Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference: Grid

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Reception and Cash Bar 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Registration 8:30am - 5:00pm

Pre-Conference Workshop for Graduate Students 8:30am - 10:30am

Utopian Studies Editorial Board Meeting 10:30am - 11:30am

Steering Committee Meeting 11:45am - 12:45pm

1.1 The Operations of Racial Ideologies in Exotic Utopian/Heterotopian Spaces 1:00pm - 2:30pm

2.1 Queer/Cuir Joy and Futurity in Latin American and Latinx Communities / Alegrías y futuridade... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

3.1 Hope, Play, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Classroom 4:30pm - 6:00pm

1.2 The Utopian Activist in the Modern World 1:00pm - 2:30pm

2.2 Roundtable: Searching for transatlantic utopias: alternative imaginaries between Europe and... 2:45pm - 4:15pm

3.2 In Search of an Ideal Locale: Utopic Spaces 4:30pm - 6:00pm

1.3 At the Threshold of Dystopia/Utopia: Fictional Dualities 1:00pm - 2:30pm

3.3 Non/Human Entanglements in Contemporary Crisis Fiction 4:30pm - 6:00pm

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Registration 8:30am - 5:00pm

Breakfast 7:30am - 8:30am

4.1 Theorizing Queer Utopias: Jose Esteban Muñoz and Lee Edelman 8:30am - 10:00am

5.1 The Saga of Utopia: Literary Cycle and Series 10:15am - 11:45am

6.1 Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Envisioning Black Utopias 1:30pm - 3:00pm

7.1 Futuros virtuales: la tecnologia y el futuro de la utopia [In Spanish/en Espanol] 3:15pm - 4:45pm

Keynote: Dr. Susan Antebi 5:30pm - 7:00pm

4.2 Embodied Utopias: Dancing, Walking, Singing, Creating 8:30am - 10:00am

5.2 Queer, Trans, and Feminist Utopias in Global Short Fiction 10:15am - 11:45am

6.2 Time for Critique: Nostalgia, Futurity, and the Now 1:30pm - 3:00pm

7.2 Roundtable: Liberatory Practices on Communal Safety 3:15pm - 4:45pm

4.3 Historicizing Utopia: The Past as Resource for the Future? 8:30am - 10:00am

5.3 The Politics of Utopia 10:15am - 11:45am

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Registration 8:30am - 5:00pm

Breakfast 7:30am - 8:30am

8.1 The Persistence of Utopia in the Anthropocene 8:30am - 10:00am

9.1 Power Play: Subverting Sex and Gender Oppression in Utopian Fiction 10:15am - 11:45am

10.1 Stewarding Spaces: Utopian Possibilities in Catastrophic Times 1:30pm - 3:00pm

11.1 Institutions and/as Dystopias/Utopias 3:15pm - 4:45pm

Business Lunch 11:45am - 1:15pm

8.2 The Shapes of Utopia: Genre, Form, Style 8:30am - 10:00am

9.2 Neurology, Memory, and Consciousness, or How the Psyche Haunts Us 10:15am - 11:45am

10.2 Black Utopianism: Responding to Racial Dystopias Past and Present 1:30pm - 3:00pm