Marco Brambilla in Conversation

Marco Brambilla will present ‘After Utopia’ in conversation with Professor Peter Boxall, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, Oxford University.

Brambilla’s After Utopia is exhibited in the Great Hall until 31st December 2026.

About Utopia Now! Conference

This international conference sets out to explore the possibility of utopian imagining today, at a time when many of our social, political and environmental conditions are in crisis.

The conference brings together writers and thinkers from across disciplines, to produce a mobile critical picture of the condition of utopian thought now. The keynotes (Ali Smith, Kiran Desai, Homi Bhabha) bring literary fiction into dialogue with philosophy and critical theory. The panels bring together thinkers from the environmental humanities, the medical humanities, linguistics, film studies, literary studies and political theory, among other disciplinary formations.

In exploring the possibility of utopian thought today, the conference will offer a fresh reflection on the ways in which our aesthetic, critical and discursive forms are able to summon pictures of a better world.

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