{"id":661,"date":"2018-11-19T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/?p=661"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:18:37","slug":"interesting-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2018\/11\/19\/interesting-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This event is happening in Sociology but may well be of interest to some of you, especially where a project theme may coincide:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><b>Please find below details of forthcoming Sociology events:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d;font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><b>Utopia Now? New thinking, new practices: David Bell, Lisa Garforth and Adam Stock<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">Wednesday 21 November, 4-6pm, Armstrong Building 2.49<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">Public event \u2013 open to all<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><i>Please join us for a talk about contemporary utopian thought.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">David Bell, Lisa Garforth and Adam Stock will be talking about their recent books which reflect respectively on utopian politics, affect and performative practices; green utopian visions and post-war environmental discourse; and dystopian fiction and political thought. The three speakers share a background in utopian studies and the conversation will also explore issues in contemporary utopian theory, practice and politics.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><b>David Bell<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0is author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Rethinking-Utopia-Place-Power-Affect\/Bell\/p\/book\/9781138891333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect<\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">(Routledge, 2017) and a member of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><i>Out of<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><i>the Woods\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">collective<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><b>Lisa Garforth<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University is author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/politybooks.com\/bookdetail\/?isbn=9780745684734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Green Utopias: Environmental<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: purple\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Hope Before and After Nature\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: purple\">(Polity, 2018)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><b>Adam Stock<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">, Lecturer in English Literature at York St. John, is author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/Modern-Dystopian-Fiction-and-Political-Thought-Narratives-of-World-Politics\/Stock\/p\/book\/9781138101272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Modern Dystopian Fiction and<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: purple\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Political Thought\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: purple\">(Routledge, 2018)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">An\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/gps\/sociology\/research\/imagining-pasts-and-futures\/#themes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: purple\"><i>Imagining Pasts and Futures<\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: black\">cluster event<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This event is happening in Sociology but may well be of interest to some of you, especially where a project theme may coincide: Please find below details of forthcoming Sociology events: \u00a0 Utopia Now? New thinking, new practices: David Bell, Lisa Garforth and Adam Stock Wednesday 21 November, 4-6pm, Armstrong Building 2.49 Public event \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2018\/11\/19\/interesting-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting talk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}