UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA: A millennium of Utopias.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-18 June 1999-UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA: A millennium of Utopias (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:170699 The approach of a new millennium has brought out not only the prophets of doom, but also a good many utopians, who see it as an opportunity to look for better ways of organising society.

An international conference at the University of East Anglia this month Will examine the theory, history and future of utopianism, spanning the past millennium and looking ahead to the next. Scholars from all over the world will discuss utopias - and their opposite, dystopias - from many viewpoints: political, feminist, historical, literary, ecological and architectural. "I don't know if we can put it down to the imminence of a new millennium,...