CFP: PAMLA-panel: Dystopia and Utopia in Contemporary German Literature and Film (15. April 2021)
CFP: Dystopia and Utopia in Contemporary German Literature and Film [PAMLA, Virtual Panel] [15. April 2021]
CFP: Dystopia and Utopia in Contemporary German Literature and Film [PAMLA, Virtual Panel] [15. April 2021]
Keynote speakers: Larissa Lai, Maggie Gee, Kim Stanley Robinson, Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini, and Elizabeth Outka
Description:
“The abandoned towers in the distance are like the coral of an ancient reef- bleached and colourless, devoid of life. There still is life, however. Birds chirp; sparrows, they must be…Do they notice that quietness, the absence of motors? If so, are they happier?” (Atwood, 2009, pg. 3).
Essay by Darko Suvin on the occasion of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. This essay is being jointly published by the Society for Utopian Studies and the Utopian Studies Society (Europe) on their respective internet channels.
Utopists,
Just passing on news of a new book by our very own Carter Hanson of Valparaiso University.
His fine book, Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature, has just been published by Routledge.
Congrats, Carter!
Utopists,
H/t to Peter Fitting: enjoy this reading list of Verso books with a future-and-utopia orientation:
Dear Colleague,
Call for Papers on the theme "The Location of Utopia"
Utopists,
Enjoy this podcast on Italian Renaissance utopias from Peter Adamson's History of Philosopy Without Any Gaps site:
https://historyofphilosophy.net/italian-utopias
H/t to John Barberet for the link.