When and what enables people to live safely, and what has stood in the way of this over the centuries? The conference “Living Un/Safely” invites participants to explore this pressing issue in Lithuania and Europe from international anthropological, ethnological, and interdisciplinary perspectives. We aim to shed new light on the challenges posed by the crises caused by war, migration, and the COVID-19 pandemic to human community.

This international, interdisciplinary conference will discuss what allows people to live safely and what conditions ensure this. What has prevented this from being achieved over the centuries? These pressing topics are examined in the Lithuanian and European contexts, viewed through the lens of anthropology, ethnology, and international interdisciplinary studies. Disasters, conflicts, and the crises they trigger influence communities, human relationships, emerging identities, initiatives and institutions, migration patterns, and social coexistence.

The main objective is to assess, through comparative research, the impact of war, migration, and the pandemic on human coexistence.

The conference will take place at the Events Hall of the Lithuanian Institute of History (Tilto St. 17, Vilnius). We invite you to review the event programme.

This conference is organized as part of the Lithuanian Institute of History’s research program “Challenges of Crisis: Community in a Comparative Perspective (2022–2026).”