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Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference

8:30am EDT

Pre-Conference Workshop for Graduate Students Tulum AJennifer Wagner-Lawlor • Stephanie Tavera • Christian Haines • K. Allison Hammer Registration Outside of Tulum A

10:30am EDT

Utopian Studies Editorial Board Meeting Tulum A

11:45am EDT

Steering Committee Meeting Tulum A

1:00pm EDT

1.1 The Operations of Racial Ideologies in Exotic Utopian/Heterotopian Spaces Tulum ACsaba Toth • Edward Chan • Hyerin Shin • SHINSUKE IWATA 1.2 The Utopian Activist in the Modern World Tulum BJohn Barberet • Hannah Rudderham • Maria Sierra • Pawel Maciejko 1.3 At the Threshold of Dystopia/Utopia: Fictional Dualities Tulum CThomas Horan • Zoe Keating • Sarita Deleon • Murielle Perrier

2:45pm EDT

2.1 Queer/Cuir Joy and Futurity in Latin American and Latinx Communities / Alegrías y futuridades queer/cuirs en las comunidad latinoamericanas y latines [en Espanol] Tulum AAntonio Catrileo • Manuel Carrion-Lira • Juan Ernesto Cuba Garcia • Javier Munoz-Diaz 2.2 Roundtable: Searching for transatlantic utopias: alternative imaginaries between Europe and America / Buscando utopías trasatlánticas: imaginarios alternativos entre Europa y América [In Spanish/en Espan... Tulum BJuan Pro • Francisco José Martínez Mesa • Julia Ramirez-Blanco • Elisabetta Di Minico • Iria Gómez del Castillo Dácvila

4:30pm EDT

3.1 Hope, Play, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Classroom Tulum AEllen Rigsby • Peter Sands • Darren Webb • Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo 3.2 In Search of an Ideal Locale: Utopic Spaces Tulum BKenneth Roemer • Richard Simpson • Katherine Hilts • Jared Rusnak • katherine hampsten 3.3 Non/Human Entanglements in Contemporary Crisis Fiction Tulum CChristian Haines • Chiara Xausa • Elisabetta Di Minico • Amy Louise Taylor

6:00pm EDT

Reception and Cash Bar 1st Floor Poolside Bar

7:30am EDT

8:30am EDT

4.1 Theorizing Queer Utopias: Jose Esteban Muñoz and Lee Edelman Tulum AGretchen Murphy • Ashley Moser • Iria Gómez del Castillo Dácvila • Julian Rome 4.2 Embodied Utopias: Dancing, Walking, Singing, Creating Tulum BPhil Wegner • Dora Alcocer Walbey • K. Allison Hammer • Ian Mcintosh 4.3 Historicizing Utopia: The Past as Resource for the Future? Tulum CDarren Webb • Xinhe Zheng • Tracy Rutler • Juan Pro Registration Outside of Tulum A

10:15am EDT

5.1 The Saga of Utopia: Literary Cycle and Series Tulum ADaniel Conway • Francisco Pizarro Obaid • Christopher Irving • Csaba Toth 5.2 Queer, Trans, and Feminist Utopias in Global Short Fiction Tulum BAshley Moser • Kyle Rubini • Gretchen Murphy • Amrita Chakraborty 5.3 The Politics of Utopia Tulum CElizabeth Schreiber-Byers • Mark Allison • Arun Prakash Raj • John Barberet

1:30pm EDT

6.1 Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Envisioning Black Utopias Tulum AEdward Chan • Donald Zarate • Claire Corbeaux • andré carrington • L. Lamar Wilson 6.2 Time for Critique: Nostalgia, Futurity, and the Now Tulum BMark Allison • Daniel Nunes • Matthew Hodgetts • Olivia Conway

3:15pm EDT

7.1 Futuros virtuales: la tecnologia y el futuro de la utopia [In Spanish/en Espanol] Tulum ADiana Palardy • Francisco José Martínez Mesa • Guillem Compte Nunes • Araceli Mondragon Gonzalez • Francia Aguilar Salazar 7.2 Roundtable: Liberatory Practices on Communal Safety Tulum Bpatricia ventura • Lauren Guilmette • Julianne Liebenguth • Leyla Savloff

5:30pm EDT

Keynote: Dr. Susan Antebi Tulum A and BSusan Antebi

7:30am EDT

8:30am EDT

8.1 The Persistence of Utopia in the Anthropocene Tulum AAndrew Bridges • Maria Aline Ferreira • Christian Haines • Peter Sands 8.2 The Shapes of Utopia: Genre, Form, Style Tulum BJennifer Wagner-Lawlor • Thomas Horan • Kenneth Roemer • Diana Palardy • Kako Koshino Registration Outside of Tulum A

10:15am EDT

9.1 Power Play: Subverting Sex and Gender Oppression in Utopian Fiction Tulum ASusan Hegeman • Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers • Laura Page • Stephanie Tavera 9.2 Neurology, Memory, and Consciousness, or How the Psyche Haunts Us Tulum BTracy Rutler • Ellen Rigsby • Darren Dillman • Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

11:45am EDT

Business Lunch Tulum A and B

1:30pm EDT

10.1 Stewarding Spaces: Utopian Possibilities in Catastrophic Times Tulum AJared Rusnak • Elise Poll • Adam J. Goldsmith • Hailey Gilles • Jordan Huston 10.2 Black Utopianism: Responding to Racial Dystopias Past and Present Tulum BMatthew Hodgetts • John Michael • patricia ventura • Jeffrey Tucker

3:15pm EDT

11.1 Institutions and/as Dystopias/Utopias Tulum Aandré carrington • Phil Wegner • Susan Hegeman • patricia ventura