The RE-CARE network is currently planning its #3 conference “Resilient Societies in Times of Uncertainty – From Conceptual Foundations to Societal Implementation”, taking place 18-19 March 2027 at Kyoto University, with the generous support of Prof. Dr. Satoshi Kodama.

The conference aims to connect researchers who engage with questions of societal resilience in times of crisis, spanning conceptual and theoretical foundations as well as practical implementation in areas such as health, technology, sport, philosophy, and communication.

Potential research questions include: 

How can resilient societies be shaped in the face of multiple, overlapping crises? 

How are resilient people, actions, and events classified? How is resilience empirically studied and measured?

How can resilience be distinguished from terms such as vulnerability, adaptation, or robustness?

How do discursive polarization, misinformation, and the logics of technological platforms shape crises perceptions and responses?

What role do technologies such as AI, data infrastructures, and robotics play for societal resilience – as a resource, but also as risks and as objects of social, ethical, and legal regulation?

How can strategies for inclusive resilience be developed that systematically take into account inequalities relating to factors such as age, gender, socioeconomic position and migration background?

Researchers interested in participating are warmly invited to contact us at: kraemer@resilient-healthcare.de