Conference

Upcoming Conferences:

2025: Blue Utopias: Utopian Dreams on Sea and Shore. October 30–November 1, Wrighstville Beach, NC (Program Chair:  Mark Jendrysik / Local Chair: Peter Stillman)

*This is the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies

Past Meetings, Programs, & Minutes

2024: October 17-19, Tulum, Mexico (Local Chair: Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Program Chair: K. Allison Hammer) #SUS2024

2023: November 8-12, Austin, TX (Local Chair: Stephanie Peebles Tavera; Program Chair: Jill Belli) #SUS2023

2022: “make, unmake, remake,” November 10-12, Charleston, South Carolina (Local Chair: Claire Curtis; Program Chair: Carrie Hintz) #SUS2022

*2020 + 2021: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person 2020 and 2021 Society for Utopian Studies conferences were cancelled (and rescheduled for 2022 and 2023, respectively).

2019: “Subaltern, Suburban, and Subterranean,” October 17-19, 2019, East Lansing, Michigan (Local Chair: Sonja Fritzsche; Program Chair: Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2019, 2019 Program, 2019 Minutes (DRAFT)

2018: November 1-3, Berkeley, California, “Disruption, Displacement, Disorder” (Local Chair Ellen Rigsby; Program Co-Chairs Andrew Byers and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2018, 2018 Program, 2018 Minutes (DRAFT)

2017: November 9-12 , Memphis, TN(Acting Local Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Byers and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2017, 2017 Program, 2017 Minutes

2016: October 26-30, St. Petersburg, FL (Conference Chair: John Barberet; Program Chair: Justin Nordstrom) #SUS2016 #More500, 2016 Program, 2016 Minutes

2015: November 5-8, Pittsburgh,PA (Conference Chair: Cliff Manlove; Program Chair: Clint Jones), #SUS2015, 2015 Program, 2015 Minutes

2014: Montréal, Québec (Conference Chair: Brian Greenspan; Program Chair: Pete Sands), 2014 Program, 2014 Minutes

2013: Charleston, South Carolina (Conference Chair: Claire Curtis; Program Chair: Dina Smith), 2013 Program, 2013 Minutes

2012: Toronto, Ontario: 4-7 October (Conference Chair: Peter Fitting; Program Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent), 2012 Program, 2012 Minutes

2011: State College, PA; October 20-23 (Conference Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Program Chair: Sonja Fritzsche): #SUS11, 2011 Program, 2011 Minutes

2010: 35th Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Peter Sands; Brian Greenspan), 2010 Program, 2010 Minutes

2009: 34th Annual Meeting in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina (Peter Stillman; Claire Curtis), 2009 Program, 2009 Minutes

2008: 33rd Annual Meeting in Portland, Maine (Naomi Jacobs; Shelton Waldrep), 2008 Program, 2008 Minutes

2007: 32nd Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario (Peter Fitting; Phillip Wegner), 2007 Program, 2007 Minutes

2006: 31th Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado (Brenda Tooley; Carrie Hintz), 2006 Program, 2006 Minutes

2005: 30th Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee (Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Doretta Cornell), 2005 Program, 2005 Minutes

2004: 29th Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario (Peter Fitting; Alex MacDonald), 2004 Program, 2004 Minutes

2003: 28th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California (Paul Majkut; Naomi Jacobs), 2003 Program, 2003 Minutes

2002: 27th annual meeting in Orlando, Florida (John Barberet; Peter Sands), 2002 Program, 2002 Minutes

2001: 26th Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY (Lynda Schneekloth; Phillip Wegner), 2001 Program2001 Minutes

2000: 25th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. (Nancy Sloan Goldberg; Andrea Anderson), 2000 Program2000 Minutes

1999: 24th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX (Alex MacDonald; Peter Fitting), 1999 Program, 1999 Minutes

1998: 1998 Program, 1998 Minutes

1997 Memphis: Jennifer Wagner; Peter Fitting, 1997 Program, 1997 Minutes

1996 Nashville: Nancy Sloan Goldberg

1995 Toronto: June Deery; Mickey Abrash; Peter Fitting

1994 Toronto: Kenneth Roemer; Peter Fitting

1993 St. Louis: Lyman Tower Sargent; Naomi Jacobs

1992 Baltimore: Carol Kolmerten

1991 Las Vegas: Felicia F. Campbell

1990 Lexington, KY: Susan Matarese

1989 Asilomar Conference Ctr.: Samson Knoll

1988 Emerson College: Lynn Williams

1987 Penn State Delaware County: Carol Farley Kessler

Pacific Grove, CA: Dennis Rohatyn

1986 Asilomar Conference Ctr.: Samson Knoll; Michael Orth

1985 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Mickey Abrash

1984 University of Missouri-St Louis: Lyman Tower Sargent

1983 Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Edward D. Wilson

1982 University of New Brunswick: William Prouty

1981 Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Nicholas Smith

1980 Pennsylvania State University: Arthur O. Lewis

1979 University of Colorado-Denver: Michael Cummings

1978 Pennsylvania State University: Arthur O. Lewis

1977 University of Michigan: Gorman Beauchamp; Alexandra Aldridge

1976 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Mickey Abrash