“Global Flows”
Fortieth Annual Meeting Program
Omni William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 5-8, 2015
http://utopian-studies.org/ocs/index.php/conference/2015
Welcome to Pittsburgh
… and to the fortieth Annual Conference of The Society for Utopian Studies.
This year’s conference boasts around 150 separate papers, not including
several workshops, roundtables, posters and performances. The theme of
“Global Flows” has suggested a diversity of topics and theoretical
engagements that promise to affirm the commitment of so many of us to
Utopian Studies as a field – and to utopianism as not just “hope” but as the
foundation for personal and political practice.
You also have the thriving city of Pittsburgh to enjoy (not to mention this
hotel!) and while you are here feel free to contact local conference
coordinator, Cliff Manlove, if you have any questions.
“Welcome” to first-time participants, and “welcome back” to the veterans,
several of whom attended that first conference in 1976, and nearly every one
since.
I hope each of you has a successful conference!
--Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, President, SUS (2015-2017) and
Cliff Manlove, Local Conference Organizer 2015
Thank you to Penn State University-Allegheny for its generous
financial support of the 2015 SUS Conference.
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
The Society for Utopian Studies 2015 Conference Schedule
THURSDAY—November 5, 2015
Breakfast
7:00a.m. -- 9:00a.m. in the Frick Room (on one side)
Conference Registration
8:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m. in the Frick Room (on the other side)
SESSION I 9:00a.m.—10:30 a.m.
I.1 Conference A—Housekeeping
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Naomi Jacobs (University of Maine)
“Homemaking in Hell: Domestic Idylls in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction”
Justin Nordstrom (Penn State-Hazleton)
“Utopia in the Kitchen and on the Air: Imagined Communities in Early Twentieth-Century America”
Francie Robb (Independent Scholar)
“Pittsburgh’s Summer Colony: Creating a Summer Utopian Society, 1890-1920”
I.2 Conference B—Global Concerns
Chair: Emrah Atasoy (Hacettepe University)
Maria Erofeeva (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences)
“ANTi-utopia: New Perspective on Utopian Imagination in Theoretical Thinking”
Ugur Yıldız (Carleton University)
“Refugee Mobility and Acts of Transgression at the Border”
I.3 Phipps—Journeys to Dystopia
Chair: Jarrell D. Wright (University of Pittsburgh)
Joe Kelly (College of Charleston)
“Europe’s First Maroons: The Wreck of the Sea Venture and the Social Contract”
Greg Claeys (University of London)
“Unlocking Nineteen Eighty-Four”
Mehdi Achouche (Jean Moulin University Lyon II)
“Dystopian Imagination and the "Green Peril": Muslim Immigration and (Dis)Integration in Recent
French Speculative Fiction”
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
BREAK
10:30 a.m.—-10:45a.m. in the Frick Room
UTOPIAN STUDIES ADVISORY BOARD MEETING, 10:45 a.m.—-12:15 p.m. in
Conference Room C
SESSION II 10:45-12:15
II.1
Conference A—Reimagining Utopia
Chair: Francie Robb (Independent Scholar)
Heather McKnight (University of Brighton)
“Messianic Cooperisms and Fantastic Trees: Tracing the Utopian Horizons of Twin Peaks”
Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)
“Controptopia and the Films of Harmony Korine”
Paul Wilson (Ithaca College)
“Reimagining the Zambian Afronaut in Contemporary Art”
II.2
Conference B—Imagining Utopia
Chair: Greg Claeys (University of London)
Jarrell D. Wright (University of Pittsburgh)
“‘Whose liberall boord doth flow’: Ben Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst’ Reclaimed as Edenic and
Eucharistic Utopia”
Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Staging Utopia: Drama and Theater in Early British Socialism
Douglas Hong (SUNY-Stony Brook )
“Sovereign Violence, Quotidian Time, and Figures of Hope in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of
Men”
II.3
Conference C—Utopian Aspirations
Chair: Mark Jendrysik (University of North Dakota)
Mark Jendrysik (University of North Dakota)
“Ambitious Utopians?”
Nick Huber (Duke University)
“Looping State of Mind”
Mark Preslar (Sewanee: The University of the South)
“The Role of Diversity in Human Flourishing”
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
II.4
Phipps—Utopian Movement
Chair: Michael Cummings (University of Colorado-Denver)
Michael Cummings (University of Colorado-Denver)
“Correcting Our Utopias by Accident: Insights from Global Travel”
Annette Magid (SUNY Erie Community College)
“Transatlantic Flow of Ideas”
Amber Foster (University of Southern California)
“Hiking in Utopia: Mobility and Utopian Thought in Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods and Cheryl
Strayed's Wild”
LUNCH on your own
12:15 p.m.—-1:15 p.m.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
12:30 p.m.—-2:30 p.m. in Conference C
SESSION III
1:15 p.m.—-2:45 p.m.
III.1 Conference A—Art and Architecture
Chair: Annette Magid (SUNY Erie Community College)
Franziska Bork Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
“Bodies in utopia”
Marco Deyasi (University of Idaho)
“Transforming the Self: The Politics of Aesthetics in Modernist and Primitivist Art, 1890-1920”
Şebnem Çakaloğulları (Gebze Technical University)
“Form Follows Utopia: Within the Context of Architectural Phenomenon”
III.2 Conference B—Utopian Communities
Chair: Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)
John Barberet (Polk State College)
“Flowing to Utopia: Dams and Plains”
Patrick Samzun (CNRS-University of Grenoble)
“Songs of a Filibuster: Joseph Déjacque, New Orleans and the Flows of Exile”
Emrah Atasoy (Hacettepe University)
“Social Upheaval in Zülfü Livaneli’s Anti-Utopian Novel, Son Ada (The Last Island)
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
III.3 Conference C—Asian Flows
Chair: Ellen Rigsby (Saint Mary’s College of California)
Ellen Rigsby (Saint Mary’s College of California)
“Fantastic and Real Images of the World in the Flow between East and West: Sense8, Avatar,
The Last Air Bender and Images of the West in Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated Film”
Michael Mayne (Denison University)
“The Aesthetics of Singularity and the Irrefutable Argument of Development in China”
BREAK
2:45 p.m.—-3:00 p.m. in the Frick Room
SESSION IV
3:00 p.m.—-4:30 p.m.
IV.1 Conference A – Renaissance Mappings
Chair: Toby Widdicombe (University of Alaska)
Jerry Pierce (Penn State Hazleton)
“From Utopia to Diaspora: Fra Dolcino and Apostolic Heresy, 1260-1307”
Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina)
“Blinding Lights of the Blazing World: Margaret Cavendish’s Utopias as Gendered Discourses on
Proper Sensory Perception”
Peter Galambos (The New School for Social Research)
“Mapping No-Place”
IV.2 Conference B—Poetry and Poetics
Chair: Clint Jones (University of Kentucky)
Matt Hudson (Texas State University)
“Illuminators of the Multitude: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Populist Critique of the French Revolution”
Tom Eyers (Duquesne University)
“Flow, Stasis, Globality and the Utopian in Two Recent Poetic Avant-Gardes”
Cameron Ellis (George Brown College)
“Mystics, Philosophers and Poets: A Sketch for Novum Psychology (A Phenomenology of Utopia)”
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
IV.3 Conference C—Roundtable—Educating Desire: Pedagogy and Utopia
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University)
Participants:
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Nathaniel Coleman (Newcastle University)
Tom Moylan (University of Limerick)
Darren Webb (University of Sheffield)
Jill Belli (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)
IV.4 Phipps—Theoretical Perspectives
Chair: Dominic Ording (Millersville University)
Ondřej Slačálek (Charles University) & Olga Pavlova (Charles University)
“Bey vs. Dugin: Step Over or Rehabilitation of the Utopia Horizon?”
Pehr Gustaf Englén (Drew University)
“Art in Flux: The Aesthetic Utopia of Asger Jorn”
Brian Adler (Georgia Southwestern State University)
“Boo, Levinas, and Utopian Forevers”
BREAK
SESSION V
4:30 p.m.—-4:45 p.m. in the Frick Room
4:45 p.m.--6:00 p.m.
V.1
Conference A—Human Rights and Utopia
Chair: Greg Garvey (College of Brockport/SUNY)
Claire Curtis (College of Charleston)
“Aspiring to Justice, the Capabilities Approach and Reframing Human Rights”
Nancy Nester (Roger Williams University)
“The Differently-Abled in Utopian Spaces: Human Rights, Capabilities, and Dignity”
T. Gregory Garvey (College of Brockport/SUNY)
“Narrative and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
V.2
Conference B —Utopian Sympathies
Chair: Ken Roemer (University of Texas-Arlington)
Bradley Young (Graduate Center-CUNY)
“Holding our Differences in Common: Dissent and Friendship in Thomas More’s Utopia”
Dominic Ording (Millersville University)
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THURSDAY, NOV 5
“Friendship as Utopia”
Thomas D. Horan (The Citadel)
Martin Amis’s Sinister Utopian Novelist
V.3
Conference C
Skills Session: Writing, Publishing, Presenting
Presented by Greg Claeys (University of London)
V.4
Phipps—Life Form(ing) in the Anthropocene
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University)
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University)
“Becoming Plastic: Reconceptualizing Aesthetics for Art in the Anthropocene”
Anna Jane Campbell (University of Sydney)
“Replacing the lost: Extinction and Genetic Experimentation in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy”
Welcome Reception from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. (or whenever!)
Where: The Monogahela Room, located on the 17th floor
Food, cash bar, lots of talk
DINNER on your own
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FRIDAY, NOV 6
Friday—November 6, 2015,
Breakfast
7:00 a.m.-- 9:00a.m. in the Frick Room
Registration
7:30a.m.– 5:00a.m. in the Frick Room
SESSION VI
8:30a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
VI.1 Conference A— Afro-Futures
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University)
Matthew Durkin (Duquesne University)
“Yulisa Amadu Maddy's "No Past, No Present, No Future": Towards a Horizon of Queer Utopia and Disgust”
Mark Aaron Tabone (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“Globalization as Dystopia in Part IV of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood”
Clayton Colmon (University of Delaware)
“The Sounds of Community: Audiotopia, Cybersoul, and Afrofuturist Music”
VI.2 Conference B--U/Dystopian Representations
Chair: Michael Mayne (Denison University)
Ethan Bumas (New Jersey City University)
“Once Upon a Time Where the Time Tends to Remain the Same: A Group Exile from, or to, an Imaginary
Land”
C. Wylie Lenz (Florida Polytechnic University)
“Three Cinematic Utopian Visions of the Great Depression”
Clint Jones (University of Kentucky)
“Banksy’s Dismaland: The Aesthetic of Apocalypse or Dystopia?”
VI.3 Conference C—Eugenics and Reproduction
Chair: Greg Claeys (University of London)
Stephanie Peebles Tavera (University of Texas at Arlington)
“Gyn/outopia: Gynecology, Eugenics, and the Birth Control Movement in Gilman’s Herland”
Timothy S. Murphy (Oklahoma State University)
“Physiology is Destiny: The Fate of Eugenic Utopia in Lovecraft and Stapledon”
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FRIDAY, NOV 6
Mikayla Zagoria-Moffet (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Surrogacy and Reproductive Dystopias in Young Adult Speculative Fiction”
VI.4 Phipps—Roundtable: Teaching 1984
A roundtable discussion around teaching Orwell’s speculative masterpiece. Roundtable organizer: Thomas D.
Horan (The Citadel)
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Claire Curtis (University of Charleston)
Thomas D. Horan (The Citadel)
Cliff Manlove (Penn State-Allegheny)
Greg Claeys (University of London)
BREAK
10:00 a.m.--10:15 a.m.--in the Frick Room
SESSION VII
10:15 a.m.--11:45 a.m.
VII.1 Conference A—Utopian Flows, Up, Down, Around
Chair: Nathaniel Coleman (University of Newcastle)
Jill Belli (New York State College of Technology, CUNY)
“Happiness Flows: Uncovering the Infrastructure Driving the Global Resurgence of Well-Being”
Eric Laursen (University of Utah)
“Soviet Futurama: Energy Flow at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York”
Catherine McGuire (Registered Architect, LEED AP, NCARB)
“Sustainable Neighborhoods and Recreating a Sense of Community”
VII.2 Conference B—Aftermaths
Chair: Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Yuliya Ladygina (Sewanee: The University of the South)
“Ol’ha Kobylians’ka’s WWI Fiction: Cultural Encounters during the War and their Aftermath for Ukraine’s
Postwar Liberationist Movement”
Julia Chan (Yale University)
“Exiled in Utopia: Conrad and the Russian Revolutionaries in London”
Beate Rodewald (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
“Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before: Postmodern World(s) After Theory”
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FRIDAY, NOV 6
VII.3 Conference C—Politics of Unrest
Chair: Peter Sands
Lyman Tower Sargent (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
“Crime and Punishment in Utopia”
Giuseppe Sciara (University of Genova)
“Utopia as a political programme: Giuseppe Maranini between the Last Months of Italian Fascism and the
Beginning of Resistance”
Mehmet Dosemeci (Bucknell University)
“The Kinetics of our Discontent: Social Arrest and the Space of Political Utopia”
LUNCH on your own
11:45 a.m.---1:00 p.m.
SESSION XIII. Open Session (Phipps Room) : “TEACHING UTOPIA” FOR UNDERGRADUATES
This open session is organized by Shashi Khurana, University of Delhi.
SESSION IX
1:00 p.m.--2:30 p.m.
IX.1 Conference A—Technology and Narrative
Chair: Toby Widdicombe (University of Alaska)
Brian Greenspan (Carleton University)
“Spex Fiction: Narrating the Augmented City”
Judy Ehrentraut (University of Waterloo)
“Wearables of the Future: Posthuman Bodies Breaking Boundaries”
Irene Morrison (University of California-Riverside)
Aqua-terrorism, Hacking, and Metaphors of Flow in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
IX.2 Conference B—Imagining Progress
Chair: Jill Belli (New York State College of Technology, CUNY)
Drew Canfield (Roger Williams University)
“Institutionalized Divisions: Declining Utopian Prospects and the Growing Social Divide between STEM and
Liberal Arts Students”
Peter Sands (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“The End of Education, the Eclipse of Hope, the Death of Utopia: A Polemic”
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FRIDAY, NOV 6
Victor Vakhshtayn (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration)
“‘Non-distant World’ or ‘Global Disentanglement’? Sociology of Technology between Two Utopian
Narratives”
IX.3 Conference C—Politics Then, Now, and Not-Yet
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
David Lemke (University of Minnesota)
“Freedom from What?: Milton Friedman's Utopias”
Gib Prettyman (Penn State-Fayette)
“Molecular Red Mars: Wark, Robinson, and the Politics of the Anthropocene”
John-Patrick Schultz (Villanova University)
“Prefigurative Politics and the Time of Utopia”
IX.4 Phipps--Human Nature
Chair: Beate Rodewald (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Paul Mazzocchi (York University)
“‘The Human is a Dystopian/Utopian Animal’: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Human Nature and
Utopia”
Sarah Hogan (Wake Forest University)
“A Peninsula Made an Island: Early Myths of Continental Drift”
Sarah Lohmann (Durham University)
“‘I Swim a Different Stream’: The Dynamic Global Complexity of Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of
Time and Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean”
BREAK
2:30 p.m.--2:45 p.m. in the Frick Room
SESSION X
2:45 p.m.--4:15 p.m.
X.1
Conference A—Race in America
Chair: Edward Chan (Aichi University)
Courtney Novosat (West Virginia University)
“(Re)imagining White America in the Nineteenth Century: Utopian Studies and its “Negro Problem"
Rosemary Millar (University of North Carolina School of the Arts)
“Flow of Rejection: The Colour of Utopia in Toni Morrison's Paradise”
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Julie Fiorelli (Loyola University of Chicago)
“The Future Re-worked: Racialized Global Labor in U.S. Utopian Novels”
X.2
Conference B—Bodies and Health in Utopia
Chair: Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Derek Ettensohn (Sewanee: The University of the South)
“‘The Infinitely Small’: Germs and Utopian Dwelling in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason”
Kimberly Gavalchik-Young (University of New Hampshire)
“Contagious Smiles: The Flow of Infection and Affection in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies”
Mark Brand (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Growing Old in Utopia: Age as Identity Politics in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague”
X.3
Conference C—Literature II
Chair: Annette Magid (SUNY Erie Community College)
Sara Di Alessandro (Universitá degli Studi di Milano)
“Flowing through Writing / Writing through Flowing: The Dystopic Experiment of A Painter.
Johannes Ilmari Auerbach and The Suicide-Competition”
Sarah Hakimzadeh (University of Pittsburgh)
“From Trauma to Transcendence: Reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao through the
Lens of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis”
Kate Haffey (University of Mary Washington)
“‘The Last Summer of its Kind’: Queer Utopia and AIDS in Contemporary British Fiction”
X.4
Phipps—Posters & Demonstrations
Anupama Jain (University of Pittsburgh)
“Color Me Pittsburgh & Racial Dystopias”
Kaleema Sumareh (Wayne State University)
“Billie: An After Life Travel with Billie Holiday”
Margaret L Signorella (Penn State Greater Allegheny) &Veronica Montecinos (Penn State
Greater Allegheny)
“Crossing borders without a passport”
BREAK
4:15 p.m.--4:30 p.m. in the Frick Room
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FRIDAY, NOV 6
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
4:30 p.m.--6:00 p.m.
Conference A
Professor Rose J. Jolly, Weiss Chair of the Humanities
Penn State University-University Park
The Ebola Outbreak of 2014: Zombification and Utopian Necropolitics
at Work in the Global Post-Colony
Abstract: This presentation identifies the link between the cultural phenomena of slavery and zombification
as a way of tracing fantasies of racialized Utopias and their realizable effects on the biopolitics of health in
postcolonial populations. Reflecting specifically upon the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Guinea in
2014, Jolly explores what she calls the globalization of a necropolitical American utopia. This presentation
identifies the link between the cultural phenomena of slavery and zombification as a way of tracing fantasies
of racialized Utopias and their realizable effects on the biopolitics of health in postcolonial populations.
Reflecting specifically upon the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014, Jolly explores a
triangulation of black subject-Ebola-zombification horror that at once betrays a fascination with the racialized
other as “desubjectified,” even as we continue to depend on slavery and post-slave economics that create
conditions of the “slow death” of African subjects.
Biography: Professor Rosemary Jolly, Weiss Chair of Literature and Human Rights, (BA Saskatchewan; MA
and PhD Toronto) is an expert on the relations between the aesthetic characteristics of narratives -- personal,
fictional, political and testimonial – and the advocacy for and achievement of the lived experience of human
rights in the lives of vulnerable populations. Dr. Jolly’s research focuses on narratives, written and oral, from
southern Africa. Her work explores the relations between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS among racially
stigmatized populations; and the lives of victims of state-sponsored torture.
DINNER on your own
***SPECIAL SESSION: 6:30 p.m.--8:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE A***
Bring-Your-Own-Dinner to the Movies! Chair: Hoda Zaki (Hood College)
Organized by Hoda Zaki (Hood College) & Tom Moylan (University of Limerick)
Viewing (80 minutes) and discussion of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
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SATURDAY, NOV 7
Saturday—November 7, 2015
Registration
Breakfast
7:30 a.m.—12 p.m. in the Frick Room
7:00 a.m.--9:00a.m. in the Frick Room
SESSION XI
8:45-10:15
XI.1 Conference A—Roundtable: “Utopia and Feminism, Then and Now”
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University)
Angelika Bammer (Emory College of Arts and Sciences)
Claire Curtis (College of Charleston)
Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottowa)
Ildney Cavalcanti (Federal University of Alagoas)
XI.2 Conference B—The State’s Utopian Fight against the Dystopian
Chair: Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
“The Spreading Plague: Globalization and Infectious Diseases”
Andrew Byers (Duke University)
“Surveillance and the State: Utopian and Dystopian Aspects”
Alice Fischer (Bryn Mawr College) & Colin Hanna (Bryn Mawr College) “Utopia and the Social Services:
Imagination, Process and Disruption”
XI.3 Conference C—When to Say “No” to the Flow: The Utopian Politics of Mass Cultural Forms
Chair: Ken Roemer (Universi9ty of Texas-Arlington)
Phillip E. Wegner (University of Florida)
“Optimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will: On the Militant Utopianism of David Mitchell’s Cloud
Atlas”
Rob Seguin (Hartwick College)
“From Realism to Science Fiction: Some Problems in Utopian Representation”
Nils Oliver Klowait (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences)
“The Fluid Identity of the Hivemind”
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SATURDAY, NOV 7
XI.4 Phipps Utopian Geologies
Chair: Racheal Forlow (University of Pittsburgh)
Racheal Forlow (University of Pittsburgh)
“Walt Whitman’s Geologic Imagination and the Future”
Dan Malinowski (Rutgers University)
“Should We Eat the Dirt? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Geology, and New Materialism”
Bradley Fest (University of Pittsburgh)
“Speculative Criticism, Black Metal Theory, and Utopia”
BREAK
10:15 a.m.--10:30a.m. in the Frick Room
SESSION XII
10:30a.m.--11:45a.m.
XII.1 Conference A Utopian Fantasies?
Chair: Andrew Byers (Duke University)
Clarence Tweedy (University of Mary Washington)
“Revolutionary Fantasies: Violence, Catharsis, and Imagining Afrotopia in the Fiction of Chester Himes and
Sam Greenlee”
Diana Q. Palardy (Youngstown State University)
"Into the Matrix of Contemporary Spanish Squatter Communities: Navigating through Utopian Landscapes of
Hospitality and Dystopian Landscapes of Hostility in the Novel, Okupada, by Care Santos”
Ruth Desseault (Georgia State University)
“Ecotopia: A Film In Progress”
Andy McGraw (University of Richmond)
“Listening to Utopian Atmospheres”
XII.2 Conference B Utopian Nations
Chair: Mark Jendrysik (University of North Dakota)
Lj Russum (Polk State College) & Brad Massey (Polk State College)
“Cuba: The Tolerated Nation-State as a Microtopian Reality”
Toby Widdicombe (University of Alaska Anchorage)
“Exile as Utopian Trope in Shakespeare”
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SATURDAY, NOV 7
XII.3 Conference C—On Not Going With the Flow
Chair: Phil Wegner (University of Florida)
Tanner Mirrlees (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
“Not Going With Capital’s Flow: A Critique of Hollywood’s Uncritical Dystopias”
Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus)
“Love, Politics and Utopia: On Andrei Platonov’s “Aphrodite””
Michael Brittain (University of Texas at Arlington)
“‘When Language Kills’: The Post-9/11 ‘Imagined’ and ‘Real’ in”
XII.4 Phipps—Feminism
Chair: Sarah Lohmann (Durham University)
Heather McKnight (University of Brighton)
“Mother, Martyr, Cyborg: Moving through Dystopian Dialectics of Feminine Power in Continuum”
Edward Tabor (Independent Scholar)
“No Occasion for Men: Utopian Enclosure and Gender Reversal in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of
Pleasure”
Andrew James Kettler (University of South Carolina)
“Blinding Lights of the Blazing World: Margaret Cavendish's Utopias as Gendered Discourses on Proper
Sensory Perception”
SUS Business Meeting and Luncheon from 11:45 a.m.--2:00 p.m. in the Urban Room,
which is located on the 17th floor.
SESSION XIII
2:15 p.m.--3:45 p.m.
XIII.1 Hope Room (Mezzanine level)—A Conversation: "Flow" and 21st-Century Approaches to Teaching
Utopian Studies: Tradition vs. Technology
Chair: Naomi Jacobs (University of Maine)
Participants (alphabetically):
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Jill Belli (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)
Christina Braid (Independent Scholar)
Brian Greenspan (Carleton University)
Ken Roemer (University of Texas at Arlington)
Peter Sands (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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SATURDAY, NOV 7
XIII.2 Carnegie III Young Adults & Literature
Chair: Hoda Zaki (Hood College)
Mary Elizabeth Slack (University of North Dakota)
“Children’s Utopian, Adult’s Dystopia: Youthful Optimism in Utopian Writing for Children and Young
Adults”
Burcu Kuheylan (SUNY at Stony Brook)
“‘Suffer Little Children’: The Brave New Totalitarianism of Infantile Purity”
Yu-Ting Huang (National Taiwan University)
“Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as a Utopia of Ambience”
XIII.3 Parkview East—South American Culture
Chair: Diana Q. Palardy (Youngstown State University)
Karen Faulk (Carnegie Mellon University)
“‘Recuperar el trabajo’: Utopia and the work of recovery in an Argentine cooperativist movement”
Mauricio Castillo (Rutgers University-Camden)
“Global and Local Revolutionary Flows in Muralism: Diego Rivera’s Opposing Visions of a Modern Mexico”
Kevin Pham (University of California, Riverside)
“Peace-making Empires and the Practices of Coexistence: Denis Veiras’s Borrowings from Garcilaso de la
Vega, el Inca”
XIII.4 Oakmont—“Mankind United” and Divided
Chair: Clint Jones (University of Kentucky)
Edward Chan (Aichi University)
“Multicultural Dystopia: Confronting White Fears of Race in Utopia”
Anne Gessler (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
“‘Organizing to Liberate Themselves’: The Brotherhood of
Cooperative Commonwealth, Utopian Socialism, and Interracial Cooperative Organizing in 1890s New
Orleans”
Bradley Whitsel (Penn State Fayette)
“The Utopia of Mankind United: A California Crisis Cult of the Depression Era”
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3:45 p.m.--4:00 p.m. outside the Oakmont Room
SESSION XIV
4:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOV 7
XIV.1 Hope Room (Mezzanine level)—Tensions, Prophesies, Warnings and Hope: Utopian and Dystopian
Movements in Communication and Rhetoric
Chair: Anne Czerwinski (University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)
Anne M. Czerwinski (University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)
“Utopian Visions, Dystopian Warnings, and Apocalyptic Prophesy: Toward a New Environmental
Ethic”
John Prellwitz (University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)
“An Ecological Engagement with Hitchcock’s The Birds: Reconfiguring Flows of Ideological and Material
Entanglements”
Jessica Ghilani (University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)
“The Army Just Sees Green": Utopian Meritocracy, Diversity, and Army Recruitment in the 1970s”
Julie Berman (Savannah College of Art and Design)
“Small Group Interaction in Cross-Cultural Settings as Utopia”
XIV.2 Carnegie III—Built Spaces, Spiritual Places
Chair: Etta Madden (Missouri State University)
Clancy Smith (Belmont University)
“Heaven on Earth: The Hermetic Influences on Alcott’s Utopian Vision”
Irene Cheng (California College of the Arts)
“A Frictionless Utopia: John Murray Spear’s 19th Century Spiritualist Architecture”
Gianluca Bonaiuti (Universitá di Firenze)
“Irony in perspective. Italian Utopias in contemporary architectural avant-garde”
Donald Rung (Sewanee: The University of the South) “The Utopian Toll Booths of Claude -Nicolas Ledoux”
XIV.3 Oakmont—Utopian Communities
Chair: Gib Prettyman (Penn State-Fayette)
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers (Ball State University) “Sexual Utopias and the Unconscious in Arthur Schnitzler’s
Dream Novella”
Giuseppe Sciara (University of Genova)
“Utopia as a Political Programme: Giuseppe Maranini between the Last Months of Italian Fascism and the
Beginning of Resistance”
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SAT/SUN, NOV 7-8
Edward OByrn (Penn State University)
“Huey Newton's Intercommunalist Revolutionary Theory”
XIV.4 Parkview East—Italian Utopia
Chair: Christina Perissinotto (University of Ottowa)
Daniela Spinelli (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
“The Ideal Italian State: Carta del Carnaro”
Francesca Russo (UNISOB Napoli)
“The Utopia of the Perfect Republic in Antonio Bucioloi’s Dialogi (1526-1544)
Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
“Utopia: Possibility, Necessity and Possible Worlds”
Dinner on your own
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Sunday—November 8, 2015
Breakfast 8:00 a.m.-- 10:00 a.m. in the Oakmont Room, with CLOSING REMARKS at
9:00 a.m.
SAFE TRAVELS HOME!
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INDEX
Achouche, Mehdi: I.3 (Jean Moulin University, rosebudfr@yahoo.com)
Adler, Brian: IV.4 (Georgia Southwestern State University, brian.adler@gsw.edu)
Allison, Mark A.: II.2, VIII.2 (Ohio Wesleyan University, maalliso@owu.edu)
Atasoy, Emrah: I.2, III.2 (Hacettepe University, atasoy.emrah@hacettepe.edu.tr)
Balasopoulos, Antonis: XII.3 (University of Cyprus, balasopoulos@cytanet.com.cy)
Barberet, John: III.2 (Polk State College, jbarberet@polk.edu)
Bartolovich, Crystal: (Syracuse University, clbartol@syr.edu)
Belli, Jill: IV.3, VII.1, IX.2, XIII.1 (New York City College of Technology, CUNY,
jbelli@citytech.cuny.edu)
Berman, Julie: XIV.1 (Savannah College of Art and Design, jberman@scad.edu)
Bonaiuti, Gianluca: XIV.2 (Università degli studi di Firenze, gianluca.bonaiuti@unifi.it)
Bork Petersen, Franziska: III.1 (University of Copenhagen, fbpetersen@hum.ku.dk)
Brand, Mark R.: X.2 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, brandmr@uwm.edu)
Brittain, Michael: XII.3 (The University of Texas at Arlington, brittain@uta.edu)
Bumas, Ethan Shaskan: VI.2 (New Jersey City University, ebumas@njcu.edu)
Busch, John Laurence: (Independent Historian, ebumas@njcu.edu)
Byers, Andrew: XI.2, XII.1 (Duke University, jab63@duke.edu)
Campbell, Anna Jane: V.4 (University of Sydney, anna.campbell.89@gmail.com)
Canfield, Drew Michael: IX.2 (Roger Williams University, drewmcanfield@gmail.com)
Cantrell, Joe: (Integrative Studies, UCSD, joe@joecantrell.net)
Castillo, Mauricio Andres: XIII.3 (Rutgers UniversityCamden, mauricioacastillo@gmail.com)
Chan, Edward K: XI.1, XIII.4 (Aichi University, chanedwardk@gmail.com)
Chan, Julia: VIII.2 (Yale University, Julia.chan@yale.edu)
Cheng, Irene: XIV.2 (California College of the Arts, icheng@cca.edu)
Coleman, Nathaniel: IV.3, VII.1 (Newcastle University, nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk)
Colmon, Clayton Darnell: VI.1 (The University of Delaware, clayc@udel.edu)
Cummings, Michael Stuart: II.4 (University of Colorado Denver,michaelsutopia@gmail.com)
Czerwinski, Anne M.: V.4, XIV.1 (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, czerwin@pitt.edu)
Dew, Spencer: (Centenary College of Louisiana, sdew@centenary.edu)
Deyasi, Marco: III.1 (University of Idaho, mdeyasi@uidaho.edu)
Di Alessandro, Sara: X.3 (Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), sara.dialessandro@unimi.it)
Dosemeci, Mehmet: VIII.3 (Bucknell University, md053@bucknell.edu)
Durkin, Matthew: VI.1 (Duquesne University, durkinm@duq.edu)
Dusseault, Ruth:VI.1 (Georgia State University, rdusseault@gsu.edu)
Ehrentraut, Judy: IX.1 (University of Waterloo, judy.m.e@gmail.com)
Ellis, Cameron: IV.2 (George Brown College (Toronto), Humber College (Toronto), Trent
University (Peterborough), cameron.ellis@georgebrown.ca)
Englén, Pehr Gustaf: IV.4 (Drew University, penglen@drew.edu)
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Erofeeva, Maria: I.2 (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Russian Presidential
Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Saint Petersburg State
University, malutcacnos@gmail.com)
Ettensohn, Derek M, Sewanee: X.2 (The University of the South, dmettens@sewanee.edu)
Eyers, Tom: IV.2 (Duquesne University, eyerst@duq.edu)
Faulk, Karen Ann: XIII.3 (Carnegie Mellon University, kfaulk@andrew.cmu.edu)
Fest, Bradley J.: XI.4 (University of Pittsburgh, bradfest@gmail.com)
Fiorelli, Julie Ann: X.1 (Loyola University, juliefiorelli@gmail.com)
Fischer, Alice: XI.2 (Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research,
afischer@brynmawr.edu)
Forlow, Racheal: XI.4 (University of Pittsburgh, rforlow@gmail.com)
Foster, Amber: II.4 (The University of Southern California, ambernfoster@gmail.com)
Galambos, Peter: IV.1 (The New School for Social Research, p.galambos@gmail.com)
Garforth, Lisa: (Newcastle University, lisa.garforth@ncl.ac.uk)
Garvey, Greg: V.1 (SUNY Brockport, tgarvey@brockport.edu)
Gavalchik-Young: Kimberly: X.2 (University of New Hampshire, kms253@unh.edu)
Gessler, Anne: XIII.4 (University of Houston-Clear Lake, Gessler@UHCL.edu)
Ghilani, Jessica: XIV.1 (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, jlgst83@pitt.edu)
Greenspan, Brian: IX.1, XIII.1 (Carleton University, brian.greenspan@carleton.ca)
Haffey, Kate: X.3 (University of Mary Washington, katehaffey@gmail.com)
Hakimzadeh, Sarah: X.3 (University of Pittsburgh, katehaffey@gmail.com)
Hanna, Colin: XI.2 (Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research,
channa@brynmawr.edu
Hogan, Sarah: IX.4 (Wake Forest University, hogansa@wfu.edu)
Hong, Douglas: II.2 (Stony Brook University, douglas.hong@stonybrook.edu)
Horan, Thomas Daniel: V.2, VI.4 (The Citadel, douglas.hong@stonybrook.edu)
Huang, Yu-Ting: XIII.2 (National Taiwan University, r02122008@ntu.edu.tw)
Huber, Nick: II.3 (Duke University, nah25@duke.edu)
Hudson, Matt: IV.2 (Texas State University, mh1697@txstate.edu)
Jacobs, Naomi: I.1, XIII.1 (University of Maine, Naomi_jacobs@umit.maine.edu)
Jain, Anupama: X.4 (University of Pittsburgh, anu@inclusant.com)
Jendrysik, Mark S.: II.3, XII.2 (University of North Dakota, mark.jendrysik@und.edu)
Jones, Clint: IV.2, VI.2, XIII.4 (University of Kentucky, clintwj1s@gmail.com)
Kelly, Joe: I.3 (College of Charleston, kellyj@cofc.edu)
Kettler, Andrew James: IV.1, XII.4 (University of South Carolina, kettlera@email.sc.edu)
Klowait, Nils Oliver: XI.3 (The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences,
nils.klowait@gmail.com)
Kuheylan, Burcu: XIII.2 (SUNY at Stony Brook, burcu.kuheylan@stonybrook.edu)
Ladygina, YuliyaVolodymyrivna: VII.2 (The University of the South, yvladygi@sewanee.edu)
Laursen, Eric: VII.1 (University of Utah, eric.laursen@utah.edu)
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Lemke, David: IX.3 (University of Minnesota, davidlemke113@gmail.com)
Lenz, C. Wylie: VI.2 (Florida Polytechnic University, cwylielenz@gmail.com)
Loh, Yen: (University of Florida, yloh@ufl.edu)
Lohmann, Sarah Elizabeth: IX.4, XII.4 (Durham University, s.e.lohmann@durham.ac.uk)
MacDonald, Alex: (Campion College, University of Regina, alex.macdonald@uregina.ca)
Magid, Annette M.: II.4, III.1, X.3 (SUNY Erie Community College, a_magid@yahoo.com)
Malinowski, Dan: XI.4 (Rutgers University, danmal449@gmail.com)
Martinek, Jason: (New Jersey City University, jmartinek@njcu.edu)
Massey, Brad: XII.2 (Polk State College, bmassey@polk.edu)
Mayne, Michael: III.3, VI.2 (Denison University, michaelmayne@gmail.com)
Mazzocchi, Paul: IX.4 (York University, paul_mazz@hotmail.com)
McGraw, Andy: XIV.1 (University of Richmond, amcgraw@richmond.edu)
McGuire, Catherine: VII.1 (Registered Architect, ctabormcg@patchworkmcg.com)
McKnight, Heather: II.1, XII.4 (University of Brighton, heather@magneticideals.org)
Millar, Rosemary: X.1 (University of North Carolina School of the Arts, millarr@uncsa.edu)
Montecinos, Veronica: X.4 (Penn State-Greater Allegheny, vxm11@psu.edu)
Morrison, Mary Irene: IX.1 (University of California-Riverside, morrmi26@gmail.com)
Moylan, Tom: IV.3, Special Session (Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of
Limerick, tom.moylan@ul.ie)
Murphy, Timothy S.: VI.3 (Oklahoma State University, timothy.murphy@okstate.edu)
Murray, Mitch: (University of Florida, m.murray@ufl.edu)
Nordstrom, Justin: I.1. (Penn State-Hazleton, jan13@psu.edu)
Novosat, Courtney: X.1 (West Virginia University, courtneynovosat@gmail.com)
OByrn, Edward: XIV.3 (Penn State University, eeo122@psu.edu)
Ording, Dominic: IV.4, V2. (Millersville University of Pennsylvania,
dording@millersville.edu)
Palardy, Diana Q: XII.1, XIII.3 (Youngstown State University, dqpalardy@ysu.edu)
Paravantes, Andrew: (York University, andrew_paravantes@hotmail.com)
Pavlova, Olga: IV.4 (Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague)
Peebles Tavera, Stephanie: VI.3 (University of Texas at Arlington,
tephanie.peebles@mavs.uta.edu)
Perissinotto, Cristina: XI.1, XIV.4 (University of Ottawa, cperissi@uottawa.ca)
Pham, Kevin: XIII.3 (University of California-Riverside, pham.kevin101@gmail.com)
Pierce, Jerry: IV.1 (Penn State-Hazleton, jbp13@psu.edu)
Prellwitz, John H.: XIV.1 (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, jhp15@pitt.edu)
Preslar, Mark: II.3 (University of the South, mpreslar@sewanee.edu)
Prettyman, Gib: IX.3, XIV.3 (Penn State-Fayette, cgp3@psu.edu)
Rahmlow, Kurt Edward: (University of North Texas, kurt.rahmlow@unt.edu)
Robb, Francie: I.1, II.1 (independent scholar, francie.robb@gmail.com)
Rigsby, Ellen M.: III.3 (Saint Mary's College of California, erigsby@stmarys-ca.edu)
Rodewald, Beate: VII.2, IX.4 (Palm Beach Atlantic University, Beate_Rodewald@pba.edu)
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Roemer, Ken M.: V.2, XI.3, XIII.1 (University of Texas-Arlington, roemer@uta.edu)
Rung, Donald: XIV.2 (Sewanee, drung@sewanee.edu)
Russo, Francesca: XIV.4 (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli,
ra.russo1972@gmail.com)
Russum, Lj: XII.2 (Polk State College, Lrussum@polk.edu)
Samzun, Patrick: III.2 (Associate Researcher, CNRS-University of Grenoble,
patrick.samzun@gmail.com)
Sands, Peter: VII.3, IX.2, XIII.1 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, sands@uwm.edu)
Sargent, Lyman Tower: I.1, VII.3, IX.3 (University of Missouri-St. Louis,
lyman.sargent@umsl.edu)
Schreiber-Byers: XIV.3 (Elizabeth, (Ball State University, easbyers@gmail.com)
Schultz, John-Patrick: IX.3 (Villanova University, john-patrick.schultz@villanova.edu)
Sciara, Giuseppe: VII.3, XIV.3 (University of Genoa; University of Paris 8; Vincennes-Saint
Denis, giuseppe.sciara@gmail.com)
Signorella, Margaret L: X.4 (Penn State-Greater Allegheny, msignorella@psu.edu)
Slack, Mary Elizabeth: XIII.2 (University of North Dakota-Grand Forks,
mary.slack@my.und.edu)
Slačálek, Ondřej: IV.4 (Charles University (Prague), oslacalek@gmail.com)
Smith, Clancy: XIV.2 (Belmont University, smithc4@duq.edu)
Spinelli, Daniela: XIV.4 (Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Università degli Studi di
Firenze, danispinelli@hotmail.com)
Stapleton, Patricia: X.2, XI.2 (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, pastapleton@wpi.edu)
Sumareh, Kaleema Annie: X.4 (Wayne State University, ksumareh@wayne.edu)
Tabone, Mark A.: VI.1 (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, mtabone@utk.edu)
Tabor, Edward Norman: XII.4 (Independent Scholar, ent210@alum.lehigh.edu)
Tweedy, Clarence W: XII.1 (University of Mary Washington, ctweedy@umw.edcu)
Vakhshtayn, Victor: IX.2 (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration, sociology@universitas.ru)
Ventura, Patricia: II.1, III.2 (Spelman College, pventura@spelman.edu)
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer: IV.3, V.4, VI.1, XI.1 (Penn State University, jaw55@psu.edu)
Wegner, Phil: XI.3, XII.3 (University of Florida, pwegner@ufl.edu)
Whitsel, Brad: XIII.4 (Penn State-Fayette, bcw4@psu.edu)
Widdicombe, Toby: IV.1, IX.1, XII.2 (University of Alaska-Anchorage,
rtwiddicombe@uaa.alaska.edu)
Wiehl, John: (Case Western Reserve, johnwiehl@gmail.com)
Wilson, Paul: II.1 (Ithaca College, pwilson@ithaca.edu)
Wright, Jarrell David: I.1, II.2 (University of Pittsburgh, jdw14@pitt.edu)
Yildiz, Ugur: I.2 (Carleton University, uguryildiz87@gmail.com)
Young, Bradley: V.2 (The CUNY Graduate Center, byoung2@gradcenter.cuny.edu)
Zagoria-Moffet: VI.3 (Mikayla N, CUNY Graduate Center, mikaylazm@gmail.com)
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Zaki, Hoda: Special Session, XIII.2 (Hood College, hzaki@hood.edu)
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