Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 4.3 (Day 3)

D3-S4-A8

15 May 2026, 14:30

A8 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 4.3 (Day 3): Dilbilim & Göstergebilim / Linguistics & Semiotics

• Mehmet Gürlek (İstanbul University)

(Re)imagining, (Re)mobilising, (Re)constructing Nationalisms: A Comparative Analysis of Political Discourse During the Post-disaster Scenes of Belgium, Turkey and United States (D3-S4-A8)

Ebru Akgün (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

15/05/2026, 14:30

Oral Presentation

Disasters create liminal and in-between scenes characterised by significant disruptions and uncertainty in the social order (Turner, 1969). Such scenes signify the transition from one social order to another, in which various forces converge to make sense of the situation and reattain the social order as quickly and feasibly as possible. As part of this recovery process, both old and new...

Crises of the Twenty-First Century and the Imperative of Terran Unification (D3-S4-A8)

Çağdaş Başar Bahar (İstanbul University)

15/05/2026, 14:50

Oral Presentation

The late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have brought forth crises that transcend regional boundaries and pose existential threats to humanity. Preeminent among these are the risk of thermonuclear war that could result in the annihilation of Terra, the potential emergence of an omnipotent artificial general intelligence capable of eradicating humanity, and climate change that threatens to...

Rethinking and Analyzing Digital Socio-Political Communication across Crises and Global Challenges (D3-S4-A8)

Olga Malysheva (Kuban State University)

15/05/2026, 15:10

Oral Presentation

Crises and global challenges are reshaping digital socio-political communication. The convergence of online and offline spheres, technological acceleration, and the dominance of big data have created a VUCA/BANI environment where nonlinearity undermines classical models of crisis research. This raises cognitive load and alters patterns of message perception and circulation, reshaping...