Conference on the Apocalypse
Holy crap. I just received a conference alert for a conference about the Apocalypse. Anything re: the End of the World is welcome, apparently. Here's a (slightly abridged) bit from the actual announcement:
"Presentations,papers, performances, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to (but not limited to) the following themes:
Decline, Collapse, Decay, Disease, Mass Death
Survivalism and Doomsday Preppers
The Second Coming/Millenarianism/Rapture
The Hindu Kali Yuga
Sex and Gender at the End of Time
Death Tourism and Disaster Capitalism
The Age of Terror
Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Disaster Fiction/Movies/Video Games
History as Apocalypse
Remembering and Reliving the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Dare I write a paper for/submit to this...
