<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Laurence-<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As someone with the name David Lawrence (Szanton), and very interested in the conference theme its hard to say “no." But the dates of the conference correspond precisely to the dates when I will be traveling from Berkeley California to Johannesburg, South Africa.</div><div class="">All best wishes for a successful conference</div><div class="">David Lawrence Szanton<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 7, 2022, at 8:16 AM, Davis, Laurence <<a href="mailto:L.Davis@ucc.ie" class="">L.Davis@ucc.ie</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 36px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">On behalf of the organising committee of the 22<span class=""><sup class="">nd</sup> International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe (University of Brighton, 13-15 July 2022), I would like to invite interested list members to register for online participation in this cross-disciplinary conference. </span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">The 2022 conference is dedicated to an exploration of radical utopian thinking and revolutionary praxis. It is intended to create a space where participants can explore the role of utopian (eutopian and dystopian) thinking and practice in addressing some of the fundamental challenges of our times, from ecocide to the threat of nuclear war, hunger and homelessness and disease, patriarchy and sexual violence, settler colonialism and the genocide of indigenous peoples, disaster capitalism, and resurgent and virulent new forms of racism, religious intolerance and ethno-nationalism.</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Further information about the conference, including the conference programme, book of abstracts, keynote address (Profs. Jack Halberstam and Raffaella Baccolini) information, and registration options, is available here:</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/utopianstudiessocietyconf22/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk605352" class="">https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/utopianstudiessocietyconf22/</a><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please note that the 'Virtual attendance - full conference' registration package, which includes access to live streams of all conference sessions, is available for the nominal fee of £20. Virtual day passes are also available at a cost of £10 per day.</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kind regards,</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Laurence </div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">On behalf of the conference organising committee:</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Patricia McManus, University of Brighton</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Laurence Davis, University College Cork</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Siân Adiseshiah, Loughborough University</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Professor Tom Moylan, University of Limerick</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Michael G. 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