Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference

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

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

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