Webinar with Alison McQueen - At the End of the World

  • Scheuer, B. (Role not specified)
  • Svenungsson, J. (Role not specified)
  • Tormod Otter Johansen (Chair)
  • Alison McQueen (Keynote/plenary speaker)

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Description

For the first webinar of the research program At the End of the World, we are happy to host the prominent political scientist Alison McQueen, who will discuss the political nature of apocalypticism with the jurist Tormod Otter Johansen and the program’s PI, Jayne Svenungsson. A key assumption of our joint research is that apocalypticism per se is neither destructive nor emancipatory. Yet history knows numerous examples of apocalyptic visions that have ended in disaster, even as other apocalyptic visions in other context have served to bolster resistance against oppressive social orders. What can we learn from these different historical examples? And what are the dangers and potentials of apocalyptic imaginaries in a contemporary political perspective?
Period2023 Oct 9
Event typeSeminar
LocationLund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational