Abstracts by panel, Friday afternoon<\/a><\/p>\nEmbassy Suites Guest Breakfast<\/b> 7:30-8:30<\/b><\/p>\n
Session IV 8:30-10:00<\/b><\/p>\n\n- A. Zombies! (Colonial East)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: <\/span>Clarence W. Tweedy, University of Mary Washington<\/span><\/p>\nRosemary Millar, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, \u201cZomtopia: Remaking the Utopian Vision in <\/span>Aaah!! Zombies<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nZebadiah Kraft, Indiana University of Pennsylvania<\/span>, \u201c<\/span>Possibility in Destruction: Zombie Narratives of Renewal and Utopia\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nClarence W. Tweedy, University of Mary Washington, \u201cThe Happy Few: The Apocalypse and Resurgence of White Patriarchal Supremacy in Rob Kirkman\u2019s <\/span>The Walking Dead<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n- B. Interrogating Social Class and Labor (Colonial West)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Graeme Pente, University of South Carolina Lancaster<\/span><\/p>\nRobert Seguin, Hartwick College, \u201cThe Symbolic Dimensions of Social Class in Mark McGurl and Ben Lerner\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nMackenzie<\/span> Cox<\/span>, American University,<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Content Creation, Capitalism, and Coogan Law: Labor in the Age of Social Media\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nRyan Pine, Bryn Athyn College, \u201cThe Circle Was Closing, But Now It’s Just Every-where: Dave Eggers’s Fatalistic Ennui in <\/span>The Every<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n- C. Young Adult Dystopias: Cultural Contexts (Citadel North)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Elaine Ostry, SUNY Plattsburgh<\/span><\/p>\nCarrie Hintz, Queens College\/CUNY and The Graduate Center\/CUNY, \u201cThe Bad Boyfriends of YA Dystopia\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCarter Hanson<\/span>, <\/span>Valparaiso University,<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Post-Nuclear Kinship Patterns in Young Adult Climate Dystopias: Sherri L. Smith’s <\/span>Orleans<\/span><\/i> and Cherie Dimaline’s <\/span>The Marrow Thieves<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nSession V 10:15-11:45<\/b><\/p>\n\n- A. Making\/Unmaking Utopian Possibilities Across Genres (Colonial East)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair:\u00a0 Phillip Wegner, University of Florida<\/span><\/p>\nIn this panel, we will explore a variety of genres and aesthetic modes that seek to represent forms of utopian possibility. Each panelist will investigate a cultural object(s) that in some way signifies a type of making\/unmaking dialectic. Nathan Stelari will discuss the utopian\/dystopian ideological formation at play within ironic and meta-ironic political internet humor and how this informs the common sense of online political discourse. Ryan Kerr will present on Anthony Burgess\u2019s <\/span>A Clockwork Orange<\/span><\/i> and how its dystopian themes (particularly in the novel\u2019s final chapter) demonstrates Mark Fisher\u2019s concept of \u201ccancelled futures.\u201d We hope to think collectively about the relationship between politics and form, especially in a moment beguiled by the apolitical.<\/span><\/p>\nParticipants:<\/span><\/p>\nRyan Kerr, University of Florida<\/span><\/p>\nNathan Stelari, University of Florida<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n- B. Emily St John Mandel (Colonial West)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Claire Curtis, College of Charleston<\/span><\/p>\nKatrin Isabel Schmitt, <\/span>University of Konstanz, Germany,<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding Community in Post-Apocalyptic Literature\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nEllen Rigsby, Saint Mary’s College of California, \u201cTime Travel in Emily St. John Mandel’s <\/span>The Sea of Tranquility<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nClaire Curtis, College of Charleston, \u201cHuman artifice and living in a pre-made world: Emily St John Mandel\u2019s <\/span>Station Eleven<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n- C. Crosscurrents of Utopian-Socialist and Marxist Thought in America’s Gilded Age (Citadel North)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair:<\/span> Ashley Garcia, University of Texas at Austin<\/span><\/p>\nAshley Garcia, University of Texas at Austin, \u201cAssociation and Cooperative Colonies in the 1890s: The Utopian-Socialist Organizing of the BCC\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nDaniel Joslyn, <\/span>New York University, <\/span>\u201cWhen Love Came of Age: Marxism and Utopianism in Turn-of-the-Century Socialist-Feminist Thought\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nGraeme<\/span> Pente, <\/span>University of South Carolina Lancaster, <\/span>\u00a0\u201cFourierism on a National Scale: Edward Bellamy Leads Visionary Socialism into Politics, 1878-1898\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Lunch on your own<\/b><\/p>\n
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Session VI 1:00-2:30<\/b><\/p>\n\n- A. Genre and Utopia (Colonial East)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Kenneth Roemer, University of Texas at Arlington<\/span><\/p>\nBraden Hammer, Mount Saint Mary’s University, \u201cLen Deighton and the Utopian Genre Tradition\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nGib Prettyman, Penn State University, Fayette, \u201cUtopian narrative labors in Robinson\u2019s <\/span>The Ministry for the Future<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCsaba Toth, Carlow University<\/span>, \u201c<\/span>Collective Action and Community Building in William E. Trautmann’s Novel <\/span>Riot<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n- B. Utopian Thought (Colonial West)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: <\/span>Edward K. Chan<\/span>, <\/span>Waseda University<\/span><\/p>\nPeter Stillman, Vassar College, \u201cUncovering Le Guin\u2019s Utopian Alternatives: <\/span>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nMark Allison, <\/span>Ohio Wesleyan University, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>The Civil War in France<\/span><\/i>: Karl Marx\u2019s English Utopia?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n- C. The Child in Utopia (Citadel North)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Elaine Ostry, SUNY Plattsburgh<\/span><\/p>\nElaine Ostry, SUNY Plattsburgh, \u201c\u2018Nine on an Island, Orphans All:\u2019 A Community of Children on <\/span>Orphan Island<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nRachel L. Andreini, University of Kansas, \u201cEducating the Romantic Child in <\/span>News from Nowhere<\/span><\/i>: Natural Forces in Utopian Reform\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nMegan Weaver-Seitz, Asbury University, \u201cA Lens of Hope: Children in Dystopian Films\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSession VII 2:45-4:15<\/b><\/p>\n\n- A. \u201cCrafting Toward Utopia: Making and Unmaking with Zines\u201d [Presentation and Demonstration] (Colonial East)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Carrie Hintz, Queens College\/CUNY and The Graduate Center\/CUNY<\/span><\/p>\nBrit Schulte, University of Texas, Austin<\/span><\/p>\nHow do zines become objects that thought-smuggle, intervene, and disrupt? How can zines also create opportunities for us to play, feel, and prepare our hearts and minds? Are zine makers and distributors agents of the utopic, of radical composition? Join educator, community organizer, and zine maker Brit Schulte for a creative session, combining presentation, performative demonstration, and discussion. This will be an exercise in composition as Brit presents a constellation of zines that explore the medium’s potential for experimenting in utopian thought.<\/span><\/p>\nBrit Schulte is an Art History PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, a community organizer, and zinester. They study print objects, as well as sex working, queer and trans* histories. Their current organizing efforts involve criminalized survivors, prison\/police abolition, and the decriminalization of sex work. Their writing may be found at <\/span>The Funambulist<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>In These Times<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Monthly Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Appeal<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Truthout<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- B. Always Renaming Utopian Studies: the Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Studies (Colonial West)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
In April 2022, <\/span>The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures<\/span><\/i>, co-edited by Peter Marks (Sydney), Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State) and F\u00e1tima Vieira (Porto), arrived in the world. With 56 commissioned essays covering the contemporary vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as an idea, genre, and critical mode, the Handbook is a global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume. A selection of contributors will formally \u201claunch\u201d through a panel discussion of the editorial principles behind the organization of the volume, and the central themes guiding the range of new topics selected for inclusion. Given this year\u2019s theme of \u201cmake, unmake, remake,\u201d we hope that the publication of this latest volume can contribute to the conference-long discussion, as well as the interrogation of the principle of hope. We welcome a discussion with audience members on new directions.<\/span><\/p>\nChair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Penn State University<\/span><\/p>\nParticipants:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nJennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Penn State University<\/span><\/p>\nPeter Marks, University of Sydney<\/span><\/p>\n\n- C.\u00a0 Dystopian Textualities (Citadel North)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Dominic Ording, Millersville University of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\nDominic Ording, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, \u201cBanned\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJill Craven, Millersville University<\/span>, \u201c<\/span>Who’s Got a Match? Burning Down the House with David Byrne\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSession VIII 4:30-6:00<\/b><\/p>\n\n- A. Speculation in Time and Space\u00a0 (Colonial East)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: Patricia Ventura<\/span>, <\/b>Spelman College<\/span><\/p>\nRobert Wood, University of California, Irvine,<\/span> \u201c<\/span>The Mediocre Hobbyists of the Enterprise: <\/span>Star Trek<\/span><\/i>, Leisure, and Utopia\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJenni Halpin, Savannah State University<\/span>, <\/span>\u201c\u2018Meanwhile\u2019 as \u2018Otherwise\u2019: Making the Past and Future in <\/span>Copenhagen<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThomas Horan, The Citadel, \u201cThe Surprisingly Secular Patriarchy in Bina Shah\u2019s <\/span>Before She Sleeps<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n- B. Global Migrancy (Colonial West)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Chair: <\/b>Tricia Reagan, Randolph-Macon College<\/span><\/p>\nJacqueline Shea,\u00a0 Arizona State University, \u201cHarmonious Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contact and Creation in the Borderlands\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n