About

This ongoing event series is built around the relation between bodies and imaginings/imagings of the future, and asks the following questions:

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• How do bodies come to represent the future, i.e. why does so much cultural discourse about the future of humanity hinge on the body? 

• What anxieties and hopes are inscribed on imagined embodiments of the future?

• What happens at the intersection of gender, race, and technology in representations of these embodiments? 

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In a variety of formats that are open to all, our aim is to create a space for a discourse that makes room for a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, ranging from questions of queering to cybercultural examinations of the politics of body, and spanning the width of textual genres and media.

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These events are organized by Hannah Schoch and Morgane A. Ghilardi, who are both enrolled in the UZH English Department's doctoral program, and are kindly supported by the doctoral program.