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August 21–24, 2025 Corvallis, Oregon

2025 Annual Meeting of SLSA: Risk

Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

  • Theme: “Risk”
  • Dates: August 21-24, 2025
  • Conference website: https://slsa2025.org/ (archived on Internet Archive)
  • Hosted by Oregon State University