AnnualMeetingProgram

DoubletreeDowntownMemphis

Memphis,TN

November9-12,2017

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2017ConferenceScheduleTHURSDAY—November9,2017Registration 8:30am-5:00pmContinentalBreakfast 8:00-10:00UtopianStudiesEditorialBoardMeeting(Room) 10:00-11:00amSUSSteeringCommitteeMeeting(Room) 11:15am-12:45pmSESSION1 1:00pm-2:30pm

1A:WorkshopforStudentsandBeginningScholarsChair:LymanTowerSargent(UniversityofMissouri-St.Louis)Presenter1:GregoryClaes(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)Presenter2:LymanTowerSargent(UniversityofMissouri-St.Louis)1.B:IndigeneityandUtopiaChair:Paper1:JenniferWells(CIIS),“RevisionistPastsandRestorativeFutures:GraceinUrsulaKLeGuin’sAWizardofEarthsea”Paper2:CordeliaBarrera(TexasTechUniversity),“UtopicDreamingontheBorderlands:IndigeneityandHeterotopiainYuriHerrera’sSignsPrecedingtheEndoftheWorld”Paper3:MarijaIsailovic(VUUniversityAmsterdam),“TransformativePowerofAdatintheStruggleforHegemony”1.C:DystopianFutures,PastandPresentChair:Paper1:SonjaFritzsche(MichiganStateUniversity),“TheTransformativePowerofPlayinJohannaandGünterBraun’sConvivaLudibundus”

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Paper2:RahimeCokayNebioglu(MiddleEastTechnicalUniversity),“MappingtheMinoritarianPoliticsinDystopia”Paper3:DianaPalardy(YoungstownStateUniversity),“Utopian/DystopianTranshumanisminEliaBarceló’s‘Mileurosportuvida’(AThousandEurosforYourLife)”Break(LobbyIII) 2:30pm-2:45amSESSION2 2:45pm-4:15pm2.A:RoundtableDiscussion:TeachingDystopianTextsinDystopianTimesChair:EllenRigsby(SaintMary'sCollegeofCA)Presenter1:AmberFoster2.B:DomesticityandUtopiaChair:Paper1:JustinNordstrom(PennStateHazleton),“EutopianDesiresandDystopianAnxieties:AmericanCookinginthe1920s”Paper2:LaticiaChapman(IndependentScholar),“ImaginingMotherhoodinPrecariousTimes”Paper3:MarkBrand(WilburWrightCollege),“BringyourChildtotheEndoftheWorld:TheAusterityParentinContemporaryVideoGames”2.C:ExoticismandOthernessChair:Paper1:HeatherSnell(UniversityofWinnipeg),“‘ThisCultureisAlwaysReachingforaPureLyricMoment’:FindingUtopiainChrisAbani’sGraceland”Paper2:NicholasSerruys(McMasterUniversity),“Initiation,InvasionandGenocide:BernardAssiniwi’sTheBeothukSaga”Paper3:ElisabettaDiMinico(IndependentScholar),“The‘Other’inComics:Race,Gender,SexualityandPoliticsinSuperheroWorlds”

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Break(LobbyIII) 4:15pm-4:30amSESSION3 4:30pm-6:00pm3.A:EarlyModernUtopianThoughtChair:Paper1:ErinDolgoy(RhodesCollege),“ModerationfortheAgeofExcess:FrancisBacon’s(Anti)Utopianism”Paper2:ClintJones(MoreheadStateUniversity),“ALandlubber'sParadise:PiracyasUtopianExperimentandExperience”Paper3:BradleyYoung(CityUniversityofNewYork,GraduateCenter),“VulnerabilityandDifference:RevisitingErasmusonFriendship”3.B:TeachingUtopiaChair:Paper1:DamonFranke(USMGulfCoast),“AUtopicSurveyofLiteratureCourse”Paper2:CarrieHintz(QueensCollege/CUNYandTheGraduateCenter/CUNY),“CognitiveApproachestoChildren'sLiterature:ImplicationsforUtopianStudies”Paper3:AllysonMarino(SaintLeoUniversity),“TeenageWastelands:Love,Sex,andtheApocalypse”Paper4:ElizabethSchreiber-Byers(BallStateUniversity),“BildungasEutopianConstruct”3.C:CreativeUtopiasChair:Paper1:TraceyClement(UniversityofSydney),“CanArtBeattheDystopianBlues?”Paper2:RuthDusseault(GeorgiaTech),“Ecotopia”Paper3:SeyedhamedMoosavi(IndependentScholar),“CinemaToday:ArtorDanger?ADiscussionofDystopiaanditsRelationtoCinemaandtheConceptofAmericanCelebrity”

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DinnerOnYourOwn******FRIDAY—November10,2017Registration 7:30am-5:00pmContinentalBreakfast(LobbyIII) 7:00am-8:30amSESSION4 8:30am-10:00am4.A:SouthernEutopiasChair:Paper1:RachaelMariboho(UniversityofTexasatArlington),“‘We’sWhotheEarthisFor’:CommunalSurvivalinBeastsoftheSouthernWild”Paper2:WilliamThompson(UniversityofMemphis),“CreatingaPerfectSocietyontheMississippi:theInvitationserieuseauxhabitantsdesIllinoisof1772”Paper3:CliffordManlove(PennStateGreaterAllegheny),“SlaveocracyandSlavetopia:TheUtopianAimsoftheAmericanSlaveDystopia”4.B:Roundtable:TrumpAsApocalypticTricksterChair:KennethRoemer,UniversityofTexasatArlingtonPresenter1:ClaireCurtis(CollegeofCharleston)Presenter2:PeterSands(UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee)4.C:Justice,Crime,andPunishmentinUtopiasChair:Paper1:MichaelArdoline(UniversityofMemphis),“TheJusticetoCome:MeillassouxandtheUseofUtopiasforContemporaryEthics”Paper2:AmandineFaucheux(LouisianaStateUniversity),“CeciN’estPasuneUtopie:UtopianismandCrimeandPunishment”

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Paper3:RebekahLocke(UniversityofMemphis),“HeroesorVillains?:ALockeanApproachtoJustiftingVigilantism”Break(LobbyIII) 10:00am-10:15amSESSION5 10:15am-11:45am5.A:UtopianPlasticitiesChair:JenniferWagner-Lawlor(PennStateUniversity)Presenter1:PhilWegner(UniversityofFlorida),“’TheBecomingEssentialoftheAccident,andtheBecomingAccidentaloftheEssence’:TheEconomyofSpeculativeAutomatisminJoWalton’sThessalyTrilogy”Presenter2:ChristianHaines(DartmouthCollege),“UtopiaHurts:ThinkingThroughDestructivePlasticity”Presenter3:JenniferWagner-Lawlor(PennStateUniversity),“UtopianAnticipations,UtopianGenerations”5.B:ReconfiguringLearningandLaboringasUtopianPlayChair:FrancescoCrocco(ExcelsiorCollege)Presenter1:RachelCollins(ArcadiaUniversity),“PedagogicalPlayintheUtopianClassroom:ACaseStudy”Presenter2:NicholeStanford(IndependentScholar),“TeachingtowardUtopia:PedagogyofDissent”Presenter3:FrancescoCrocco(ExcelsiorCollege),“ThePlayersUtopia:Life,Labor,andLearningafterCapitalism”5.C:UtopiainMemphisChair:Paper1:EthanBumas(NewJerseyCityUniversity),“ElvisIsland”Paper2:AlexMacDonald(CampionCollegeUniversityofRegina),“W.C.Handy’s‘BealeStreetBlues’andtheUtopianImagination”Paper3:LjRussum(PolkStateCollege),“ManiainMemphis”

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LunchOnYourOwn:11:45am-1:15pmSESSION6 1:15pm-2:45pm6.A:RaceandUtopiaIChair:Paper1:BurcuKuheylan(IndependentScholar),“TheKindnessofStrangersRevisited:Race,ImmigrationandtheContestedSiteofChildhoodinP.D.James’sTheChildrenofMen”Paper2:AnneGessler(UniversityofHouston-ClearLake),“TracingCommunityandNationalIdentitywithintheCivilRights-EraNewOrleansCooperativeMovement”Paper3:CherylCoulthard(TexasA&M),“AmiriBaraka’sKawaidaIdeology:BlackPower,BlackUtopiaandChallengesforBlackMasculinity”6.B:UtopiaandApocalypseI:CulturalTracesChair:GibPrettyman(PennStateFayette)Presenter1:NaomiJacobs(UniversityofMaine),“EnchantedCastlesattheEndoftheWorld:ShadowsofDomesticityinPost-Apocalypse”Presenter2:MarkJendrysik(UniversityofNorthDakota),“MightyFortressesAgainstaNewDarkAge:TheBenedictOptionasUtopianExpression”Presenter3:MartinaSciolino(UniversityofSouthernMississippi),“Before,DuringandAfter:EcofeministUtopiainMargaretAtwood’sMaddaddamTrilogy”6.C:Conflict,Catastrophe,andWarChair:Paper1:CaseyJergenson(LoyolaUniversityChicago),“TheUtopianismofMargaretAtwood'sMaddAddamTrilogy”Paper2:RyanJoyce(TulaneUniversity),“A‘PropheticVisionofthePast’:ÉdouardGlissant'sMaroonUtopianism”

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Paper3:AndrewByers(IndependentScholar),“WarandUtopia”6.D:ArtisticRepresentationsofUtopiaandDystopiaArtist1:EdieOverturf(UniversityofMinnesota),“TalesoftheAbsoluteandPreposterous”Artist2:L.LamarWilson(TheUniversityofAlabama), “’BurdenHill’:FindingUtopiaAmidWhiteNationalistTerror”Artist3:JenniferUstick(UniversityofCincinnati), “I'mFloatingInaBeamofLightWithYou”Break(LobbyIII) 2:45pm-3:00pmSESSION7 3:00pm-4:30pm7.A:UtopiaandSocietyChair:Paper1:HowardKurtz(SouthwestOklahomaState),“TeachingSociologythroughUtopianThought”Paper2:MatthewWilson(BallStateUniversity),“VictorianSociology,TradeUnionismandUtopia:ASocialProgrammeforanIdealRepublic.ThePositivistsociologyofFredericHarrison”Paper3:SamanthaCampbell(DuquesneUniversity),“SowingtheSeedsoftheirDemise:TheBlithedaleRomanceandFailedUtopianism”Paper4:HoldenKarnofsky(IndependentScholar),“WhichUtopiasHaveBroadAppeal?:UsingOpinionPollingtoTestUtopianVisions”7.B:UtopiaandApocalypseII:PosthumanStoriesChair:NaomiJacobs(UniversityofMaine)Presenter1:GibPrettyman(PennStateFayette),“Utopia,Apocalypse,andNarrativeCognition”

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Presenter2:PeterSands(UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee),“InoculatingAgainstthePostapocalypse:WalkawayandNewYork2140”Presenter3:DanielSchack(WrightStateUniversity),“SurvivalisInsufficient:ArtisticProductioninthePost-Apocalypse”7.C:RaceandUtopiaIIChair:Paper1:ClarenceTweedy(UniversityofMaryWashington),“TheTrumpetsofAfrotopia:JohnWilliams,JamesBaldwin,ChesterHimesResistingDystopiathroughViolentSubjectivity”Paper2:JohnTorrey(UniversityofMemphis),“Post-RacialAmericaIsANonexistantUtopia”Paper3:MdAbdurRahim(KeanUniversity),“EmbeddedAnti-SemitisminRadicalExtremismUtopia”Break(LobbyIII) 4:30pm-4:45pmSESSION8 4:45pm-6:15pm8.A:TechnotopiaChair:Paper1:KimberlyHale(CoastalCarolinaUniversity),“’TimetoWriteMyOwnF***ingStory’:ReclaimingFeminineAgencyinHBO'sWestworld”Paper2:BeateRodewald(PalmBeachAtlanticUniversity),“OurSecondSelves:Robots,AndroidsandtheMappingofHumanity”Paper3:TylerWomble(UniversityofAlabamainHuntsville),“Automation,Androids,andtheRealSubsumptionoftheBody:SocialTransformationandBiopowerinWestworldandHumans”8.B:ThePoliticsofUtopiaChair:

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Paper1:ClaireCurtis(CollegeofCharleston),“IdentityandClassinUtopianImaginingandPoliticalPrognostication:ADialogue”Paper2:HodaZaki(HoodCollege),“SafeSpaces,ActiveCitizenshipandthePublicInterest:TheLeagueofWomenVotersandthePerformanceofDemcracy”Paper3:C.WylieLenz(FloridaPolytechnicUniversity),“NotesonTrump-EraResistanceandAmazonWishlists”Paper4:EllenRigsby(SaintMary'sCollegeofCA),“TheLingeringof9/11inHomegrownTerroristNarrativesofPopularCultureTexts”8.C:HistoricalUtopianVisionsChair:Paper1:DonCorrigan(WebsterUniversity-St.Louis),“UtopianVisionsfrom1904inSt.Louis”Paper2:MarkJendrysik(UniversityofNorthDakota),“CommunitiesofTotalCommitment:TheUtopianLegacyofPlatoandSparta”Paper3:FrancescaRusso(UniversitySuorOrsolaBenincasa),“TheUtopiaofthePerfectCityintheEarlyRenaissanceItalianCulture:VeniceasaMythandAsaReality”Paper4:ChristianMontague(UniversityofMemphis),“HegelandSocialization”Reception:6:30pm-8:30pmPleasejoinusforinformaldiscussion,getreacquaintedwithfamiliarcolleagues,andmeetnewones.SATURDAY—November11,2017Registration 7:30am-5:00pmContinentalBreakfast(LobbyIII) 7:00am-8:30amSESSION8 8:30am-10:00am

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8.A:UtopiaandIdeologyChair:CrystalBartolovich(SyracuseUniversity)Presenter1:AntonisBalasopoulos(UniversityofCyprus),“Conrad,IdeologyandUtopia”Presenter2:PhillipE.Wegner(UniversityofFlorida),“ReadingforUtopia;or,TheEventoftheNewCriticismandtheFateofTheRepublic”Presenter3:CrystalBartolovich(SyracuseUniversity),“SpeciesBeingasUtopiaintheAnthropocene”8.B:ReevaluatingUtopiainU.S.LiteraryRepresentationsoftheAfricanDiasporaChair:EdwardChan(WasedaUniversity)Respondent:JustinNordstrom(PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,Hazleton)Presenter1:DavidLemke(UniversityofMinnesota,TwinCities),“TheIllusoryPromisesofFreedom:FrederickDouglassandtheUtopiaofLiberation”Presenter2:JeffreyTucker(UniversityofRochester),“Utopianism,Anti-utopianism,andCulturalAppropriation:MikeResnick’sKirinyaga”Presenter3:JulieFiorelli(LoyolaUniversityChicago),“RaceandUtopiainMatJohnson’sPym”8.C:UtopianReflectionsonReligionandFaithChair:Paper1:LymanTowerSargent(UniversityofMissouri-St.Louis),“ReligioninLateTwentiethandEarly21stCenturyU.S.Utopianism”Paper2:MarkAllison(OhioWesleyanUniversity),“UtopianCognition:GeorgeEliot,BeatriceWebb,andtheConceptof‘EmotiveThought’”Paper3:KarlHardy(Queen'sUniversity),“ThePresentMomentasUtopia:MindfulnessMeditationasUtopianPractice”Break(LobbyIII) 10:00am-10:15am

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SESSION9 10:15am-11:45am9.A:GenderandRaceinUtopiasandDystopiasChair:Paper1:AlexanderHall(KentStateUniversity),“ReactivatingAtwood:Hulu’sLGBTQ-infusedAdaptationofTheHandmaid’sTale”Paper2:SamadritaKuiti(UniversityofConnecticut),“TaintedSisterhood:TheSpectersofClass,Religion,andColonialisminRokeyaHossain’sTwoFeministUtopias”Paper3:DanielAbitz(GeorgiaStateUniversity),“LillianJonesHorace’sFiveGenerationsHenceanditsPlaceinU.S.Women’sUtopianLiteratureCanon”Paper4:MarkTabone(UniversityofTennessee,Knoxville),“UtopiaatHomeinToniMorrison’sHome”9.B:HighlightingRacein/andUtopiaChair:PatriciaVentura(SpelmanCollege)Presenter1:PatriciaVentura(SpelmanCollege),“ThinkingThroughRaceandUtopia”Presenter2:CharlesW.Nuckolls(BrighamYoungUniversity),“NineteenthCenturyUtopianismandtheAttemptedReformofaNativeAmericanTribe:FromFourieristSocialExperimenttoMassMurder”Presenter3:JasonPaoloTelles(UniversityofthePhilippinesBaguio),“ThroughIndigenousLenses:EcotopiaAccordingtoIgorot-ProducedMusicVideos”Presenter4:EdwardK.Chan(WasedaUniversity),“TheWhiteNationalistUtopiaandtheReproductionofVictimizedWhiteness”9.C:UtopiaandRevolutionaryThoughtChair:

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Paper1:GregoryClaeys(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon),“UtopiaandRevolution:TheCaseofKarlMarx”Paper2:CsabaToth(CarlowUniversity),“’Workers’Commonwealth’:UtopianElementsinSyndicalistTheoryandPractice”Paper3:SeanConnolly(BluefieldStateCollege),“NeoliberalUtopiaandtheFrontier”Paper4:PaulMazzocchi(YorkUniversity),“TheUtopiaofCouncils:InstitutionandSimulacrainMiguelAbensour”BusinessLunch:11:45am-1:45pm(Location:TBD)SESSION10 2:00pm-3:30pm10.A:UtopiainDesignandConceptChair:Paper1:SandjarKozubaev(GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology),“UtopianObjects:VannevarBush’sMemexandSpeculatingwithThings”Paper2:CanMertKökerer(TheNewSchoolforSocialResearch),“ArtandPoliticsinFreetownChristiania:RepresentingDiscontentthroughArtisticPractice”Paper3:PatrickSchmidt(MacalesterCollege),AMorePerfectUtopia:Sustainabilityand21stCenturyDanishArchitecturePaper4:RobertBirdwell(FurmanUniversity),“UtopiaasEssentiallyContestedConcept”10.B:ScienceFiction,Technology,andtheFutureChair:Paper1:BrianGreenspan(CarletonUniversity),“StrangeCognitions:SFandtheMetanovum”Paper2:DaynaJeffrey(YorkUniversity),“ThePromiseandPerilofTechnology:ExaminedThroughtheSingularityMovement”

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Name:PeterMarks(UniversityofSydney),“WhenDataMetIntimacy:SurveillanceandDesireinSpikeJonze'sHer”10.C:Roundtable:SuvinTodayChair:HughO'Connell(UniversityofMassachusettsBoston)Presenter1:PhilipWegner(UniversityofFlorida)Presenter2:RobertWood(IrvineValleyCollege)Presenter3:PatrickWhimarsh(BostonUniversity)Presenter4:GerryCanavan(MarquetteUniversity)Presenter5:JonLewis(TroyUniversity)Break(LobbyIII) 3:30pm-3:45pmSESSION11 3:45pm-5:15pm11.A:Roundtable:TeachingUtopiasinDystopianTimesChair:EttaMadden(MissouriStateUniversity)Presenter1:EttaMadden(MissouriStateUniversity)Presenter2:AnneGessler(UniversityofHouston-ClearLake)Presenter3:CandisPizzetta(JacksonStateUniversity)Presenter4:PeterSands(UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee)11.B:BibliographiesinUtopianStudiesPresenter:LymanTowerSargent(UniversityofMissouri-St.Louis)11.C:TwentyandTwenty-FirstCenturyDystopiasandAnti-UtopiasChair:

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Paper1:ThomasHoran(TheCitadel),“’RogerWhoCarriedDeathInHisHands’:TheModelofModernTotalitarianisminWilliamGolding’sLordoftheFlies”Paper2:HeatherBloor(MurdochUniversity),“EdenorUtopia:ImagesofEternityinJ.G.Ballard'sTheDrownedWorld”Paper3:KellyDrumright(UniversityofColoradoatBoulder),“NightmarishMatriarchiesinInterwarReactionaryUchroniasfromSpain:TheCaseofElparaísodelasmujeres[ParadiseofWomen](1922)byVicenteBlascoIbáñezandElarchipiélagomaravilloso:aventurasfantasmagóricas[TheWondrousArchipelago:PhantasmagoricAdventures](1923)byLuisAraquistáin”Paper4:GerryCanavan(MarquetteUniversity),“AftertheTruthIsFinishedwithYou:Behaviorism,InfiniteJest,andUtopia”

DinnerOnYourOwnSUNDAY—November12,2017Breakfast(LobbyIII) 7:00am-8:00amCLOSINGREMARKS (LobbyIII) 8:00am-8:30am