programme - Utopia 500

5 - 9 July
2016
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências
Sociais e Humanas
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Conference of the Utopian
Studies Society / Europe
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500 YEARS OF UTOPIAS
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5-9 / 7
2016 —
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências
Sociais e Humanas
5
14:00 Pre-conference programme
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Workshop
Workshop
Workshop
Succeeding in Academia: Acquiring Skills
in Writing, Publishing
and Public Presentation
Lyman T. Sargent and
Gregory Claeys
Teaching Utopia
Across Borders: a
Teaching Workshop
Barnita Bagchi
When Heroes Meet
Orwell: Towards
Utopia in the Classroom
Almudena Machado
Jimenez
16:00
Opening Session
16:30
Plenary Lecture - Utopia: The Present and the Past / Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London) / Chair: Iolanda Ramos
17:30
Short Break
17:45
Launch of an Online Searchable Version of Utopian Literature in English / Lyman Tower Sargent (Univ. Missouri-St. Louis)
18:30
PAN-Utopia 2100: Fighting Food Waste / Utopian Projects by students of Valongo High School, coordinated by Olga Almeida
19:00
PAN-Utopia 2100: Canvas Anthem / Students of Academia de Música de Costa Cabral, coordinated by Filipa Quadrado and Márcia Lemos
19:10
The Tale of the Unknown Island, by José Saramago / Video: A theatre performance by children of Cova da Moura directed by Matilde Real
19:30
Reception
2
6
09:00
11:30
Auditório 1
Auditório 1
Plenary Round
Table
01
500 years of utopia:
Developments,
transformations, and
trajectories
Chair: Fátima Vieira
Tom Moylan
[Univ. Limerick]
Andrew Milner
[Monash Univ.]
Jacqueline Dutton
[Univ. Melbourne]
Laurence Davis
[Univ. College Cork]
Nathaniel Coleman
[Newcastle Univ.]
Auditório 2
T10
02
03
Intentional
communities
Film, utopia and
dystopia
Etta Madden
[Missouri State Univ.]
Edson Luiz André de
Sousa
[Univ. Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul]
“Permeable Boundaries:
La Bagnaia and the
Sienese Mountain Songs
of May”
Paula Escribano Castaño
[Univ. Autònoma de
Barcelona]
“Environmental
Intentional Communities:
New Faces in the Era of
Precariousness”
“The Utopia of Pier Paolo
Pasolini”
Simon Spiegel
[Univ. Zurich]
“Tomorrowland was
Yesterday. Dystopia,
Utopia and Nostalgia in
Science Fiction Cinema”
Pere Gallardo-Torrano
[Univ. Rovira i Virgili]
“Floating Apartheids:
From Laputa to Elysium”
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04
T14
05
T15
06
Building dystopia
Feminist fabulations
Digital utopias
Building utopia
Ludmiła
Gruszewska-Blaim
[Univ. Gdańsk]
Anna Campbell
[Univ. Sydney]
Sean Bennett
[Univ. Cambridge]
Nere Basabe
[Univ. Autónoma de
Madrid]
Susanna Layh
[Univ. Augsburg]
Susana Correia
[Univ. Porto]
“The Utopian Beyond in
We, Brave New World and
Nineteen-Eighty-Four”
““Blinded they won’t see
anything” – Dystopia as a
Preventable Process in
Vlady Kociancich’s The
Last Days of William
Shakespeare”
Emine Şentürk
[Atılım Univ.]
“Playful but Questioning
Portrayal: Colour-Based
Hierarchy in Jasper
Fforde’s Shades of Grey”
“Atwood the Fabulist?
Realising Fabulation in
MaddAddam through
Active Environment”
““Out of the ash I rise”:
From Grotesque
Dystopia to Utopia as
Rebirth in Sylvia Plath”
Cláudia Coimbra
[Univ. Porto]
“Underground Feminine:
Repression and
Revolution in Fritz Lang’s
Metropolis”
“Utopiomics: Adding
Scientific Methodology in
the “Not-so-eu-topia” to
“Utopia Transition
Process”, with a Case
Examination of a
Proposed “Utopia
Machine” ”
Maja Wojdyło
[Univ. Gdańsk]
““The Brightest Day has
the Darkest Shadows” –
Dystopian Modelling of
the Setting in The Longest
Journey computer game
series”
“19th Century French
European Union projects
under the utopia
momentum”
Martin Villa
[Univ. Sofia]
“Imprints of Blueprints –
the Non-Fiction shift in
Utopia”
Teresa Mora
[Univ. Minho]
“Arte Política e #4:
Viragem para o Social,
Urgência da Realidade,
Impulso Utópico e Prática
Colaborativa”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Plenary Lecture - What's in a Name? / Maria Irene Ramalho Santos (Univ. de Coimbra) / Chair: Teresa Botelho
15:30
Short Break
3
6
15:45
Auditório 1
07
Exhibiting utopias
Philip Holsinger
[Independent Scholar]
“The Longest Fado:
Stories and Letters from a
Journey: A Love Story”
Runette Kruger
[Tshwane Univ.
Technology]
“The New World
Embassy: Utopia, Art and
Activism”
Julia Ramírez Blanco
[Accademia di Spagna]
“Utopian Discourses and
Contemporary Art”
Louise Clarke
[De Montfort Univ. &
Univ. Northampton]
“Xenotopia”
Auditório 2
08
T10
09
Contemporary
American eutopias
and dystopias
Education between
Utopia and Dystopia
“Themes in U.S Eutopias
and Dystopias in the
Twenty-First Century”
“Utopian Co-Production?
Collaboration within,
against and beyond the
Neoliberal University. ”
David Bell and Kate Pahl
Lyman Tower Sargent
[Univ.
Sheffield]
[Univ. Missouri-St. Louis]
Lúcia Ribas
[Univ. Haifa]
“Post-Apocalypticisms:
Dystopia’s Utopias and
the Role of Memory as an
Evocator of Hope in
Contemporary North
American Fiction”
Verena Adamik
[Univ. Potsdam]
“Utopian States of
America? Utopian
Communities and
American Expansionism
in Contemporary Fiction”
Anna Ébényi and
Zsolt Czigányik
[Eötvös Loránd Univ.]
“Alternative Education’s
Responses to some
Dystopian Aspects of
Contemporary Society”
Michael Kouklakis
[ESSEC Business
School, France]
“The Teaching and
Learning of Utopia from
within a Grande Ecole de
Commerce”
Sheri Dorn-Giarmoleo
[ARI: A Research
Institute]
T11
10
T14
11
Imagining and representing alterity
Utopia and the
environment I
Gregory Claeys
[Royal Holloway,
Univ. London]
Mark Michael
[Austin Peay State
Univ.]
“Monstrosity and
Dystopia: An Overview”
Liam Benison
[Univ. Kent & Univ.
Porto]
“Antipodean Desires and
Fears in Early Modern
Utopias Set in Terra
Australis”
Jorge Bastos da Silva
[Univ. Porto]
“The Road of Excess:
Cannibalism and the
Utopian/Dystopian
Imagination”
“Will the Lion Lie Down
with the Lamb in Utopia?”
Markus Vinnari and
Mikko Kallionsivu
[Univ. Tampere]
“Utopian Literature and
the Moral Status of
Non-human Animals –
Liberty, Equality and
Justice for All?”
Shmuel Burmil
[Independent Scholar]
“The Landscape and
Gardens of a Utopia”
Rui Vasques
[IADE – Creative Univ.]
“Eco-Village Community
– Live with Earth: a step
in the Transition to a
Sustainable Future”
T15
12
Queering utopias
Elizabeth English
[Cardiff Metropolitan
Univ.]
“Queer Time Travel and
the Time Traveller in the
work of Katharine
Burdekin”
Akira Suwa
[Cardiff Univ.]
“Searching for Lesbian
Utopian Space: Sarah
Waters's Tipping the
Velvet (1998)”
Jessica Day
[Univ. Lincoln]
“Doing Utopia: The
Politics of Sex/topian
Pleasure”
Elizabeth Russell
[Univ. Rovira I Virgili]
“Bodies in Transition:
Manjula Padmanabhan’s
Darkest Nightmares”
“Forbidden Knowledge: A
Performance Ethnography”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
4
7
09:00
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
13
14
T10
T11
T14
15
16
17
Rereading utopia
Negotiating utopia
Real(ising) utopias
Paola Spinozzi
[Univ. Ferrara]
Tom Moylan
[Univ. Limerick]
Gonςalo Marcelo
[Univ. Coimbra/Univ.
Católica do Porto]
“Acerba illa vita velut carcere
atque aculeo. Health or
Death in Utopia, Renaissance
Thought and Contemporary
Debate ”
Franziska Bork Petersen
[Univ. Copenhagen]
“Frocks, Flocks and Feasts:
Of Being a Body in Thomas
More’s Utopia”
Pavla Veselá
[Charles Univ. Prague]
“Thomas More’s Utopia in
Contemporary Czech
Criticism”
“The Temptations of Raphael
Hythloday”
Oddvar Holmesland
[Univ. Agder]
“Negotiating the Inner Space
in the Social Space: Thomas
More’s Utopia”
Artur Blaim
[Univ. Gdańsk]
“More’s Utopia: A Nursery
of Useful and Expedient
Interpretations”
Darren Webb
[Univ. Sheffield]
“Educational Studies and
the Domestication of
Utopia”
“Rethinking Real Utopias:
from Ricoeur to Olin Wright”
Richard Howells
[King’s College London]
“In Our Hands”
Tim Waterman
[Univ. Greenwich]
“The Everyday Utopian
Potential of Grace”
Diane Morgan
[Univ. Leeds]
““Creaturely”: Resistance and
Utopian Praxis”
Young adult dystopias
and utopias
Patricia Sørensen
[Univ. Gdańsk]
“Didactic Hope – on the
functions of Young Adult
Dystopian Literature”
Sean Donnelly
[Univ. Birmingham]
“Disney, Tomorrowland and
Contemporary Utopianism”
João Santos
[Univ. Porto]
“A Bittersweet Recipe:
Spaces of Utopia and
Imagination in Harry Potter
Meals”
Katarzyna Baran
[Univ. Rovira i Virgili]
“Contemporary Young
Adult Dystopias and
Memory: Archives, Cultural
Amnesia and a Call for
Remembrance”
Readings of Huxley
Jonathan Lewis
[Univ. Porto]
“Space Counter Space: An
analysis of the Heterotopian
Spaces in Aldous Huxley’s
Brave New World”
Hisashi Ozawa
[King’s College London]
“The Hybridity of Utopia:
The Influence of D. T. Suzuki
on Aldous Huxley’s Island”
Gökçem Menekşe
Gökçen
[Dokuz Eylül Univ.]
“Surviving in Isolation:
Rejection of the Past in
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New
World”
Kenneth Hanshew
[Univ. Regensburg]
“A Czech Brave New World:
Jan Barda’s Reeducated”
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18
T9
19
Between Utopia and
Dystopia II
Mapping/Picturing
utopia
Beyza Karadeniz and
Yelda Aydın Türk
[Karadeniz Technical
Univ.]
Marta Komsta
[Maria CurieSkłodowska Univ.]
“Building a Nation Capital in
the Context of Utopia:
Ankara”
Mark Wakefield
[Univ. Porto]
“Dystopian vibrations in
Irish fiction: John
McGahern’s The Leavetaking and The Barracks”
Wojtek Chojna
[Pasco-Hernando
State College]
“Hard Boiled Wonderland as
a Dystopian Novel –
Haruki Murakami’s Science
Fiction Nightmare”
“A Plunge into Space: Spatial
Variations in 19th Century
British Utopias”
Ana Martins
[Univ. Coimbra]
“Invisible Cities: Utopian
Spaces or Imaginary Places”
Darrell Norris
[State Univ. of New
York]
“Mapping Utopia”
Hilja Roivainen
[Univ. Turku]
“Utopian Topos in the
Iconography of 21st
century Nordic Landscape
Painting”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
11:00
Coffee Break
5
7
11:30
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
13
14
Between utopia and
dystopia I
Maria Varsam
[Int. Hellenic Univ.]
“History, Memory and
Utopian Method in Octavia
Butler’s Kindred”
Yuan Liang
[Univ. Sheffield]
“From Utopia to Dystopia:
The Power Structure in
George Perec’s W ou Le
Souvenir d’Enfance”
Ana Maria Binet
[Univ. Bordeaux
Montaigne]
“Is Perfection within our
Grasp? From Utopia to
Dystopia in George
Orwell’s Animal Farm”
Contemporary
concerns
Verity Burgmann
[Monash Univ.]
“Working-Class Utopianism
in the Twenty-First Century:
Factories without Bosses in
Argentina and Greece”
Manuela Salau Brasil
[Univ. Estadual de Ponta
Grossa]
“Voices of Utopia: 15 years
of the World Social Forum”
Ali Hıdır Eligüzel and
Yağız Alp Tangun
[Dokuz Eylül Univ.]
“An Island of Global
Refugees in Utopia’s 500th
Anniversary”
T10
T11
15
16
Closed Panel:
From Modernity to
Dystopia and
Postmodernity
post-apocalypse in
contemporary Finnish Mauricio Onetto Pavez
[Univ. Autónoma de
fiction
Chile]
Chair: Toni Lahtinen
Maria Laakso
[Univ.Tampere]
“Despair and Hope: Political
Participation and Resistance
in Finnish Dystopias for
Young Adults”
Toni Lahtinen
[Univ. Tampere]
“Weird Nature:
Ecodystopias in Finnish
(New) Weird”
Juha Raipola
[Univ. Tampere]
“Life/Death After the End?
Leena Krohn’s Hotel
Sapiens as an Ecological
Post-Apocalypse”
“La Utopía de Moro y el
Estrecho de Magallanes:
Puertas de Entrada a la
Modernidad”
Luz Ángela Martínez
[Univ. Chile]
“Utopía, Ruina y Heterotopía en el Reino de Chile”
Jorge Maximino
[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]
“A Crise ou a Cultura na
Encruzilhada Hoje. Uma
Perspectiva Crítica sobre
Arte e Política”
T14
17
Contemporary
developments
Şebnem Çakaloğulları
[Gebze Technical Univ.]
“The Understanding Design
Logic of Utopia and
Searching for the Reflection
over Today’s Development”
Urszula TerentowiczFotyga
[Maria CurieSkłodowska Univ.]
“Utopianism in the Digital
Age: Dave Egger’s The Circle”
Ryszard Wolny
[Univ. Opole]
“Outlandishness as a
Realistic Utopia”
T15
18
Bellamy and beyond
Peter Evans
[Univ. Bristol]
“Edward Bellamy’s theory of
a socialist democracy in
Equality”
Yeonsik Jung
[Sungkyunkwan Univ.]
“Forgetting’ Race in
Edward Bellamy’s Looking
Backward”
Eva Antal
[Eszterhazy
Karoly Univ.]
“Escapism and Poriomania
in Bellamy, Morris and
Wells’ Utopian
Future-Dreams”
T9
19
Iranian and Islamic Intercultural Utopianism
Alireza Omidbakhsh
[Allameh Tabataba’i
Univ.]
“Archaeology of Other
Utopianism: Intercultural
Imaginaries from Al-Andalus
to Daesh”
Mohammad Nasravi
and Alireza Omidbakhsh
[Allameh Tabataba’i
Univ.]
“Fashioning a Cosmopolitan
Utopia in Shia Prayers”
Mohammadamir Jalali
and Alireza Omidbakhsh
[Allameh Tabataba’i
Univ.]
“Utopian Thought in
Iranian Literature: The
Ruler and People in Sa’di´s
Utopia from a New
Historical View”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Plenary Lecture - The Utopia of the Ancients compared with that of the Moderns / Viriato Soromenho Marques (Univ. de Lisboa) / Chair: Jorge Bastos da Silva
6
7
15:45
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
20
21
Round Table: The
status of the individual and the collective in
utopianism
Chair: Franziska Bork
Peterson
Franziska Bork Petersen
[Univ. Copenhagen]
Sarah Lohmann
[Durham Univ.]
Workshop: Tamera Center for Concrete
Utopia: Living in an
Intentional Community in the south of
Portugal
Joel Barros
Juliette Baigler
Monika Allewelt
Lyman Tower Sargent
[Univ. MissouriSt. Louis]
T10
T11
T14
22
23
24
Closed Panel:
Closed Panel: Feeding Utopia and the
Mapping Utopia as
Environment II
utopia: the quest for
concept. Methodolog- the (un)ideal diet
Andrew Milner
ical Issues in the
Chair: José Eduardo Reis
[Monash Univ.]
Research on Utopia
“Eutopia, Dystopia and
Chair: Ana Cláudia Romano
Ribeiro
Gianluca Bonaiuti
[Univ. Firenze]
“Why Utopia is Dead. A
Blochian Introduction to the
End of a Fiction”
Francesca Pannozzo
[Univ. Firenze]
“Utopia as Social Theory
and End of Utopia.”
Silvia Rodeschini
[Univ. Firenze]
Maria Aline Ferreira
[Univ. Aveiro]
“Neo-Vegetarians and
God’s Gardners: Future
Food in Utopia”
Maria Teresa Castilho
[Univ. Porto]
““Eating is an Agricultural
Act”: Longing for the
Agrarian Way Again”
José Eduardo Reis
[Univ. Trás-os-Montes e
Alto Douro/Univ. Porto]
“Why Utopia turned into
Uchronia. Utopia in Reinhart
Koselleck’s Geschichtliche
Grundbegriffe”
“The Utopian Thought of
Amílcar de Sousa, a
Portuguese early 20th
century Naturist and
Dietician”
Federico Tomasello
[Univ. Firenze]
Luísa Malato
[Univ. Porto]
“Utopia as Urban Planning”
“How to be fed on Mars: A
Portuguese Utopia about
Food, Music and Political
Constitutions”
Climate Change”
Sheryl Medlicott
[Bath Spa Univ.]
“How to be an Ecological
Utopian”
Soledade Amaro
Rodrigues
[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]
“Progress or regress?
Oppositions and Complementarities in the Analytical
Categories of the
Ecotopias”
T15
T9
25
26
Barnita Bagchi
[Utrecht Univ.]
Chair: Francesco Adriano
Clerici
Non-Western Utopias Closed Panel:
Hunger Wor(l)ds
“Utopia and Dystopia in Two
Dramatic Works by
Rabindranath Tagore”
Norulhuda Othman
[Ludwig Maximilian
Univ.]
“Dialectic Evolution and
Utopian Construction in
Malay Historiographical
Chronicles”
Shashi Khurana
[Univ. Delhi]
“The Politics of Survival: A
Poem, A Story and
Un-imagined Social Reality”
Yi-Chun Liu
[Univ. Porto/
Charles Univ.]
“Re-reading Utopia
Paratextually: A Curious
Case of its Mandarin
Translations”
Sara Di Alessandro
[Univ. degli Studi di
Milano]
“Bodies performing their
Death: The Suicide Competition by J.I Auerbach”
Francesco Adriano
Clerici
[Freie Univ.Berlin]
“The Body of Writing and
the Question of Utopia –
Franz Kafka and Johannes I.
Auerbach”
Elena Putignano
[Univ. degli Studi di
Milano]
“Hungry Daydreaming. Sult
(Hunger) by Knut Hamsun”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
17:30
Coffee Break
18:00
Annual General Meeting of the USS / Europe
7
8
09:00
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
27
28
Dystopia, resistance
and transgression
Jonathan Baldwin
[Royal Holloway,
Univ. London]
“Crime in the Socialist
Literary Utopia/Dystopia”
Gökçen Eralan
[Dokuz Eylül Univ.]
“The Capitol as Panopticon:
Inspection House
Power and Punishment:
Resistance in Surveillance
Culture”
Justyna Galant
[Maria Curie-Skłodowska
Univ.]
““The First Spark”: The
Motif of Resistance in 19th
Century Dystopias”
Closed Panel: Transmedial utopia. Utopian & dystopian
Chair: Gregory Claeys and
Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
Krzysztof Maj
[Jagiellonian Univ.]
“One Book to Bind Them All.
Transfictional World-Building in Thomas More’s De
Optimo Reipublicæ”
Ksenia Olkusz
[Facta Ficta
Research Centre]
“Utopia in Paranormal
Romance. Vampire Idylls in
Kerrelyn Sparks’ Love at
Stake”
Michał Kłosiński
[Univ. Silesia]
“Utopia/Dystopias in
Animations depicting Video
Games”
T10
29
Utopian tensions
Smrutipriya Pattnaik
and C. Upendra
[Indian Institute of
Technology, Indore]
“Is Utopia really Indispensable?”
Paul Beaulieu
[Univ. Quebec]
T11
30
Ernst Bloch and the
theory of Utopia
Andrew Bridges
[Claremont Graduate
Univ.]
Magalie Fleurot
[Univ. Bordeaux
Montaigne]
Stuart Connor
[Univ. Wolverhampton]
“Utopias of Absolute
Knowing: The Hegelian
Consciousness and the
Arbitrariness of Entification”
Almudena Machado
Jiménez
[Univ. Jaén]
Francesco Deotto
[Univ. Genève]
“Transposition of Christian
Celestial Utopia to a
Model Temporal Society
based on the example of
Sid Meier’s Civilisation V”
32
Food: from shortage
to speculation
Łukasz Milenkowicz
[Univ. Silesia]
Adam Prokop
[Univ. Opole]
31
T15
The theory of utopia:
Hegel to Baudrillard
“Imaginal Utopian Thinking
as a Path of Knowledge to
Archetypes of Societal
Development and Cultural
Pragmatism”
“Utopia under Dystopology:
When the Utterance of a
Dream Leads to the
Subjugation of Reality”
T14
“Nothing Real Except the
Idea: Forms of Utopia in
Hegel”
“Benjamin, Celan and
Szondi’s “hope in the past”.
On the Utopian Dimension
of Literary Hermeneutics”
Dario Altobelli
[Independent Scholar]
“The Radicality of Utopia.
Jean Baudrillard as a
Utopian Thinker”
“Gastrosophy Today: can
Charles Fourier’s Vision of
Food become a Model for
21st century Garden
Communities and other
Food Empowerment
Endeavours?”
Teresa Botelho
[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]
““Eating the Stones of the
Earth”: Romancing the
Scientific Production of Food
in Technological Utopias”
Marta Correia
[Univ. Porto]
“Everything is skimped now.
Food in Times of War
through the Eyes of
Women”
Iolanda Ramos
[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]
“Ernst Bloch’s Subject of
Utopia: Dreaming of a better
life”
Serhat Tutkal
[Ankara Univ.]
“Re-visiting Ernst Bloch
from Utopian Uprisings”
Martin Aidnik
[Talinn Univ.]
“Not Yet – Exploring the
Utopian Potentials and
Problems of Ernst Bloch
and Zygmunt Bauman”
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Envisioning the future
in the 19th century
Annette Magid
[SUNY Erie Community
College]
“Transatlantic Visionaries: A
Study of the Influence of
Thomas More on the Utopian
Theories of Edward Bellamy
and William Morris”
Elsa Stéphan
[Smith College]
“From political to technological utopias: scientific
discourse in nineteenth-century French literature”
Ewelina Drzewiecka
[Polish Academy of
Sciences]
´”Local Modernity – Local
Utopia? About the
Bulgarian Vision of Social
Happiness in the 19th
century”
“Food for Thought: Nurture
and Nature in The Giver”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
11:00
Coffee Break
8
8
11:30
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
34
35
Post-humanism in film Structuring utopia
and TV
Barbara Klonowska
[Catholic Univ. Lublin]
“Transhumanist Desire and
Utopian Tensions in David
Cronnenberg’s Crash”
Zofia Kolbuszewska
[Univ. Information
Technology &
Management, Rzeszow]
“Home as the Ultimate
Post-humanist Utopia:
Monstrous Examination of
Humanity’s Premises in the
cable TV series Being
Human US”
Stankomir Nicieja
[Univ. Opole]
“Engineered Heartbreak:
Male Angst and Synthetic
Femmes Fatales in Spike
Jonze’s Her (2013) and
Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
(2015)”
Boris Hamzeian
[Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne]
“Architecture in Utopia: An
Investigation of the
Isomorphic Character of the
XVI and XVII century
Utopias”
Janusz Słodczyk
[Univ. Opole]
“In Search of an Ideal City:
the Influence of Utopian
Ideas on Urban Planning”
James Block
[DePaul University]
“Pedagogy and Democratic
Consent: Utopian Thought
and Practice in the
Classroom”
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Gendering utopia
Crossing the Atlantic
Eleonora Federici
[Univ. L’Orientale]
Leonardo Bora
[Federal Univ.
Rio de Janeiro]
“Thomas More’s Legacy in
Women’s Utopias of the Last
Decades of the XIX Century”
Shellie Michael
[Volunteer State
Community College]
“Women’s Work in Louisa
May Alcott’s Transcendental
Wild Oats”
Ibtisam Ahmed
[Univ. Nottingham]
“Clothing the Other: How the
British Raj used Fashion to
Shape Gender Perceptions in
Pursuit of an Imperial Utopia”
“Thomas More and the
Invention of Brazil”
Rocío Hernández Arias
[Univ. Vigo]
“Universal Torch to the
Future, an Unknown
Utopian Text from a
Conservative Context”
Silvia Oliveira
[Rhode Island College]
“Earnest Irony: Probing
Utopia in the
Portuguese-American
Memoir”
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Utopian approaches:
ancient to early
modern
Siân Adiseshiah
[Univ. Lincoln]
“Aristophanes: The First
Great (Critical) Utopian”
Pedro Monteiro
[Univ. Porto]
“Jorge Ferreira de Vasconselos and his Chivalry Book –
Medieval Social Utopia in
Portuguese Renaissance
society”
Ignacio García Pinilla
[Univ. Castilla-La
Mancha]
“Omníbona: An Unknown
Utopian Dialogue in
Sixteenth Century Spain”
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19th century Emancipations
Antony Taylor
[Sheffield Hallam Univ.]
““A Friend of Liberty”: British
Popular Politics and the
Radical Reading of Sir
Thomas More’s Utopia,
1840-1920”
Cheryl Coulthard
[Texas A & M Univ.]
“Frances Wright’s
Nashoba: Seeking a
Utopian Solution to the
Problem of Slavery”
Carlos Ferrera Cuesta
[Univ. Autónoma de
Madrid]
“Spiritualism and Utopia in
the last third of the
Spanish 19th century”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Plenary Lecture - Controversial More and Puzzling Utopia: 500 years of history / Marie-Claire Phélippeau (”Moreana” editor-in-chief) / Chair: José Eduardo Reis
9
8
15:45
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
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41
42
43
Visionary architecture
Timothy Miller
[Univ. Kansas]
“Visionary Architecture of
Utopian Communities”
Matthew Wilson
[Ball State Univ.]
“More’s College: Patrick
Geddes and Victor
Branford’s Eutopian Plans
for Crosby Hall”
Pedro Leão Neto and
Maria Neto
[Univ. Porto]
“The Use of Photography
and Media for idealising
and exploring new Spatial
Forms”
Tasting utopia
Closed Panel: Utopia
500:
Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Bringing utopia out of [Univ. Porto]
abstraction and into
“The Burgers that Done the
Deed”: Hazardous fFod in
action
Begüm Çavuşoğlu
Christina Martens
Matthew Palaczky
Qi Sun
Petra Švob
Cláudia Torres
Burak Ünal
Alexandra van Doorn
Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent
Vice”
Rui Rato
[Univ. Porto]
“L’Appétit Sauvage: The
Blissful Utopia of Desire
and Excess in Ben Jonson’s
Bartholomew Fair”
Joana Caetano
[Univ. Porto]
“Making Senses of Appetite,
Love and Lust in Io Sono
L’Amore (2009)”
Sofia de Melo Araújo
[Univ. Porto]
“The Pleasure is Mine: Food,
the Individual, and Utopia”
Closed Panel: Interpreting utopias from
Utopia to New
Atlantis
Chair: Ana Cláudia Romano
Ribeiro
Vita Fortunati
[Univ. Bologna]
“The Rhetoric and the
Historical Context of
Thomas More’s Utopia as
Keys to Grasping its
Political Message and
Legacy”
Ana Cláudia
Romano Ribeiro
[Univ. Federal de
São Paulo]
“Translation and Interpretation: Form and Meaning in
the Latin text of Thomas
More’s Utopia”
Helvio Moraes
[Mato Grosso State Univ.]
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Closed Panel: Current
Postcolonial perspecand future scenarios
tives
for Art
Jacqueline Dutton
[Univ. Melbourne]
“Utopia in Australia – Inside,
Outside, Upside Down”
Warner Woodworth
[(Brigham Young Univ.]
“Walking the Long Road
Toward Utopia in Africa”
Chair: Bengisu Bayrak
Bengisu Bayrak
[Nişantaşı Univ.]
“An Investigation into New
Trends in Branding Artists: a
case study on Marc Quinn”
Nazan Alioğlu
[Beykent Univ.]
“From the Utopian
Salvationary Power of Art
to the Hegemonic Power
of Art: Art Reduced to
Mass Communication”
Selma Köksal Çekiç
[Batman Univ.]
“End of European-American Hegemony: From
Painting to Cinema,
Rethinking the Concept of
Apocalypse”
“Political Satire, Social
Criticism and Utopian
Project in Bacon’s New
Atlantis”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
10
9
09:30
Auditório 1
Auditório 2
46
47
Closed Panel: Ricoeur
on imagination and
utopia
Chair: Richard Kearney
Gonςalo Marcelo
[Univ. Coimbra/
Univ. Católica Porto]
“Imagining Change: Ricoeur
on Utopia”
Johann Michel
[Univ. Poitiers]
“The Debate between
Ricoeur and Castoriadis:
Revolution and Utopia”
Alberto Romele
[Univ. Porto]
“Imaginative Machines”
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Postrevolutionary
designs
Technology and the
(trans)human
Antonis Balasopoulos
[Univ. Cyprus]
Ewelina Prażmo
[Maria CurieSkłodowska Univ.]
“Utopia and Anomie: On
Andrei Platanov’s Chevengur”
Tatiana Sokolova
[Institute of
Philosophy RAS]
“Utopia as a Social Project:
Early Soviet Technocratic
Utopias”
Maja Grakalic
[Univ. the Arts London]
“YUtopia: Speculative and
Adversarial Design in
Socialist Yogoslavia”
Anna Boguska
[Polish Academy
of Sciences]
“The Problem of
(Im)perfection in Croatian
Insular Prose in the 20th
and 21st Century”
“Transhumanist Utopia. From
Thomas More’s Ultimate
Happiness to Max More’s
Ultimate Human”
Sarah Lohmann
[Durham Univ.]
““Solar Loyalties”:
Posthumanist Ethics and
Utopia in Naomi Mitchison’s
Memoirs of a Spacewoman”
Maria do Rosário
Monteiro
[Univ. Nova de Lisboa/
Universidade dos Aςores]
“Humanism and Technology:
Comparative analysis of
More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New
Atlantis and Miguel Real’s O
Último Europeu 2284”
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Utopian and Dystopian tensions in the
18th and 19th centuries
Hélder Mendes Baião
[Durham Univ.]
“Myths and Utopias in
Eighteenth Century
Switzerland. Utopia as a
Path to Reforms”
Audrey Borowski
[Univ. Oxford]
“Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s
L’An 2440, Le Tableau de
Paris and Le Nouveau Paris:
From Uchronia to a “Poetic
of Ruins””
Fulya Kincal
[Kırklareli Üniv.]
“Dystopias of Urban Space
in the poetry of Amy Levy”
Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
Plenary Lecture - Exchanging Stories: From Hostility to Hospitality / Richard Kearney (Boston College) / Chair: Gonςalo Marcelo
13:00
Closing Remarks
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