Imagining Apocalypse
Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held at Oxford University on 18 June 2016 on the subject of ‘Imagining Apocalypse’. A plenary lecture will be given by Professor Fiona Stafford (Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford).
The conference aims to bring together academics from across English, History, Theology, History of Art, Modern Languages, and Music to reassess the numerous responses to the idea of apocalypse produced during the long eighteenth century (1660-1830).
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
The French Revolution as apocalyptic
Millenarial cults, the Bible, and prophecy
The summer of 1816 and apocalyptic anxiety
Secular doomsday and apocalypse without millennium
Scientific predictions concerning the end of the world
The figure of the ‘Last Man’
Parodies and satires of apocalypse
The apocalyptic city
Apocalypse as ‘unveiling’
Post-apocalypse
The legacy of long eighteenth-century depictions of apocalypse
Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] no later than Sunday 28 February 2016 along with a short biographical note. Proposals for roundtables and panels, as well as traditional 20-minute papers, are welcome.
Dr Catherine Redford
Access and Outreach / Career Development Fellow
Hertford College, University of Oxford
Tel: 01865 289163 / 07525 862900
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