Society for Utopian Studies explained
The Society for Utopian Studies (founded 1975) is a North American interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.
Publications
The Society publishes Utopian Studies, an international triannual peer-reviewed journal, containing scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to utopias, utopianism, utopian literature, utopian theory, and intentional communities. The journal's founding editor was Lyman Tower Sargent.[1]
It also publishes a regular newsletter, Utopus Discovered.
Conferences
The Society has organized a series of annual conferences:[2]
- 2023: Austin, Texas
- 2022: Charleston, South Carolina.
- 2021: The 2021 conference was scheduled to be held at Austin, Texas, but was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2020: The 2020 conference was scheduled to be held at Charleston, South Carolina, but was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2019: Michigan State University, East Lansing.
- 2018: Berkeley, California.
- 2017: Memphis, Tennessee.
- 2016: St Petersburg, FL.
- 2015: Pittsburgh, PA.
- 2014: Montréal, Québec.
- 2013: College of Charleston, South Carolina.
- 2012: Toronto, Ontario.
- 2011: Stage College, PA.
- 2010: Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 2009: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
- 2008: Portland, Maine.
- 2007: Toronto, Ontario.
- 2006: Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2005: Memphis, Tennessee.
- 2004: Toronto, Ontario.
- 2003: San Diego, California.
- 2002: Orlando, Florida.
- 2001: Buffalo, NY.
- 2000: Vancouver, B.C.
- 1999: San Antonio, Texas.
- 1997: Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1996: Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1995: Toronto, Ontario.
- 1994: Toronto, Ontario.
- 1993: University of Missouri-St Louis.
- 1992: Baltimore, Maryland
- 1991: Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1990: Lexington, KY.
- 1989: Asilomar Conference Ctr., Pacific Grove, California.
- 1988: Emerson College, Boston, Mass.
- 1987: Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County.
- 1986: Asilomar Conference Ctr., Pacific Grove, California.
- 1985: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- 1984: University of Missouri-St Louis.
- 1983: Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
- 1982: University of New Brunswick.
- 1981: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg.
- 1980: Pennsylvania State University.
- 1979: University of Colorado-Denver.
- 1978: Pennsylvania State University.
- 1977: University of Michigan.
- 1976: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
The 2024 conference is scheduled to be held in Tulum, Mexico.
Awards
The Society sponsors a number of awards:
- The Arthur O. Lewis Award for the best paper by a younger scholar.
- The Eugenio Battisti Award for the best article in the previous year's Utopian Studies.
- The Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design Award for innovative course design in utopian studies.
- The Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award.
- The Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
The Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship
Recipients:
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Utopian Studies.
- Web site: 2011-10-12 . Conference . 2022-11-21 . The Society for Utopian Studies . en-US.
