{"id":231,"date":"2015-02-10T13:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:15:22","slug":"sus-2015-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/sus-2015-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"SUS 2015 CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><strong>Call for Papers and Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>40th Annual Meeting of the <strong>Society for Utopian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><strong>\u201cGlobal Flows: Diaspora, Diversity, and Divergence in Utopia\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposal Deadline: 15 JULY 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2014\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference<\/p>\n<p><\/a>When: 5-8 November 2015<\/p>\n<p>Where: Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh, PA<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed Speaker: Professor Rosemary Jolly, Weiss Chair of the Humanities<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State University at University Park<\/p>\n<p>The field of Utopian Studies has both challenged and been challenged by the many sociopolitical and cultural effects of globalization. This is nothing new: the role of human movements and migration (forced and unforced), the developments of technology and transportation, the advancements and adversities brought on by new cultural contacts and contexts are the very stuff of utopian literature and theory, from More\u2019s Utopia to this day. Celebrating the 40th anniversary conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, we invite a broad range of papers that consider the relationships of utopian theories, movements, experiments, fantasies, and work of any kind to the metaphor of \u201cflow.\u201d With our conference city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, located at the juncture of three major rivers, this year\u2019s meeting is situated in a place of confluence, divergence, and diversity.<\/p>\n<p>We invite papers that engage the theme of \u201cglobal flows\u201d as that notion relates to utopian, dystopian and speculative matters in the past, present, or future(s). Possible areas of inquiry include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>the flows of people (through migration, exile, expulsion, trafficking), flows of cultures and ideologies;<\/li>\n<li>diasporas and their relationships to racial and cultural diversity in any historical period;<\/li>\n<li>notions of community and\/as confluence (or not), including instances and\/or theories of communal\/cultural inclusions and exclusions;<\/li>\n<li>the diversity of species, in the context of global challenges to habitat by human movements, and anthropogenic environmental changes;<\/li>\n<li>disease vectors with or against the \u201cflow,\u201d i.e., the movements of bacteria and viruses along, or against, the movements of people in planes, ships, on foot, insects, animals, ocean currents and winds;<\/li>\n<li>digital humanities, media, technology, and\/or global information streams; flow and stagnation as historiographic or narratological (i.e. temporal) tropes;<\/li>\n<li>new materialist perspectives on notions of \u201centanglement\u201d among human and nonhuman beings, on the interactions\/intra-actions of life and nonliving matter;<\/li>\n<li>the Posthuman;<\/li>\n<li>the role of boundaries, borders, and barriers to flow \u2013 e.g., issues of \u201ccontainment\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>the limits of the metaphor of \u201cflow\u201d as a way of understanding the relationships of the intimate and the global.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Other creative riffs off these topics are, of course, encouraged! To that end, this year\u2019s conference continues the successful introduction of a poster and demonstration\u00a0track. We seek proposals for presentations, performances, experiments and \u201cexperiences\u201d related to our conference theme. This flexible format allows for the presentation of interactive games, new apps, and other digital projects&#8211;indie developers and digital humanists welcome!&#8211;as well as posters, art-works, architectural schematics, and other imaginative experiments in new or \u201cold\u201d media.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts and proposals of up to 250 words are\u00a0<strong>due by 15 July 2015<\/strong> for the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><strong>A 15-20 minute individual paper;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>a full panel of up to four speakers, or an informal roundtable\u00a0of 3-6 presenters;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>a presentation or performance\u00a0of a creative work or artifact;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>a visual\/audio presentation in the form of a poster and\/or demo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Please use our online forms for submissions by\u00a0<a title=\"Submit a Proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2014\/submit-a-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">clicking \u201cSubmit a Proposal\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on our conference website <a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference2014\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>For information about registration, travel or accommodations, please contact Clifford Manlove, <\/em><a href=\"mailto:ma*****@*su.edu\" data-original-string=\"+qg0Az4uOSm61\/OkwNympw==231JmjzbjKg5Ag3f9gyidICuA==\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>cl<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span><\/a>.Those looking for co-panelists are reminded that H-Utopia (<a href=\"https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/h-utopiao\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/h-utopia<\/a>) offers a platform for sending out panel CFPs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers and Proposals 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies \u201cGlobal Flows: Diaspora, Diversity, and Divergence in Utopia\u201d Proposal Deadline: 15 JULY 2015 http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/conference When: 5-8 November 2015 Where: Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/sus-2015-cfp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lSaF-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/utopusdiscovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}