UBC discuss Utopia by Thomas More

This month we are going back to the source and reading Thomas More's Utopia from 1516.

This is the text that invented the word 'utopia' (it's a pun meaning both 'good-place' (eu-topia) and 'no-place' (ou-topia) in Greek) and started the genre of utopia in literature.

Does this vision of utopia still seem like a better world? What aspects of the book have become conventions of the genre of utopia? How does it reflect its time in history (it was written around the time of the discovery of the 'new world' and the colonisation of the Americas)? Is it still a good model for imagining better worlds today?

Join us to discuss all this and any other thoughts or questions the book inspires over a drink at the Watershed.