Lecture: The To-day and To-morrow reader
Professor Max Saunders will introduce a brilliant series of short books from the 1920s and early 30s about the future of almost everything, during his lecture on Campus Frescati, Tuesday, February 24th.
Professor Max Saunders.
The lecture will take place between 16.00 and 17.00 hours in Södra huset, Hörsal 4.
Come and find out why they were being read by writers like Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Vera Brittain, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh and probably Virginia Woolf; and what these extraordinary books, now 100 years old, can tell us about changes in gender and reproduction; cyborgs; and the future of intelligence.
Max Saunders is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He works on modernism, future thinking, life writing, and visual culture. His books include Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923–31 (2019).
Last updated: 2026-02-10
Source: Department of English,Department of Mathematics (incl. Math. Statistics)