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SUMMARY:Colonizing the Future\, Insuring the Individual: Utopian Narrative
  in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna - Dr Clemens Peck (University of Salzburg)
DTSTART:20120220T170000Z
DTEND:20120220T183000Z
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CONTACT:Marie Kolkenbrock
DESCRIPTION:It seems like Viennese Modernism lost no time on the future. B
 ut did the liberal intelligentsia of turn of the century Vienna only retre
 at into decadent gardens and the inner psyche\, as descriptions of cultura
 l history would have it? Focusing on the utopian novels of Theodor Hertzka
 \, Theodor Herzl and Bertha von Suttner the presentation will argue that l
 iberalism opened more than ever before to intellectual investments in the 
 future\, in order to respond to social\, national and Jewish questions. Du
 e to the fact that the cultural emergence of social liberal utopias around
  1900 is based on the marriage of utopia and progress\, it offers new narr
 ative und discursive strategies to the utopian genre: The texts present ne
 ither spatial nor temporal ruptures\, but well prepared expeditions into c
 olonized futures that serve the individualistic agenda of liberalism as an
  experimental field for leveling out social balances.
LOCATION:Grad Seminar Rm\, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg.\, Sidgwick Site
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