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Fear - 2017

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less”, Marie Skłodowska Curie reportedly once said. Especially in these times, Europe seems to be more obsessed with fear than with understanding.

Fear belongs to a small set of basic, hardly controllable emotions, and is induced by real, perceived, or anticipated physical or emotional danger, especially a threat to body or life. More often, however, we fear situations that are far from life-or-death. Fear response (most notably fleeing, hiding, or freezing) has played an important part in evolution since appropriate behavioral responses to fear serve survival. There are rational and irrational fears, individual and collective fears. In post-WW II European societies, especially the societies of Western Europe, for example, fear predominantly became something very individual, and typically did not involve fear for one’s life or the lives of one’s family. But just in the course of the last two years fear seems to have been spreading fast in large parts of European societies – and not only there. Collective fears have become reality again.

What do different academic disciplines have to say on this issue? In 8 different Lunch Lectures, FRIAS Fellows from disciplines as diverse as economics, film studies, medieval studies, political theory, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy will reflect on the role of fear, its origins, consequences and meanings, in the present and in the past.

 4. Mai 2017

The economics of fear: applications from the literature on the economics of terror

Prof. Dr. Günther Schulze (Wirtschaftswissenschaften)

Video-Podcast des Vortrags

18. Mai 2017

Pleasure and Fear at the Movies

Prof. Dr. Barbara Mennel (University of Florida, Germanistik)

Video-Podcast des Vortrags

1. Juni 2017

Landscape of fear: a bridge across disciplines?

Dr. Luca Corlatti (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Verhaltensökologie) and Mario De Cristofaro

Video-Podcast des Vortrags

22. Juni 2017

The final countdown: Mapping apocalyptic thought in the early Middle Ages

Prof. Dr. Immo Warntjes (Trinity College Dublin, Geschichte)

Video-Podcast des Vortrags

29. Juni 2017

Anxiety Disorders: From basic research to psychotherapy

Prof. Dr. Brunna Tuschen-Caffier

6. Juli 2017

Fear: The hidden driver of modern political thinking

Prof. Dr. Martin Loughlin (London School of Economics, Recht)

Video-Podcast des Vortrags

13. Juli 2017

The Epigenetics of Fear

Prof. Dr. Katharina Domschke

20. Juli 2017

Governing fear: resilience as antidote to a catastrophic future

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaufmann

Video-Podcast des Vortrags