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The UPLIFT Project
Research Group

UPLIFT 3rd Seminar

3 July 2026 · 1 minute read

Announcements

Noemi Fregara and Giuseppe Strippoli on dystopian control, catastrophic survival, and urban imagination

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We are pleased to announce the UPLIFT 3rd Seminar, featuring talks by two early-career scholars:

Noemi Fregara (University of Naples L’Orientale), “Landscapes of Apocalyptic Futures: Configurations of Control in Wściek (Fury, 2024) by Magdalena Salik”

Giuseppe Strippoli (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “How to Survive the Catastrophe: Hoshida Sanpei’s Records of the Construction of Central Earth City (1930)”

The seminar will take place on 6 July 2026, from 12:00 to 14:00 (CEST), and will be held online via Zoom. Please register here to attend.

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