The Speakers

Biographical Notes and Abstracts

October 12, 2017
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Horn: "The Future as Catastrophe"

October 19, 2017
Dr. Fred Luks and Mag. Georg Drennig: "Catastrophe, Utopia or Enigma? Imagined Futures of (Un)Sustainability"

November 2, 2017
Dr. Fabian Stephany: "Digital Revolution: The Manifold Crises in the Age of Intelligent Machines"

November 9, 2017
Prof. PhD J. Jesse Ramírez: "Playing with the End of the World: The Last of Us and Post-Apocalyptic Gaming"

November 16, 2017
Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Regina Polak: "Of Migration Waves, Floods and Streams: Narratives of Crisis and Apocalypse in the Bible and Modern Times"

November 23, 2017
MMag. Ralph Janik & DI Dr. Isabella Buber-Ennser: "The Refugee Crisis and Forced Migration Flows into Austria"

November 30, 2017
Dr. Stephan Pühringer: "Narratives and Metaphors of the Financial Crisis"

December 7, 2017
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin S. Jobst: "On Holodomor and Chernobyl: Trauma and Memory in Ukrainian History"

December 14, 2017
Dr. Philip Jacobi: "Imagining the End of Britain: The Cosy Catastrophe in the 21st Century"

January 11, 2018
Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser: "The Crises Effect: Global Moral Obligations and National Responses to Refugees in Turkey"