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<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:14pt">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Apocalyptica</span></i><span lang="EN-US" class=""> is an interdisciplinary, international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic
and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University. The journal publishes incisive analyses and diverse perspectives regarding the end of worlds.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">We are seeking submissions that actively explore the apocalypse as a forceful figure of thought in order to grapple with the historical experiences, present confrontations, and future possibilities
of (up)ending worlds.</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Article length: 8,000-9,000 words</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Deadline: 15 November 2021 </span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Contact: </span></b><a href="mailto:publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de</span></b></a><span class="x_x_x_MsoHyperlink"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Thinking with the End(s) of Worlds</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">As anthropogenic climate change, increasingly polarized politics, and accelerated nuclear arms races signal the imminence of disaster and catastrophe around the world, the idea of the apocalypse is gaining
traction in popular and scholarly discourses. The unprecedented trials of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing capitalist expansionism, unrestrained resource extraction, imperial warfare and militarism, technocratic governance, escalating surveillance, sustained
exploitation of indigenous people(s) and land, rising nationalism, mounting social inequality, fears about global mobilities, aggressive risk management, and, of course, the exacerbation of gendered, raced, colonial and environmental violence in the face of
these challenges give rise to new considerations of what it meant and means to live through the end of the world or ‘in the end times’, as Slavoj Žižek has aptly put it. </span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">The troubling prospects of apocalyptic upheaval are conversely met (and productively troubled) by new social justice movements, innovative media narratives and storytelling practices, evocative artworks,
original political debates and new socio-economic discourses that put forward speculative imaginations, deconstructive epistemologies and novel ways of conceiving ‘the end’. In these views, apocalypses and their envisioned aftermaths (also) produce emancipatory
and creative potentials that engage with the possibility of plural worlds, embodied futurities, non-linear temporalities and radical difference as they are increasingly reflected in the invocation of haunting sensibilities, experimental imaginaries or lived
experience that employ the un/making of worlds.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Beyond notions of redemption or more traditional theological approaches to the end of the world, we ask: What experiences inspire apocalyptic thinking? What movements, politics, ideas, geographies, sensibilities,
stories, and images might be considered (post-)apocalyptic or invoke debates and feelings about the end of the/a world? How do apocalypses entangle temporalities of past, present, and future? How do crisis and catastrophe shape human and non-human actors and
their relationships? What are we to make of the concepts of ‘world’, ‘worlds’ and ‘worlding’ or, indeed, ‘the end’ and its ‘aftermath(s)’? And, how does the apocalypse as an idea help us to address escalating global as well as local challenges which (also)
articulate the promise of diverse futures and (perhaps) more just, alternative collectivities?</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">We welcome submissions from a broad range of fields in order to champion the imaginative and (potentially) transformative force of thinking with and through the (post-)apocalypse.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Possible contributions might examine the apocalypse in relation to the following themes (but are not limited to this list):</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Anthropogenic climate
change </span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nationalism and
colonialism</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Race, gender and
sexuality</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Social and ecological
in/justice </span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Apocalyptic temporalities
(decentered futurisms, empirical histories, alternative memories)</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ghosts and haunting</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Collective political
imaginaries and resistance movements</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Embodied experiences
(viscerality, affect, sensibility, survival)</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dystopia and utopia</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cultural imaginaries,
narratives, and practices (film, TV, literature, music, comics, video games, art, theatre, photography)</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Animal studies and
ecocriticism</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Architecture and
landscape (including social relations to the environment)</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">White supremacy
and right-wing politics</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Algorithmic governance
(digital cultures, social media, surveillance) </span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Securitization and
nuclear warfare</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Border politics
and global mobilities</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pandemics and epidemics</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Epistemologies of
the apocalypse (philosophy, theology, anthropology)</span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Conceptualizing
the ‘end’ of ‘worlds’ (scope, universality, and plurality)</span></i></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Please submit your article (about 8,000-9,000 words) including an abstract (250 words) and a short bio by 15 November 2021 to </span></b><a href="mailto:publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de</span></b></a><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">. </span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Further information: </span></b><a href="https://capas.pubpub.org/" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">https://capas.pubpub.org</span></b></a><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></b></p>
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien/<br class="">
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS)<br class="">
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