Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

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8:30am EDT

4.3 Historicizing Utopia: The Past as Resource for the Future?

Friday October 18, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Chair: Darren Webb, University of Sheffield

Václav Zheng, he/his/him, Johns Hopkins University
When did Utopianism and Historical Thinking Meet?
Tracy Rutler, Penn State University
Of Brains and Bodies: Enlightenment Medical Utopias
Juan Pro, EEHA/IH, CSIC, Seville
New Worlds for Fourierist Utopia: The Spanish-Mexican Connection / Nuevos mundos para la utopía fourierista: la conexión hispano-mexicana”

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Darren Webb

University of Sheffield

Speakers

Xinhe Zheng

Johns Hopkins University

Tracy Rutler

Associate Professor, Penn State University

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 →

Friday October 18, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Tulum C

Panel

10:15am EDT

5.3 The Politics of Utopia

Friday October 18, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Tulum C

Chair: Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Library of Congress

Mark Allison, Ohio Wesleyan University
Socialism after the 1848 (Non)Event: The Case of The Leader
Arun Prakash Raj, Ambedkar University Delhi
Articulating Utopia in Print: The Case of Dravida Nadu (1938-1963)
John Barberet, Polk State College
The “Mundus Inversus” as Critical Utopianism in Erasmus and Fourier

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Panel