Reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents in Pandemic Times 3 April 2020 Hyeisoo Kim Apparently what is happening now and will happen after this time are utopian / dystopian stories that have already been drawn by our imagination. Every day we see the news of this tragedy playing out […]
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The Huizinga Instituut Working Group on Utopia and Social Dreaming in Connected and Entangled Perspective has formally begun its activities. More on this group can found at: Werkgoep Utopia and Social Dreaming in Connected and Entangled Perspective, 1850 onwards, Europe, Asia and Beyond Our first session will discuss an article by a group member: “The […]
The Utrecht Utopia Network has initiated initiated a Working Group on Utopia and Social Dreaming in Connected and Entangled Perspective, 1850 onwards, Europe, Asia and Beyond. Utopia or social dreaming is place of dreams, a place of the good, and a place which is nowhere to be found: paradox, ambiguity, and janus-facedness are embedded in […]
Dr Benjamin Authers, Flinders University, in this fascinating blog-post: “A Week in the Future begins in Adelaide in 1888. Rather than two years of the quiet and frustratingly coddled life of an invalid, Emily Bethel, with the assistance of a potion provided by her doctor, chooses instead to live for only a week longer, but a […]
First International Workshop for Postgraduate/Research Students on Utopias: Imagining Other Worlds Date: 13-14 December 2018 Venue: Audio-Visual Room, Department of English, UG Arts Building, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Organised by: Centre for Advanced Studies, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University This workshop explored the mobile, cross-cultural nature of utopia. The workshop was led by Dr. Barnita Bagchi, […]
A rich, provocative, rigorous symposium.
Dr Dan Hassler-Forest of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, and Pim van den Berg are both colleagues, comrades, and part of the Utrecht Utopia Network. Here is an article they wrote for the Nederlands Film Festival on Why We Need Utopian Narratives More Than Ever: Why we need utopian narratives more than ever
Symposium: Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: South Asia, Britain, and Beyond, 11 October, Lancaster University Programme 9.30-10.00 Coffee and Registration 10.00-11.00 Introduction to Symposium by Sandra Kemp – followed by provocations and questions on ‘Indo-British Entanglements in the Early 1930s: Social Dreaming, Futures, and Dialogues Across Cultures in Turbulent Times’ by Barnita Bagchi 11.30-13.00 […]
I see a picture of cloth and its textures, with sewing on it. A sampler. The building is Woodbrooke Quaker Centre on Bristol Road, in Selly Oak, Birmingham. A place to which I went two weeks ago, to research in the library and to see the place that two men Rabindranath Tagore, poet, writer, educator, […]
Project: ‘Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: Tagore, Gandhi, and Indo-British Entanglements in the Early 1930s’ Dr. Barnita Bagchi teaches and researches Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. She has been awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to pursue a research project at the Ruskin Library and Research Centre for Culture, landscape, and […]