"Ending World" - CAPAS Lecture Series 2022
End time scenarios like the ongoing COVID-19 crisis or the flood disaster and heat waves due to anthropogenic climate change are just the most recent examples of experiences that act as apocalyptic catalysts and inspire apocalyptic thinking. It is a joint lecture series of the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) and the project “Epochal Life Worlds: Man, nature and technology in narratives of crisis and change” of the Joint Centre for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”. It undertakes the task of exploring imaginaries and experiences of catastrophic and (post-)apocalyptic events from an interdisciplinary perspective. The summer semester of 2022 is dedicated to imaginaries and experiences of (post-)apocalyptic and catastrophic events with a special focus on Asia.
Both centres are advanced research centres which host internationally renowned fellows. With this format, the research at the Centres is made accessible to all members of Heidelberg University. Lectures are going to be held in English.
The lectures will be held at HS 14, Neue Universität, Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg (the respective current pandemic regulations apply). Due to the ongoing pandemic, the lectures will be streamed digitally as well.
Tuesdays 6:15 PM – 7:45 PM
17.5. “The Meanings of Mass Mortality in a Japanese Volcanic Winter”
Fabian Drixler (Yale University & CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2DMdG--iw
24.5. “Social Media, Marketing, and Islamic Propaganda from the Arab Spring to Today”
Sasson Chahanovic (CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49ZxgLjFIg
31.5. “Forget Malthus. A Death-Defying Attempt to Rewrite Global Food History”
Frank Uekötter (University of Birmingham & CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpRpHVZ5gto
7.6. “Immanent Apocalypse: Reading Art as Philosophy”
Yi Chen (CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxyZuY6vyNA
14.6. “Playing the End of the World As We Know It: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as (Post-)Apocalyptic Story Engines”
Adrian Hermann (University of Bonn & CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF2sBE8nr78
21.6. “Self-Portraits at the Edge. Devices for Studying Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Anthropocene”
Christine Hentschel (University of Hamburg & CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3mCtuNn1c
28.6. “Apocalyptic and Anti-apocalyptic Cosmologies in Modern Hinduism”
Richard Weiss (Victoria University of Wellington & CAPAS Fellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8N-HfhmzRg
5.7. "Attributions of Extreme Weather Disasters in Chinese Media: A Comparison of Domestic (2021 Zhengzhou Flood) and International (2021 Europe Flood and US Flood) Events”
Han Ziqiang (Fellow, Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”)
12.7. “From Witnessing to Remembrance – The Documentary of Wuhan Lockdown”
Meng Xia (Fellow, Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”)
19.7. “Thoughts on the Relationship Between Apocalypse and Idyll in the Literature of the 'Little Ice Age'”
Joana van de Löcht (Fellow, Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”)
26.7. “Voices of Plants and Landscape in Artful Spaces of the Ming-Qing Transition”
Wang Yizhou (Fellow, Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective”)
Video recordings of all lectures are available on our YouTube channel.
Time & Location
May 17, 2022 | 06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
The lectures will be held at HS 14, Neue Universität, Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg (the respective current pandemic regulations apply). Due to the ongoing pandemic, the lectures will be streamed digitally as well.