The Society for Utopian Studies | Alex Hall | Activity https://utopian-studies.org/members/alexhall/activity Activity feed for Alex Hall. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:49:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 389f30ddd737650bbe0a611d6fa25b0d Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=249 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 21:24:58 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 9140854f04bd0c9dc8607015a46fa22d Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=240 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:57:39 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 f41c0a75258fc97bb7179c129740ebc5 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=238 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:47:43 -0400 “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, […]

]]> 0 b542b07fe76ba4756bdf1bd2cb388fca Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=236 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:13:56 -0400 “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 […]

]]> 0 682591f1feaae0bdf23a5f62925c35ec Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=234 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:48 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 ed42f32cb42bc955d89ea0093184bcfc Alex Hall posted a new activity comment http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/sus-2015-cfp/#comment-1733 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:09:33 -0400 Use the 2015 link here: http://utopian-studies.org/conference2015/submit-a-proposal/. Submissions will be open soon.

In reply to - Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered Call for Papers and Proposals 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies “Global Flows: Diaspora, Diversity, and Divergence in U […] ]]> c307fdd9e859a60e79ae64eda4dabf45 Alex Hall posted a new activity comment http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/sus-2015-cfp/#comment-1732 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:08:54 -0400 Use the 2015 submission link—2014 is outdated. Proposals cannot be accepeted just yet but will open soon: http://utopian-studies.org/conference2015/submit-a-proposal/.

In reply to - Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered Call for Papers and Proposals 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies “Global Flows: Diaspora, Diversity, and Divergence in U […] ]]> f981a31d38d534b050a347160de983ab Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=231 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:15:22 -0400 Call for Papers and Proposals

40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
“Global Flows: Diaspora, Diversity, and Divergence in Utopia”

Proposal Deadline: 15 JULY 2015

<a href="http://utopian-studies.org/conference2014&quot; […]

]]> 2 44ee0bd5efb6a708f2877ac566d67b7b Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=225 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:20:08 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 a8c59b7df5da2a9ec12a13f700c78e3c Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/?p=221 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:06:36 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 6c0d4b76b037acce701bde50bd403929 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2013/07/23/utopia-catalog/ Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:39:08 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 cd6f0c83ca4fbb6103623a72c5d6fdcd Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2013/07/23/dreams-of-biology/ Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:02:48 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 219c1120cec13902fbb31e89d447c8dd Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2013/04/02/political-uses-of-utopia-workshop-april-18-19-2013/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:15:09 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 740ce77aac143bc23c8272076f07b190 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2012/05/09/the-world-we-have-lost/ Wed, 09 May 2012 22:48:01 -0400 New York has an artist exhibiting something that may be of interest to utopians: http://masterspelavin.com/worldwelost.

]]> 0 9e8856036b6d06a68ab949007365482b Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2012/01/17/utopia-could-be-the-answer/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:15:05 -0400 Thumbnail
 

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. […]

]]> 0 24d20abcafc451e63d08284f381e2f15 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/11/21/193/ Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:08:50 -0400 Thumbnail

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 […]

]]> 0 6fb6a138c2cf42650c4f6d52743d5b3d Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/11/21/utopia-dystopia-heterotopias-from-luxun-to-liu-cixin/ Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:35:28 -0400 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.

]]> 0 761c7df878f3831a0be50a11342227f8 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/10/23/the-open-utopia/ Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:01:17 -0400 Thumbnail

“. . . 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 […]

]]> 0 7cd2a692ce422fd812395c1cb0285169 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/10/20/the-meaning-of-utopia-in-ny-times/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:53:06 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0 3cff3cdb66190cc63f7252af62b524d6 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/10/20/building-expectation-past-and-present-visions-of-the-architectural-future/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:51:53 -0400 The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Building Expectation: Past
and Present Visions of the Architectural Future from September 3
through November 6. An opening reception and lecture by the […]

]]> 0 b42a1b754c9c8b17ad527717deb06f89 Alex Hall changed their profile picture https://utopian-studies.org/activity/p/34 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:46:59 -0400 0 b26ace147f29ddd9a858f781756a1177 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/07/04/googling-utopia/ Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:52:00 -0400 Back in October I thought it might be interesting for Miscellaneotopia if I were to simply Google the word “utopia” and report my findings.  On the first page of search results alone, I turned up the Wikipedia page on Utopia, an online role-playing game called Utopia that has apparently been around since 1998 (plus two […]

]]> 0 c2e7eb0e86bcddcdef1184f188b2c825 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/07/04/%c9%99koostik-hookah%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cutopia%e2%80%9d/ Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:41:45 -0400 I recently discovered that the Ohio-based jamband əkoostik hookah has a song called “Utopia” that appeared on its first album, Under Full Sail (1991).  Although the band has been around at least since ‘91, they haven’t done much outside the Ohio regional music scene.  Nevertheless, Under Full Sail was revisited by the jam-rock band, whose original singer, […]

]]> 0 582b1695d5eb5dc202ec7f694a9eda7a Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/07/04/from-the-teachers-corner/ Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:29:55 -0400 Happy Fall fellow Utopians! As always, we thank you all for sharing your “utopian” syllabi and assignments with us!  This collection of resources is an ongoing project, so we ask folks to continue sending contributions to sus.teaching@gmail.com (see http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/teaching.html for more details about this initiative).  These materials are constantly being archived and made available to the public […]

]]> 0 4cfca69ec30da93f19936238c3e2600f Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/07/04/icsa-bulletin-48/ Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:02:21 -0400 The International Communal Studies Association’s new bulletin came out in May, and it was suggested that it may be of interest to SUS members, so here ya go.

ISCA Bulletin #48

]]> 0 394561c3acccc1c3da11fe8c5a86ee70 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/04/05/the-handmaids-tale-on-stage/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:46:13 -0400 Thumbnail

The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is currently running a stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  Joe Stollenwerk adapted the novel for the stage, and the production runs until April 20th.  Check it out: http://www.cincyshakes.com/nina-variations.html.

]]> 0 a9a26ef92e7b5a2c92e233b8e2f4f05c Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/02/03/utopia-in-your-pocket-a-message-from-ken-roemer/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:52:55 -0400 (Disclaimer:  I own no stock in Oxford UP.) I just finished using Lyman Tower Sargent’s Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction , as an introduction to many different forms of utopianism in a senior class.  It worked out very well and the students can literally carry the book in their pockets. So while the Texas State legislature debates […]

]]> 0 54a30333172a01095a0b126da42429d5 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/01/29/sus-36th-annual-meeting-%e2%80%93-call-for-papers-mark-ii/ Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:06:09 -0400 Here is the CFP for this October’s Meeting again, this time updated with info about the new Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants.  PLEASE, redistribute as widely as possible.   THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES – 36th Annual Meeting Archiving Utopia – Utopia as Archive The Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State Campus State College, Pennsylvania October 20-23, 2011 The 2011 Society for […]

]]> 0 46b7c912969e597d4c3770eb3175ca7f Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2011/01/18/the-eastside-island-utopia-project/ Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:14:39 -0400 Dave Bell writes, “At the end of 2010 I worked as the writer in residence for ‘The Bookmobile Project’, a mobile arts/theory library which formed part of Sideshow Festival in Nottingham, UK. I began the project hoping to write a ‘future-history’ of a utopian community which emerged on a (real life) tract of abandoned land […]

]]> 0 3fceac1c3787516621e89e399d37135d Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/11/28/sus-36th-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:12:45 -0400 THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES – 36th Annual Meeting Archiving Utopia – Utopia as Archive The Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State Campus State College, Pennsylvania October 20-23, 2011 The 2011 Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference celebrates the ongoing evolution of one of the world’s largest—and best–collections of utopian materials in the world. The Arthur O. Lewis […]

]]> 0 ff10438393f4a6ae007a2e1dfb5c960a Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/11/09/dystopia-what-is-to-be-done/ Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:05:04 -0400 ThumbnailHere’s a link to a website that is hosting a film by Dr. Garry Potter of Wilfird Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.  It came down from the H-Net Utopia listserv, H-Utopia (thanks, Pete).  Are you subscribed to the H-Utopia?  Maybe you should be.  Click here to take care of that.  The picture below is the link to […]

]]> 0 0554c2bc11f14187de0130a64d07d8f1 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/11/03/le-guins-letter/ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:15:26 -0400 ThumbnailUrsula K. Le Guin, who was one of two recipients of the Society for Utopian Studies’s Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship this year (the other was Peter Fitting), sent this letter to Carrie Hintz in response to receiving the award.

 

]]> 0 b91c3e5d3d7016fce2e332d7bf5eec79 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/11/01/sus-conference-dropbox/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:16:17 -0400 Well, we’ve made it through another year.  Our 35th Annual Meeting has come and gone, Milwaukee, Wisconsin having hosted us well.  To properly archive the event, a dropbox folder has been set up where you can put your pictures and anything else you like to share from the conference.  The contributions will be used to […]

]]> 0 56e582234a52079b9b31993a19d67f54 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/07/15/utopus-content-call/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:58:18 -0400 Greetings Utopians! I am beginning to think about compiling the next issue of Utopus Discovered , and I was hoping some of you might have some things to offer.  Have a look around here at http://utopusdiscovered.wordpress.com to see back issues and miscellaneotopia, and please send me anything you think worthy of the next issue, which should make it […]

]]> 0 c4ee58839cd310a57338b4f6b43c58fd Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/06/09/35th-annual-meeting-submission-deadline-extended/ Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:50:13 -0400 By “popular demand,” the Society for Utopian Studies has extended the deadline for submissions to present at its 35th Annual Meeting to July 15th .  Since the CFP is still only a couple posts below, I won’t re-post it here, but do have a look if you want to present something at the conference but were unable […]

]]> 0 f5382861eb39f616c1be77862bafe4af Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/06/08/utopia%e2%80%94where-the-future-is-amazing/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:10:07 -0400 Another little something from miscellaneotopia here. As an electric guitar player in a jamband, I’m always shopping for the next effects pedal to make noise with on stage.  I recently stumbled across the Rocktron Utopia series of floor processors, which are essentially computers that sit on the floor and generate different sound filters for whatever […]

]]> 0 3a4719e83f14d71144ee3d789c8c006e Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/05/26/35th-annual-meeting-submission-deadline-creeping-up/ Wed, 26 May 2010 16:50:18 -0400 The deadline to submit presentation proposals for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies is less than a week away, and I promised I’d post a reminder, so here ya go.  The CFP was posted here only two posts ago, so I won’t re-post the entire thing, but do remember that your […]

]]> 0 501c3c5d8c7c7d5c9a14d20db73a139b Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/05/11/a-healthy-welcome-diversion/ Wed, 12 May 2010 00:04:43 -0400 Utopus Discovered is back for its second issue in 2010!  In this issue: Lyman Tower Sargent clears up “dystopia,” Carrie Hintz reminisces about the water table, poetry by Ken Roemer, microfiction from Patrick Seth Williams, Teacher’s Corner, CFPs, and, of course, Miscellaneotopia.

Utopus Discovered – April 2010

]]> 0 abd7a72429bb919e56c1b1765041b772 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/04/01/the-society-for-utopian-studies-35th-annual-meeting/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:06:42 -0400 THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES  35th Annual Meeting Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the Midwest Hilton Milwaukee City Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin October 28-31, 2010 Milwaukee in the 1960s and 1970s was a key site for civil rights marches, particularly around the open housing movement. From 1897 through much of the 20th Century, the city was governed by a succession […]

]]> 0 51001311f300622509d8324544895cc2 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/03/05/ultimate-utopia/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:17:18 -0400 ThumbnailThe social networking beast that is Facebook usually allows a couple of sponsored ads off to the right of whatever the interface looks like this month, and this one caught my eye because of the attention grabbing headline: “Ultimate Utopia.”  Go figure.  I’m wondering if there’s some utopian online gamer out there who knows anything about SocialCity?  […]

]]> 0 da0b071e13f2de26420de96128a1ae6e Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2010/02/19/another-booze-topia/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:37:15 -0400 Here’s the second commercial I’ve seen lately that seems to have a utopian theme, or, perhaps, anti-utopian.  It appears to be a parody of the ABC series Lost, which itself has some interesting utopian things […]

]]> 0 a7085a866e0ebeb3ee5fcac512ce5a16 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2009/12/31/bacardi-topia/ Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:32:52 -0400 I saw this ad during an NFL game some weeks ago, and I can’t get it out of my head.  Utopia?  Anti-utopia?  You be the judge.  Note that the video’s description describes the island as “the perfect party island.”  […]

]]> 0 3a41b0f857c32e4e874154c50fa674d7 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2009/12/31/utopian-bibliography-returns/ Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:23:45 -0400 Stephanie Stripling, having volunteered at the last meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, has come through with a reboot of the utopian bibliography, which was traditionally part of the Utopus Discovered package, but is now its own entity of sorts.  Stephanie has put my blog-designing skills to shame, as you’ll see, but I’m okay with […]

]]> 0 be08f73976667ff03ba5277556d88934 Alex Hall wrote a new post on the site Utopus Discovered http://utopian-studies.org/utopusdiscovered/2009/12/23/utopus-rediscovered-again-once-more/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:31:07 -0400 Utopus Discovered is proud to bring you a re-inauguration of the most(ly) informal newsletter of the Society for Utopian Studies.  Now edited by Alex Hall of Kent State University, Utopus is back!  In this issue: “How Came to Utopia,” “In Memory of Art Lewis,” and Miscellaneotopia presents Dystopia you can drink!  Okay, you can’t really drink it. Utopus […]

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