【ご案内】2014 Summer School Heidelberg

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Summer School “Politics of Near Futures: Possibilities, Prophecies, Prognoses”
Jul 27, 2014 – Jul 31, 2014

The Summer school will study transcultural ideas of human and non-human near futures. That is, futures that are imagined by narrating contemporary potentialities into the future: As prophecy, estimate, prognosis, demographic planning, extrapolation or statistical calculation. Such technologies of representing possible near future scenarios are simultaneously politically charged commentaries on the present. We will look at how, across the world and across different registers of knowledge and practice (science, religion, art, literature) transcultural concepts of the end of times confront ideas of possible futures. The Summer School is organised by the Junior Research Group Leaders of the Cluster: Kerstin von Lingen, Daniel Münster, Katja Rakow and Sophie Roche.