Dr Emrah Atasoy, 'Utopian & Dystopian Portrayals of the Future: Contemporary Türkiye'

On 17 February 2023, CLIC welcomes Dr. Emrah Atasoy who will give a talk on “Utopian & Dystopian Portrayals of the Future: Contemporary Türkiye”. This talk is part of the EUTOPIA European University exchange and is co-organised with the Postgraduate Student Platform WOLEC (Werkgroep Literatuur en Cultuur). 

 

Abstract

This talk offers a contextual survey of speculative fiction and the phenomenon of future-oriented “social dreaming” in contemporary Türkiye and Turkish literature. Futuristic narratives and relevant scholarship on entangled futurities will be explained and discussed to provide a critical lens into today’s world. This interdisciplinary event will be of interest across the humanities and social sciences, including architecture, geography, history, media studies, cultural studies, politics/IR, and sociology.

Bio 

Emrah Atasoy, an Associate Professor of English, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He served as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English Language and Literature between September 2021 and September 2022 as a recipient of the TUBITAK 2019 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant. He is the author of the monograph Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia (Nobel, 2021). His work appeared in journals such as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (with Marta Komsta), Studies in the Novel (with Thomas Horan), Utopian Studies, Librosdelacorte.es, Literary Voice, Methis. Studia Humaniora Estonica, SFRA Review, and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He also contributed chapters to The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia: Intersectional, Feminist, and Non-Binary Approaches in 21st-Century Speculative Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2021) and Speculations of War: Essays on Conflict in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopian Literature (McFarland, 2021). He is currently co-editing the forthcoming volume Entangled Futurities: Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown (Routledge, planned for 2023).