The Uses of Utopia: A Symposium and Celebration on the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia
with support from the School of Arts and Humanities Graduate-Led Conference Scheme and Somerset House
Sunday, 26 June 2016 at Clare College &
The Round Church (Cambridge)
and
Friday, 1 July 2016 at Somerset House (London)
In Archæologies of the Future, Fredric Jameson wonders: “can we invent a way of reading Thomas More's Utopia (1516) so as to recover something of the shock and freshness of its elegant new Latin for the first European readers?” This symposium is both interdisciplinary investigation provoked by this question, and a celebratory reading for the 500th anniversary of More’s text.
Confirmed Speakers
David M. Bell (Newcastle)
Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway)
Jonah Coe-Scharff (Cambridge)
Davina Cooper (Kent Law School)
John Guy (Cambridge)
Nicholas Johnson (visual artist)
Sarah Lohmann (Durham)
Edwin van Meerkerk (Radboud)
Laura Scalabrella Spada (University College London)
Cam Scott (poet and sound artist)
Cathy Shrank (Sheffield)
Tessa Smith (Humboldt)
Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge)
Visual Artists
Jonny Briggs
Declan Jenkins
Nicholas Johnson
Composer
Louis d'Heudieres
Singers
Rosalind Dobson, soprano
Leilani Barratt, mezzo-soprano
Benedict Collins Rice, tenor
Robbie Haylett, baritone
Schedule
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Registration
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Questions? Email utopiaconferencecambridge@gmail.com .
Symposium
Old Court, Clare College, Cambridge
10 am - 5:30 pm
Registration £ 40 / 20 -- register here
Fee includes symposium talks, lunch, and evening concert
Concert
Round Church on Bridge Street, Cambridge
7:30 pm
Tickets £ 10 / 5 -- reserve tickets here
Concert free for all symposium participants
Somerset House Performance
Friday, 1 July 2016
Performances at 11 am, 2 pm, and 4 pm
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Please find us at the Utopia Treasury at Somerset House, which is in the Great Arch Hall, easily accessible at the ground level from the Victoria Embankment entrance to the building. www.utopia2016.com
Accessibility: We apologise that the Thirkill Room can only be accessed via a flights of stairs. The Round Church has a ramped entrance and is equipped with a wheelchair accessible restroom. Please contact us for any other information regarding the accessibility of the spaces.
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