Conceptualizing Uncertainty: Reflections on Risk and Disaster in France and the Francophone World (1600-present)

Since the 1970s, a large amount of scholarship has analyzed the prediction of risks in early and modern European societies. Building on the concepts of “risk societies” and cultural theories of risk perception, this workshop explores how risk, originally an economic prediction appearing with the birth of capitalism and global industrialization, permeated every aspect of society, from individual decision-making to artistic and scientific practices and state policies. This workshop aims develop the existing scholarship, bringing scholars from different disciplines whose work focuses on France and the Francophone world.

 

Further event details and program available here: https://crrs.ca/crrsevents/conceptualizing-uncertainty/

 

Hayden Bytheway, University of Toronto

Ursula Carmichael, Independent Scholar

Constance de Font-Réaulx, University of Toronto

Marianne Guernet, University of Toronto

Magdalene Klassen, Johns Hopkins University

Nicole Liao, University of Toronto

Pierre Marty, University of Toronto

Jason Nguyen, University of Toronto

Margaret Schotte, York University

Samantha Wesner, University of Toronto