災難（Disaster）
Disaster in Speculative Fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
Speculative fictions allow the imagination of alternative histories and possibilities, extending contemporary hopes and fears for apocalyptic change beyond what appear to be existing realities.
臆想小說（科幻、奇幻、恐怖小說）中的災難：
臆想小說作家虛擬另類的歷史事件發展與其衍生的可能狀況，超越現實的情境，延伸人們對於末世巨變所抱持的恐懼與期望。此部分館藏包含小說與相關之學術研究與評論著作。
Historic Disasters
How specific “natural” or man-made disasters have been experienced, coped with, and remembered, becoming models for understanding, averting, and dreading future catastrophes.
歷史中的災難：
歷史上人們如何經歷、應付、回憶特定的「自然」與人為災害，這些經歷如何變成某種模式，讓人們理解、試著閃避、卻也持續恐懼未來的災難。
War
Humans so far have imagined warfare as the peak of their deliberate violence and intentional destruction of the lived environment, with nuclear war as its possible ultimate extension. On the other hand, human history also witnesses the role of conflict in the development of society and the development of the nation-state from time periods marked by warfare and violence.
戰爭：
歷史上人們一直想像戰爭是對於生命與生存環境存心施暴與刻意破壞的極致情境，而核子戰爭是這個情境的最終延伸。此部分的館藏包括（想像與真實發生的）核戰、第一、第二次世界大戰、美國內戰與重建、英國革命與內戰等主題。另一方面，人類歷史也見證了，戰禍與暴力橫行的時代裡，衝突也是西方社會與國族國家發展的推手。
Genocide
The experience and imagination of destruction visited on particular human communities, aimed at their biological extermination or cultural erasure.
種族屠滅：
此處實際與想像中破壞的對象其標的為特定人類社群，意在滅絕其生命與抹除其文化。
Terrorism
Political violence usually defined as stateless, which may be seen as an existential threat to civilization. If the state form is taken for granted and valorized it, terrorism can be represented as its pure negation, while revolution can sometimes be valued as its re-founding.
恐怖主義：
此類政治暴力通常被視作是不屬於國家，甚至對於文明的存續造成威脅。如果國家的形式被視為是理所當然而予以尊崇，恐怖主義就是對其全然的否定，但革命卻又被當成是國家重新建立的手段而受重視。除了提供關於恐怖主義的各式討論，本館藏特別針對9/11恐怖攻擊與當代全球化的情境蒐羅許多資料。
The Native American Experience and the Imagination of Disaster
American communities had already experienced population collapses, cultural destructions, and reconstructions before European contact, and some featured narratives of repeated destruction and re-creation in their mythologies. Since contact they have lived constantly the intertwined experiences of genocide and ethnogenesis.
北美原住民經驗與災難想像：
美洲原住民社群在與歐洲接觸之前已經歷過人口銳減、文化崩毀與重建，與這些不斷重複的毀滅與重建相關的敘事成為其神話的重要特色。而在接觸之後，原住民又總是活在種族屠滅與族群重生的交錯經驗當中。
Disaster and South Asian Diaspora since Colonialism
Colonial oppression, partition of the Indian subcontinent, and postcolonial ethnic conflicts and civil war have induced the South Asian experience of displacement from their native land and their ensuing dispersal across the world.
殖民時代以來的南亞災難與離散：
對於生態浩劫可能威脅到人類文化與生命的存續，這樣的恐懼近來廣泛蔓延，因為人類有此能力，甚至甘願讓它發生，一切變得更加勢不可免。
疾病（Disease）
Epidemic Disease
Disease experienced or imagined as threatening the survival of entire human populations, or that of their social organizations and cultures.
流行傳染病：
無論真實經歷或想像的疾病都被認為能夠威脅全人類的存續，也可能連帶摧毀人類的社會組織與文化。
Late Antiquity, Medieval, and Renaissance Medicine and Disease
These texts consider the development of medicine in response to disease, the effects of the Black Death, and the beginnings of the scientific method.
古代晚期、中古時期與文藝復興時期之醫藥與疾病：
在人類歷史現代時期開始前的一千餘年裡，醫藥隨著疾病而發展，中古時期則見證黑死病的肆虐與醫療與其對抗的努力，而現代科學研究方法也隨之發軔。
Biopolitics
At fewer moments in human history are the human body and its physical conditions directly exposed to political consideration and technical management than when disasters (especially epidemic diseases) strike and render the living conditions precarious. Philosophical and theoretical discussions of the related issues proliferate along with the rising awareness of survival crisis in the modern age.
生命政治：
人類歷史中，少有情境如災難（尤其是傳染病）來襲並威脅生命狀況的時刻一般，徹底地揭露人體及其生理狀況直接暴露在政治考量與技術控管當中。隨著現代面臨存續危機的意識高漲，對於相關議題的哲學與理論思辯也隨之衍生擴散。
末世想像（Apocalyptic Imagination）
Millennialism & Messianism
End times seen more as promise than threat: the disruption of degraded secular existence by transcendent energy that promises redemption to whatever is worthy of redemption.
千禧年思維與救世主想像：
時間的終結有時更會被想像成是應許，而非威脅：期待超越的力量打破傾頹的俗世，應許能夠救贖任何還值得救贖的一切。這樣的思維是如何發軔於有關基督教聖經的詮釋與想像中，而這樣想像又如何在文學藝術中呈現出來。
Ecological Catastrophe
The fear of ecological catastrophe’s potential threat to human cultural and biological survival becomes more prevalent as our capacity and apparent willingness to bring it about become more inescapable.
生態浩劫：
對於生態浩劫可能威脅到人類文化與生命的存續，這樣的恐懼近來廣泛蔓延，因為人類有此能力，甚至甘願讓它發生，一切變得更加勢不可免。
Aftermath: Survival, Wreckage and Ruins
The record, representation, and conception of what follows disaster—cleaning up, rebuilding, or accepting decay. Fascination with the sublimity of ruins, and disaster as tourist spectacle.
浩劫過後：
災難之後所做的紀錄、再現、懷想；是清理、重建，還是接受、漠視傾頹的一切？廢墟的莊嚴肅穆令人著迷，而災難也可能成為被參訪的奇觀。
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