About this Event
Join us for the 18th Annual Conference of the Graduate Centre for Europe at the University of Birmingham. This year's conference, titled "Reframing Dystopia: The Future(s) of Europe," promises a thought-provoking exploration of alternative European futures.
Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you have any barriers to attending, please contact the organising committee at [email protected]. For those attending online, a Zoom link with instructions to join will be sent out shortly before the conference.
Please see the detailed programme below:
Location: Muirhead Tower, 113
10:00-10:05 - Welcome & Opening: Hannah Overton-Gill & Jens Garrelfs (Co-Chairs, University of Birmingham)
10:05-11:35 – Panel A: No Border and the Politics of Reversal – Dystopia as a means to image alternative futures
Marianna Karakoulaki (University of Birmingham) – No borders against the European migratory dystopia.
Amirtha Devarajan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune) – The Poetics and Politics of Reversal in Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots
Isabel Cawthorn (University of Birmingham) – Anti-utopia, regeneration, and origin in Leopoldo Alas “Clarín’s” ‘Cuento futuro’ (1893).
11:35-11:45 – Coffee and tea break
11:45-12:30 – Keynote: Dr Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham) – TBD
12:30-13:15 – Lunch break
13:15-14:45 – Panel B: Exclusion and integration – Populist rhetoric, youth engagement and multi-level integration
Ankita Baadkar (University of Birmingham) – Fostering Hope: Encouraging Youth in Europe and Embracing Digital Advancement for a Better Future.
Ximing Yang (University of Birmingham) – The dynamics of multi-level integration in federalism: recommendations for the future trajectory of European integration.
Nouzha Baba (University of Leiden) – At the Intersection of Populism, Nationalism and Islamophobia: Towards an Exclusionary European Rhetoric.
14:45-15:15 – Coffee and tea break
15:15-16:15 – Panel C: Anti-Utopia, Wild Utopia and the Utopian We: Conceptualising alternative European future(s)
Katie Unwin (University of Cambridge) – Wild Utopias: Human Non-human Configurations of the Future in Contemporary German Literature
Julien Clin (University of Kingston) – Defining the Utopian We: Whose Future Are We Talking About?
16:15-16:30 – Closing (Hannah Overton-Gill & Jens Garrelfs (Co-Chairs, University of Birmingham).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Birmingham, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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