Alex Hall

Founder’s College at York University in Toronto presents the Political Uses of Utopia Workshop, April 18-19, 2013.

The workshop features scholars representing different traditions and perspectives within […]

New York has an artist exhibiting something that may be of interest to utopians: http://masterspelavin.com/worldwelost.

From Ken Roemer: “Via snail mail Mickey Abrash, one of the two founders (along with Art Lewis) of SUS, sent me this photo he found in his file. The photo was taken in the “Speaker’s Corner” in London. […]

About a week ago, I received a book in the mail from Indiana University Press called New Harmony Then and Now, that the press describes as follows: “New Harmony Then and Now is a photographic and historic […]

Guangyi Li says:

“For those who feel interested in Chinese utopia and science fiction, here is an important speech by David Der-wei Wang, ‘Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopias: From Luxun to Liu Cixin.’”

Check it out here.

“. . . though no one owns anything, everyone is rich.” —Thomas More

You may have seen the fliers for The Open Utopia on the tables at the Welcome Reception at this year’s SUS annual meeting, but if you […]

Yves Charles Zarka was published in the Opinion section of the NY Times yesterday, and Peter Sands sent a link out to the H-Net Utopia ListServ. Are you on H-Net? Maybe you should be. Anyway, Zarka’s opinion piece […]

The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Building Expectation: Past
and Present Visions of the Architectural Future from September 3
through November 6. An opening reception and lecture by the […]

Back in October I thought it might be interesting for Miscellaneotopia if I were to simply Google the word “utopia” and report my findings.  On the first page of search results alone, I turned up the Wikipedia page on Utopia, an online role-playing game called Utopia that has apparently been around since 1998 (plus two [...]

I recently discovered that the Ohio-based jamband əkoostik hookah has a song called “Utopia” that appeared on its first album, Under Full Sail (1991).  Although the band has been around at least since ‘91, they haven’t done much outside the Ohio regional music scene.  Nevertheless, Under Full Sail was revisited by the jam-rock band, whose…[Read more]

Happy Fall fellow Utopians! As always, we thank you all for sharing your “utopian” syllabi and assignments with us!  This collection of resources is an ongoing project, so we ask folks to continue sending contributions to sus.teaching@gmail.com (see http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/teaching.html for more details about this initiative).  These…[Read more]

The International Communal Studies Association’s new bulletin came out in May, and it was suggested that it may be of interest to SUS members, so here ya go.

ISCA Bulletin #48

(This is a re-post from the H-Utopia list.) From the founder of the Ideal Research Group, Mathieu Bonnet: I’m Mathieu Bonnet, general idealist, autodidact, French, 25 years old. In the past three years and a half, I wrote about 2.8 million words of very diverse research notes, various documents, and contact attempts, around the subject [...]

The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is currently running a stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  Joe Stollenwerk adapted the novel for the stage, and the production runs until April 20th.  Check it out: http://www.cincyshakes.com/nina-variations.html.

(Disclaimer:  I own no stock in Oxford UP.) I just finished using Lyman Tower Sargent’s Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction , as an introduction to many different forms of utopianism in a senior class.  It worked out very well and the students can literally carry the book in their pockets. So while the Texas State legislature debates [...]

Here is the CFP for this October’s Meeting again, this time updated with info about the new Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants.  PLEASE, redistribute as widely as possible.   THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES – 36th Annual Meeting Archiving Utopia – Utopia as Archive The Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State Campus State College,…[Read more]

Dave Bell writes, “At the end of 2010 I worked as the writer in residence for ‘The Bookmobile Project’, a mobile arts/theory library which formed part of Sideshow Festival in Nottingham, UK. I began the project hoping to write a ‘future-history’ of a utopian community which emerged on a (real life) tract of abandoned land [...]

THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES – 36th Annual Meeting Archiving Utopia – Utopia as Archive The Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State Campus State College, Pennsylvania October 20-23, 2011 The 2011 Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference celebrates the ongoing evolution of one of the world’s largest—and best–collections of utopian materials…[Read more]

Here’s a link to a website that is hosting a film by Dr. Garry Potter of Wilfird Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.  It came down from the H-Net Utopia listserv, H-Utopia (thanks, Pete).  Are you subscribed to the H-Utopia?  Maybe you should be.  Click here to take care of that.  The picture below is the link to [...]