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WELTERZEUGUNG AUS GLOBALER PERSPEKTIVE:
EIN DIALOG MIT CHINA
從全球視閾看“世界”的建構:對話中國

Joint Workshop of the Heidelberg Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies and the Joint Center “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”

04.07.2023 | 10:30 - 15:30

This workshop provides an opportunity for fellows of both centers to get to know each other and to present ongoing research for feedback and suggestions. Read the report

Venue:

CAPAS Conference Room, Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies [in the Mathematikon], Berliner Straße 43, 69120 Heidelberg

Organization:

Rolf Scheuermann (CAPAS): rolf.scheuermann[at]capas.uni-heidelberg.de
Matthias Schumann (Worldmaking): matthias.schumann[at]zo.uni-heidelberg.de

Program:

10:30 - 11:00

Introduction of CAPAS/Worldmaking and the Fellows

Barbara Mittler (Worldmaking) & Robert Folger (CAPAS)

11:00 - 12:00

Panel 1: Catastrophic Diseases

Chair: Rolf Scheuermann

Chen Hao (Peking University/Worldmaking Fellow)

Non-human Animals in a Human Pandemic: Entangled Histories

Patricia Murrieta-Flores (Lancaster University/CAPAS Fellow)

Mesoamerican Apocalypse: A Large Scale Analysis of the Indigenous Perspective on the Sixteenth-Century Epidemics of Colonial Mexico

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:30

Panel 2: Outer Space

Chair: Matthias Schumann

Richard Wilman (University of Durham/CAPAS Fellow)

Apocalyptic CosmicThreats and our Post-Apocalyptic Future in Space

Pan Shaw-yu (National Taiwan University/Worldmaking Fellow)

Colonizing the Stars: Malthusian Theory of Population and Imperial Imagination in Late Qing Science Fiction

14:30 - 15:30

Panel 3: Observation and Narrative

Chair: Rolf Scheuermann

Meng Xia (University of New South Wales/Worldmaking Fellow)

Drone in Covid Times: Urban Wasteland and Post-apocalyptic Revelation

Mia Bennett (University of Washington/CAPAS Fellow)

Chinese Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Earth Observation: From Sight to Foresight