Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 1.7 (Day 1)

D1-S1-K1

13 May 2026, 14:40

Kurul Odası (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 1.7 (Day 1): Medya & Film Çalışmaları / Media & Cinema Studies

• Ridade Öztürk (Trakya University)

Memory of Crisis – Crisis of Memory in Graphic Novels (D1-S1-K1)

Andreas Böhn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

13/05/2026, 14:40

Oral Presentation

Moments of crisis in history like war, periods of dictatorial rule, and persecution or displacement of large parts of a population usually are important elements of national history, but because of their traumatic nature they may also become a taboo, or at least specific parts of historic events and developments may be neglected or even negated. Therefore, the reviving of memory of such...

Black Thought and the Conceptual Imagination of “Crisis” (D1-S1-K1)

Franco Barchiesi (Ohio State University)

13/05/2026, 15:00

Oral Presentation

A sustained engagement with “crisis” as a key category for the knowledge of historical time, event, and change has been a distinctive characteristic of transatlantic Black thought in the contexts and the aftermaths of racial enslavement and colonialism. Theorists ranging from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sylvia Wynter have focused on crisis by questioning its conceptual prominence, reflecting Reinhart...

Crisis of News Media in West Europe: When Basic Human Expectations Constrain Opinion Making (D1-S1-K1)

Axel Utz (Independent Researcher)

13/05/2026, 15:20

Oral Presentation

West European mainstream news media are in decline. Media directors, managers, and journalists therefore perceive crisis. They even sense conspiracy. New behavioral patterns, forms of political conduct, and use of technologies seem to converge and conspire in the wider population to drown out cherished ways of disseminating quality information.
My research explores the quality of...