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Abstracts by Panel, Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n Registration:\u00a0 Stairwell<\/span><\/p>\n Utopian Studies<\/span><\/i> Advisory and Editorial Boards 11:00-12:00: Citadel North<\/span><\/p>\n Society for Utopian Studies Steering Committee 12:00-1:30: Citadel North<\/span><\/p>\n The Steering Committee meeting is open to all SUS members. If you would like to join by Zoom, please email <\/span>susprogramchair@gmail.com<\/span><\/a> for the link.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Session I 1:45-3:15<\/b><\/p>\n Chair: Scott Krawczyk, Georgetown University<\/span><\/p>\n Luisa Aleman Hernandez, Georgetown University, “Learning to Live: Minor Campus Utopias in the Anthropocene”<\/span><\/p>\n Kate Hilts: “Unmaking the Precincts: Police Abolition from Fiction to Action”<\/span><\/p>\n Joey Hiles: “Making Suburbia: From Utopia to Dystopia”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair: Elaine Ostry, SUNY Plattsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n Justin Chandler, Miami University, \u201cIncorporated Selves: Looking Backward, Perspectival Captivity, and the Process of Utopia\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jonathan Neufeld, College of Charleston, \u201c\u2018By Means Impossible to be Anticipated\u2019: Aesthetics and Democracy in <\/span>Benito Cereno<\/span><\/i> & <\/span>Billy Budd<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Session II 3:30-5<\/b><\/p>\n Chairs: Carrie Hintz, Queens College\/ CUNY and The Graduate Center\/ CUNY and Claire Curtis, College of Charleston<\/span><\/p>\n Paper: Teuvo Peltoniemi, Independent Scholar, \u201c\u2019Three Centuries, Six Continents and Four Main Ideologies\u2019: The History of the Finnish Utopian Communities\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Screening:\u00a0 <\/span>H\u00d6\u00d6K documentary film<\/b><\/p>\n Finnish-Russian documentary film “Fridolf H\u00f6\u00f6k \u2013 from Ocean to Ocean” (2020, 26 min., subtitles in English)<\/span><\/p>\n During the worst famine years, in 1868, Finnish sea captain Fridolf H\u00f6\u00f6k founded a Utopian colony of Amurland near Vladivostok in Czarist Russia.\u00a0 Finland was then an autonomic part of Russia. The group consisted of a hundred well-to-do Swedish speaking Finns from Helsinki, and main idea was whale hunting. At the same year, about 50 Finnish speaking peasants from Turku immigrated to the same area. Departures aroused a great media debate in Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n Captain H\u00f6\u00f6k stayed in the Far East area after the quick end of the Utopian community, and became a local celebrity for decades. Many members of his group returned eventually to Finland. Some remained on the area, as did all the Turku peasants.<\/span><\/p>\n The H\u00f6\u00f6k film has been produced in 2020 as Russian-Finnish collaboration. It has been filmed in Finland and Russia. Scientific material, photos and interviews are from Helsinki, Turku, Nakhodka and Vladivostok museums and archives.<\/span><\/p>\n Director Mila Kudryashova\u00a0 (St. Petersburg)<\/span><\/p>\n Producer Merja Ritola (Helsinki)<\/span><\/p>\n Scientific adviser Teuvo Peltoniemi (Helsinki)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair: Joe Kelly, College of Charleston<\/span><\/p>\n Benjamin Schewel, Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT), \u201cLewis Mumford’s Path to the Axial Age\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Joe Kelly<\/span>, College of Charleston, <\/span>\u201cUtopia and the Liberal Revolution\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Stacy Maddern, University of Connecticut<\/span>,\u00a0 \u201c<\/span>Building Utopias on College Campuses\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chair: <\/span>Peter Sands, UW-Milwaukee<\/span><\/p>\n Barry Stiefel, College of Charleston, \u201cPlaying Whiteface: A Dystopian Comparison Study of the Indigenous Diamond Hill and Black Melrose Plantations Through Rose-Colored Utopian Glasses\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Abdul Isiaq<\/span>, <\/span>Temple University Department of Africology, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>No Africans Involved: Contextualizing the Western Imperialist Project From An Afrocentric Abolitionist Perspective\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Session III 5:15-6:15<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hoda Zaki, Pete Sands, Claire Curtis<\/span><\/p>\n As scholars of utopia our academic work is on the boundaries of some particular discipline for which utopia is potentially marginal or even a somewhat suspect concern.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>As academics we all share to differing degrees the tensions around the boundaries of job status, administrative work, service commitments, pedagogical approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>As people in the world we negotiate the boundaries between job, community, family, politics.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>We share a set of experiences with boundaries: the intellectual, disciplinary, professional, political and personal and we share the very idea that each of these realms has been bounded (or to use the lingo of the academy: siloed) in ways that often undermine each of these pursuits.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Join us for a conversation about negotiating and traversing these boundaries. Come and share your own travels and let\u2019s continue the conversation into the reception afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n Reception: Courtyard<\/b>\u00a0 6:15-8:30<\/span><\/p>\n Each attendee will receive two tickets for free drinks. Please note that the bar closes at 7:30, but the reception (with food!) will continue until 8:30.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THURSDAY Abstracts by Panel, Thursday Registration:\u00a0 Stairwell Utopian Studies Advisory and Editorial Boards 11:00-12:00: Citadel North Society for Utopian Studies Steering Committee 12:00-1:30: Citadel North The Steering Committee meeting is open to all SUS members. If you would like to … Continue reading \n
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