The term ‘utopia’ was coined by the English lawyer and scholar Thomas More
and means ‘a place that doesn’t exist’. From this point in the early 16th
century, the concept of the utopia grew and this discussion, to be attended by
eminent writers and philosophers, aims to trace the volatile development of
utopian literature.
Moderated by Boris Kupriyanov, this event will consider questions such as, how
did literature influence the social models of society? How did the genre
change, reacting to the political events of history? What are the
characteristics of Russian utopia? What explains the revival of the genre in
the 20th and 21st centuries?
