Anthropocene."

Source: Deutschlandfunk Kultur/ Kölner Kongress