Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

3/1/1981 - 11/30/1981

Funding Totals

$7,500.00 (approved)
$5,414.00 (awarded)


1948-84: Visions of Apocalypse in the Post-War Era

FAIN: GP-*0910-81

Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)
John P. Roche (Project Director: March 1981 to October 1990)

To support a symposium on various apolacyptic scenarios, from Orwell's "1984", written in 1948, to the present. Papers will be given on topics ranging from the new-Malthusianism, nuclear war, the progress (or lack of thereof) of totalitarianism, to the energy crisis.