Alex Hall

From Paul Walker-Emig:

“I thought readers of Utopus Discovered might be interested in a new podcast I’ve started called Utopian Horizons. The idea is that it will cover a different utopia, dystopia, utopian […]

An Interdisciplinary Research-Planning Conference of the 1HOPE Research Interest Group
In Cooperation with the University of Sassari
University of Sassari
Sassari, Italy, June 15-17, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
The […]

“Utopian Gracelands, Dystopian Blues, and the City on the Bluff”
When: Nov 9-12, 2017
Where: Doubletree By Hilton Memphis Downtown, 185 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN, USA
Paper Proposal Deadline: July 15, […]

“Harbors and Islands: Explorations of Utopia, Past and Present”

When: Oct 27-30, 2016

Where: Saint Petersburg, Florida: Hilton Saint Petersburg, Bayfront

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Howard Segal, University of […]

Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design Award

Each year, the Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) presents the Kenneth M. Roemer Award for innovative course design in Utopian Studies.  We invite submissions […]

Has anyone seen the Attunefoods brand of cereal called “Erewhon”? It’s in pretty much every grocery store in Northeast Ohio. According to their website:

“Since 1966, Erewhon has led the organic revolution and […]

I, your humble editor, have been embroiled in the travesty that is the new way of administrating higher education, so I am working as an adjunct and trying to make ends meet; thus I have allowed Utopus Discovered […]

Ken Roemer writes:

The antique book collecting company Erasmushaus (hdb@erasmushaus)—Bäumleingasse 18, Postgach, CH-4001, Basel—has published a beautiful little catalogue (#927) entitled Utopia. The annotations […]

I was sent a copy of Dario Altobelli’s I Sogni Della Biologia: Utopia e Ideologia delle Scienze della Vita del Novecento, which I cannot read because I do not read Italian, but the title translates (roughly) to […]

Founder’s College at York University in Toronto presents the Political Uses of Utopia Workshop, April 18-19, 2013.

The workshop features scholars representing different traditions and perspectives within […]

New York has an artist exhibiting something that may be of interest to utopians: http://masterspelavin.com/worldwelost.

From Ken Roemer: “Via snail mail Mickey Abrash, one of the two founders (along with Art Lewis) of SUS, sent me this photo he found in his file. The photo was taken in the “Speaker’s Corner” in London. […]

About a week ago, I received a book in the mail from Indiana University Press called New Harmony Then and Now, that the press describes as follows: “New Harmony Then and Now is a photographic and historic […]

Guangyi Li says:

“For those who feel interested in Chinese utopia and science fiction, here is an important speech by David Der-wei Wang, ‘Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopias: From Luxun to Liu Cixin.’”

Check it out here.

“. . . though no one owns anything, everyone is rich.” —Thomas More

You may have seen the fliers for The Open Utopia on the tables at the Welcome Reception at this year’s SUS annual meeting, but if you […]

Yves Charles Zarka was published in the Opinion section of the NY Times yesterday, and Peter Sands sent a link out to the H-Net Utopia ListServ. Are you on H-Net? Maybe you should be. Anyway, Zarka’s opinion piece […]