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Research Projects

ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Saheed Bello

Apocalyptic Regime and the Death of Indigenous Pluriverse in Ahmed Yerima's Trilogy

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - JIM DONAGHEY

'Laughing in the doorway of the apocalypse': biopolitical evasion/resistance in punk festivity (K-Town Bike Wars case study)

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - ANA HONNACKER

(Post-)Apocalyptic Thinking as Cultural Criticism

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Suzy Kim

(Post)Apocalyptic Survival in the Global South: Community Adaptations against Catastrophes in North Korea

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Wendy Larson

Mo Yan: China’s Cultural Apocalypse and World Literature

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Roger Luckhurst

Grey Zone Apocalyptics: The Biopolitical/Necropolitical Dyad

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Alexander Prishchepov

Rethinking about the current apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic abandonscapes from biopolitical lenses

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Julian Reid

After Catastrophic Biopolitics: Towards a Political Eschatology of the Anthropocene

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - LARS DE WILDT

The Bio- and Necropolitics of Post-Apocalyptic Videogames

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Eduardo Altheman C. Santos

DREAMED IN CALIFORNIA, NIGHTMARED IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: TECHNO-UTOPIAS UPSIDE DOWN

CAPAS Research Project - Clemena Antonova

The Apocalyptic Project of the Soviet Avant-garde: The Modernist After-life of a Premodern, Religious Concept.

CAPAS Research Project - Stephen Barber

Apocalyptic cities: transmutations in future urban space

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Christine Daigle

A Joyful Extinction: Opening up Posthumanist Futures

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Ceren Dogan

Post-apocalyptic mass infertility as the end after the end? Negotiating femininity, sexuality and the maternal in women’s literary fiction

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Cynthia Francica

Feminist (Post)apocalyptic Imaginaries in Latin American Literature and Visual Arts

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Uzodinma Iweala

Replacement, a Meditation

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Alys Moody

Apocalypse of the Starving: World Hunger, World Literature, and the Idea of the World, 1945–1990

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Mafe Moscoso

Decolonising ethnofiction: a rebirth scenario for the collapse of the Mar Menor

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Aaron Pride

Sankofa: Radical Millenarianism and Post-apocalypticism in African American Religious Historiography in the Atlantic World

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Marika Rose

Angels of the apocalypse: the end of the world in theological and fictional speculation

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Frank Ruda

Apocalyptic Courage, or: How to Work With Anxiety

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Verita Sriratana

Don’t they know it’s not the end of the (patriarchal and heteronormative) world?: Misogyny as (Post)Apocalypse

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Heather H. Yeung

The Poetology of the (Modern) Apocalypse

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - KATIE BARCLAY

HOW TO FEEL SAFE AT THE END OF THE WORLD: SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR EARLY MODERN FAMILIES

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Vincent Bruyère

APOCALYPTIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC THINKING IN THE AGE OF THE TECHNOFIXTIMES

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Jana Cattien

END OF TIMES: APOCALYPTIC ORIENTALISM AND NARRATIVES OF WESTERN DECLINE

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Nikita Chiu

APOTECH - TECHNOLOGIES AND (POST)APOCALYPTIC SCENARIO PLANNING: A STUDY ON TRANSCULTURAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERCEPTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY ENGENDERED (POST)APOCALYPTIC SCENARIOS

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Kate Cooper

META-TEMPORALITY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE: AN ASPECT OF THE APOCALYPTIC IMAGINARY?

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Taylor Dotson

SCIENCE, STORYTELLING, AND THE APOCALYPSE: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND POLICY LIMITS OF POLITICAL CATASTROPHISM

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Pamela Karimi

SURVIVAL BY DESIGN: DESERT ARCHITECTURE AT THE END OF THE WORLD

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Prabhat Kumar

APOCALYPTIC FRAMES: IMAGINING CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH IN THE INTERWAR SOUTH ASIA

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - ANAÏS MAURER

AITA ATOMI : MĀ’OHI ARTISTS AGAINST NUCLEAR COLONIALISM

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - BRONWEN NEIL

BACK TO THE GARDEN? ANCIENT IMAGINARIES AND CONCEPTS OF THE (POST-)APOCALYPSE IN EUROPE & THE PACIFIC

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - LUIS ALBERTO PÉREZ-AMEZCUA

A STUDY OF SIGNIFICANT LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF “APOCALYPSES” CAUSED BY VIRUSES FROM A TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND A SYMBOLICAL APPROACH

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Marcus Quent

THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THE APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPES OF AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PILGRIMS IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Susan Watkins

AGEING, APOCALYPSE AND ADAPTATION

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - David Wilson

FEAR REDEVELOPMENT AND APOCALYPTIC URBANISM

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Mia Bennett

Modeling the apocalypse: Satellites and spaceborne epistemologies of the end-of-times

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Christine Cornea

Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries in UK and US Television, 1970s to Present Day

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - DUANE HAMACHER

When Stars Fall: understanding apocalyptic experiences of meteorite impact events

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Teresa Heffernan

Artificial Intelligence and the (Post)Apocalyptic Imaginary

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Simon John

The crusades and apocalyptic thought in the Middle Ages

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Robert Kirsch

The Politics of the Bunker and the Limits of Decentralization

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - PATRICIA MURRIETA-FLORES

Mesoamerican Apocalypse: A large scale analysis of the Indigenous perspective on the sixteenth-century epidemics of Colonial Mexico

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Florian Mussgnug

(Post)-Apocalyptic Anthropocene: Diachronic Relations

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Emily Ray

Building the Celestial Bunker and Securing Survival through Outer Space Colonization

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Amin Samman

Nihilism and the ends of finance

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Elke Schwarz

Whose Robo-Apocalypse is it anyways? Power, politics, posthumanism

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - JULIET SIMPSON

Time after Time – Apocalypse, Revelation, Eschaton in Image, Object and Word, 1919-1933

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Paolo Vignolo

Geopolitics of Apocalypses and Utopia: Millenarian Imaginaries of the Conquest of Darien

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Christian Wehr

Apocalypse, historical transition, and globalization in Latin America.

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - RICHARD WILMAN

Apocalyptic Cosmic Threats and our Post-Apocalyptic Future in Space

Academic year 2021-2022

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - DENA AL-ADEEB

Apocalyptic Sensibilities: Navigating the War-Climate Continuum

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Daniel A. Barber

Carbon, Comfort, and Climate: Architecture as Apocalyptic Media

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - ALEJANDRA BOTTINELLI

The Body at the Boundaries of the End of Time

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Nina Boy

Clashing Epistemologies of the Future? Risk, Resilience, and Apocalypse

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - SASSON CHAHANOVIC

Ottoman Apocalypticism and Early Modern Eschatological Enthusiasm

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - YI CHEN

True Fictions: The Fictionalized Self as a Response to Apocalyptic Dislocations in the Art of Bada Shanren and Iris Häussler

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Fabian Drixler

Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Little Ice Age

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso

A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and their Confrontation with the Finite Time of Western Modernity.

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Christine Hentschel

Self-Portraits at the Edge: Devices for Studying Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Anthropocene

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Adrian Hermann

Modelling, Simulating, and Playing the End of the World As We Know It: Tabletop and Computer Role-Playing Games as (Post-)Apocalyptic Story Engines

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Holger Hestermeyer

The Law and Policy of Disintegration

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Thomas Lynch

Reaffirmation and Resistance: Contrasting Apocalyptic Imaginaries in a Global Pandemic

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Adolfo Mantilla Osornio

Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Imaginary in Mexican art: From the 16th century to the Present Day

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Michael Schulz

The Latin-American Apocalypse of the Radically Other

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Stephen Shapiro

Disease, Data, and the Replacement of the Individual

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Bruna della Torre

Digital Culture Industry and Right-Wing Radicalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Rick Weiss

Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Colonial Hinduism

FORMER AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS - RESEARCH PROJECTS

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CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Staša Babić

Materiality of Everyday Practices in Times of Crisis

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Philipp Schrögel

APOCALYPSE WHERE? Graphic narratives of overlooked end-time perspectives

CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Frank Uekötter

The End of the Plantation: An Apocalyptic Scenario of the Global South

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Research Projects

ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026

Links

Apocalyptic Regime and the Death of Indigenous Pluriverse in Ahmed Yerima's Trilogy

'Laughing in the doorway of the apocalypse': biopolitical evasion/resistance in punk festivity (K-Town Bike Wars case study)

(Post-)Apocalyptic Thinking as Cultural Criticism

(Post)Apocalyptic Survival in the Global South: Community Adaptations against Catastrophes in North Korea

Mo Yan: China’s Cultural Apocalypse and World Literature

Grey Zone Apocalyptics: The Biopolitical/Necropolitical Dyad

Rethinking about the current apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic abandonscapes from biopolitical lenses

After Catastrophic Biopolitics: Towards a Political Eschatology of the Anthropocene

The Bio- and Necropolitics of Post-Apocalyptic Videogames

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

Links

DREAMED IN CALIFORNIA, NIGHTMARED IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: TECHNO-UTOPIAS UPSIDE DOWN

The Apocalyptic Project of the Soviet Avant-garde: The Modernist After-life of a Premodern, Religious Concept.

Apocalyptic cities: transmutations in future urban space

A Joyful Extinction: Opening up Posthumanist Futures

Post-apocalyptic mass infertility as the end after the end? Negotiating femininity, sexuality and the maternal in women’s literary fiction

Feminist (Post)apocalyptic Imaginaries in Latin American Literature and Visual Arts

Replacement, a Meditation

Apocalypse of the Starving: World Hunger, World Literature, and the Idea of the World, 1945–1990

Decolonising ethnofiction: a rebirth scenario for the collapse of the Mar Menor

Sankofa: Radical Millenarianism and Post-apocalypticism in African American Religious Historiography in the Atlantic World

Angels of the apocalypse: the end of the world in theological and fictional speculation

Apocalyptic Courage, or: How to Work With Anxiety

Don’t they know it’s not the end of the (patriarchal and heteronormative) world?: Misogyny as (Post)Apocalypse

The Poetology of the (Modern) Apocalypse

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024

Links

HOW TO FEEL SAFE AT THE END OF THE WORLD: SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR EARLY MODERN FAMILIES

APOCALYPTIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC THINKING IN THE AGE OF THE TECHNOFIXTIMES

END OF TIMES: APOCALYPTIC ORIENTALISM AND NARRATIVES OF WESTERN DECLINE

APOTECH - TECHNOLOGIES AND (POST)APOCALYPTIC SCENARIO PLANNING: A STUDY ON TRANSCULTURAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERCEPTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY ENGENDERED (POST)APOCALYPTIC SCENARIOS

META-TEMPORALITY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE: AN ASPECT OF THE APOCALYPTIC IMAGINARY?

SCIENCE, STORYTELLING, AND THE APOCALYPSE: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND POLICY LIMITS OF POLITICAL CATASTROPHISM

SURVIVAL BY DESIGN: DESERT ARCHITECTURE AT THE END OF THE WORLD

APOCALYPTIC FRAMES: IMAGINING CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH IN THE INTERWAR SOUTH ASIA

AITA ATOMI : MĀ’OHI ARTISTS AGAINST NUCLEAR COLONIALISM

BACK TO THE GARDEN? ANCIENT IMAGINARIES AND CONCEPTS OF THE (POST-)APOCALYPSE IN EUROPE & THE PACIFIC

A STUDY OF SIGNIFICANT LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF “APOCALYPSES” CAUSED BY VIRUSES FROM A TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND A SYMBOLICAL APPROACH

APOCALYPTIC PRESENT(ISM): CONSTRUCTIONS OF TIME

ENVISIONING A WORLD WITHOUT FINANCIAL MARKETS AND ECONOMIC INJUSTICE

THE GLOBAL APOCALYPTIC IN EARLY MODERN AFGHANISTAN

Deserts and drylands in (post)apocalyptic speculative imaginaries

LIVING IN THE END-THROPOCENE. PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME AFTER THE END OF TIME

THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THE APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPES OF AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PILGRIMS IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

AGEING, APOCALYPSE AND ADAPTATION

FEAR REDEVELOPMENT AND APOCALYPTIC URBANISM

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023

Links

Modeling the apocalypse: Satellites and spaceborne epistemologies of the end-of-times

Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries in UK and US Television, 1970s to Present Day

When Stars Fall: understanding apocalyptic experiences of meteorite impact events

Artificial Intelligence and the (Post)Apocalyptic Imaginary

The crusades and apocalyptic thought in the Middle Ages

The Politics of the Bunker and the Limits of Decentralization

Mesoamerican Apocalypse: A large scale analysis of the Indigenous perspective on the sixteenth-century epidemics of Colonial Mexico

(Post)-Apocalyptic Anthropocene: Diachronic Relations

Building the Celestial Bunker and Securing Survival through Outer Space Colonization

Nihilism and the ends of finance

Whose Robo-Apocalypse is it anyways? Power, politics, posthumanism

Time after Time – Apocalypse, Revelation, Eschaton in Image, Object and Word, 1919-1933

Geopolitics of Apocalypses and Utopia: Millenarian Imaginaries of the Conquest of Darien

Apocalypse, historical transition, and globalization in Latin America.

Apocalyptic Cosmic Threats and our Post-Apocalyptic Future in Space

Academic year 2021-2022

Links

Apocalyptic Sensibilities: Navigating the War-Climate Continuum

Carbon, Comfort, and Climate: Architecture as Apocalyptic Media

The Body at the Boundaries of the End of Time

Clashing Epistemologies of the Future? Risk, Resilience, and Apocalypse

Ottoman Apocalypticism and Early Modern Eschatological Enthusiasm

True Fictions: The Fictionalized Self as a Response to Apocalyptic Dislocations in the Art of Bada Shanren and Iris Häussler

Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Little Ice Age

A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and their Confrontation with the Finite Time of Western Modernity.

Self-Portraits at the Edge: Devices for Studying Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Anthropocene

Modelling, Simulating, and Playing the End of the World As We Know It: Tabletop and Computer Role-Playing Games as (Post-)Apocalyptic Story Engines

The Law and Policy of Disintegration

Reaffirmation and Resistance: Contrasting Apocalyptic Imaginaries in a Global Pandemic