At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present
Current events
Lecture: "Teknologisk trossprång" – Amanda Lagerkvist, 7 April
Symposium: Den eviga apokalypsen – fyra samtal om mänsklighetens undergång, 10 April 2024.
This symposium – organized by the Royal Society of Letters and the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund – features program scholars Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Blaženka Scheuer, Johannes Stripple and Jayne Svenungsson.
From the Archive . . .
Examples of articles, book chapters and other texts related to the program, written by our reserachers:
- “Domedagen har aldrig varit lika nära” by Marie Cronqvist in Svenska Dagbladet (23 January 2023)
- "Millenarianism" by Jayne Svenungsson, in St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
- Multilple entries in the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology by David Dunér.
- For many, many more examples, see here.
Webinar iv: The Heavenly Jerusalem in Medieval Imagery and Imagination
16:00–17:30 (Stockholm time), 7 May 2024. Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65667016322
In the fourth webinar of the At the End of the World research program’s series, Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland and Lena Liepe will examine the various forms that the idea of the Heavenly Jerusalem took in medieval thought, with particular focus on medieval church art. The earthly Jerusalem was the principal locus of divine intervention in human history, while the future reality of the Heavenly Jerusalem, where the saved would rejoice eternally after the end of time, reached into the present of this world and was sacramentally actualized every celebration of Mass. Aavital repertoire of the Last Judgement and the Heavenly Jerusalem; Aavistland will present the concept of the Jerusalem Code, recently explored in a large research project of the same name: Liepe will outline the medieval idea of the physical church building as an image of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Image Credits
John Martin. The Great Day of His Wrath. Painting (oil on canvas), c. 1851.
Dasha Urvachova. Kid's shoe at kindergarden in Chernobyl. Photograph, 2020.
Unknown artist. The Celestial Jerusalem, detail. Tapestry from Château d'Angers, 14th century.