I’m honored to present a guest lecture at Rutgers University today, on the topic of “Literary Urban Studies: Comparative Perspectives on Future Cities across Genres”. I will start out with a tentative introduction into the field of literary urban studies, with the second part of my lecture a comparative approach to future cities, by way of a reading of three texts (Odds Against Tomorrow, De Ondergang van Amsterdam, and Solaris korrigert).

One of the aims of the talk is also to give an update on my research project on cities at the water.

Source: https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/

Many thanks to prof. Weijie Song – an expert, among others, on the literature of Bejing – for the generous invitation! I hope I have the opportunity to visit Rutgers in person in the not too distant future…