{"id":463,"date":"2012-03-28T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/?page_id=463"},"modified":"2012-05-23T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T09:19:57","slug":"dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/events\/dont-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Panic! The Apocalypse in Theory and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Skepsi<\/em>\u2019s Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference<\/p>\n

Sponsored by SECL and the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Kent<\/p>\n

25\u201326 May 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

University of Kent at Canterbury<\/em> (Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 25 May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>9.30 \u2013 10.00<\/strong> Welcome Coffee and Registration<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>10.00 \u2013 11.00<\/strong> Panel 1<\/span>:<\/span> Apocalypse in Films (1) [Chair: Guillaume Collett]<\/span><\/p>\n

Iulia Micu,\u00a0Babe\u015f-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)<\/em>, \u2018The Personal End and the End of Humanity. Lars von Trier\u2019s Recipe (Antichrist<\/em> and Melancholia<\/em>)\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Eve Bennett, De Montfort University<\/em>, \u2018Deus ex Machina: Apocalyptic AI in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11.00 \u2013 11.30<\/strong> Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11.30 \u2013 13.00<\/strong> Panel 2:<\/span> Environmental Apocalypticism [Chair: Marco Piasentier]<\/span><\/p>\n

Adrian Rainbow, University of Z\u00fcrich<\/em>, \u2018Ecoliteracy, Ecopedagogy, and Environmental Apocalypticism\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Shaylih Muehlmann, University of British Columbia<\/em>, \u2018The Countdown: Enumerating Environmental and Social Crisis in the Mexican Colorado Delta\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Philip Hammond,\u00a0London South Bank University<\/em>, and Hugh Ortega Breton,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Surrey<\/em>, \u2018Loss, Alienation and the Desire for Annihilation: Phantasies in the Politics of the Eco-Apocalypse\u2019<\/p>\n

13.00 \u2013 14.00<\/strong> Lunch<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>14.00 \u2013 15.30<\/span><\/strong> Panel 3:<\/span><\/span> Literary Representations of the Apocalypse<\/span> [Chair: Fabien Arribert-Narce]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

C\u00e9cile Maudet, University of <\/em>Rennes 2<\/em>, \u2018Engaging in and Envisaging the End in Colum McCann\u2019s Fishing the Sloe Black River<\/em> (1994) and Everything in this Country Must…<\/em> (2000)\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Camilla Ulleland Hoel, University of Edinburgh<\/em> and Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/em>, \u2018Apocalypse as Defining Moment of Ethical Action in Nick Harkaway\u2019s Novels\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrei Simut, Babe\u015f-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)<\/em>, \u2018After the End: a Post-human Dys\/(U)-topia?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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15.30 \u2013 15.50<\/strong> Coffee Break<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>15.50 \u2013 17.20<\/strong> Panel 4:<\/span> Imagery of the Apocalypse [Chair: Alvise Sforza-Tarabochia]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Khalid Mahmood, International Islamic University, Islamabad (Pakistan)<\/em>, and University of Birmingham<\/em>, \u2018The Apocalyptic Images in the World English Print Media in the Coverage of Global Economic Crisis: Situating \u201cEconomic Revelation\u201d in Corpus Linguistics\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Lang, University for the Creative Arts<\/em> and University of Kent<\/em>, \u2018Apocalypse as Metaphor for Revolution\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Christofides, Huddersfield University<\/em>, \u2018The Dragon and His Wrath: Images of the Apocalypse in\u00a0King Lear<\/em> and <\/em>Popular Culture\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>17.30 \u2013 18.30<\/strong> Wine Reception<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Saturday 26 May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

9.30 \u2013 11.00<\/strong> Panel 5:<\/span> <\/strong>Apocalypse in Films (2) [Chair: Jo Pettitt]<\/span><\/p>\n

Nerijus Milerius, Vilnius University<\/em>, \u2018Apocalypse Film as Counterfactual Phenomenon\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Kylo-Patrick Hart, Texas Christian University<\/em>, \u2018And the Whole World Goes Kaboom: Apocalypticism in the Films of Gregg Araki\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Arnaud Widenda\u00eble, University Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille 3)<\/em>, \u2018Why Recording the Apocalypse? The Functions of Video Pictures in Gregg Araki\u2019s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>11.00 \u2013 11.20<\/strong> Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11.20 \u2013 12.50<\/strong> Panel 6:<\/span> Ontologies of the Undead, Politics of the Living [Chair: Krista Bonello]<\/span><\/p>\n

Yari Lanci, Goldsmiths University of London<\/em>,\u00a0\u2018The Non-end of the Zombie: Towards a Political Eschatology\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Dean, University of Glamorgan<\/em>, \u2018Re-writing the Social Contract: Ethical Catechism and The Walking Dead<\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Marco Piasentier and Alvise Sforza-Tarabochia, University of Kent<\/em>, \u2018The Unborn and the\u00a0Undead: Exclusive Inclusion in\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0Idea of Community\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a012.50 \u2013 14.00<\/strong>\u00a0Lunch<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a01<\/strong>4.00 \u2013 15.00<\/strong>\u00a0Panel 7:\u00a0A Sociological Reading of Apocalypse [Chair: Nina Rolland]<\/p>\n

Anita Dremel,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Zagreb<\/em>, \u2018The Projection of an Ending and Systems Theory \u2013 a Sociological Reading of Apocalypse as a Genre\u2019<\/p>\n

Bo\u0161tjan Nedoh,\u00a0University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia)<\/em>, \u2018Panic as a Social Link\u2019<\/p>\n

1<\/strong>5.00 \u2013 15.15<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee Break<\/p>\n

1<\/strong>5.15 \u2013 16.15<\/strong>\u00a0Panel 8:\u00a0Apocalypse, Power and Religion [Chair: Maureen Speller]<\/p>\n

Paul Reid-Bowen,\u00a0Bath Spa University<\/em>, \u2018Contesting Capitalist Sorcery: \u201cPeak Everything\u201d as Apocalyptic Prophecy\u2019<\/p>\n

Blagovesta Nikolova,\u00a0Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/em>, \u2018Apocalyptic Anxieties and Forecasting Discourse: the Role of Power\u2019<\/p>\n

16.15 \u2013 16.45<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>16.45 \u2013 17.45<\/strong>\u00a0Keynote Speech:\u00a0Professor Ivan Callus,\u00a0University of Malta<\/em>, \u2018Neandertal\u2019 [Chair: Krista Bonello]<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>17.45 \u2013 18.30<\/strong>\u00a0Wine Reception<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Skepsi\u2019s Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by SECL and the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Kent 25\u201326 May 2012 University of Kent at Canterbury (Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)   Friday 25 May \u00a09.30 \u2013 10.00 Welcome Coffee and Registration \u00a010.00 \u2013 11.00 Panel 1: Apocalypse in Films (1) [Chair: Guillaume Collett] Iulia Micu,\u00a0Babe\u015f-Bolyai … <\/p>\n

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