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SUMMARY:Rethinking Utopia: Fiction\, Science\, Politics
DESCRIPTION:'Utopia' is a fraught term for students and scholars of the 
 20th century. Yet the last few years have seen a push\, as Be
 njamin Kohlmann recently put it\, to "reclaim the value of ut
 opianism while remaining conscious of its potential dangers"
  (Utopian Spaces of Modernism). This roundtable proceeds fro
 m the premise that utopia is\, in a sense\, 'back'—across di
 fferent sub-fields\, but perhaps especially in studies of mod
 ernism and contemporary literature. \n\nSo why utopia? Why no
 w? Our conversation will explore both the "value" and the "p
 otential dangers" of utopianism\, past and present: as politi
 cal agenda\, in sciences of life\, and at the level of narrati
 ve form. In dialogue around Visiting Professor Douglas Mao's
  forthcoming study of utopia\, indignation\, and justice\, we w
 ill consider not only the promise and the perils of utopian 
 projects\, but also the possibility of critical and artistic 
 models that resist the traditional utopia/anti-utopia paradi
 gm.
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