Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

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8:30am EDT

Pre-Conference Workshop for Graduate Students

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am EDT

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Editor, Penn State University
Christian Haines, Associate Editor, Penn State University
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Editor, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
K. Allison Hammer, Contributor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Moderators

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University

Speakers

Stephanie Tavera

Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Dr. Stephanie Peebles Tavera is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. She is the author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She is also the author of the critical... Read More →

Christian Haines

Penn State University

K. Allison Hammer

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am EDT
Tulum A

Workshops

8:30am EDT

Registration

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT

Outside of Tulum A

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Outside of Tulum A

10:30am EDT

Utopian Studies Editorial Board Meeting

Thursday October 17, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Tulum A

Thursday October 17, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Tulum A

Board Meetings

11:45am EDT

Steering Committee Meeting

Thursday October 17, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT

Tulum A

Thursday October 17, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Tulum A

Board Meetings

1:00pm EDT

1.1 The Operations of Racial Ideologies in Exotic Utopian/Heterotopian Spaces

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Csaba Toth, Carlow University

Edward Chan, Waseda University
Twenty-First Century Geisha Masquerades and the Gaijin Discount: Negotiating White Racial Capital in Japan
Hyerin Shin, Waseda University
A Hope Translated: The Desire for Westernization as Enlightenment in Early Korean and Japanese Translations of Utopian Texts
Shinske Iwata, Aichi University
Considering the Utopianization of Race/Ethnicity in Japan's Travel Media

Moderators

Csaba Toth

Carlow University

Speakers

Edward Chan

Waseda University

Hyerin Shin

Waseda University

SHINSUKE IWATA

Aichi University

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel

1:00pm EDT

1.2 The Utopian Activist in the Modern World

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Tulum B

Chair: John Barberet, Polk State College
● Hannah Rudderham, University of Ottawa
Searching for Alternatives in Progressive-Era Canada: Recovering Alice Chown as a
Utopian Activist
● María Sierra, Universidad de Sevilla/University of Seville (Spain)
Transitar de lo gitano a lo romaní, performar una utopía post-racial: el caso de Ionel
Rotaru (1960s-1970s) /Transiting from ‘Gypsy’ to Roma, performing a post-racial utopia:
the case of Ionel Rotaru (1960s-1970s)
● Pawel Maciejko, he/him, Johns Hopkins University
Messianic Utopia of Sabbatai Tsevi

Moderators

John Barberet

Polk State College

Speakers

Hannah Rudderham

University of Ottawa

Maria Sierra

Universidad de Sevilla/University of Seville

Pawel Maciejko

Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Tulum B

Panel

1:00pm EDT

1.3 At the Threshold of Dystopia/Utopia: Fictional Dualities

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Tulum C

Chair: Thomas Horan, The Citadel
● Zoe Keating, she/they, York St John University
Perceptions of Utopia in Fahrenheit 451
● Sarita Deleon-Garza, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Where Have All the Martyrs Gone? Linguistic Complacency in the Face of Oppressive
New World Order in Augustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh
● Murielle Perrier, Princeton University
Malagasy Legends and Contemporary Political Struggles: Language, Political Discourse,
and the Quest for Utopia in Raharimanana’s Writing

Moderators

Thomas Horan

The Citadel

Speakers

Zoe Keating

PhD student, York St John University

Second year PhD student, researching Le Guin's Hainish cycle and representations of education and culture.

Sarita Deleon

Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Murielle Perrier

Princeton University

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Tulum C

Panel

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]

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Francisco José Martínez Mesa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

● Antonio Catrileo, University of California
Cuir/Queer Critical Juxtapositions: Epupillan Resurgence in Pikunmapu/Qullasuyu
● Manuel Carrión-Lira, University of California, San Diego
Mapulectical Adjustments in Chileyem, an Experimental Mapuche Film Program (2020)
● Ernesto Cuba, University of Washington
Spanish language Homosaurus: Challenges and opportunities of Internet-linked LGBTQ
vocabulary
● Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Farmingdale State College
The Children of Chuquichinchay: Reclamation of Indigenous Heritage in
Contemporaneous Peruvian Queer Art

Speakers

Antonio Catrileo

University of California

Manuel Carrion-Lira

University of California, San Diego

Juan Ernesto Cuba Garcia

University of Washington

Javier Munoz-Diaz

Assistant Professor, Farmingdale State College

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel, Spanish Language

2:45pm EDT

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 Espanol]

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Tulum B

Chair: Juan Pro, EEHA/IH, CSIC, Seville
● Juan Pro, EEHA/IH, CSIC, Seville
● Francisco José Martínez Mesa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
● Julia Ramirez-Blanco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
● Elisabetta Di Minico, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
● Iria Gómez del Castillo Dávila, Instituto de Historia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas

Speakers

Juan Pro

EEHA/IH, CSIC, Seville

Juan Pro is coordinator of the Spanish research team HISTOPIA, director of the Revista de Estudios Utópicos [Journal of Utopian Studies] and coordinator of the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias. He currently directs the UtopiAtlantica project (Transatlantic Utopias... Read More →

Francisco José Martínez Mesa

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Julia Ramirez-Blanco

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Elisabetta Di Minico

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Iria Gómez del Castillo Dácvila

Instituto de Historia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Tulum B

Roundtable, Spanish Language

4:30pm EDT

3.1 Hope, Play, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Classroom

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Ellen Rigsby, St. Mary’s College of California
● Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Plus ça change: Competing Visions of the Alternative in Higher Education
● Darren Webb, University of Sheffield
Rethinking Schools: Transformative Hope and Utopian Possibility
● Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo, ARI A Research Institute
Command Capital: “How did we get stuck,” A Contributing Consideration to the
Colonization of our Imagination and Amnesia of Play

Moderators

Ellen Rigsby

Professor of Communication, St. Mary’s College of California

Ellen M. Rigsby received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric in 2001 at UC Berkeley, after earning a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1991. She is a Professor in Communication at Saint Mary's College of California. Her areas of teaching are at the intersection of theories of the... Read More →

Speakers

Peter Sands

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Darren Webb

University of Sheffield

Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo

ARI A Research Institute

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel

4:30pm EDT

3.2 In Search of an Ideal Locale: Utopic Spaces

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Tulum B

Chair: Kenneth Roemer, University of Texas at Arlington

Richard Simpson, University of Maine, Presque Isle
The Production of Space as a Pedagogical Practice
Katherine (Kate) Hilts, Independent Scholar
Resort, Utopia, Dystopia: Neocolonialism in Caribbean Luxury Travel
Jared Rusnak, University of Pennsylvania
From Complacency to Emplacement: Pursuing Utopic Places Through the Flesh
Katherine Hampsten, St. Mary's University
Tracing Utopia: Insights from the Works and Locales of William Morris & C. R. Ashbee

Moderators

Kenneth Roemer

University of Texas at Arlington

Speakers

Richard Simpson

University of Maine, Presque Isle

Katherine Hilts

Independent Scholar

Jared Rusnak

University of Pennsylvania

katherine hampsten

St. Mary's University

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Tulum B

Panel

4:30pm EDT

3.3 Non/Human Entanglements in Contemporary Crisis Fiction

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Tulum C

Chair: Brian Greenspan, Carleton University
● Chiara Xausa, University of Bologna
Eco-trauma and Social Dreaming: The Entanglement of Positive and Negative Emotions
in Young Adult Anglophone Dystopian Fiction
● Elisabetta Di Minico, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Eat the Poor: The Cannibalistic System of Capitalism and Patriarchy in Bazterrica's
"Cadáver Exquisito"
● Amy Taylor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“But Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?” Ecocriticism and Queer Futurity in
Dystopian Televisual Narrative: Children’s Violence as Utopian Ambivalence in Hulu’s
The Handmaid’s Tale

Moderators

Panel

6:00pm EDT

Reception and Cash Bar

Thursday October 17, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT

1st Floor Poolside Bar

Thursday October 17, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
1st Floor Poolside Bar

Meals and Receptions