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Fredric Jameson and Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change & Utopia |
| Start Date: | 3/1/2007 |
| End Date: | 3/1/2007 |
| Event Time: | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Title: | Fredric Jameson and Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change & Utopia |
| Location: | |
| Other Location: | deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building |
| Event Category: | Lectures/Seminars -Art & Humanities |
| Sponsor: | Clarion Workshop, UCSD Dept of Literature & Div of Arts & Humanities |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| Admission Cost: | Free |
| Contact Name: | Don Wayne |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-4618 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | dwayne@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Fredric Jameson and Kim Stanley Robinson on CLIMATE CHANGE, DYSTOPIA, AND THE NECESSITY OF UTOPIA A colloquium sponsored by the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, the UCSD Department of Literature, and the UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities Fredric Jameson is the William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. Among his many influential books concerning modernism, postmodernism, and Marxist theory, is his important study of the relationship between utopia and science fiction, Archaeologies of the Future (Verso, 2005). Kim Stanley Robinson is a UCSD alumnus, a member of the board of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, and the award-winning author of major works in science fiction. His many books include the “Mars Trilogy”: Red Mars (Harper-Collins, 1992), Green Mars (Harper-Collins, 1994), Blue Mars (Harper-Collins, 1996), and a more recent trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain (Bantam, 2004), Fifty Degrees Below (Bantam, 2005), and the soon-to-be-released Sixty Days and Counting (Bantam, 2007). Free and open to the public. |
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