Save the date: kickoff interfaculty theme Social Transitions 4 November
On Wednesday 4 November, the interfaculty theme Social Transitions will hold a kick-off meeting. During this kick-off, the theme’s ambitions and current focus areas will be presented. Staff from all faculties are warmly invited to attend.
Pressing societal transitions—such as the energy transition, increasing social diversity, fast-paced digitalisation and political fragmentation—profoundly affect the political, economic, legal and social fabric of our societies. They redistribute costs, opportunities, status and authority. They place demands on institutions—courts, markets, schools, media and governments—that were not designed with them in mind. They also give rise to divisions and inequalities and put democratic institutions to the test.
Leiden University conducts research on a number of these transitions, drawing on insights from law, the humanities, and the social and behavioural sciences. The interfaculty theme Social Transitions brings together academics working on these questions across disciplines, departments and faculties, creating a broader interdisciplinary network for exchange and new forms of collaboration across research, education and societal impact. The Social Transition theme leads are Maurits Berger (FGW) (chair), Anar Ahmadov (FGGA), Yvonne Erkens (FdR) and Sarah de Lange (FSW).
Ambitions and participant’s input
On Wednesday 4 November, 15-17h (The Hague), the Social Transitions theme will hold its first event. During this kick-off, the theme leads will introduce the profile’s ambitions and current areas of focus, and researchers from different disciplines will briefly present their work on social transitions. In interactive sessions, participants can provide their input, exploring questions such as: Which themes and questions are important for research on social transitions? Where do different disciplines intersect? And what is needed to turn interesting connections into concrete interdisciplinary collaboration?