2021 Conference
‘After the Deluge: How to Update our Institutions for Future Creeping Crises’
Grand Café de Burcht, Leiden, 27-29 October 2021
In October 2021, we organised the international conference ‘After the Deluge: How to Update our Institutions for Future Creeping Crises’.
Why this conference?
The COVID-19 crisis came creeping and turned into a protracted crisis that is casting a long shadow. Both experts and policymakers failed to act in a timely and adequate manner. Slow recognition of an impending threat cost us dearly, not once but at least twice (the first and subsequent waves). The legitimacy of political leaders, public managers, public institutions and experts has greatly suffered.
It has happened before (think of the BSE crisis in the 1990s, the financial crisis or the immigration crisis in 2015). We might say it is happening in other domains, right now (examples include the rise of international crime, the undermining of public institutions, the erosion of privacy, and climate change).
Why do political leaders, policymakers and public institutions fail to recognize clear signals of emerging threats? Why do they fail to act on clearly articulated warnings? Could it be that the existing practices of risk management and crisis management are not designed to deal with these creeping crises? What does that mean for our level of preparedness and the state of societal resilience?
This interdisciplinary conference sought to address these questions. The panelists included former ministers, practitioners and academics in the field of crisis management.
Below you can find the program and the streams of the panels. You can click on the panel titles to rewatch the panel discussions.
| Panel Title | Speakers | Date & Time |
|---|---|---|
| Detecting a creeping crisis (‘calling a crisis’) | Roos van der Haer Sarah Pralle Christoph Meyer Wa’ed Alshoubaki | 27/10, 09:00-11:00 |
| Deciding in the fog of uncertainty | Dana Dolan José Kerstholt Jane Swift Giliberto Capano Janne Hukkinen | 27/10, 11:15-13:00 |
| Reaching the public (in the various phases of a protracted crisis) | Wouter Jong Andrea Evers Eva-Karin Gardell Frederike Albrecht | 27/10, 13:15-15:00 |
| Policy experiments in times of crisis | Martin Lodge Chris Ansell Wolfgang Seibel Sanneke Kuipers | 27/10. 15:15-17:00 |
| Learning during a crisis | Wout Broekema Marij Swinkels Olivier Borraz Edward Deverell | 28/10, 09:00-11:00 |
| Disaster logistics and scarcity | Renate Meyer Jeroen Wolbers Xiaoli Lu | 28/10, 11:15-13:00 |
| The pros and cons of centralization for crisis leadership | Cynthia Renaud Roland Bal Sandra Groeneveld Joergen Raab | 28/10, 13:15-15:00 |
| International cooperation | Amy Verdun Mark Rhinard HP Schreinemacher Beatrice de Graaf Magnus Ekengren | 28/10, 15:15-17:00 |
| The role of experts | Paul Cairnes Erik Baekkeskov Evangelia Petridou Olivier Rubin | 29/10, 09:00-11:00 |
| Legitimacy, institutional erosion and public impatience | Stavros Zouridis Andrea Mennicken Jale Tosun Arjen Boin | 29/10, 11:15-13:00 |
| Executive leadership before, during & after crises | Fredrik Bynander Uri Rosenthal Paul ‘t Hart Peg Hermann Jet Bussemaker | 29/10, 13:15-15:00 |
| COVID-19 as creeping crisis | Alina Engstrom Henry Shields Linnea Andersson Swapnil Vashishtha AnneMarie van der Wilt Marte Luesink | 29/10, 15:15-17:00 |
If you click on the following link, you will be redirected to the playlist of the panel recordings.