Dora Alcocer Walbey, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Utopian Practices of Dwell by Walking K. Allison Hammer, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present Ian McIntosh, Indiana University, Indianapolis The Very First Pilgrimage, An Inspired Trajectory Out of Africa to Australia
Chair: Ashley Moser, University of Konstanz Kyle Rubini, Toronto Metropolitan University Rewriting the Utopian Gaybourhood Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas at Austin Charlie Jane Anders and the Queer Trans Postapocalyptic Utopia Amrita Chakraborty, Cornell University “Do You Really Want to Know?”: Mapping Queer, Trans, and Femme South Asian Futures and Counter-Histories
Daniel Nunes, University of Ottawa Reading Engels’ Critique of Utopian Socialism Through the Lens of Miguel Abensour Matthew Hodgetts, Case Western Reserve University Fear and the “Uncritical” Utopias of the Alt-Right New Media Olivia Conway, Duke University The (Dystopian) Future is Female: Radical Optimism and Apocalyptic Literature
Daniel Nunes has recently started his PhD in philosophy at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on utopian literature as a mode of political philosophy.
