Site-Wide Activity

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 in the world. The Arthur O. Lewis […]

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 […]

With the darkness surrounding me and wet snow falling, it’s hard to imagine too much utopian about Alaska. Or is it? Once again the democratic process proved that it can get it right every once in a while. It looks likely (as I predicted—you can imagine me giving myself a pat on the back right […]

Ursula K. Le Guin, who was one of two recipients of the Society for Utopian Studies’s Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship this year (the other was Peter Fitting), sent this letter to Carrie Hintz in response to receiving the award.

Well, we’ve made it through another year.  Our 35th Annual Meeting has come and gone, Milwaukee, Wisconsin having hosted us well.  To properly archive the event, a dropbox folder has been set up where you can put your pictures and anything else you like to share from the conference.  The contributions will be used to […]

Greetings Utopians! I am beginning to think about compiling the next issue of Utopus Discovered , and I was hoping some of you might have some things to offer.  Have a look around here at http://utopusdiscovered.wordpress.com to see back issues and miscellaneotopia, and please send me anything you think worthy of the next issue, which should make it […]

By “popular demand,” the Society for Utopian Studies has extended the deadline for submissions to present at its 35th Annual Meeting to July 15th .  Since the CFP is still only a couple posts below, I won’t re-post it here, but do have a look if you want to present something at the conference but were unable […]

Another little something from miscellaneotopia here. As an electric guitar player in a jamband, I’m always shopping for the next effects pedal to make noise with on stage.  I recently stumbled across the Rocktron Utopia series of floor processors, which are essentially computers that sit on the floor and generate different sound filters for whatever […]

The deadline to submit presentation proposals for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies is less than a week away, and I promised I’d post a reminder, so here ya go.  The CFP was posted here only two posts ago, so I won’t re-post the entire thing, but do remember that your […]

Utopus Discovered is back for its second issue in 2010!  In this issue: Lyman Tower Sargent clears up “dystopia,” Carrie Hintz reminisces about the water table, poetry by Ken Roemer, microfiction from Patrick Seth Williams, Teacher’s Corner, CFPs, and, of course, Miscellaneotopia.

Utopus Discovered – April 2010

THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES  35th Annual Meeting Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the Midwest Hilton Milwaukee City Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin October 28-31, 2010 Milwaukee in the 1960s and 1970s was a key site for civil rights marches, particularly around the open housing movement. From 1897 through much of the 20th Century, the city was governed by a succession […]

The social networking beast that is Facebook usually allows a couple of sponsored ads off to the right of whatever the interface looks like this month, and this one caught my eye because of the attention grabbing headline: “Ultimate Utopia.”  Go figure.  I’m wondering if there’s some utopian online gamer out there who knows anything about SocialCity?  […]

Here’s the second commercial I’ve seen lately that seems to have a utopian theme, or, perhaps, anti-utopian.  It appears to be a parody of the ABC series Lost, which itself has some interesting utopian things […]

I saw this ad during an NFL game some weeks ago, and I can’t get it out of my head.  Utopia?  Anti-utopia?  You be the judge.  Note that the video’s description describes the island as “the perfect party island.”  […]

Stephanie Stripling, having volunteered at the last meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, has come through with a reboot of the utopian bibliography, which was traditionally part of the Utopus Discovered package, but is now its own entity of sorts.  Stephanie has put my blog-designing skills to shame, as you’ll see, but I’m okay with […]

Utopus Discovered is proud to bring you a re-inauguration of the most(ly) informal newsletter of the Society for Utopian Studies.  Now edited by Alex Hall of Kent State University, Utopus is back!  In this issue: “How Came to Utopia,” “In Memory of Art Lewis,” and Miscellaneotopia presents Dystopia you can drink!  Okay, you can’t really drink it. Utopus […]