Date: July 02-03, 2009

Deadline: February 09, 2009

Site: Cardiff, UK

Organiser: Cardiff University

Topics: Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

• Notions of futurity, messianism, and the à venir (‘to come’);
• Modernism and the first era of globalization;
• Figurations of the contemporary, post-modern, or technological sublime;
• The alteration and/or realization of textual meanings in the wake of catastrophic events. Connections between conditions of global risk and the aesthetic or intellectual ‘risks’ taken by experimental artists and thinkers;
• Disaster films;
• Ecocriticism and climate change;
• Future ruins;
• The fate of the archive;
• ‘Nuclear Criticism’ and its possible revival post-9/11;
• (Post-)apocalyptic visions;
• Cyberculture and utopian/dystopian futures;
• The cultural implications of Kondratiev waves and world-systems theory.

Language: English

Contact: Dr Paul Crosthwaite

E-mail: globalrisk@cardiff.ac.uk

Internet: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/globalrisk.html