Utopia Reading Group

If you’re interested in utopia (or simply looking for a reason to read more fiction), join the Oxford Utopia Reading Group. We read one novel over the course of each term, discussing a few chapters every week. This Michaelmas we will read Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). We’ll meet Friday afternoons at 4 pm in Brasenose College to discuss a few chapters of The Dispossessed. Weekly discussions will be supplemented with short readings by Le Guin, her contemporaries, and their anarchist predecessors on topics drawn from the novel. These topics include anarcha-feminism, fiction, work, time, resistance, and revolution.

View the reading list here: tinyurl.com/utopiamt25

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Email the convener, Sophie Cardin, at sophie.cardin@politics.ox.ac.uk

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