MA Student Conference and Movie Festival Dystopian Fest
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iCal calendarThe students of the MA Programme in Comparative Literature and Cultural Semiotics and the MA Programme in Anthropology present the graduate conference "Rethinking the Dystopian Imaginary. From Zamyatin’s We to The Hunger Games" and a festival of dystopian movies.
The graduate conference takes place on 20 January 2017 in room M-649 and the movie festival on 21-23 January 2017.
Everyone is welcome to attend the conference and the movie festival. Registration is not needed.
Graduate conference
The student conference grew out of the Seminar in Comparative Literature coordinated by Prof. Daniele Monticelli which took place in the Autumn semester 2016 and focused on canonical and contemporary dystopian fiction and its interpretation in the light of multidisciplinary approaches such as Hobbes’s theory of sovereignty, Foucault’s and Agamben’s theories of (bio)power, Arendt’s understanding of totalitarianism, Irigaray’s feminism, etc.
The seminar’s discussions considered the place of freedom, security and happiness in society, the relations between power and life, the individual and the collective, emotions and rationality, humanity and its rights, the past and the future, dystopia and utopia. The conference papers will investigate these and other topics focusing on a long series of dystopian and sci-fi novels and movies.
Please find the conference programme HERE
Programme of the movie festival
21 January, room M-213
17:00
Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)
20:00
Alphaville (1965, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
22 January, room M-213
17:00
Brazil (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam)
20:00
Blade Runner (1982, dir. Ridley Scott)
23 January, room A-543
17:00
Her (2013, dir. Spike Jonze)
19:30
Dogville (2003, dir. Lars von Trier)
More information about the movies HERE
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Contact:
Tsisia Solomnishvili