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Saturday, October 19
 

7:30am EDT

Breakfast
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
TBD
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
TBD
  Meals and Receptions

8:30am EDT

8.1 The Persistence of Utopia in the Anthropocene
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Tulum A
Chair: Andrew Bridges, California State University, Fullerton

Christian Haines, Penn State University
Terraforming Spiders and Talking Cows: Planetary Utopianism in Adrian Tchaikovsky and Annalee Newitz
Andrew Bridges, California State University, Fullerton
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow & The End of HIstory: Mediating Ideas of Utopia
Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The World Gives Way: Persistent Hope; Certain Death
Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University
Death, Inc.: Utopia for the Rest of Us
Moderators
AB

Andrew Bridges

California State University, Fullerton
Speakers
MA

Maria Aline Ferreira

University of Aveiro (Portugal)
CH

Christian Haines

Penn State University
PS

Peter Sands

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Tulum A
  Panel

8:30am EDT

8.2 The Shapes of Utopia: Genre, Form, Style
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Tulum B
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Penn State University      
Thomas Horan, The Citadel
Hope and Empathy in Alistair McDowall’s Pomona
Kenneth Roemer, University of Texas at Arlington
Meet the “More Immediate and Intense” Ursula K. Le Guin: Celebrating the First Comprehensive Collection of Her Poetry 
Diana Palardy, Independent Scholar
Strange Bedfellows: Green Bank as a Utopian Enclave for Bank-to-the-Landers, Electrosensitives, and Neo-Nazis
Kako Koshino, Mejiro University
Precarious Whiteness in Japan’s English Teaching Industry
Moderators
JW

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University
Speakers
TH

Thomas Horan

The Citadel
KR

Kenneth Roemer

University of Texas at Arlington
DP

Diana Palardy

Independent Scholar
KK

Kako Koshino

Mejiro University
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Tulum B
  Panel

8:30am EDT

Registration
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Outside of Tulum A
Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Outside of Tulum A

10:15am EDT

9.1 Power Play: Subverting Sex and Gender Oppression in Utopian Fiction
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum A
Chair: Susan Hegeman, University of Florida          
  • Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Library of Congress,The Sexual Utopia of Lifestyle BDSM in Laura Antoniou’s “Marketplace” Series
  • Laura Page, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA), The End of Reversal: Possibilities of a Diremptive Utopia
  • Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, 1893: Medical Utopianism in the Age of Comstock
Moderators
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Susan Hegeman

University of Florida
Speakers
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Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers

Independent Scholar, Library Of Congress
LP

Laura Page

Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA
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Stephanie Tavera

Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Dr. Stephanie Peebles Tavera is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. She is the author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She is also the author of the critical... Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum A
  Panel

10:15am EDT

9.2 Neurology, Memory, and Consciousness, or How the Psyche Haunts Us
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum B
Chair: Tracy Rutler, Penn State University                
Ellen Rigsby, Saint Mary's College of California
Panarchy as a Political Form of Collective Consciousness
Darren Dillman, New Mexico Junior College
The Role of Memory in Dystopian Fiction
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Penn State University
“Scaling the Treachery”: Dystopian Incommensurabilities and Narrative Self-Sovereignty in John Lanchaster’s The Wall
 
Moderators
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Tracy Rutler

Associate Professor, Penn State University
Speakers
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Ellen Rigsby

Professor of Communication, St. Mary’s College of California
Ellen M. Rigsby received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric in 2001 at UC Berkeley, after earning a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1991. She is a Professor in Communication at Saint Mary's College of California. Her areas of teaching are at the intersection of theories of the... Read More →
DD

Darren Dillman

Instructor of Faculty, San Carlos Apache College
JW

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum B
  Panel

11:45am EDT

Business Lunch
Saturday October 19, 2024 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Tulum A and B
Saturday October 19, 2024 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Tulum A and B
  Meals and Receptions

1:30pm EDT

10.1 Stewarding Spaces: Utopian Possibilities in Catastrophic Times
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Tulum A
Chair: Jared Rusnak, University of Pennsylvania  
Elise Poll, Arizona State University
Fleeing and Finding: Exploring Hostile and Hospitable Places in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Adam J. Goldsmith, Northwestern University
Hope in-against-beyond the Gutter: Towards a Notion of Utopian Strategy
Hailey Gilles, Temple University
Law That Holds the Line: Preserving the Potential for Utopia in Our Legal Precedent
Jordan Huston, Loyola University
Now and Always: A Utopian Retort to Political Pessimism
Moderators
JR

Jared Rusnak

University of Pennsylvania
Speakers
EP

Elise Poll

Arizona State University
AJ

Adam J. Goldsmith

Northwestern University
HG

Hailey Gilles

Temple University
JH

Jordan Huston

Loyola University
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Tulum A
  Panel

1:30pm EDT

10.2 Black Utopianism: Responding to Racial Dystopias Past and Present
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Tulum B
Chair: Matthew Hodgetts, Case Western Reserve University          
John Michael, University of Rochester
Decolonizing Utopia: Exploring Desire and the Dream of Violence in Frantz Fanon
Patricia Ventura, Spelman College, and Edward Chan, Waseda University
New Black Horror and Racial Dystopia
Jeffrey Tucker, University of Rochester
Characterization and the Critical Utopia: Gabriel Bump's The New Natural
Moderators
MH

Matthew Hodgetts

Case Western Reserve University
Speakers
JM

John Michael

University of Rochester
PV

patricia ventura

Spelman College
JT

Jeffrey Tucker

University of Rochester
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Tulum B
  Panel

3:15pm EDT

11.1 Institutions and/as Dystopias/Utopias
Saturday October 19, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Tulum A
Chair: andre carrington, University of California, Riverside                     Tulum B [Has A/V]
Phil Wegner, University of Florida
Hobbled and Handicapped Before the Race Even Began: Allegory and Hope in Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys
Susan Hegeman, University of Florida
Gatekeeping and the Fascist End of the Public Sphere in Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill
Patricia Ventura, Spelman College
The American Anti-Fascism
Moderators
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andré carrington

University of California, Riverside
Speakers
PW

Phil Wegner

University of Florida
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Susan Hegeman

University of Florida
PV

patricia ventura

Spelman College
Saturday October 19, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Tulum A
  Panel
 
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