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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 original singer, […]

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 materials are constantly being archived and made available to the public […]

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

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, Pennsylvania October 20-23, 2011 The 2011 Society for […]