Call for papers open until September 19, 2016
The research unit CHAM-Azores is organizing a conference to celebrate the 500 years of Thomas More’s Utopia. The conference, entitled FRONTIERS OF UTOPIA: HISTORY AND IMAGINATION, seeks to encourage discussion on Thomas More, his time and his work, including the influence Utopia has had over subsequent texts.
The main theme suggests a focus on one of the chief characteristics of the concept of utopia, i.e. the reconciliation of opposite forces: history and fiction, past and future, real and imaginary places, conformity and wishful thinking, equality and social asymmetry, among others. Participants are therefore invited to investigate the many meanings inscribed in the idea of frontier – borderland, outpost, transition zone, intersection point.
Organization Committee
Ana Cristina Correia Gil (CHAM)Duarte Nuno Chaves (CHAM)
Leonor Sampaio da Silva (CHAM)
Scientific Committee
Ana Maria Martinho (CHAM)Fátima Vieira (CETAPS / FL/UP | FCSH/NOVA)
João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (CHAM)
Joaquim Romero Magalhães
Luís Andrade (CHAM)
Margarida Vaz do Rego Machado (CHAM)
Maria do Rosário Monteiro (CHAM)
Nuno Senos (CHAM)
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
Collaboration
ICPD
Associação «O Colectivo»
Call for Papers (Port.)(.pdf)
Poster(.pdf)
Programme(.pdf)
Invitation(.pdf)
Youtube(Web)
