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SUMMARY:Colloque - Appel à participation - Living together in the Absurd: Making sense when the world doesn’t make sense - University of Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Living together in the Absurd
Making sense when the world doesn’t make sense
 \n  \nWorkshop 
Tuesday 21 April 2026 \nUniversity of Cambridge \nFaculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics \nIn collaboration with 
University of Heidelberg and Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities \n  \nCall for Abstracts and Participation \nThis workshop aims to revisit Albert Camus’s notion of the Absurd through the lens of today’s multi-crises and multifarious challenges. According to Camus\, the world we live in is absurd. While this can become manifest to us in nearly any situation\, Camus is adamant that the world’s absurdity is not owing to any specific features. Rather\, it is intrinsically relational and results from the unresolvable tension of two elements: the unbridgeable hiatus between a reason that seeks understanding and a world that remains strictly irrational. If it is our understanding that opens up the world for us\, at the same time\, the world irrevocably resists being fully grasped. The absurdity thus creates a human desire for clarity that will never see its fulfilment. The experience of the Absurd posits an existential shock that shatters any worldview and destroys all hope for a safe harbour. \nBut if Camus thought of the Absurd as a universal existential condition\, he also acknowledged that history\, and especially the modern times\, provided a qualitative intensification of this experience of the Absurd. In 1945 Europe\, the widening gap between hopes and reality could seem at first to threaten the very possibility of any understanding\, and discourage any ambition to contribute actively to change. Eighty years later\, with the acceleration of the environmental crisis\, the impending return of fascism and the weakening of the social fabric under the pressure of technology and ideology\, new hopes have tarnished and the experience of the Absurd is invoked from nearly all sides.How should we act in such a world that cannot possibly make sense? \nThe aim of the workshop is to address this question by bringing together different perspectives from philosophy\, psychology\, and psychiatry on existentialism and the Absurd. It explores how reflecting on the Absurd may disrupt and challenge contemporary debates on self\, world\, and others but also significantly inform approaches in social philosophy\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and psychotherapy. \nPapers are welcomed on themes including: \n\nEmotions in the Absurd\nExistential despair and the power of literature\nThe Absurd and self-understanding\nReason and action\nFacing the Absurd: from vulnerability to resilience\nThe Absurd and (dis)empowerment\nAlterity in the Absurd\nLiving today in the crisis of meaning\nThe Absurd and care\nThe Absurd\, revolt and the political\n\nThis 1-day workshop combines invited and open contributions. Confirmed speakers:Colin DavisPhilipp Schmidt-BoddySamuel Buchoul \nTo present a paper at the workshop\, please submit an abstract before 20 March 2026 (max. 300 words) with personal details via the following Google form. Talks should be 20–25 minutes in length. \nOrganisation and Contact: \nSamuel Buchoul \nsjmb5@cam.ac.uk \nPhilipp Schmidt-Boddy \nphilipp.schmidt-boddy@uni-heidelberg.de \n  \nPour soumettre une proposition\, cliquez ICI.
URL:https://www.etudes-camusiennes.fr/evenement/colloque-appel-a-participation-living-together-in-the-absurd-making-sense-when-the-world-doesnt-make-sense-university-of-cambridge/
CATEGORIES:Colloque
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