Society for Utopian Studies 2024 Conference

Chair: Thomas Horan, The Citadel
● Zoe Keating, she/they, York St John University
Perceptions of Utopia in Fahrenheit 451
● Sarita Deleon-Garza, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Where Have All the Martyrs Gone? Linguistic Complacency in the Face of Oppressive
New World Order in Augustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh
● Murielle Perrier, Princeton University
Malagasy Legends and Contemporary Political Struggles: Language, Political Discourse,
and the Quest for Utopia in Raharimanana’s Writing

Chair: Brian Greenspan, Carleton University
● Chiara Xausa, University of Bologna
Eco-trauma and Social Dreaming: The Entanglement of Positive and Negative Emotions
in Young Adult Anglophone Dystopian Fiction
● Elisabetta Di Minico, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Eat the Poor: The Cannibalistic System of Capitalism and Patriarchy in Bazterrica's
"Cadáver Exquisito"
● Amy Taylor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“But Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?” Ecocriticism and Queer Futurity in
Dystopian Televisual Narrative: Children’s Violence as Utopian Ambivalence in Hulu’s
The Handmaid’s Tale

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”

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