Review of our edited book in the journal Anglia (DeGruyter2025).Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (eds). 2025. Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown. Routledge. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

As the section editor for Utopian/Dystopian Studies, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction at Literary Encyclopedia, I am looking for potential contributors to write on the following: Coverage of important sci-fi/ speculative fiction writers and specific works: Philip K. Dick;

Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources

Review of our book Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown (Routledge) is out in the journal Apocalyptica, University of Heidelberg, Germany heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo...

Very glad to be able write a review for @thetls.bsky.social of an impressive and unusual new book on George Orwell www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...

My latest article has just been published in the journal Utopian Studies. 'Speculative Queerness: Non-Normative Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future' can be accessed here: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian...

It was a pleasure and privilege to attend the 25th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Ageing, Intergenerational Relationships and Utopia at the University of Valencia, Spain. @eutopiauni.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #valencia #utopia #dystopia

Keynote II: Prof Barnita Bagchi, “Ageing and Intergenerational Relationships in Utopian and Dystopian World Literature” University of Valencia, Spain @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @eutopiauni.bsky.social

25th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Ageing, Intergenerational Relationships and Utopia. USSE25 at the University of Valencia, Spain @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social #utopia #dystopia

I am looking forward to attending the 25th International Conference of Utopian Studies Society/Europe hosted by the University of Valencia, Spain, 2-4 July! Delivery of a presentation and chairing two sessions. @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @eutopiauni.bsky.social #utopia

Looking forward to attending the 25th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Ageing, Intergenerational Relationships and Utopia, 2-4 July 2025 at the University of Valencia, Spain: esdeveniments.uv.es/124223/detai... @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

👇 Just saw that @fieryparticle.bsky.social 's new piece came out via @theconversation.com, so in addition to talking about Orwell when we meet, we can also talk about writing about Orwell for The Conversation as @atasoyemrah.bsky.social & I recently did that too theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

Dr @atasoyemrah.bsky.social‬ compares Orwell’s ‘1984’ with Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ to explore how we can use fiction as a guide to overcome the issues within reality. | iai.tv/articles/orw... #socsky #langsky

Herkesin bayramı kutlu olsun. Sağlıklı, huzurlu bir bayram dileğiyle…

ViraVerita dergisindeki çalışmamdan: "Sosyal medya etkisinin çok büyük olduğu bu dijital ve hakikat ötesi çağda, eleştirel düşünme becerisi, hayal gücü ve yaratıcılık daha çok önem kazanmıştır; çünkü “başka dünyaları hayal etmeye belki de her zamankinden daha çok ihtiyaç vardır” (Kayışcı 2021)."

My new article in Turkish “Visions of the Future: Utopian and Dystopian Studies Worldwide and in Türkiye” was published by the journal ViraVerita: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/virav... our @uk.theconversation.com article was briefly mentioned! @jwassers.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Our @theconversation.com article “Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times” is the most read from Warwick @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May 2025! @jwassers.bsky.social theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... 11,670 reads since 12 May 2025!

ViraVerita dergisinin “Düşlerden Kabuslara Başka Türlü Bir Dünyanın/Yaşamın İmkanları: Ütopyalar ve Distopyalar” temalı 21. Sayısı yayımlandı. Ben de “Gelecek Tahayyülleri: Dünyada ve Türkiye'de Ütopya ve Distopya Çalışmaları” başlıklı bir yazı ile katkıda bulundum. dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/virav...

“Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times.” Published: May 12, 2025 Emrah Atasoy, University of Warwick, @jwassers.bsky.social, University of California, Irvine theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... @theconversation.com

Glad the @uk.theconversation.com article @jwassers.bsky.social & I co wrote on the value of reading Huxley as well as Orwell to make sense of our troubled times is now out in Thai (Thailand) language too: www.bbc.com/thai/article... @annalouwalker.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Glad the short piece @atasoyemrah.bsky.social & I co wrote on the value of reading Huxley as well as Orwell to make sense of our troubled times is now out in Spanish too laopinion.com/2025/05/23/1... cc @princetonupress.bsky.social @boingboing.net & @greatdismal.bsky.social (who gets a shout out)

Our @theconversation.com article published by BBC in Spanish @jwassers.bsky.social laopinion.com/2025/05/23/1...

👇 @orwellprize.bsky.social

Delighted to see that our @theconversation.com article “Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times” got translated into Spanish and published by BBC! @jwassers.bsky.social @annalouwalker.bsky.social www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

"Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today's troubled times" Emrah Atasoy, @jwassers.bsky.social, May 12, 2025 10, 229 Reads in 7 days! @theconversation.com @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

19 Mayıs Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramımız kutlu olsun! Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day!

Today Catalan SF fans gather together in #CatCon, and so my recommended book of the day is a great Catalan SF novel, Typescript of the Second Origin by Manuel de Pedrolo (in my own translation, prefaced by Kim Stanley Robinson!) sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/de_ped... www.weslpress.org/978081957742...

Our @theconversation.com article ends with: “A world in which the smartphone in your pocket both keeps track of your actions and provides an endless set of enticing distractions.” 9011 reads in four days! @jwassers.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

It was a pleasure and privilege to attend the Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize Ceremony 2025 at the Art Workers’ Guild in London yesterday. Congratulations to the winners. @anthonyburgess.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social @theguardian.com @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Visiting London and having a sight of Senate House Library in London today, which inspired George Orwell in his creation of the Ministry of Truth in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Please check our arricle for more! @jwassers.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

Breaking News: José Mujica, the leftist former president of Uruguay known for his humility, has died at 89. Known as Pepe, he had a reputation as a savvy leader of the country's progressive coalition, his informal governing style baffled the establishment. nyti.ms/45cnutZ

Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... --a piece I co-wrote, cc @prospectmagazine.co.uk (for which, ICYMI, I wrote this earlier this year www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6898... )

In a short piece, @atasoyemrah.bsky.social and I nod in passing to contemporary writers like @margaretatwood.bsky.social & @greatdismal.bsky.social but focus on the continued relevance of not just Orwell but also Huxley for thinking about today's troubled times theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

In an era when all sorts of systems of control limit our freedoms, many don’t quite fit the template that Orwell or Huxley imagined – but combine elements of both.

“Orwellian hard-edged and Huxleyan soft-edged approaches to control and social engineering can be and often are combined.” theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... @jwassers.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

In our article, we wrote: “In an era when all sorts of systems of control limit our freedoms, many don’t quite fit the template that Orwell or Huxley imagined – but combine elements of both.” theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... @uk.theconversation.com @jwassers.bsky.social

I am giving fewer talks now, but one is coming up for the Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities @ University of Edinburgh Thursday 29 May, 1 pm

Please feel free to circulate our article! @annalouwalker.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social @theconversation.com @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @iaswarwick.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @harvard.edu @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @hacettepe.bsky.social @utopianstudpsu.bsky.social @ralahinecentre.bsky.social

It was pleasure to co-write a piece on Orwell & Huxley with @atasoyemrah.bsky.social & see the piece get improved over time by the smart edits by @annalouwalker.bsky.social of @uk.theconversation.com --the results of this collaborative effort up now here theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

@jwassers.bsky.social Jeffrey Wasserstrom and I wrote an article on Orwell and Huxley. Our article “Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times” was published by The Conversation @theconversation.com theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

In January, I met @atasoyemrah.bsky.social at Warwick & we talked about our shared fascination w/dystopian fiction. This led to a productive back & forth on not just Orwell but also Huxley's relevance for the present. Glad to see it out in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

Tüm annelerin anneler günü kutlu olsun. Happy mothers’ day!

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear…” George Orwell (1945)

Sevgili İstanbullular, Beyazıt’ta üniversitemin tarihi kapısı önündeki görkemli buluşmanızda, tüm kalbimle yanınızda olacağım. 7 Mayıs Çarşamba 20.30 Beyazıt Meydanı

@ox.ac.uk University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

As Australia heads to the polls, big parties brace for rise of independents

Thanks very much to Tolhurst organic farm for having me over on Thursday to talk about utopias and the land. The first time I have discussed More’s men-eating sheep in close proximity to the real thing. #TheUtopiaExperiment #NotAllSheep

Aile huzurdur, güvendir, mutluluktur. Aile kutsaldır.

Delighted to have our edited collection in my hands today! Huge thanks to Laetitia Sansonetti, our series editor, and our commissioning editor Guy Carney at Brepols - and to our brilliant (and patient) contributors. And from me to my co-editors Ladan and Sophie, super colleagues both.

5 fully funded PhD studentships at Uni of Hertfordshire Centre for Future Societies Research with a focus on food: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f...