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C-URGE Panel at the WAU 2025 Congress: Unearthing Humanity
We are delighted to announce the participa tion of C-URGE Doctoral Candidates in the World Anthropological Union (WAU) 2025 Congress , “Unearthing Humanity: Critical and Urgent Epistemic Redefinitions in World Anthropologies.” This global event brings together researchers, practitioners, and activists to rethink how anthropology engages with today’s intertwined technological, ecological, and sociopolitical transformations. The 10 C-Urge Doctoral Candidates will present the

elena.gilis
Oct 2015 min read


C-URGE Midterm event and Training Week in Catania
The C-URGE project held an exceptional encounter in Catania at the beginning of September, bringing together all doctoral candidates (DCs) and supervisors, along with one representative from our associated partner Impact Hub and one member of the Advisory Board.For one week of shared learning and collaboration, participants gathered on board the Ermenautica and during two days of conference sessions hosted by the University of Catania. This encounter offered a unique and vita

elena.gilis
Oct 201 min read


SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR CLIMATE ACTION
This event is organized by the C-Urge in collaboration with Officine Culturali, a Catania-based organization dedicated to fostering...

elena.gilis
Aug 74 min read


C-Urge Mid-Term Planning: Creating Participatory Learning Spaces
This 30th May, C-Urge Principal Investigators and Doctoral Candidates met to discuss the upcoming Mid-Term event in Catania and, most...

elena.gilis
Jun 31 min read


Research Updates : Reflections from the Field
The C-Urge Doctoral Network has been conducting research projects on the social and cultural dimensions of the perception of climate urgency and climate response. When and on what grounds does a sense of urgency arise? When does a climate emergency produce a sense of urgency? How does the relationship with technology and with "non-human others" shape climate perception? These are some of the questions that the 10 C-Urge doctoral candidates have been addressing through a nine-

elena.gilis
Mar 172 min read


Conferenza Dottorale at University of Catania
It is December 18th and, as every year, all PhD students and professors of the Department of Politics and Social Sciences of the...

elena.gilis
Jan 202 min read


C-Urge at the GSGAS SUMMER SCHOOL: MULTI-CRISIS AROUND THE WORLD
It is the end of June and a hot summer day when we all gather in the morning at the Garduate School Global and Area Studies in Leipzig....

Luisa Mohr
Aug 20, 20242 min read


Mid-Term Meeting in Leuven
At the end of April 2024, we had the opportunity to get together as a network in Leuven to get to know the project organization and...

Luisa Mohr
Aug 20, 20242 min read
C-Urge at SANT 2024
The annual conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT) was held at Uppsala University from April 24-26, 2024. This...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Jul 15, 20242 min read


Update Ethnographic Film-Making
We are happy to share some insights and photos from the Ethnographic Film-Making Workshop that took place at the University of Catania in...

Susann Baez Ullberg
May 12, 20241 min read


Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogues (ETROD)
ETROD is an online format that started in 2020. Every month we invite an academic to discuss her current work (e.g. paper drafts, book...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Apr 15, 20242 min read


Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogues (ETROD)
ETROD is an online format that started in 2020. Every month we invite an academic to discuss her current work (e.g. paper (drafts), book...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Feb 16, 20241 min read


Living Otherwise: Environment Beyond the Climate Techno-Fix Doctoral Seminar Series
C-Urge is thrilled to announce the forthcoming seminar cycle entitled “Living Otherwise: Environment Beyond the Climate Techno-Fix”...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Feb 12, 20241 min read


Ethnographic Film Making Workshop in Catania
The C-URGE Doctoral Network is pleased to announce the Workshop “Ethnographic Film Making” hosted by the Department of Political and...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Feb 5, 20241 min read


Online Ethnography Training Cycle: C-Urge Edition 2024
ONLINE WORLDS / CONNECTED LIVES. CASES AND CONVERSATIONS IN DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY The C-Urge Team is thrilled to announce the Online...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Jan 23, 20241 min read


2023 Roundup 🌿
2023 was a big year for the C-Urge Network. We (10 Doctoral Candidates) settled into our home universities: Leuven (Belgium),...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Jan 10, 20241 min read


Recap of C-URGE Kick-off Event: An Invigorating Week of Exchange
Photography courtesy of Sunsetmedia.be. On October 2, 2023, our Principal Investigators and Doctoral Candidates convened for the first...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Nov 5, 20232 min read


Project launch!
2-8 February 2023 Good to get started...

Susann Baez Ullberg
Feb 6, 20231 min read


Kick off meeting in Leuven
2 October 2023

Susann Baez Ullberg
Jan 26, 20231 min read
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