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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Utopian Studies Society Conference 2022 - Call for Papers<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">July 13<sup>th</sup> � 15<sup>th</sup>, the University of Brighton, England.<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Conference Title:
<b>Opening Utopia: New Directions in Utopian Studies<o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Keynote Speakers to include Professor Jack Halberstam on Queering Utopia <o:p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 2022 Utopian Studies Society (USS) Conference is dedicated to
an exploration of radical utopian thinking and revolutionary praxis. It will create a space where we can explore the role of utopian thinking and practice in addressing some of the fundamental challenges of our times. As part of this exploration, we wish to
engage those who use utopian thinking and practices to understand our present moment, its patterns of continuity and discontinuity with the times which generated it.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The organisers of the last year�s conference noted that our time �</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">is
a turning point for Utopian Studies.� In agreement, the organisers of this year�s conference wish to explore what our time is made of: our aim is to turn the concept of utopia, its long history and the contestations which make that history, to the present.
To help thematise this, the conference organisers have focused on �hope� as a key contested concept, one which can act as a focaliser for the conference�s exploration of the situation of utopia in the twenty-first century.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">It is our premise that there needs to be something fierce in any attachment to utopian thinking in these times. The world of the twenty-first century seems to be one committed
not merely to the cancellation of hope but to the drowning of it in an excess of cruelty. That fierceness cannot be forged out of commitment alone, however: it requires a depth of understanding both of itself and of what it throws itself against. Do we yet
have that depth understanding of utopian hope in what are arguably anti-utopian times?<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Utopian thinking � and the scholarship engaging with it � has always had an antagonistic edge: a sharp and unyielding critical relationship to the way things are in favour
of how they might be. This presence of a critical relationship to the present is differentiated from the politics embedded in other models of thought by the future-focus of utopianism, the founding and sublation of critique by hope. Is this a model of thinking
or even an ideal of thinking sufficient to our own moment, however? </span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hope
� Utopian and Otherwise <o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 2022 USS Conference is dedicated to exploring the situation
of utopia and of utopian thinking in the current conjuncture. It is specifically meant to focus on how �hope� is active in the present, the forms it takes in politics, culture and philosophy. Not all forms of hope are utopian however: we anticipate the conference
engaging with the mobilisation of hope in discourses which are explicitly or implicitly anti-utopian - whether at work in the fields of politics and culture or in the practices of everyday life.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">USS and Utopia beyond the University<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As part of the turn to the present of this USS Conference, we
aim to design a programme which centres work designed to blur or break the well-policed and expensive borders between the university and the communities within which universities sit. To this end, we are proposing working with local activists in Brighton to
establish some in-person and remote-access events which will highlight and explore hope as it is present in the politics of migrant-solidarity, anarchist and queer groups and spaces. We wish to open this thread of the conference to the work of others outside
the formal limits of academia or who are inside an academic space pushing out. If you are involved with some work in your community (we understand communities as being social rather than sheerly geographical spaces, made by relationships and practices rather
than maps), please consider how you could be involved and get in touch. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Organising Committee encourages individuals and research
groups to curate their own panel proposals as a way of giving topics, problems and questions the significant scope they deserve. We also welcome individual abstracts which we hope to build into a number of thematic panels to facilitate delegates� navigation
of the conference. Potential topics for either panels or individuals include (but are not limited to):<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hope
in or as solidarity work<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Neoliberal
forms of hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Does
hope need to be decolonised? <o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Indigenous hope</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Queer
forms of hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Global ecocide and catastrophic hope</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hope, post-individualism, and communism
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Culture
is not Enough: hope in dystopian and post-apocalyptic fictions<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Methodological
questions and hope, or the affordances and limits of hope as a concept<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The
politics of hope?<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Utopian
hope versus privatised hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">What
happens to hope in dystopia?<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Critical
hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pessimistic
hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Radical
and revolutionary hope<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hope
and the university <o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please send your abstract or other proposal to
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:utopianstudiesconf@brighton.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">utopianstudiesconf@brighton.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#212121;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> and
indicate if you would like to engage remotely or in-person. The deadline for receipt of abstracts and proposals is April 4<sup>th</sup>, 2022<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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are welcome in one of the following formats: <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">20-minute paper / please submit a 250-word abstract<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Panel of multiple presentations (3 x 20-minute presentations for example or 5-7 x
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>flash papers) by named contributors and chair / please submit a proposal with 1) the outline of the panel theme; 2) the presenters, their format and notes on their papers; 3) the name of the chair.<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Roundtable of multiple speakers on a theme with a named chair to fit into a 90-minute slot.<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We also welcome non-traditional formats for presenting work
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>- <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>duologues, performances, musical presentations, film screenings, debates and manifesto presentations, for example.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The conference fee for in-person participation will be 120 GBP (full fee for 3
days). This in-person conference fee will be either refunded or not levied if covid infection rates make personal attendance impossible. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">About 20 waivers of the <u>online</u> conference fee will be available. To apply
for a fee-waiver, please contact the USS/E Secretary at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:justynagalantusse@utopos.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#DCA10D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">justynagalantusse@utopos.net</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> for
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