Upcoming

Launch Event: Paperback Edition of Becoming Utopian - Autumn 2022 (details forthcoming)

Keynote: “Becoming Utopian: the Challenge(s) of Utopian Subjectivity in Dystopian Times”

Conference on “Dystopian Realities and Utopian Agency: Alternative Futures for Academic Practice,” British Educational Research Association, University of Sheffield, 25 February 2021.

This event is being rescheduled from original date of Thursday, February 25 2021
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PAST EVENTS

Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Featured Keynote:
“Becoming Utopian: Exploring the Praxis of Making a Better World”

Conference on “Globalisation and New Terrains of Consciousness: Phenomenology is of The Global /Local /Glocal,” Department of English. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in collaboration with Department of English and American Studies. University of Würzburg, 9-10 February 2021.

Video replay

Friday, 29 January 2021

Roundtable on Becoming Utopian
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Literature: with Rafaella Baccolini, Caroline Edwards, Heather McKnight, Tim Waterman.

Video replay
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Friday, 15 January 2021, at 5:30 PM GMT

Keynote Panel of Dystopia:
Living in the End Times Conference (Cappadocia)

Conference Website: https://blog.kapadokya.edu.tr/akademik/ingiliz-dili-ve-edebiyati/international-conference-living-in-the-end-times-utopian-and-dystopian-representations-of-pandemics-in-fiction-film-and-culture.

4-5 December 2020
Invited

“Reconsidering Dystopia in Dark(er) Times,” dialogue with Raffaella Baccolini and Ildney Cavalcanti,  Diálogos Fantástikos Symposium (Fantástika 451), Literatura and Utopia Conference, San Paulo,

Friday, 13 November 2020

Society for Utopian Studies Virtual Roundtable:
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation & the Current Moment

A roundtable with Pete Sands, Rhiannon Firth, Darren Webb, Ildney Cavalcanti, Rita Montecelli, Ibtisam Ahmed, and Hoda Zaki, discussing pedagogy and praxis, politics and process, in response to the publication of Tom Moylan’s new book, Becoming Utopian (Bloomsbury 2020).

You can view a recording of the Roundtable discussion and Tom Moylan’s response by clicking here: