DYSTOPIA TODAY
The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalyse network are hosting an event on ‘Dystopia Today’ with Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).

What does it mean to say, as so many now do, that we live in “dystopian” times? With widespread anxiety introduced by Brexit, the Trump presidency, and comparisons with Hitler, and the 1930s, and environmental catastrophe looming, are we on the cusp of a new dystopia? Gregory Claeys considers what dystopia means to us, how the literary tradition helps us to engage with it, and what to do about it.

Greg Claeys is the author of the recently published Dystopia: A Natural History.
Date: 27 April 2017, 13:15 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speaker: Professor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address: audrey.borowski@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Laura Spence, Audrey Borowski