{"id":10,"date":"2022-04-07T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:40:10","slug":"2022-society-for-utopian-conference-make-unmake-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/2022\/04\/07\/2022-society-for-utopian-conference-make-unmake-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Society for Utopian Conference: &#8220;make, unmake, remake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>From the Conference Organizers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to Charleston!\u00a0 We are excited to be finally gathering in person.\u00a0 We hope that all attendees will enjoy the chance to meet new people, share ideas, explore Charleston and enjoy what we hope will be a productive time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We would like to thank Beth Byers, who aided us every step of the way: answering many queries, offering sage counsel, and creating the registration and membership systems that made the conference possible.\u00a0 Thanks as well to Pete Sands and Jill Belli for their timely assistance, and to the SUS steering committee for steady encouragement and advice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our theme \u201cmake, unmake, remake\u201d offers us an opportunity to think about utopian studies in a way that stresses the process of reinvention, and the process of tearing down old and outmoded structures and ways of living in order to build anew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is appropriate to be exploring this theme in Charleston, a city familiar with a variety of forms of making, unmaking and remaking. From the many native groups that hunted and fished and lived on the land that is now the peninsula of Charleston, to the structures of the city built by enslaved laborers, to the destruction of hurricanes and war, Charleston is a city always in the process of being made, and reckoning with its violent and unjust past is part of that process<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Today concerns about catering to tourists vs. meeting the needs of inhabitants intersect with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sobering <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">concerns over rising seas and racial and economic inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We hope that the days of the conference, the papers and roundtables, the discussions and conversation, the meals and wanderings about time will prove to be fruitful for all of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carrie and Claire<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/files\/2022\/04\/image001-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/files\/2022\/04\/image001-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/files\/2022\/04\/image001-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/files\/2022\/04\/image001-1.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Conference Organizers: Welcome to Charleston!\u00a0 We are excited to be finally gathering in person.\u00a0 We hope that all attendees will enjoy the chance to meet new people, share ideas, explore Charleston and enjoy what we hope will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/2022\/04\/07\/2022-society-for-utopian-conference-make-unmake-remake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}