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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"

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Department of English and American Studies
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alexandra.hauke@univie.ac.at
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alexandra.hauke@univie.ac.at
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We would like to thank the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Facultas, the Centre for Canadian Studies (ZKS), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and Fulbright Austria for their kind support!

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