Alex Hall

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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.

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Here’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 […]

Ursula 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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]