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Utopia, Dystopia, and the Problem of Technology

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Thursday, April 19, 2012
All Day
English Dept working group on Political Theory

This year¿s lecturers include Peter Stillman (Vassar College); Claire Curtis (University of Charleston); Phil Wegner (University of Florida); Priscilla Wald (Duke University) and Amy Sturgis (Lenoir-Rhyne University; Science Fiction author).Professors Stillman and Curtis teach political science at their respective schools. Professor Stillman has a focus on modern political philosophy since 1500, especially ecological thought and utopian political theory. Professor Curtis¿ interests lie in studies of utopia and dystopia, as well as the intersections between political philosophy and fiction. English professor Phil Wegner¿s subjects include contemporary literature and film, twentieth-century culture, genre theory, utopian fiction, literary theory, cultural studies, Marxism, spatial theory, globalization, and science fiction. Priscilla Wald is Duke University¿s professor of English and Women¿s Studies. Her specialties lie in American Literature; Literature and Medicine; Literature and Science; Literature and Law; science and new media; and race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity.North Carolinian writer Amy Sturgis specializes in SF and Native American Studies. She has published an array of essays on subjects such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Firefly and Fringe. Sturgis also wrote books on Native American and presidential history.Sponsored by the English Department and the Working Group on Political Theory, and the Political Science Department's Gerst Program.

Contact: Rebecca Gibson