Lecture Program

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October 5, 2017
Introduction: Imagining the Apocalypse – Contemporary Situations at the End
Alexandra Hauke, Judith Kohlenberger, Katharina Wiedlack (Organizers)

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October 12, 2017
A Cultural History of Catastrophe
Eva Horn (Department of German Studies, University of Vienna)

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October 19, 2017
Catastrophe, Utopia or Enigma? Imagined Futures of (Un)Sustainability
Fred Luks (Vienna University of Economics and Business/Com­pet­ence Center for Sus­tain­ab­il­ity) & Georg Drennig (Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna)

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November 2, 2017
Digital Revolution: The Manifold Crises in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Fabian Stephany (Vienna University of Economics and Business/Agenda Austria)

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November 9, 2017
Playing with the End of the World: The Last of Us ​and Post-Apocalyptic Gaming
Jesse Ramírez (American Studies, English Department/School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen)

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November 16, 2017
Of Migration Waves, Floods and Streams: Narratives of Crisis and Apocalypse in the Bible and Modern Times
Regina Polak (Department of Practical Theology, University of Vienna)

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November 23, 2017
The Refugee Crisis and Forced Migration Flows into Austria
Ralph Janik (Department of European, International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna) & Isabella Buber-Ennser (Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute of Demography/ Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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November 30, 2017
Narratives and Metaphors of the Financial Crisis
Stephan Pühringer (Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz)

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December 7, 2017
On Holodomor and Chernobyl: Trauma and Memory in Ukrainian History
Kerstin S. Jobst (Department of East European History, University of Vienna)

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December 14, 2017
Imagining the End of Britain: The Contemporary Cosy Catastrophe
Philip Jacobi (English Literature and Culture, University of Passau)

CHRISTMAS BREAK

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January 11, 2018
The Crisis Effect: Global Moral Obligations and National Responses to Refugees in Turkey
Sabine Strasser (Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern)

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January 18, 2018
Conclusion  & Wrap-Up: Tropes, Topics, and Themes in 21st-Century Narratives of Crisis and Catastrophe
Alexandra Hauke, Judith Kohlenberger, Katharina Wiedlack (Organizers)

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January 25, 2018
STUDENT EXAM