{"id":3373,"date":"2014-11-05T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2014-11-05T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:00:07","slug":"paul-march-russell-talks-at-sci-fi-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/05\/paul-march-russell-talks-at-sci-fi-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul March Russell to talk at sci-fi symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-test.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/march-russell.html\">Dr Paul March-Russell<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-test.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> will be giving a keynote speech at a science fiction symposium organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/\">School of Anthropology<\/a>. The event entitled \u2018Strangers in Strange Lands: Mapping the Relationship between Anthropology and Science Fiction\u2019 will be held on the 15-16 November 2014, with sponsorship from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-foundation.org\/\">The Science Fiction Foundation (UK)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s talk is entitled \u2018Strangers to Ourselves: J G Ballard&#8217;s Rogue Anthropology\u2019 and will take place on Saturday 15 November. Increasing attention is now being paid to the late J G Ballard&#8217;s colonial upbringing and fraught relationship to England and the English. This talk will approach the debate by recasting Ballard as a rogue anthropologist, following his motif of the hoodlum scientist in such texts as <em>The Atrocity Exhibition <\/em>(Jonathan Cape, 1970) and <em>Crash <\/em>(Jonathan Cape, 1973). The talk will argue that Ballard carried over anthropological strategies into his analysis of science, technology and psychology while also distancing himself from media-friendly popularisers such as anthropologist and broadcaster Desmond Morris. Anthropology is one of the means via which Ballard reworked modernism and science fiction into a counter-cultural critique.<\/p>\n<p>To reserve a place at this event visit booking page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/strangers-in-strange-lands-tickets-13244780495\">www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/strangers-in-strange-lands-tickets-13244780495<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Paul March-Russell from the Department of Comparative Literature will be giving a keynote speech at a science fiction symposium organised by the School of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/05\/paul-march-russell-talks-at-sci-fi-symposium\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}