2019, A Year of the Future… (Conference)

The conference will be held at the American University of Blagoevgrad.

Second edition of the conference for science fiction and communism as part of the project ‘2019, A Year of the Future…’, dedicated to the exploration of cosmonautics, retro sci-fi and futurism in Bulgarian culture from the 1960s to the present.

The conference topic will be the science fiction in the context of communist regime and the Cold War. It will focus on the ways in which the political regimes on both sides of the Iron Curtain used the concept of the future.

The project is a Concept Inc production and a part of Plovdiv 2019 programme.