Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

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8:30am EDT

8.2 The Shapes of Utopia: Genre, Form, Style

Saturday October 19, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

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

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University

Speakers

Thomas Horan

The Citadel

Kenneth Roemer

University of Texas at Arlington

Diana Palardy

Independent Scholar

Kako Koshino

Mejiro University

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

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

Tracy Rutler

Associate Professor, Penn State University

Speakers

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 →

Darren Dillman

Instructor of Faculty, San Carlos Apache College

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University

Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum B

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

Panel