During the seminar the following lectures are provided:

Utopia/Dystopia: Problems and Definitions;

The Literary Dystopia 1792-1948;

Postcapitalist utopias and media;

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four;

Dystopia Today: 1950-2017.

Lectures will be delivered by:

Gregory Claeys, Professor of Royal Holloway, London University. Author of monographs: Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism (Princeton University Press, 1987), Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought (Unwin Hyman, 1989); The French Revolution Debate in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Mill and Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Editor of The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Olga Dzumailo, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and History of World Literature of the Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication of SFedU.