Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference

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

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