{"id":3207,"date":"2022-12-07T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:10:42","slug":"utopian-openings-and-closings-the-covid-pandemic-and-its-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/utopian-openings-and-closings-the-covid-pandemic-and-its-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopian Openings and Closings: The COVID Pandemic and its Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Utopian Openings and Closings: The COVID Pandemic and its Aftermath | CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcnTa37Nrg8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this conversation, it will be explored from an ethical and utopian perspective our current global challenges and their (im)possible solutions in light of these hopes and missed opportunities since the early months of the pandemic. As our timeline lines up one dystopian scene after another\u2014the pandemic, the war, the energy crisis, the rise of authoritarianism\u2014(pop)\u00a0<span class=\"il\">culture<\/span>\u00a0and literature have turned to utopian thought to grapple with a crisis-ridden world. On screen, for example, shows like The Good Place (2016-2020) or Severence (2022-) insist on the ethics of personal choice in the everyday as an inflection point for larger utopian (and dystopian) implications. In the same vein, Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her post-capitalist utopia Always Coming Home (1985): \u201cAccidents happened to people, but what people did they were responsible for.\u201d As humanities scholars, the conversation will be drawing on the utopian imagination to ask how we may help usher in a livable\u00a0<span class=\"il\">future<\/span>\u00a0through a critical engagement with the now.<\/p>\n<p>The theme will be presented and discussed by:\u00a0Manuel Sousa Oliveira (he\/him) (co-host), University of Porto \/ CETAPS<br \/>\nTobias Annamalay Jochum (he\/him) (co-host), JFKI \/ FU Berlin<br \/>\n<strong>Guest speakers<\/strong>:\u00a0Julia Gibson (they\/she), Antioch University and\u00a0Rhiannon Firth (she\/her), UCL Institute of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this conversation, it will be explored from an ethical and utopian perspective our current global challenges and their (im)possible solutions in light of these hopes and missed opportunities since the early months of the pandemic. As our timeline lines up one dystopian scene after another\u2014the pandemic, the war, the energy crisis, the rise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[27],"area-tag":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","tag-cultures-of-the-future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"area-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area-tag?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}