EVENTS: April 11-20, 2006 Lecture series:
UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN MODERN LITERATURE
Dr Ian Haywood (Roehampton University, London)
11 April,
Tuesday 14:30, American corner, room 501, New Building
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (1726) and PIERRE BOULLE, PLANET OF THE APES (1964)
14 April,
Friday 10:30, American corner, room 501, New Building
H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau
(1896)
18 April, Tuesday, 14:30, American corner, room 501, New
Building
‘An
all super-singing, synthetic-talking, coloured, stereoscopic feely’
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
20 April, Thursday, 13:30, American corner, room 501, New
Building
NINETEEN EIGHTY
FOUR (1949)
The lecture series will be
exploring Utopia and Dystopia based on both
the literary texts and screen adaptations / films.
The next lecture series will
take place between 25 May and 5 June 2006.
Topics will include: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit
451; Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange;
Philip K. Dick, Bladerunner; Angela
Carter, Heroes and Villains; Margaret Attwood, The
Handmaid’s Tale; William Gibson, Neuromancer