Utopia Heterotopia Dystopia: A 2025 Ring Lecture
SAVAGE PLACES: THE WITCH-THEMED FILM A CRISIS HETEROTOPIA - KENNETH CALHOON Movies such as The Witch and The Blair Witch Project are vulnerable to the social history buried in the utopian conventions with which these films contend. Calhoon clarifies broader connections between our current political moment and the earlier epoch in which those conventions arose? Come and be surprised! UCHRONIA AND ALTERNATE EMPIRES - NATHALIE HESTER What if history had taken a different turn — if the stories of European expansion had unfolded in entirely unexpected ways? Uchronia, coined in analogy to "utopia", offers such alternate chronicles. Wishful thinking or critique? From 17th-century Italian epic poem to a contemporary French novel. Join us to explore…