Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities: Ali Smith - Brave Now World: Ali Smith in Conversation with Peter Boxall

Ali Smith joins Peter Boxall for a conversation as part of the Utopia Now! Conference at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The event focuses on Smith’s fiction and the way her novels attend to the changing shape of contemporary life, from her earlier work through to her Seasonal Quartet and her most recent novels.

The discussion considers how literature responds to social and political pressures, and how fiction can imagine different possibilities for the future. It places Smith’s writing in conversation with broader questions about the role of the literary imagination in times of uncertainty and change.

The event is part of an international conference exploring utopian thinking today, bringing together writers and thinkers across disciplines to reflect on how better futures might be imagined and articulated.