Fantasy Public Lecture series by Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Fantasy, Brian Attebery (Idaho State University)
Professor Attebery will deliver five public lectures on fantasy, on topics ranging from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Harry Potter books, and from the Anthropocene to utopias and collaborative imagination.
Fantasy at Glasgow
Date: Monday 21 January 2019 - Monday 04 March 2019
Time: 17:30
Venue: Fore Hall
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor Brian Attebery
- 21 January 2019: Burning Harry Potter and Other Ways of Misreading Fantasy
- 28 January 2019: Young Adult Dystopias and Utopias
- 4 February 2019: Fairy Tales and Masculinity
- 11 February 2019: Science Fictional Parabolas: Collaborative Imagination
- 4 March 2019: Fantasy and the Anthropocene: From Gilgamesh to the Ruins of Ymr