Nov
Pufendorf & Friends: Cultivating Existential Resilience through Contemplation, Aesthetics and Compassion.
How can we meet the challenges of increasing stress, burnout, and loss of meaning? And how can existential resilience help us cope with the multiple societal crises of today? Welcome to a conversation on Existential Resilience and how we can support meaning-making and strengthen our inner resilience through contemplation, aesthetics and compassion.
Human beings carry within them the ability to find meaning in existence. Its core is their experience and understanding of themselves as part of larger communities, human as well as spiritual and planetary. Today, when sick-leave due to stress is on the rise, and crises, from war to ecological collapse threaten the foundation of society, our inner power to create and feel meaningfulness in life is more crucial than ever. This relates not only to coping with stress and threats, but also to collaboratively finding solutions to their underlying causes.
In a conversation between researchers from Lund university’s Collaboration Initiative on Existential Resilience we will discuss the inter- and transdisciplinary work on existential resilience and explore the role of contemplation, aesthetics and compassion to counter stress, fragmentation and the loss of meaning that underlie today’s societal crises, with the ultimate aim to increase individual, collective and planetary wellbeing.
Panel
Martin Garwicz, professor of Integrative Neurophysiology and director of Birgit Rausing Center for Medical Humanities.
Max Liljefors, professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Christine Wamsler, professor of Sustainability Science, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
About the Existential Resilience Collaboration Initiative (ERiCi)
The – Existential Resilience Collaboration Initiative (ERiCi) – at Lund University, involves around twenty researchers at Lund University and a dozen practice partners. ERiCi is coordinated by three researchers from different faculties: Martin Garwicz (Faculty of Medicine), Max Liljefors (Faculties of Humanities and Theology) and Christine Wamsler (Faculty of Social Sciences).
ERiCi:s webpage
ERiCi:s blog
Read a recent article about ERiCi
About Pufendorf & Friends
Pufendorf & Friends is a series of open discussions and After Works for researchers. We hope to create a space for informal meetings across all discipline- and faculty boundaries
Bring a coworker and come mingle with colleagues from other parts of the university. All are welcome! No pre-registration is required. Drinks and snacks will be served.
About the event
Location:
Pufendorfinstitutet, Biskopsgatan 3
Contact:
Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se