Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

8:30am EDT

Pre-Conference Workshop for Graduate Students

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am EDT

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Editor, Penn State University
Christian Haines, Associate Editor, Penn State University
Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Assistant Editor, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
K. Allison Hammer, Contributor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Moderators

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Penn State University

Speakers

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 →

Christian Haines

Penn State University

K. Allison Hammer

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Thursday October 17, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am EDT
Tulum A

Workshops

10:30am EDT

Utopian Studies Editorial Board Meeting

Thursday October 17, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Tulum A

Thursday October 17, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Tulum A

Board Meetings

11:45am EDT

Steering Committee Meeting

Thursday October 17, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT

Tulum A

Thursday October 17, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Tulum A

Board Meetings

1:00pm EDT

1.1 The Operations of Racial Ideologies in Exotic Utopian/Heterotopian Spaces

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Csaba Toth, Carlow University

Edward Chan, Waseda University
Twenty-First Century Geisha Masquerades and the Gaijin Discount: Negotiating White Racial Capital in Japan
Hyerin Shin, Waseda University
A Hope Translated: The Desire for Westernization as Enlightenment in Early Korean and Japanese Translations of Utopian Texts
Shinske Iwata, Aichi University
Considering the Utopianization of Race/Ethnicity in Japan's Travel Media

Moderators

Csaba Toth

Carlow University

Speakers

Edward Chan

Waseda University

Hyerin Shin

Waseda University

SHINSUKE IWATA

Aichi University

Thursday October 17, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel

2:45pm EDT

2.1 Queer/Cuir Joy and Futurity in Latin American and Latinx Communities / Alegrías y futuridades queer/cuirs en las comunidad latinoamericanas y latines [en Espanol]

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Francisco José Martínez Mesa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

● Antonio Catrileo, University of California
Cuir/Queer Critical Juxtapositions: Epupillan Resurgence in Pikunmapu/Qullasuyu
● Manuel Carrión-Lira, University of California, San Diego
Mapulectical Adjustments in Chileyem, an Experimental Mapuche Film Program (2020)
● Ernesto Cuba, University of Washington
Spanish language Homosaurus: Challenges and opportunities of Internet-linked LGBTQ
vocabulary
● Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Farmingdale State College
The Children of Chuquichinchay: Reclamation of Indigenous Heritage in
Contemporaneous Peruvian Queer Art

Speakers

Antonio Catrileo

University of California

Manuel Carrion-Lira

University of California, San Diego

Juan Ernesto Cuba Garcia

University of Washington

Javier Munoz-Diaz

Assistant Professor, Farmingdale State College

Thursday October 17, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel, Spanish Language

4:30pm EDT

3.1 Hope, Play, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Classroom

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Ellen Rigsby, St. Mary’s College of California
● Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Plus ça change: Competing Visions of the Alternative in Higher Education
● Darren Webb, University of Sheffield
Rethinking Schools: Transformative Hope and Utopian Possibility
● Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo, ARI A Research Institute
Command Capital: “How did we get stuck,” A Contributing Consideration to the
Colonization of our Imagination and Amnesia of Play

Moderators

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 →

Speakers

Peter Sands

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Darren Webb

University of Sheffield

Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo

ARI A Research Institute

Thursday October 17, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel

8:30am EDT

4.1 Theorizing Queer Utopias: Jose Esteban Muñoz and Lee Edelman

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

Tulum A

Chair: Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas at Austin
Ashley Moser, University of Konstanz
Atelotopia: Kim Stanley Robinson and Flawed Futures Worth Fighting For
Iria Gómez del Castillo Dávila, Instituto de Historia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
“A Kind of Queer Doing”: Exploring Postutopianism Through the Chicanx Borderlands
Julian Rome, University of Michigan
Trans Utopian Temporality

Moderators

Gretchen Murphy

University of Texas at Austin

Speakers

Ashley Moser

University of Konstanz

Iria Gómez del Castillo Dácvila

Instituto de Historia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Julian Rome

University of Michigan

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

Panel

10:15am EDT

5.1 The Saga of Utopia: Literary Cycle and Series

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

Tulum A

Chair: Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University
Francisco Pizarro Obaid, Universidad Diego Portales
La Ciudad de los Césares: la utopía en las versiones literarias chilenas de Manuel Rojas, Luis Enrique Délano y Hugo Silva
Christopher Irving, Beacon College
The Elsewhere and Elsewhen of Le Guin's “Hainish Cycle”
Csaba Toth, Carlow University
B. Traven, Chiapas, and Utopian Longing

Moderators

Daniel Conway

Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University

My current research involves the use of films in the genre of science fiction to account for the factors that contribute to the normalization of genocide.People should talk to me about philosophy, politics, film, literature, genocide, and the global importance of the Fulbright mission... Read More →

Speakers

Francisco Pizarro Obaid

Universidad Diego Portales

Christopher Irving

Beacon College

Csaba Toth

Carlow University

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

Panel

1:30pm EDT

6.1 Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Envisioning Black Utopias

Friday October 18, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Edward Chan, Waseda University

Donald Zarate, University of California at Riverside
Here and Now: Black Perspectives on Antituopianism
Claire Corbeaux, University of Rochester
Decolonizing Utopia in Toni Morrison's Paradise
andre carrington, University of California, Riverside
Reveries of the Black Fantastic
L. Lamar Wilson, Florida State University
"The Autonomy of My Black Mind"/"Take Me Back, Burden Hill": Hybrid Essay & Poetic Response to James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind" and The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Moderators

Edward Chan

Waseda University

Speakers

Donald Zarate

PhD Student, University of California at Riverside

Donald Zárate is a second-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), specializing in Political Theory. His research centers on utopianism and social dreaming, examining how these ideas shape societal structures and individual aspirations... Read More →

Claire Corbeaux

University of Rochester

andré carrington

University of California, Riverside

L. Lamar Wilson

Florida State University

Friday October 18, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel

3:15pm EDT

7.1 Futuros virtuales: la tecnologia y el futuro de la utopia [In Spanish/en Espanol]

Friday October 18, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Tulum A

Chair: Diana Palardy, Independent Scholar

Francisco José Martínez Mesa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ¿El utopismo colonizado? El fin del futuro en un mundo acelerado
Guillem Compte Nunes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), El futuro tecnológico según un colectivo hacktivista de la Ciudad de México: entre la utopía sociotecnológica y la desafección utópica
Araceli Mondragón, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Tiempo y alteridad en la cosmovisión del Mexico indígena
Francia Aguilar Salazar, Independent Scholar, Ghost in the Shell y El Dualismo de la Realidad: Technologia y Virtualidad

Moderators

Diana Palardy

Independent Scholar

Speakers

Francisco José Martínez Mesa

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Guillem Compte Nunes

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Araceli Mondragon Gonzalez

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Francia Aguilar Salazar

Independent Scholar

Friday October 18, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Tulum A

Panel, Spanish Language

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

Andrew Bridges

California State University, Fullerton

Speakers

Maria Aline Ferreira

University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Christian Haines

Penn State University

Peter Sands

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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

Panel

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

Susan Hegeman

University of Florida

Speakers

Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers

Independent Scholar, Library Of Congress

Laura Page

Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA

Stephanie Tavera

Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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

Panel

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

Jared Rusnak

University of Pennsylvania

Speakers

Elise Poll

Arizona State University

Adam J. Goldsmith

Northwestern University

Hailey Gilles

Temple University

Jordan Huston

Loyola University

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

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

Panel