2020 Dignity Workshop 01.5: Evelin Lindner's Lecture "For a Future of Global Solidarity"
Channel: Evelin Lindner
Date: 2020-12-25

This is Evelin Lindner's lecture titled "From Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity — From a Virus Pandemic to a Pandemic of Dignity: How Can We Escape Complicity with Institutionalized Humiliation?" delivered on Day Three of the 17th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, December 10 – 12, 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this conference had to take place online. 

• See the lecture delivered at the workshop on December 12, 2020, at https://youtu.be/9Wd8HCnvLWM
• See the Pdf at https://humiliationstudies.org/documents/evelin/DignityPandemicDec2020.pdf

See several previous versions, all recorded in Germany:
• Version of 45 minutes recorded on December 8, 2020: https://youtu.be/dS5hRqu7fi4
• Version of 48 minutes recorded on December 6, 2020: https://youtu.be/3Ez9dxzxHS4
• Version of 51 minutes recorded on December 5, 2020: https://youtu.be/ltH_Ej0Ry-I

• See also a presentation titled "A Meta-Narrative for Times of Radical Transformation" of one hour and ten minutes recorded on November 17, 2020 at https://youtu.be/Vwld9TMU_rI, and the Pdf at https://humiliationstudies.org/documents/evelin/Meta-NarrativeNov2020.pdf

• See also a presentation with a similar title prepared for another conference recorded on  November 16, 2020, with one version of 25 minutes at https://youtu.be/j_yezKgNY8A and a longer version of one hour at https://youtu.be/GRTISHlDiRY

Evelin Lindner has a dual education as a Medical Doctor and a Psychologist, with a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University in Hamburg in Germany, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She is the founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary community of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation around the world. She is also co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative, from where the Dignity Press and World Dignity University Press emerged. All initiatives are not-for-profit efforts. Her first book, based on her doctoral dissertation in psychology, was titled 'Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict' and was honoured as 'Outstanding Academic Title' by the journal 'Choice' in 2007. Desmond Tutu wrote the Foreword for her third book 'Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security'. Her fourth book 'A Dignity Economy' came out in 2012, and her fifth book 'Honor, Humiliation, and Terror' came out in 2017. A full list of Evelin’s publications is available on the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies website.

See more on: 
- www.humiliationstudies.org
- www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/35.php#evelin
- www.worlddignityuniversity.org

• Abstract (short): The coronavirus pandemic represents an important turning point in the way human activities unfold on our planet. The virus makes it more palpable than ever before that the world has become a village, that we are all interconnected and interdependent. Never before has it been so clear that we must act together, and fast. 
• Abstract (long): The coronavirus pandemic that unfolds as we speak represents an important turning point in the way human activities unfold on our planet: For the first time, everyone is affected simultaneously. The virus makes it more palpable than ever before that the world has become a village, that we are all interconnected and interdependent. Never before has it been so clear that we must act together, and fast.
The pandemic comes on top of a list of crises that gets longer by the day: Financial crisis, credit and banking crisis, environmental and ecological crisis, biodiversity crisis, housing crisis, well-being crisis, education crisis, spiritual and moral crisis, trust and trusting crisis, indifference crisis, fake news and faking crisis, reality crisis, populism and fascism crisis... all leading to a generalised ‘time of crisis’.
It is always a shock when limits are reached that hitherto were imperceptible. Sudden tipping points change conditions so fast and drastically that it is difficult to bring about equally drastic adaptations. We, as humankind, have the choice of proceeding unimpeded with ‘business as usual’ towards the global depletion of planet Earth’s last resources, or we can rethink and shape our future path by inventing new ways of arranging our affairs on this planet. Never in our species’ history have we encountered more serious challenges. The generations alive now carry more responsibility on their shoulders than any generation before. The presently unfolding coronavirus crisis is likely to be only a small prelude. We stand at historically unparalleled crossroads.