Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference

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

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

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

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