Panels/Program – Atlanticonference – Estudos da História e da Cultura de Portugal e dos Açores

Event program

III Atlantic Conference 2025 | Fears, Beliefs and Representations | 23-26 SEPTEMBER

CALL FOR PAPERS until 31 MAY

Themes

Panel 1 - The fear of finitude: from individual death to the apocalypse

Panel 2 - The fear of chaos: wars, natural disasters and terrorism

Panel 3 - The fear of insufficiency: poverty, hunger and famine

Panel 4 - Fear of the other: xenophobia, racism and ostracism

Panel 5 - Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Hindu or other beliefs and practices

Panel 6 - The religiosity of fear and the fear of religiosity

Panel 7 - Esotericism, superstitions and witchcraft

Panel 8 - Materialisation of beliefs: rituals, representations and landscapes