Monday 1 July
Arrivals and Conference Registration 12.00 – 16.30 New Lanark Mill Hotel
17.00 Opening Plenary Session (Robert Owen School Theatre)
Welcome by Fátima Vieira, Chair of the Utopian Studies Society
Tribute to Iain M Banks by Andrew Milner
Keynote address: Gregory Claeys "Robert Owen 1813-1817: The Road to Utopia"
19.30 Evening meal (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Mill Hotel)
Tuesday 2 July
9.00-11.00 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
The Garden as Utopia I
Chair: Iolanda Ramos
Annette Giesecke (University of Delaware, USA) "The Good Gardener and Ideal Gardens of State"
Teresa Botelho (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) "Stumbling on Joy, Yielding to Fear: The Garden as a Utopian
Possibility and Dystopian Nightmare in Amy Waldman's The Submission”
Peter Galambos (New School for Social Research, USA) "Guilty Gardens: On the Un-Natural Nature of the Utopian
Landscape"
Utopian Literature I
Chair: Fátima Vieira
Emine Şentürk (Atilim University, Turkey) "The Rearrangement: Harmony Brought by Physical Borders but in
Psychological Terms in Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom"
Jack Fennell (University of Limerick, Ireland) "Joseph O'Neill and the Horrors of Yesteryear"
Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) "Fables of Revolution: Badiou, Plato and cinematic science
fiction"
Pavla Veselá (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) "Post-Apocalyptic Configurations in The Long Tomorrow of
Leigh Brackett"
Utopia, Dystopia and Film I
Chair: Justyna Galant
Andrzej Kowalczyk (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland) "The World in (dis)harmony: An
Interpretation of Yevgeni Sherstobitov’s film adaptation of The Andromeda Nebula"
Katarzyna Pisarska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland) "Seeing the Other Side of the Hill: Personal
Transformation and Social Stasis in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon"
Maria Teresa Lobo Castilho (University of Porto, Portugal) "Going Back to the Past to Dream of the Future in
Spielberg's Lincoln"
Utopian Theory and Method
Chair: Vince Geoghegan
Jill Belli (City University of New York, USA) "Not Happiness, but Hope: Reframing the Current Debates on Well-Being"
Anne Melano (Monash University, Australia) "The importance of Outopia"
Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University, UK) "Vibrant Matter and Lively Networks: Life and Utopia in Post-natural
Theorising"
Lynne Copson (University of Edinburgh, UK) "Excavating the Architecture of Social Theories: Topographies of Harm"
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11-11.25 Coffee (Robert Owen Room)
11.25 - 13.15 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
Utopia, Art, Music
Chair: Tom Moylan
Jacqueline Dutton (University of Melbourne, Australia) "Monet’s Utopian Impressionism"
Robert Hunter (Independent Scholar, UK) "Sounding Utopia: Late Style, Abstraction and Negation in Music"
Ruth Levitas (University of Bristol, UK) "What News from Nowhereisland?"
Robert Owen's Communitarian Socialism I
Chair: Gregory Claeys
Ian Donnachie (The Open University, UK) "A Lantern in the Darkness? How Far Was Owen's Reform Agenda
Influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment?"
Ophélie Siméon (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France) "New Lanark as a 'Model Community': the making of a British
Socialist Tradition"
Jose Ramon Alvarez Layna (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain) "Robert Owen: A Reconsideration"
Architecture and Utopia I
Chair: Elizabeth Russell
Eric Litwack (Queen’s University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre). "Utopianism in 1930s Modern
American Architecture: Technology and Futuristic Perspectives"
Maxim Shadurski (University of Edinburgh, UK) "The Architecture and Institutional Framework of a World-State:
Future London in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World"
Nathaniel Coleman (Newcastle University, UK) "Upturned Boat: The Possible Utopianism of the New Scottish
Parliament Building"
Utopian Literature II
Chair: Pere Gallardo
Luis Alfredo Intersimone (Texas State University, USA) "The Literary Utopias of Rayuela"
Milene Baldo (State University of Campinas, Brazil) "A Utopia Wherein Nature is an Instrument of State"
Kenneth Hanshew (University of Regensburg, Germany) "Kim Stanley Robinson and the Russians"
Marco Lauri (Independent Scholar) "The Nightingales Sing in the Garden of Geometry"
13.15-14.15 Lunch (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Hotel)
14.15 -16.00 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre )
or Visit New Lanark exhibitions / Search Room / Roof Garden, etc.
Utopia and Social Theory
Chair: Pavla Veselá
Xin Mao (King's College London, UK) "Utopian Community in the Works of Emmanuel Levinas: An Ontological Revolt"
Andrew Bridges (Claremont Graduate University, USA) "A Harmony Found in Determinism: How the Negation of Free
Will Structures Utopian Communities"
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José Eduardo Reis (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal) "The Idea of Progress and the Theory of
Cosmological Evolution of Teilhard de Chardin"
Nineteenth-Century Communitarianism I
Chair: Tim Miller
Peter Evans (University of Bristol, UK) "Phalanstėres and Social Palaces in British and American Socialist Utopias c.
1888-1900"
Annette Magid (SUNY Erie Community College, USA) "Failed Dreams: A Study of Utopian Communities Proposed by
Ann Lee, Charles Fourier and Edward Bellamy"
Richard Howells, (King’s College London, UK) “Discord in Harmonie”, George Rapp’s Communities Illustrated
16.00 - 16.45 Afternoon Tea and Welcome to the Book Room (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Hotel)
17.00 - 18.30 Choice of 2 Panels (Hotel Conference Centre)
Anarchism, Communism + Utopianism
Chair: Artur Blaim
Tony Burns (University of Nottingham) "On the Possibility of a Constructive Dialogue between Marxism and
Anarchism: The Case of Ursula K. Le Guin"
Christos Memos (University of Abertay Dundee) "From Uprisings to Self-Institution: Outburst, Bridges, and Openings"
Hugo Radice (University of Leeds) "Utopian Socialism and the Marxist Critique of Political Economy"
Lawrence Wilde (Nottingham Trent University) "The Question of Communism in More's Utopia"
Democracy & Ecological Sustainability
Chair: Laurence Davis
Marius de Geus (University of Leiden, Netherlands) "Concepts of Nature and Sustainability in the Ecological Utopian
Tradition"
Lucy Sargisson (University of Nottingham, UK) "A Democracy of Nature: Taking a Utopian Approach"
Laurence Davis (University College Cork, Ireland) "Green Imperatives, Democratic Politics, and the Grounded Utopian
Imagination"
18.45-19.30 (Hotel Conference Centre)
Utopian visions of the essentials of life – home, house-keeping and food!
Chair: Lorna Davidson
Lyman Tower Sargent (University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA) "Domestic Life in Utopian Literature"
Jane Levi (King's College London, UK) "Charles Fourier's Gastrosophy: A Utopian Vision of Food"
20.00 Evening meal, including some Fourier-themed items! (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Mill Hotel)
Wednesday 3 July
9.00 -11.00 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century Communitarianism
Chair: Jim Arnold
Christine Garwood (University of Hertfordshire, UK) "From Metro-land to Milton Keynes: The Making of a Later
Twentieth-Century Utopia"
Pere Gallardo (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) "Villa Europa: Between Utopian Initiative and Commercial
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Enterprise"
Tim Miller (University of Kansas, USA) "Utopia Interrupta: Change and Longevity in Intentional Communities”
Chris Coates (Independent Scholar, UK) "A Myth-Busting Tour of Communal Living in Britain 1939-2000"
Architecture and Utopia II
Chair: Nathaniel Coleman
Emiliano Ranocchi (University of Udine, Italy) "Utopian/Dystopian Architecture in Jerzy Sosnokowski's Mad
Cathedral"
Amy Butt (bpr Architects, UK) "Between the Imaginary and the Built: Dystopia as Architectural Critique"
Elizabeth Russell (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) "Cityscapes: Dubai Reaching for the Sky"
Spaces of Disharmony I
Chair: Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim
Artur Blaim (Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) "Another Utopia Falls - Representing the Failure of
Utopian Projects in Two Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding's Lord of the Flies"
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) "From Fear to Hopelessness:
Dystopian Worlds in the Film Adaptations of 1984"
Justyna Galant (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland) "Margaret Atwood's and Volker
Schlöndorff’s The Handmaid's Tale. The production of meaning in social spaces"
Ian Fraser (Loughborough University, UK) "Bloch on Film as Utopia: Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives"
11.00-11.25 Coffee (Robert Owen Room)
11.25 - 13.15 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
The Garden as Utopia II
Chair: Annette Giesecke
Iolanda Ramos (New University of Lisbon/CETAPS, Portugal) "The Ideal Garden: Flower Imagery and Female Identity
in Victorian Society"
William Rubel (Independent Scholar, UK) "The Early Modern Kitchen Garden. Edenic Harmony within Four Walls”
Sufen Sophia Lai (Grand Valley State University, USA) "The Poetics of Utopian Pursuits: Chinese Literati in the
Garden"
Barbara Klonowska (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) "Secret utopia in The Secret Garden by
Agnieszka Holland"
Cities as Utopian Spaces
Chair: Christine Garwood
Sıla Karataş (Çankaya University, Turkey) "The Functional City between Utopia and Reality"
Iveta Nakládalová (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) "Utopian City and the Topography of the Sacred"
Borjana Dodova (Film and TV School, Academy of Performing Arts, Czech Republic) "The City Inside a House"
Nineteenth Century Communitarianism II
Chair: Lorna Davidson
Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) "Et in Utopiâ ego: A Reassessment of Robert Southey’s (Anti-)
Utopianism"
Maria Isabel Donas Botto (University of Coimbra, Portugal) "Remains of an industrial past: two Portuguese
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nineteenth-century model villages".
Diane Morgan (University of Leeds, UK) “Polyphonic Architecture” and the Right to a Different Way of Living: The
C19th. French Utopian Socialists’ Challenge to Building Today.
13.15-14.15 Lunch (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Hotel)
14.15 -16.00 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
Robert Owen's Communitarian Socialism II
Chair: Ian Donnachie
Manuela Salau Brasil (Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil) "Owing to Owen: Contributions to Solidarity
Economy"
Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University) “Society is a Beautiful and Simple Science”: The Aesthetics of Owenite
Socialism”
Caroline Dale “Docey” Lewis & Owen Lewis (New Harmony) “Threading Our Way” : The application of David Dale
and Robert Owen’s principles of enlightened capitalism to their textile workshops in New Harmony and Nepal and in
their partnerships with fair trade organizations in Senegal and Bangladesh.
Utopia and Creativity
Chair: Lisa Garforth
Adam Stock (Newcastle University, UK) "Utopia, Dystopia and Bodies of Information"
Dan Smith (Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK) "Corpothetics: Art, making and utopian impulse"
Peter Marks (University of Sydney, Australia) "Securing the Borders: Monitoring Utopian and Dystopian
Environments in Times of Climate Crisis"
Spaces of Disharmony II: Between Texts and Adaptations
Chair: Artur Blaim
Grzegorz Maziarczyk (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) "A self-fulfilling dystopia: Leslie Libman
and Larry Williams’ film adaption of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley"
Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim (University of Gdańsk, Poland) "Topography of Noise in Two Film Adaptations of Kurt
Vonnegut’s 'Harrison Bergeron'”
Mateusz Liwiński (The John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland) "Utopia of Passion: A Fragmented View on
Blade Runner"
Marta Komsta (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland) "The Remains of Eden in Mark Romanek’s Never
Let Me Go (2010)"
Or visits to New Lanark / Search Room / Roof Garden etc.
16.00-16.45 Tea (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Hotel)
16.45 – 18.00 (Hotel Conference Centre) Round Table
Ruth Levitas - Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
Chair: Laurence Davis (Panel: Ruth Levitas, Tom Moylan, Vincent Geoghegan, Laurence Davis and Lucy Sargisson)
18.00 - 19.15 free time – walk to Falls of Clyde etc.
19.30 - 23.00 (approx.) Drinks Reception, Music & Conference Dinner (Institute for the Formation of Character)
Special Guests: Docey & Owen Lewis, New Harmony (Robert Owen descendants)
Guest Speaker: Michael Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education & Lifelong Learning in the Scottish
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Government
Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland: members of the Scottish Opera orchestra
Thursday 4 July
9.30-11.00 Parallel sessions (Hotel Conference Centre)
Utopia, Transformation and Futurology
Chair: Jacqueline Dutton
Darren Webb (University of Sheffield, UK) "Pedagogies of Hope"
Andrew Milner (Monash University, Australia and Institut für Englische Philologie, Freie Universität, Berlin,
Germany) "The Sea and Eternal Summer: Utopia as Futurology"
Fátima Vieira (University of Porto, Portugal) "Promoting utopian thinking, transforming society"
Architecture, Urban Planning and Utopia
Chair: Antonis Balasopoulos
Matteo Trincas (Università di Cagliari, Italy) "The legacy of Community: Adriano Olivetti’s utopic social and Urban
model for the reconstruction and its aftermath in contemporary planning"
Matt Thomson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)"A Revived Role for Utopianism in 21st-Century Town Planning"
11.00 - 12.00 Coffee and Annual General Meeting of the Utopian Studies Society. (Robert Owen Room, New Lanark Hotel)
12.00 - 13.30 Parallel Sessions (Hotel Conference Centre )
Architecture and Utopia III
Chair: Nathaniel Coleman
Donald Dunham (Philadelphia University, USA) "The End of Perfection? Utopian Problematics in Architectural
Pedagogy and Practice"
Fredrik Torisson (University of Lund, Sweden) "From Reading to Writing: Two Perspectives on Architecture and
Utopia"
Nicholas Anastasopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) "Architecture typologies and cities:
embodiment or impediment to utopias"
Teaching Utopianism – Presentation & Discussion led by Greg Claeys
or Visits to New Lanark exhibitions, Search Room, Roof Garden, etc.
13.30 Closing Remarks followed by lunch (Robert Owen Room- New Lanark Hotel)
14.45 Depart for Portrack - Optional excursion to Charles Jencks’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Visits to New Lanark exhibitions/Falls of Clyde/ Roof Garden/ Search Room, etc.
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