Donnerstag | 14.30 Uhr | Ethnofiction: a rebirth scenario for the collapse of the Mar Menor, Spain Mafe Moscoso The questions that accompany my presentation aim to engage, using ethnofiction, two different cosmo-ontologies: one of my maternal lineage from Cotopaxi, province in Ecuador, and those of a group of scientists from Spain, related to the idea of the end of life. Following the collapse of the Mar Menor, I intend to explore a research methodology focused on experimentation: cuyr andean ethnofiction. The objective of my work is, on one hand, to develop a methodological reflection that will unfold during the writing process, focused on the act of decolonizing ethnofiction; and on the other hand, on the need to explore the fissures of Eurocentric binary scientific ontologies that separate: life/death and nature/culture. Considering the violent colonial and fascist history I bring together the idea that it is possible to open methodological thresholds of welcome and reception towards other ontologies and epistemologies, in this case, Andean ones, which are an opening to other worlds where the end of life is a restart. Adresse Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) 010.01.05 (CATS Auditorium) Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Veranstalter Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Veranstalter https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt contact@cats.uni-heidelberg.de Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Lecture Series: Apocalypse now. Time, Historicity and Worlds After': While periodization—the partition of time into segments with a specific beginning and end—is integral to historical method, it cannot be dissociated from a wider reflection on a key issue: the relation between emic time (time as perceived by historical actors) and etic time (time as established by the scholar’s historical narrative). The relation between emic and etic times is an essential methodological question within human, social, and even natural sciences. In this seminar, we will come back to this question through a particular lens: the “end of times” or “apocalypses.” How do historical actors perceive it? What happens to historiographical narratives when actors talk about the future, as the “end” of time? How has such a vision of the future shaped narratives and periodization schemes?By focusing on “ends of times” and “apocalypse,” we intend to discuss the tensions between time, temporalities and time horizons, both methodologically and empirically, in specific contexts. This year, we will examine these questions in three main areas: 1. political history—the history of revolutions; 2. religious history—the history of last judgements and revelations; and 3. natural history—the history of pandemics, cataclysms and disasters.--The first block (Political History) will discuss the link between revolution and the end of time, starting with revolutions at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the Russian and Chinese revolutions.--The second block (Religious History) will consider perceptions of the end of time within some of the main religions, considering different takes on apocalyptic revelations, universal floods, millenarianisms and messianic movements.--Finally, the third block (Natural History) will discuss natural disasters and epidemics, and will feature the controversies over geological eras (such as the Anthropocene) and collapsology. Donnerstag, 14. November 2024, 14.30 Uhr Rosicrucian Apocalypticism and Freemasonry: on the Mystical Sources of Modern Political Thought Cristina Ciucu Donnerstag, 21. November 2024, 14.30 Uhr Population Bomb: Apocalyptic Imaginaries, World Hunger and the Threat of Revolution Donnerstag, 28. November 2024, 14.30 Uhr Clemena Antonova Donnerstag, 05. Dezember 2024, 14.30 Uhr Aaron Pride Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2024, 14.30 Uhr Angels of the apocalypse: cinema, religion, and the end of the world Marika Rose Donnerstag, 19. Dezember 2024, 14.30 Uhr Chinese apocalyptic eschatologies, 1800-1950. Typologies, contexts, and circulation Vincent Gossaert Donnerstag, 09. Januar 2025, 14.30 Uhr Ethnofiction: a rebirth scenario for the collapse of the Mar Menor, Spain Mafe Moscoso Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2025, 14.30 Uhr ‘Of all maladies the most common’. Explaining the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1770-1830 Stefanie Gänger Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2025, 14.30 Uhr Barbara Mittler, Alessandro Stanziani, Pablo Blitstein |