Lecture Series 2021-22
Apocalypse now, then, when? Lecture Series 2021-22
The Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg (CAPAS) announces with great pleasure the start of the lecture series in the winter semester. The CAPAS lecture series undertakes the task of exploring imaginaries and experiences of apocalypses and post-apocalypses from an interdisciplinary perspective.
With this format, the research at CAPAS is made accessible to members of Heidelberg University and the interested public. We cordially invite you to engage in our interdisciplinary discussions.
The lectures will be held at HS 14, Neue Universität, Universitätsplatz 1, 69117 Heidelberg.
3G proof is required and registration is needed on site via app or by registration form. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the lectures will be streamed digitally as well.
Tuesdays 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
9.11. “Death in Delhi: An Analytic of the Pandemic, the Post-Apocalyptic and the Political”
Shail Mayaram (Chair CAPAS Advisory Board; Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A96oDkTvwCw
16.11. “Architecture in the Aftermath”
Daniel A. Barber (University of Pennsylvania)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=entWkBtbF_E
23.11. “Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Images in the Mexican Context”
Adolfo Mantilla (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Academia de Artes México)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcsqY-IdZbU
30.11. “Is Meso- and South America on the Brink of a Climatic Apocalypse? Lessons From the Geological Past”
André Bahr (Heidelberg University, Institute of Earth Sciences)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1mItKE31C8
7.12. “The Law and Policy of Disintegration - and a New World Order?”
Holger Hestermeyer (King’s College London)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVw2lsl_PAE
11.01. “A Never-Ending Historicity: the Anti-Futurist Discourses of Abya Yala and Their Confrontation With the Finite Time of Western Modernity”
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (Instituto Caribeño de Pensamiento e Investigación Descolonial) - Lecture has been reschuled to 15.02
18.01. “Live and Let Die: Neoliberalism's Necropolitics and Algorithmic Apocalypse (I am not a Number; I am a Variable)”
Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGkQFrG_Gg
25.01. “Challenges of the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: Socio-Ecological Inequalities and the Energy Transition in Latin America”
Rosa Lehmann (Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea4DbJPxJSg
01.02. “The Latin-American Apocalypse of the Radically Other”
Michael Schulz (Bonn University)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwjyHdwpjVU
08.02. “The New 'Organization': Digital Culture Industry and Right-Wing Radicalism in Brazil”
Bruna Della Torre (Universidade de Brasília)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17457JSmCbg
15.02. “A Never-Ending Historicity: the Anti-Futurist Discourses of Abya Yala and Their Confrontation With the Finite Time of Western Modernity”
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (Instituto Caribeño de Pensamiento e Investigación Descolonial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10HwYtIcopg