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500 YEARS OF UTOPIASTHE WORLD GOES TO WHERE WE TAKE IT

2016

5-9 / 72016

Universidade Nova de LisboaFaculdade de CiênciasSociais e Humanas

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Workshop Workshop Workshop

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Succeeding in Aca-demia: Acquiring Skills in Writing, Publishing and Public Presenta-tionLyman T. Sargent and Gregory Claeys

Teaching Utopia Across Borders: a Teaching WorkshopBarnita Bagchi

When Heroes Meet Orwell: Towards Utopia in the Class-roomAlmudena Machado Jimenez

Opening Session16:00

Plenary Lecture - Utopia: The Present and the Past / Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London) / Chair: Iolanda Ramos16:30

17:30 Short Break

Launch of an Online Searchable Version of Utopian Literature in English / Lyman Tower Sargent (Univ. Missouri-St. Louis) 17:45

PAN-Utopia 2100: Fighting Food Waste / Utopian Projects by students of Valongo High School, coordinated by Olga Almeida 18:30

PAN-Utopia 2100: Canvas Anthem / Students of Academia de Música de Costa Cabral, coordinated by Filipa Quadrado and Márcia Lemos 19:00

The Tale of the Unknown Island, by José Saramago / Video: A theatre performance by children of Cova da Moura directed by Matilde Real19:10

Reception19:30

Pre-conference programme

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Etta Madden[Missouri State Univ.]

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Auditório 1 Auditório 1 Auditório 2 T10

Plenary RoundTable

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500 years of utopia: Developments, transformations, and trajectoriesChair: Fátima Vieira

Intentional communities

Film, utopia and dystopia

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04 05 06Building utopiaFeminist fabulations Digital utopias

Tom Moylan[Univ. Limerick]

Laurence Davis[Univ. College Cork]Nathaniel Coleman[Newcastle Univ.]

Andrew Milner[Monash Univ.]Jacqueline Dutton[Univ. Melbourne]

11:30

“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”

Edson Luiz André de Sousa[Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul]“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”

Building dystopia

Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim[Univ. Gdańsk]“The Utopian Beyond in We, Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four”Susanna Layh[Univ. Augsburg]““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”

Anna Campbell[Univ. Sydney]“Atwood the Fabulist? Realising Fabulation in MaddAddam through Active Environment”Susana Correia[Univ. Porto]““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”

Sean Bennett[Univ. Cambridge]“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”

Nere Basabe[Univ. Autónoma de Madrid]“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”

Lunch 13:00

Plenary Lecture - What's in a Name? / Maria Irene Ramalho Santos (Univ. de Coimbra) / Chair: Teresa Botelho14:30

15:30 Short Break

Unless stated otherwise, the panels will be chaired by their first speaker

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Lyman Tower Sargent[Univ. Missouri-St. Louis]

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08 09 10Contemporary American eutopias and dystopias

Education between Utopia and Dystopia

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11 12Utopia and the environment I

Queering utopias

David Bell and Kate Pahl[Univ. Sheffield]

“Themes in U.S Eutopias and Dystopias in the Twenty-First Century”

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”

Mark Michael[Austin Peay State Univ.]“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”

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)”

Philip Holsinger[Independent Scholar]

07 Exhibiting utopias

“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”

“Utopian Co-Production? Collaboration within, against and beyond the Neoliberal University. ”

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]“Forbidden Knowledge: A Performance Ethnogra-phy”

Imagining and repre-senting alterity

Gregory Claeys[Royal Holloway, Univ. London]“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” Rui Vasques

[IADE – Creative Univ.]“Eco-Village Community – Live with Earth: a step in the Transition to a Sustainable Future”

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”


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Tom Moylan[Univ. Limerick]

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14 15Negotiating utopia Real(ising) utopias

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17 18 19Mapping/Picturing utopia

Readings of Huxley Between Utopia and Dystopia II

“The Temptations of Raphael Hythloday”Oddvar Holmesland[Univ. Agder]“Negotiating the Inner Space in the Social Space: Thomas More’s Utopia”

Gonςalo Marcelo[Univ. Coimbra/Univ. Católica do Porto]“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”

Young adult dystopias and utopias

Patricia Sørensen[Univ. Gdańsk]

[Univ. Birmingham]“Disney, Tomorrowland and Contemporary Utopianism”

João Santos[Univ. Porto]“A Bittersweet Recipe: Spaces of Utopia and Imagination in Harry Potter Meals”

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”

Beyza Karadeniz and Yelda Aydın Türk[Karadeniz Technical Univ.]“Building a Nation Capital in the Context of Utopia: Ankara”

Mark Wakefield[Univ. Porto]“Dystopian vibrations in Irish fiction: John McGahern’s The Leavetak-ing and The Barracks”

Marta Komsta[Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ.]“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”

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Paola Spinozzi[Univ. Ferrara]

Auditório 1

13Rereading utopia

“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”

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”

Diane Morgan[Univ. Leeds]““Creaturely”: Resistance and Utopian Praxis” Katarzyna Baran

[Univ. Rovira i Virgili]“Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias and Memory: Archives, Cultural Amnesia and a Call for Remembrance”

Kenneth Hanshew[Univ. Regensburg]“A Czech Brave New World: Jan Barda’s Reeducated”

Wojtek Chojna[Pasco-Hernando State College]“Hard Boiled Wonderland as a Dystopian Novel – Haruki Murakami’s Science Fiction Nightmare”

Hilja Roivainen[Univ. Turku]“Utopian Topos in the Iconography of 21st century Nordic Landscape Painting”

Coffee Break11:00

“Didactic Hope – on the functions of Young Adult Dystopian Literature”

Sean Donnelly

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Verity Burgmann[Monash Univ.]


14 15 16Contemporary concerns

Closed Panel:Dystopia and post-apocalypse in contemporary Finnish fiction

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17 18 19Iranian and Islamic In-tercultural Utopianism

Contemporary developments

Bellamy and beyond

“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”

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”

From Modernity to Postmodernity

Mauricio Onetto Pavez[Univ. Autónoma de Chile]

Luz Ángela Martínez[Univ. Chile]“Utopía, Ruina y Hetero-topía en el Reino de Chile”

Şebnem Çakaloğulları[Gebze Technical Univ.]“The Understanding Design Logic of Utopia and Searching for the Reflection over Today’s Development”

Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga[Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ.]“Utopianism in the Digital Age: Dave Egger’s The Circle”

Ryszard Wolny[Univ. Opole]“Outlandishness as a Realistic Utopia”

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”

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

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Maria Varsam[Int. Hellenic Univ.]

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13Between utopia and dystopia I

“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”

Ali Hıdır Eligüzel and Yağız Alp Tangun[Dokuz Eylül Univ.]“An Island of Global Refugees in Utopia’s 500th Anniversary”

Jorge Maximino[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]“A Crise ou a Cultura na Encruzilhada Hoje. Uma Perspectiva Crítica sobre Arte e Política”

Eva Antal[Eszterhazy Karoly Univ.]“Escapism and Poriomania in Bellamy, Morris and Wells’ Utopian Future-Dreams”

“Utopian Thought in Iranian Literature: The Ruler and People in Sa’di´sUtopia from a New Historical View”

Chair: Toni Lahtinen“La Utopía de Moro y el Estrecho de Magallanes: Puertas de Entrada a la Modernidad”

[Allameh Tabataba’i Univ.]

Lunch13:00

Plenary Lecture - The Utopia of the Ancients compared with that of the Moderns / Viriato Soromenho Marques (Univ. de Lisboa) / Chair: Jorge Bastos da Silva14:30


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Joel BarrosJuliette BaiglerMonika Allewelt


21 22 23Workshop: Tamera - Center for Concrete Utopia: Living in an Intentional Communi-ty in the south of Portugal

Closed Panel:Mapping Utopia as concept. Methodolog-ical Issues in the Research on Utopia

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Utopia and the Environment II

Non-Western Utopias

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]“Why Utopia turned into Uchronia. Utopia in Reinhart Koselleck’s Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe”

Closed Panel: Feeding utopia: the quest for the (un)ideal diet

Maria Aline Ferreira [Univ. Aveiro]

Maria Teresa Castilho[Univ. Porto]““Eating is an Agricultural Act”: Longing for the Agrarian Way Again”

Andrew Milner[Monash Univ.]“Eutopia, Dystopia and 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 Comple-mentarities in the Analytical Categories of the Ecotopias”

Barnita Bagchi[Utrecht Univ.]“Utopia and Dystopia in Two Dramatic Works by Rabindranath Tagore”

Norulhuda Othman[Ludwig Maximilian Univ.]“Dialectic Evolution and Utopian Construction in Malay Historiographical Chronicles”

Sara Di Alessandro[Univ. degli Studi di Milano]“Bodies performing their Death: The Suicide Competi-tion 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

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Franziska Bork Petersen[Univ. Copenhagen]

Auditório 1

20Round Table: The status of the individu-al and the collective in utopianism

Sarah Lohmann[Durham Univ.]Lyman Tower Sargent[Univ. Missouri-St. Louis]

José Eduardo Reis[Univ. Trás-os-Montes eAlto Douro/Univ. Porto]“The Utopian Thought of Amílcar de Sousa, a Portuguese early 20th century Naturist and Dietician”

Shashi Khurana[Univ. Delhi]“The Politics of Survival: A Poem, A Story and Un-imagined Social Reality”

“Hungry Daydreaming. Sult (Hunger) by Knut Hamsun”

Chair: Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro

“Neo-Vegetarians and God’s Gardners: Future Food in Utopia”

[Univ. degli Studi di Milano]

Chair: Franziska Bork Peterson

Federico Tomasello[Univ. Firenze]“Utopia as Urban Planning”

Chair: José Eduardo Reis

Luísa Malato[Univ. Porto]“How to be fed on Mars: A Portuguese Utopia about Food, Music and Political Constitutions”

Yi-Chun Liu[Univ. Porto/Charles Univ.]“Re-reading Utopia Paratextually: A Curious Case of its Mandarin Translations”

Chair: Francesco Adriano Clerici

Coffee Break17:30

Annual General Meeting of the USS / Europe18:00


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Krzysztof Maj[Jagiellonian Univ.]

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28 29 30Closed Panel: Trans-medial utopia. Utopi-an & dystopian

Utopian tensions

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31 32 33Envisioning the future in the 19th century

Food: from shortage to speculation

Ernst Bloch and the theory of Utopia

“One Book to Bind Them All. Transfictional World-Build-ing 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”

Smrutipriya Pattnaik and C. Upendra[Indian Institute of Technology, Indore]“Is Utopia really Indispens-able?”Paul Beaulieu[Univ. Quebec]

Almudena Machado Jiménez[Univ. Jaén]

“Imaginal Utopian Thinking as a Path of Knowledge to Archetypes of Societal Development and Cultural Pragmatism”

The theory of utopia: Hegel to Baudrillard

Andrew Bridges[Claremont Graduate Univ.]

Łukasz Milenkowicz[Univ. Silesia]“Nothing Real Except the Idea: Forms of Utopia in Hegel”

Magalie Fleurot[Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne]“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”

Stuart Connor[Univ. Wolverhampton]“Ernst Bloch’s Subject of Utopia: Dreaming of a better life”

Serhat Tutkal[Ankara Univ.]“Re-visiting Ernst Bloch from Utopian Uprisings”

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 technolog-ical utopias: scientific discourse in nineteenth-cen-tury French literature”

Ewelina Drzewiecka[Polish Academy of Sciences]´”Local Modernity – Local Utopia? About the Bulgarian Vision of Social Happiness in the 19th century”

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Jonathan Baldwin[Royal Holloway, Univ. London]

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27Dystopia, resistance and transgression

“Crime in the Socialist Literary Utopia/Dystopia”

Gökçen Eralan[Dokuz Eylül Univ.]“The Capitol as Panopticon: Inspection HousePower and Punishment: Resistance in Surveillance Culture”Justyna Galant[Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ.]““The First Spark”: The Motif of Resistance in 19th Century Dystopias”

Michał Kłosiński[Univ. Silesia]“Utopia/Dystopias in Animations depicting Video Games”

Adam Prokop[Univ. Opole]“Transposition of Christian Celestial Utopia to a Model Temporal Society based on the example of Sid Meier’s Civilisation V”

Francesco Deotto[Univ. Genève]“Benjamin, Celan and Szondi’s “hope in the past”. On the Utopian Dimension of Literary Hermeneutics”

Iolanda Ramos[Univ. Nova de Lisboa]“Food for Thought: Nurture and Nature in The Giver”

Martin Aidnik[Talinn Univ.]“Not Yet – Exploring the Utopian Potentials and Problems of Ernst Bloch and Zygmunt Bauman”

Chair: Gregory Claeys and Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim

“Utopia under Dystopology: When the Utterance of a Dream Leads to the Subjugation of Reality”

“Utopias of Absolute Knowing: The Hegelian Consciousness and the Arbitrariness of Entifica-tion”

Dario Altobelli[Independent Scholar]“The Radicality of Utopia. Jean Baudrillard as a Utopian Thinker”

Coffee Break11:00


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Boris Hamzeian[Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne]


35 36 37Structuring utopia Gendering utopia

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38 39Utopian approaches: ancient to early modern

19th century Emanci-pations

“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”

Eleonora Federici[Univ. L’Orientale]“Thomas More’s Legacy in Women’s Utopias of the Last Decades of the XIX Century”

Shellie Michael[Volunteer State Community College]

Ibtisam Ahmed[Univ. Nottingham]

“Women’s Work in Louisa May Alcott’s Transcendental Wild Oats”

Crossing the Atlantic

Leonardo Bora[Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro]

Rocío Hernández Arias[Univ. Vigo]“Universal Torch to the Future, an Unknown Utopian Text from a Conservative Context”

Siân Adiseshiah[Univ. Lincoln]“Aristophanes: The First Great (Critical) Utopian”

Pedro Monteiro [Univ. Porto]“Jorge Ferreira de Vasconsel-os 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”

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”

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Barbara Klonowska[Catholic Univ. Lublin]

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34Post-humanism in film and TV

“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)”

James Block[DePaul University]“Pedagogy and Democratic Consent: Utopian Thought and Practice in the Classroom”

Silvia Oliveira[Rhode Island College]“Earnest Irony: Probing Utopia in the Portuguese-American Memoir”

Carlos Ferrera Cuesta[Univ. Autónoma de Madrid]“Spiritualism and Utopia in the last third of the Spanish 19th century”

“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”

Lunch13:00

Plenary Lecture - Controversial More and Puzzling Utopia: 500 years of history / Marie-Claire Phélippeau (”Moreana” editor-in-chief) / Chair: José Eduardo Reis14:30


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Jacqueline Dutton[Univ. Melbourne]


4442 43Postcolonial perspec-tives

Tasting utopia

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41 45Closed Panel: Utopia 500:Bringing utopia out of abstraction and into action

Closed Panel: Current and future scenarios for Art

“Utopia in Australia – Inside, Outside, Upside Down”

Warner Woodworth [(Brigham Young Univ.]“Walking the Long Road Toward Utopia in Africa”

Miguel Ramalhete Gomes [Univ. Porto]“The Burgers that Done the Deed”: Hazardous fFod in Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice”Rui Rato[Univ. Porto]

Joana Caetano[Univ. Porto]

“L’Appétit Sauvage: The Blissful Utopia of Desire and Excess in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair”

Closed Panel: Inter-preting utopias from Utopia to New Atlantis

Vita Fortunati[Univ. Bologna]

Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro[Univ. Federal de São Paulo]“Translation and Interpreta-tion: Form and Meaning in the Latin text of Thomas More’s Utopia”

Begüm ÇavuşoğluChristina MartensMatthew PalaczkyQi SunPetra ŠvobCláudia TorresBurak ÜnalAlexandra van Doorn

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”

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Timothy Miller[Univ. Kansas]

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40Visionary architecture

“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”

Helvio Moraes[Mato Grosso State Univ.]“Political Satire, Social Criticism and Utopian Project in Bacon’s New Atlantis”

Selma Köksal Çekiç[Batman Univ.]“End of European-Ameri-can Hegemony: From Painting to Cinema, Rethinking the Concept of Apocalypse”

“Making Senses of Appetite, Love and Lust in Io Sono L’Amore (2009)”

“The Rhetoric and the Historical Context of Thomas More’s Utopia as Keys to Grasping its Political Message and Legacy”

Sofia de Melo Araújo[Univ. Porto]“The Pleasure is Mine: Food, the Individual, and Utopia”

Chair: Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro

Chair: Bengisu Bayrak


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Antonis Balasopoulos [Univ. Cyprus]

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47 48 49Postrevolutionary designs

Technology and the (trans)human

“Utopia and Anomie: On Andrei Platanov’s Chevengur”

Tatiana Sokolova[Institute of Philosophy RAS]“Utopia as a Social Project: Early Soviet Technocratic Utopias”

Ewelina Prażmo[Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ.]“Transhumanist Utopia. From Thomas More’s Ultimate Happiness to Max More’s Ultimate Human”

Sarah Lohmann[Durham Univ.]

Maria do Rosário Monteiro[Univ. Nova de Lisboa/Universidade dos Aςores]

““Solar Loyalties”: Posthumanist Ethics and Utopia in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman”

Utopian and Dystopi-an tensions in the 18th and 19th centu-ries

Hélder Mendes Baião[Durham Univ.]

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””

09:30

Gonςalo Marcelo[Univ. Coimbra/Univ. Católica Porto]

Auditório 1

46Closed Panel: Ricoeur on imagination and utopia

“Imagining Change: Ricoeur on Utopia”

Johann Michel [Univ. Poitiers]“The Debate between Ricoeur and Castoriadis: Revolution and Utopia”

Alberto Romele [Univ. Porto]“Imaginative Machines”

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”

Fulya Kincal[Kırklareli Üniv.]“Dystopias of Urban Space in the poetry of Amy Levy”“Humanism and Technology:

Comparative analysis of More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis and Miguel Real’s O Último Europeu 2284”

“Myths and Utopias in Eighteenth Century Switzerland. Utopia as a Path to Reforms”

Chair: Richard Kearney

Coffee Break11:30

Plenary Lecture - Exchanging Stories: From Hostility to Hospitality / Richard Kearney (Boston College) / Chair: Gonςalo Marcelo12:00

Closing Remarks13:00


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