This week's episode is a discussion with Ryan Turnball and Katherine Gwyther about utopia, its ancient origins and contemporary afterlife, hosted by Joseph Scales.

Ryan Turnball is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, UK, based in Winnipeg, Canada, researching Christian theologies of place. He is the host of the True North podcast (@truenorththeo) which discusses Canadian political theology. 

Katherine Gwyther is in the final year of a PhD in Hebrew Bible at the University of Leeds, UK where she is funded by a school doctoral scholarship. Her PhD project focuses on Exodus 20–23 and reads these chapters by an interdisciplinary engagement with the field of utopian studies. Outside of her PhD research, she is particularly interested in the book of Esther and has published on the themes of hybridity, resistance, and gender within the book.

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Fitting, Peter. "A Short History of Utopian Studies." Science Fiction Studies 36 (2009): 121–131.

Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso, 2005.

Levitas, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990.

Moltmann, Jürgen. Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology. Translated by James W. Leitch. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

Moylan, Tom. “Mission Impossible? Liberation Theology and Utopian Praxis.” Utopian Studies 3 (1991): 20–30.

Sargent, Lyman Tower. Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.