This seminar proposes to examine utopian writing and film from South Asia and its diasporas (and utopian writing and film highly influenced by or connected closely to South Asia) in a comparative perspective. While in 2016 we celebrate 500 years of the publication of More’s Utopia, Sargent and Dutton argued in their Introduction to Utopian […]
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Tomorrow. Open to all in Lancaster. 3.30-5.30 pm. Utopia, history and the future Part of the series: History and the Future Institute for Social Futures Where: Meeting Room 1, ground floor FASS Building Speakers: Adam Stock, York St John University Barnita Bagchi, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) Maddi Nicholson and Stuart Bastik (Art Gene), Barrow […]
Between February and April 2017, Leonie Brasser, Alice Lambert, Laurence Schaack and Martijn van Gils followed a masterclass with Barnita Bagchi as part of their RMA in Comparative Literary Studies. In this masterclass, the students explored how the transcultural plays out in speculative writing. Beginning with an overview of utopian studies, the students decided to […]
Urbanity in the Vernacular: Narrating the City in Modern South Asian Literatures Hans Harder Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, Vol. 70 Issue 2 (May 2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2015-0054 Abstract This article explores some facets of literary urbanity in modern South Asian literatures such as Urdu, Bengali, Hindi and Marathi. Taking the proliferation of megacity research in […]
For the last five years, I have been able to infect a number of our Utrecht University literature students, at BA and RMA levels, with enthusiasm for research on utopia and dystopia, with a focus on Transcultural Utopia. You will find details about some of the work I supervised under the blogpost The New Utopians: Humanities […]
The utopian sense of breaking with utopian fantasy in the video game Herald Pim van den Berg In video games the sailing ship has almost always been a symbol of exploration, possibility, autonomy, freedom, wealth, and power and hegemony in the positive sense – until now. The video game Herald (2017), developed by the small […]
In 2015, a group of Utrecht University Humanities Honours students conducted a project entitled ‘The New Utopians’ under the aegis of the Honours Research seminar. The students were Sophie Bijleveld, Idwer Boersma, Anne Marijn Damstra, Aster Hoving, Wouter Johan van Leeuwen, Solange Manche, David van Oeveren, and Tessel Janse, supervised by Dr Barnita Bagchi. Here […]
“The Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia Press has just published Utopía 500 Años, which is not just a book that honors Thomas More’s major work but, undoubtedly, one of the main academic contributions launched in the 500th anniversary of a text that discovers a voice and settles it for good in the history of modern ideas. […]
“This joint Cemore|T2M|Cosmobilities conference will bring together historians, researchers, artists, policy-makers, designers, and innovators to explore Mobile Utopia: pasts, presents, futures. The Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore) at Lancaster University, the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) and the Cosmobilities Network have joined together to invite contributions across the spectrum […]
In July 2016, a collaborative international workshop on Urban Futures, Urban Utopias: Narative, Play, and Planning took place in Kolkata, at the intiative of Barnita Bagchi, Paola Monachesi, and Achin Chakraborty. Sujaan Mukherjee of Jadavpur University,Kolkata wrote a wonderful report about this event, to be found at Conference: Urban Futures and Urban Utopia in South […]