Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) The fear of Civilization collapse is a thread that runs through much of the literature, cinema, and other media …
Ika Willis – Apocalypse Then: Carl Schmitt and Civil War
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Ika Willis: Apocalypse Then: Carl Schmitt and Civil War The German political philosopher Carl Schmitt has recently enjoyed …
Ahuvia Kahane – The Jewish Ruin
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Ahuvia Kahane: The Jewish Ruin There is a distinctive Jewish relationship to the ruin, different from that in …
Joanna Paul – Vesuvian Apocalypse
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Joanna Paul: Vesuvian Apocalypse From the mid nineteenth century, and possibly early, the dead cities of Pompeii and …
Klaus Dodds – Geographies of the end of the world: Hollywood and the contemporary disaster movie
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Klaus Dodds: Geographies of the end of the world: Hollywood and the contemporary disaster movie Disaster movies have …
Richard Overy – Will Civilization Crash?
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Richard Overy: Will Civilization Crash? The period from 1918 to 1939 was marked by powerfully polarised visions of …
Patrick Parrinder – Suburban Apocalypse
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Patrick Parrinder: Suburban Apocalypse In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the spread of the cities …
Phiroze Vasunia – Ends of Empires
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Phiroze Vasunia: Ends of Empires (not recorded) Empires hate nothing so much as contemplating their own ends, but …
Lindsay Allen – Finding Identity in Ruins: Post-War Children’s literature
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Lindsay Allen – Finding Identity in Ruins: Post-War Children’s literature In the immediate post-war period, the ruin provided …
Greg Claeys: Utopia: A question of definition
Event date:1 March 2011 10.30 – 17.00 British Library London Room MR4 The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) —————————————————————————————— Greg Claeys: Utopia: A question of definition There are considerable problems of definition around Utopia. A proper …