1

 19/09

Programme presentation. Bibliographic references.

Exploring the concept of culture.

2

 26/09

 City: questioning the concept.

Reading: Miles, Cities and Cultures, 2007

3

 03/10

The city: a diachronic perspective

Reading: Ackroyd, London the Biography, 2000 (excerpts)

Oral presentation themes distribution.

10/10

Uotpia and utopianism studies

4

 17/10

Imagined cities

The rise of utopian writing. Reading of Thomas More’s Utopia.

5

 24/10

Rural and urban spaces in 16th-century England.

The impact of the Scientific Revolution. Reading Francis Bacon, New Atlantis.

Oral presentations.

6

31/10

The rise of the urban phenomenon. The impact of industrialisation.

Reading: Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution, 2003.

Oral presentations

7

07/11

Imagined cities.

Dystopia and Science fiction – exploration of the concepts

Reading: Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster”;

Oral presentations

8

14/11

Imagined cities.

Dystopia and Science fiction – exploration of the concepts

Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre,

Oral presentations

9

 21/11

Reading: Huxley, Brave New World, 1932.

Oral presentations

10

 28/11

Reading: Huxley, Brave New World, 1932.

Oral presentations

11

05/12

     Reading: Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.  

Oral presentations                          

12

12/12

          Reading: Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.         

      Oral presentations                 

13

19/12

                                Oral Presentations