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Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…
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University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…
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University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
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Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities International Doctoral Workshop funded by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of colonialism, (neo)capitalism, and the climate crisis is imagined in the Humanities through Gothic hauntings.…
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In the “storied seas” of the Anthropocene, water is never merely a backdrop; it is an archive (Oppermann 2019). Its ebb and flow resemble the turning over of eternal epigraphs. The sustained contact between groundwater and surface water over centuries—and indeed, for as long as the earth has existed—has established persistent waterscapes that give life…
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This special issue of AmLit: American Literatures explores the role of 21st-century speculative fiction as a central site for metamodern cultural production in contemporary Anglophone literature and media. Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen define metamodernism “[a]s a structure of feeling that emerged in the 2000s and has become the dominant cultural logic of…
