27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
October 24th-27th 2002
Orlando, Florida
A special welcome to those attending an SUS conference for the
first time! We hope you enjoy the proceedings and return to future
conferences. A good location to strike up new acquaintances and
renew past ones is the registration and coffee area.
Please take a few moments to check over the program. The twenty-minute
time limit on papers remains in all cases, however, and session
chairs are encouraged to employ appropriate frowns, noises, gestures
and warning notes to keep papers within the limit—with the
object, of course, of allowing the audience plenty of time for questions
and discussion.
Utopian Studies, the SUS Journal
Lyman Tower Sargent, Editor of Utopian Studies, encourages conference
presenters to submit their papers for possible publication. Instructions
are printed on the inside front cover of the journal, copies of
which can be seen in the registration area. Journal address: Utopian
Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499.
Awards Offered by the SUS
Arthur O. Lewis Award: Call for Submissions
The Arthur O. Lewis Award is given to the writer of the best paper
presented at the annual meeting by an untenured or independent scholar.
If you are one of these, please submit your paper to the Awards
Committee. Guidelines for submissions are as
follows:
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Submitters are encouraged to revise and polish their papers,
aiming for a length of 15-25 pages.
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The paper should be complete with all required scholarly apparatus,
and formatted according to the submissions guidelines outlined
in the most recent issue of Utopian Studies.
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Send 5 copies of the papers by February 1, 2002 to:
Dan Sabia
Dept of Government & International Studies
USC
Columbia, SC 29208
email: sabia@sc.edu Phone: 803-777-454
The Eugenio Battisti Award is presented annually for the best article
in Utopian Studies during the previous year. A Distinguished Scholar
Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of utopian studies.
Society Archives
The Society maintains an archive in the Utopian Collection at Pennsylvania
State University, and encourages everyone presenting a paper at
the conference to deposit a copy: Society for Utopian Studies Archives,
Rare Book Room, Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA 16802.
Naomi Jacobs
President
John Barberet and Peter Sands
Conference Co-Chairs
Thursday
24 October 2002
Session 1 3:30-5:00
1A. Feminism, Race, Film LKVW WEST
Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
Andrew J. Paravantes, York University. “When
a Post-Estranged World is also a Post-Human One.”
Dina Smith, University of Kentucky. “Utopian
Images: The Piano and Feminist Film Historicism”
Jesse Rhines, Rutgers University. “Film,
High School and Utopia: Blacks in the Utopian Imagination”
1B. French Utopians WASH
Chair: Lise Leibacher
Richard A. Ferland, Stetson University. “Sade’s
Utopia.”
Tabetha Ewing, Bard College “Disquiet:
The Violence of Peace in Louis XV’s Paris”
John Barberet, University of Central Florida.
“Europe as Utopia: Colonialism and Empire in Lallemand's
"Le Hashysch" (1848)
1C. Children’s/Young Adult Utopias EXEC IV
Chair: Ilyse Kusnetz
Christian Kiefer, University of California.
“Men Will Be Boys: Childhood as Utopia in James Gurney's
Dinotopia.
Carrie Hintz, Queens College/CUNY. “Dismantling
Utopia: Considering Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green Sky Trilogy.”
Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida. “Tradition,
Trauma, and Memory in Lois Lowry.”
Session 2 7:00-8:30
2A LKVW WEST
Welcome
John Barberet, Local Host
Kathy Seidel, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences,
University of Central Florida
Plenary Panel: “Designing the Twenty-First Century: Disney's
Animal Kingdom.”
Chair: Naomi Jacobs, President, Society for Utopian Studies
Jane Kuenz, University of Southern Maine
Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine
Susan Willis, Duke University
8:30 to 10:30 FOUNTAIN
Wine & Cheese Reception
Friday
25 October 2002
7:30-8:30 LKVW PRE
continental breakfast
8:00-5:00 LKVW PRE
registration, book display
Session 3 8:30-9:45
3A. Performance LKVW WEST
Chair: Lynda Schneekloth
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, University of Memphis.
“‘This Rude Stage’: Performing Utopia in Sontag’s
America”
Raina Joines, University of Florida. “Unbreakable?:
Utopian Fragments from an All-American Hero.”
G. P. Lainsbury, Northern Lights College. “Utopian
Community-Building in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
and “The Secret Integration,” William Gibson’s
Virtual Light”
3B. Revisiting the Utopianism of Second-Wave Feminism WASH
Chair: Naomi Jacobs
Donna Fancourt, University College, Northampton.
“Utopianism as Madness in Feminist Utopian Fiction”
Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira, Universidad de
Aveiro. “Virgin Birth Fantasies: Feminist Revisions of Primal
Scenes of Origin”
Naomi Jacobs, University of Maine. “The
Dream of a Common Language: Rethinking the Utopianism of the Feminist
Poetry Movement”
3C. Harnessing the Power of Utopia in the Freshman and Sophomore
Humanities Course EXEC IV
Chair: Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University
Bill Doyle, Florida Gulf Coast University. “Enhancing Chameleon
Vision: The Utopian View in Nature Writing.”
Carol Bledsoe, Florida Gulf Coast University.
“‘The Flawed Become Whole’: Dystopia and the
Ideal in Toni Morisson’s The Bluest Eye”
Linda Rowland, Florida Gulf Coast University.
“Stories that Walk Students into the Future: A Utopian Focus
in the Composition Classroom”
Jennifer Wojcik, Florida Gulf Coast University.
“Utopia as a Lens: Re-thinking the Literature Survey”
9:45-10:00 LKVW PRE
Coffee / refreshments
Session 4 10:00-11:45
4A. Built Space and the Making of Community: Utopianism, the New
Urbanism, and its Historical Antedents LKV WEST
Chair: Amanda Rees
Amanda Rees, University of Missouri-Kansas City:
“Ideological Community Spaces: A Cross-cultural Comparison
Between Nineteenth-Century Industrial Philanthropic Communities
and Contemporary New Urbanism.”
Stuart Patterson, Emory University: “Community
as Place and as Process in New Deal and New Urbanist New Towns.”
Hugh Bartling, University of Central Florida:
“The Magic Kingdom Syndrome: Trials and Tribulations of
Life in Celebration.”
4B. Gothic and Early Women’s Utopias WASH
Chair: Ana Acosta, CUNY Brooklyn
Ellen Malenas, University of Virginia. “‘For
the place could not have failed of attracting our particular attention’:
Paternalism, Patriarchy and Space in Millenium Hall”
Pamela Hammons, University of Central Florida.
“Domestic Dystopia in Margaraet Cavendish’s Portraits
of Home”
Deborah Rogers, University of Maine. “Ann
Radcliffe’s Matrophobic Dystopia”
4C. Science Fiction and Ecological Themes LKVW EAST
Chair: Donna Fancourt
Eric Otto, University of Florida. “Kim
Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy and the Leopoldian Ethic”
Christine Mahady, University of Pittsburgh.
“No World of Difference: Examining the Significance of Women’s
Relationships to Nature in Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora”
Janice M. Bogstad, University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire. “Gaia, Earth and Alien in the Later Fiction of Sheri
S. Tepper and Sydney Van Scyoc”
Deb Taylor, University of Maryland. “Is
Paradise Home?
11:45-1:00 lunch on your own; meet in hotel lobby for partners
Session 5 1:00-2:15
5A. Popular and Primitive Cultures LKVW WEST
Chair: Susan J. Dauer
Csaba Toth, Carlow College. “Gender, J-Pop,
Japan”
Suzanne M. Donahue, Temple University. “Utopia
and Primitivism: The Role of Transgender in Paul Gauguin’s
Nudes”
William Cummings, University of South Florida.
“Body Modification as Utopian Urge—A Recent History?
5B. Economics WASH
Chair: Peter Fitting
Jenny Brown, Redstockings Women’s Liberation
Archives. “The Computerized Job Market: From Futuristic
Novel to Real-World Economic Proposal”
Kathi Weeks, Fairfield University. “Demanding
Utopia: The Politics of Basic Income”
C. Lynne Fulmer , Southwest Texas State University.
“Capitalism: From Utopian Visions to Dystopian Betrayal”
5C. Utopian Impulses EXEC IV
Chair: Pam Hammons, University of Central Florida
Alex MacDonald, University of Regina. “The
Utopian Impulse in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Lee”
Darby Lewes, Lycoming College. “Better
Living Through Poetry: Women and Percy Bysse Shelley’s Utopian
Experiment”
J. Murray Murdoch, Jr., Fordham University.
“Hegel, Utopia, and the End of History”
2:15-2:30 LKVW PRE
coffee / refreshments
Session 6 2:30-3:45
6A. Dystopia and 9/11 LKVW WEST
Chair: Paul Majkut
Mark Jendrysik, University of North Dakota.
“‘The Dystopia of Petty Tyranny: Post 9/11 America”
Barry Vacker, Temple University. “Twin
Towers and the Global Village.”
Paul Majkut, National University. “9/11
and Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column
6B. Political Theory and Race WASH
Chair: Jesse Rhines, Rutgers University
Tim Westcott, Park University. “In Friendship
Dwell Together: The Communalism of John Otis Wattles”
Ethan Kytle, University of North Carolina.
“Martin Delany’s Emigration Project: Liberal Utopianism
in (and outside) of Nineteenth-Century America”
Pavla Vesela, Duke University. "Utopia
West and East: The Tensions in the Traditions"
6C. Reading Utopias EXEC IV
Annette L. Giesecke, University of Delaware.
“Homer's Eutopolis: Epic Journeys and the Search for Utopia
in 8th c BCE Greece”
Richard D. Erlich, Miami University of Ohio.
“Earth, Wind, and Sex (and Death): Utopian Themes in Turn-of-the-Millenium
Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“Towers of Ivory, Corridors of Linoleum: Utopia in American
University Novels”
Session 7 4:00-5:15
7A. Spaces and Places LKVW WEST
Chair: Rodney R. Alvarez, University of Central Florida
Dwight Kiel, University of Central Florida. “Making No
Places: The Utopian Vision of Frederick Law Olmstead”
Gina Marie Dreistadt, George Mason University.
“Identity, Ideology and Utopia: How Two Communities Make
It All Come Together”
Dinh Quoc Phuong, University of Melbourne.
“The Question of Conservation and Adaptation of Village
Architecture to the Urbanization Process in Hanoi.”
7B Roundtable on Erin McKenna’s The Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist
and Feminist Perspective WASH
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent
Participants:
Farhang Erfani, Villanova University
Peter Stillman, Vassar College
Hoda Zaki, Hood College
Respondent: Erin McKenna, Pacific Lutheran University
7C Utopia and Everyday Life EXEC IV
Lynda Schneekloth, University of Buffalo. “The
Dystopia of Things”
Aaron H. Schectman, Emeritus, Monmouth University.
“The Condominium as Dystopia”
Michael Jackson, University of Sydney. “Ikea
as Utopia”
5:15-7:00 p.m.
dinner on your own; meet in hotel lobby for partners
7:00-9:00 p.m. LKVW EAST
Guest Presentations:
Jacques Fresco, “The Venus Project Presents
The Future by Design”
Pilgrim and Paxus Calta from Twin Oaks Community
Saturday
26 October 2002
7:30-8:30 LKVW PRE
continental breakfast
8:00-2:30 LKVW PRE
registration and book display
Session 8 8:30-9:45
8A. Technologies and Utopia LKVW WEST
Chair: Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaulkee
Merav Katz, Bar-Ilan University. “‘Universal
Time – Utopian Time”
Susan Jaye Dauer, Valencia Community College,
East. “The SIMS: Making your Eutopia in Outopia”
Howard P. Segal, University of Maine. “The
Wave of the Future: High-Tech Utopian Visions and American History.”
8B. Nineteenth-Century America WASH
Chair:
James Davis II, Georgia State University. “William
Dean Howells’ Literary Utopia: Alturian Political Theory.”
Gib Prettyman, Pennsylvania State University,
Fayette. “Utopian Suburbs of the White City”
Adam Tuchinsky, University of Southern Maine.
“‘Those Dim New Yorkers”: Margaret Fuller, Cultural
Criticism, and Utopian Socialism”
8C. William Morris EXEC IV
Chair:
Brenda Garrett, University of Alberta. “A
Literal Education of Desire: Reading Morris’ News From Nowhere
as Allegory.”
Anna Vaninskaya, University of Denver. “Janus-Faced
Fictions: Socialism as Utopia and Dystopia in William Morris and
George Orwell”
Gerd Bayer, Case Western Reserve University.
“William Morris’ Rural Utopia and the Un-Malling of
America”
9:45-10:00 LKVW PRE
coffee, refreshments
Session 9 10:00-11:45
9A. Disneyfied Utopos LKVW WEST
Chair: Nancy L. Stockdale
David Pike, American University. “The
Disney Underground”
Ilyse Kusnetz, Valencia Community College. “Celebration:
Utopia or Dystopia?”
Kenneth Roemer, University of Texas-Arlington.
“Meat the World: A Japanese View of Disneyworld.”
9B. Nineteenth-Century Communities and Thinkers WASH
Chair:
Naobumi Hijikata, Chuo University. “Is
Utopianism Compatible with Utilitarianism in Robert Owen’s
Idea of the Community Governance”
Jennifer Jones, University of California. “Discipline
in New Lanark.”
David Thomson, University of Illinois, Urbana.
“John Eliot’s Regiclastic Utopianism
9C. Approaches to Utopia and Community EXEC IV
Chair:
Nicole Aimee Roux, University of Michigan. “Community
and Language in America”
David B. Eller, Elizabethtown College. “Swedenborg
and American Utopianism”
George Garrelts, Mercyhurst College, “The
Theory and Practice of Utopia”
Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University.
“Fishing for Health: Sir Isaac Walton’s Utopian Prescription”
9D. National Identities LKVW EAST
Chair:
Uri Zilbersheid, Yezreel Valley College. “The
Utopia of Theodor Herzl”
Kirwin R. Shaffer, Pennsylvania State University,
Berks. “Freedom Teaching in Cuba: Schools and Mass Education
in Pursuit of the Anarchist Utopia, 1898-1925”
Gilson Leandro Queluz, Centro Federal de Educação
Tecnológica do Paraná. “Menotti Del Picchia:
Utopia and Modernism in Brazil (1930-1938)”
Rob Kurfirst, Delta College. “Utopian
Socialism: Soviet Style”
12:00-1:30 LKVW
Luncheon buffet and business meeting
Session 10 2:15-3:30
10A. A Roundtable on Tom Moylan’s Scraps of the Untainted
Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. LKVW WEST
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent, University of Missouri-St.
Louis
Participants:
Kristine Anderson, Purdue University
Richard D. Erlich, Miami University of Ohio
Peter Fitting, University of Toronto
Phillip Wegner, University of Florida
Hoda Zaki, Hood College
Response: Tom Moylan, University of Limerick
10B. Theories of Applied Utopianism WASH
Chair:
Donald E. Pitzer, University of Southern Indiana.
“The Use and Abuse of Utopia”
Gilbert Fulmer, Southwest Texas State University.
“Utopianism and Evolutionary Mortality.”
Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid. “How Does Law Work in Utopia?”
10C Otherworlds in Orlando ROSB
Chair: Craig Friend, University of Central Florida
Spencer Downing, University of Central Florida.
“Making the Magic Last All Night: Staying “On Property”
at Walt Disney World”
Nancy L. Stockdale, University of Central Florida.
“A New Jerusalem?: Protestant Utopia at Orlando’s
Holy Land Experience”
Hong Zhang, University of Central Florida.
“Splendid History: Utopian Myth as History”
3:30-3:45
coffee, refreshments
Session 11 3:45-5:15
11A. Flights of Fancy beyond Disney LKVW WEST
Chair: Spencer Downing
Jane Kuenz, University of Southern Maine: “The
Magic of Objects: Baum’s Oz Series”
Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine
: “The Green Reincarnation: Oscar Wilde, David Bowie, and
Velvet Goldmine”
Susan Willis, Duke University: “Recognition
and Transformation: Discovering Utopia in Schrek”
11B. Political Theory WASH
Chair: Hugh Bartling, University of Central
Florida
Dan Sabia, University of South Carolina. “Democracy
and Utopia.”
Steven P. Scalet, Binghamton University. “Ideal
Theorizing in Political Philosophy.”
Peter Fitting, University of Toronto. “The
First Utopia of the 21st Century”
11C. Queer Identities EXEC IV
Chair:
Jeff King, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“Utopia and Castration: The Bodily History of Queer Identity”
Andrew Reynolds, University of Florida. “‘The
Precious, The Incommunicable Past’: Prairie Economics, Queer
Utopia, and Willa Cather’s My Ántonia”
Dinner on your own; meet in hotel lobby for partners.
Video & Discussion 7:00-9:00 LKVW EAST
Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows present their video “Welcome
to the Future”
Sunday
27 October 2002
7:30-8:30 LKVW PRE
continental breakfast
NB: Guided Bus Tour of Celebration 9:00 to noon; meet in hotel
lobby @8:50.
Session 12 8:30-10:30
12A “Both Men and Women Alike Carry on Vigorous Military
Training”: Visions of West Point as Utopia LKVW WEST
Chair: Daryl Schuster, University of Central
Florida
J. Joseph Miller, United States Military Academy
Daisy Miller, United States Military Academy
Tony McGowan, United States Military Academy
12B Classic and Classical Utopias and Texts EXEC IV
Chair:
Nurten Birlik, Middle East Technical University
(Ankara, Turkey). “Tiresias.”
Alex-Alban Gómez Coutouly, European
University of Madrid. “God’s Revolution or Utopia’s
Parousia”
Session 13 10:30-12 noon
13A. Francophone Literature LKVW WEST
Chair: John Barberet
Lourdes Cancio Martins, University of Lisbon.
“New Faces of Utopia through Post Modern Writing. Saramago
and Umberto Eco”
Célia Nunes Carvalho, University of
Lisbon. “Rhetoric of Utopia: Houellebecq and Saramago”
Marie Léticée, University of
Central Florida. “Feminine Resistance in Carribean Literature”
Index of participants:
Acosta, Ana 4B
Alvarez, Rodney 7A
Anderson, Kristine 10A
Barberet, John 1B, 13A
Bartling, Hugh 4A, 11B
Bayer, Gerd 8C
Birlik, Nurten 12B
Bledsoe, Carol 3C
Bogstad, Janice M. 4C
Brown, Jennifer 5B
Cancio-Martins, Lourdes 13A
Carvalho, Celia Nunes 13A
Cummings, William 5A
Dauer, Susan Jaye 5A, 8A
Davis, James T. 8B
Dinh, Phuong 7A
Donahue, Suzanne 5A
Downing, Spencer 10C
Doyle, William 3C
Dreistadt, Gina Marie 7A
Eller, David B. 9C
Erfani, Farhang 7B
Erlich, Richard D. 6C, 10A
Ewing, Tabetha 1B
Fancourt, Donna 3B, 4C
Ferland, Richard 1B
Ferreira, Aline 3B
Fitting, Peter 5B, 10A, 11B
Friend, Craig 10C
Fulmer, Gilbert 10B
Fulmer, C. Lynne 5B
Garrelts, George 9C
Garrett, Brenda 8C
Giesecke, Annette 6C
Gomez Coutouly Alex-Alban 12B
Hammons, Pamela 4B, 5C
Hijikata, Naobumi 9B
Hintz, Carrie 1C
Jackson, Michael 7C
Jacobs, Naomi 3B
Jendrysik, Mark S 6A
Joines, Raina 3A
Jones, Jennifer 9B
Katz, Merav 8A
Kidd, Kenneth 8A
Kiefer, Christian 1C
Kiel, Dwight 7A
King, Jeff 11C
Kuenz, Jane 2A, 11A
Kurfirst, Rob 9D
Kusnetz, Ilyse 1C, 9A
Kytle, Ethan 6B
Lainsbury, G.P. 3A
Leibacher, Lise 1B
Leticee, Marie 13A
Lewes, Darby 5C
MacDonald, Alex 5C
Mahady, Christine 4C
Majkat, Paul 6A
Malenas, Ellen 4B
McGowan, Tony 12A
McKenna, Erin 7B
Miller, Daisy 12A
Miller, J. Joseph 12A
Moylan, Tom 10A
Murdoch, James 5C
Otto, Eric 4C
Paravantes, Andrew J. 1A
Patterson, Stuart 4A
Pike, David L. 9A
Pitzer, Donald 10B
Prettyman, Gib 8B
Queluz, Gilson Leandro 9D
Ramiro, Miguel A. 10B
Rees, Amanda 4A
Reynolds, Andrew 11C
Rhines, Jesse IA, 6B
Roemer, Kenneth 9A
Rogers, Deborah 4B
Roux, Nicole A. 4B
Rowland, Linda 3C
Sabia, Dan 11A
Sargent, Lyman T. 7B, 10A
Sands, Peter 6C
Scalet, Steven 11A
Schectman, Aaron 7C
Schneckloth, Lynda 7C
Schuster, Daryl 12B
Segal, Howard 8A
Shaffer, Kirk 9D
Smith, Dina IA
Stillman, Peter 7B
Stockdale, Nancy L 10C
Taylor, Deb 4C
Thomson, David 9B
Totaro, Rebecca 3C, 9C
Toth, Csaba 5A
Tuchinski, Adam 8B
Vacker, Barry 6A
Vaninskaya, Anna 8C
Vesela, Pavla 6B
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer 3A, 1A
Waldrep, Shelton 2A, 11A
Weeks, Kathi 5B
Wegner, Philip 10A
Westcott, Timothy 6B
Willis, Susan 2A, 11A
Wojcik, Jennifer M. 3C
Zaki, Hoda 7B, 10A
Zhang, Hong 10C
Zilbersheid, Uri 9D
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