We held a Dystopia Season at the Rumble Museum from April 25th to mid July 2022. To celebrate our Dystopian Fiction Collection, we organised a range of events including Thursday morning breakfast talks, workshops, projects and film viewings.
For the duration of the season, our front reception cabinet displayed items from our dystopian collections, so do drop into Cheney School main reception to take a look!
Our Thursday morning breakfast talks are listed below, and were available to all students in Year Eight and Nine.
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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28th April
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Dr Aidan Power, University of Exeter
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Dystopias in film
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5th May
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Professor Matthew Beaumont, University College London
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‘Utopia, Dystopia and the City’
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12th May
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Dr Anna MacFarlane, University of Leeds
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Feminism and Dystopias: What would a feminist future look like?
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19th May
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Dr Caroline Edwards
Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature
Birkbeck, University of London
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“Can dystopian fiction help us understand the climate emergency?”
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26th May
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Dr Adam Stock, York St John University
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Politics and dystopian fiction
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