0479 - Address Nowhere, Utopia
Course Description
Since its inception the concept of Utopia, derived from the Greek "ou-topos" and/or "eu-topos," has been associated with "no place" and "beautiful place," respectively. In either or both cases, the politics of utopia have centered on spatial coordinates: the arrival, or the impossibility of arrival, at a frontier beyond which lies a perfect society, freed from the troubles that mark history. In this talk, we will consider a utopia of process, one located not in an imagined geography, but in time or change itself, a utopia of no fixed locale that we all nonetheless inhabit (or could inhabit), and consider its implications for a politics of process over a politics of destinations.
Instructor
Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories, and Ghost Geographies: Fictions, along with a limited-run collaborative work with artist Allan Kausch, 5 Mishaps. Siege 13 won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for both the Governor General's Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Dobozy has published over ninety short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta; won an O Henry Prize in 2011, the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014, with a shortlisting and honorable mention again in 2022; and appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories in 2017 and 2023. His scholarly work—on music, utopianism, American literature, the short story, and post-structuralism—have appeared in journals such as Canadian Literature, Genre, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Mosaic, and Modern Fiction Studies, among others. He has also published chapters in peer-reviewed anthologies published by Routledge, University of Nebraska Press, University of South Carolina Press, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Location
Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, Community Pavilion (101 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, ON)
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Parking is free.
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Download the facility map (PDF) to find facilities and parking lots.
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Check Grand River Transit for public transit locations, times and fees
Notes
- Lecture Time : 130-300 pm
- Lecture Cost: $14.00 + HST
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Participants must register for the class before the start date of the course. There will be no opportunity for purchase the day the class begins.
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Laurier’s online registration system accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Visa Debit, and MasterCard Debit.
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You will only be able to purchase 1 seat at the time of registration. If looking to register more than 1 person, each registrant will require their own account to complete the registration.
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Lectures are non-refundable
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Contact
Please email lall@wlu.ca with any questions