Apocalypse & the Anthropocene - 1 Week

Tu+Fri, 6-8pm ET
4 week, March 11- April 11,

(break week of March 23)

Seeing real and imagined climate disasters, warfare, infectious diseases, and even zombie invasions, we absorb a steady stream of information about civilization’s collapse. This course examines representations of apocalypse in order to understand the cultural history and colonial politics of widespread anxiety about the end-times. We will analyze apocalypse films along with critical readings from indigenous studies, afrofuturism, environmental humanities, and zombie studies.

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Instructor: Leila Christine Nadir is an Afghan-American educator, writer, and Associate Professor at the University of Rochester where she founded one of the first environmental humanities academic programs in the US. She researches geopolitical, environmental, and colonial violence, and holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.