It's the End of the World As We Know It...
...do you feel fine? Explore with us how humans grapple with catastrophe in all of its various forms and remember: never let a good crisis go to waste!
Mondays at 7pm, starting Jan 23, 2023
Held at the Hastings Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings St.
General admission: $5/lecture; 13 - 18 or 60+ yrs old: $2.50/lecture
Register by phone (604 718 6222), or in person
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Lecture Schedule
JANUARY 23
So You Want to Be an Autocrat? Augustus and the End of the Roman Republic
Jennifer Knapp
This talk will examine the political and social tensions that led to the collapse of Roman republic and the actions taken by Julius Caesar and Augustus to completely reshape and build Rome.
JANUARY 30
Monsters and the Zombie Apocalypse
Erin Robb
This talk will consider the purpose and function of monsters throughout history, with a particular focus on how and why monsters have changed throughout film, ending with the monster of all monsters, the zombie, whose very existence promises to harken the end of the world.
FEBRUARY 6
Acts of Trans World-Building at the End of the World
LJ Slovin
This talk will explore how trans youth daily perform the work of creating other worlds outside of the logics of schools – worlds where they are not constrained by adults’ limited and limiting ideas about gender.
FEBRUARY 13
End Without End: Environmental Dystopias and Modern Historical Consciousness
Craig Keating
(replacement for The "Nuclear Option" in the Twenty-First Century)
From Blake's "dark satanic mills" to current predictions of a world destroyed by climate change, environmental dystopia has long been a touchstone of western culture. The dystopian idea of one world passing and another, horrific one emerging informs uniquely modern notions of historical consciousness - i.e. our human connection to the past, present, and future. This lecture examines the interplay of ideas of environmental crisis and historical consciousness in modern western culture.
All speakers are Langara Faculty
Image: Der Krieg, 1896, by Arnold Böcklin