Call for Papers
"Millennial Dreams: Utopia in the 21st Century"
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE: The University of Iowa's 2nd Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy, April 12-14, 2002
Oscar Wilde said, "A map of the world without utopia on it is not worth
looking at." However, many attempts to map utopia in the Western world have
achieved a less than ideal result. In fact, these failures have had such
deleterious effects that the term utopia has inherited a pejorative
connotation. Never before has the idea of utopia elicited as much fear,
apprehension, and skepticism as now, and, given recent world events, perhaps
now is the time when the promises of utopia are desired most. Given the
fears of totalitarianism, persecution, and other "utopian" mishaps, is there
a future for utopia in the twenty-first century? Is there a principle of
hope alive and well today or are dystopias inevitable?
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Utopias and Literature
· Utopias and Globalization
· Technology and Utopia
· Hyper-topias, E-topias, Cyber-topias
· Millenarianism
· Utopias and Dystopias
· Specific Sites of Utopianism
o Utopian Communities
o Living Experiments
o Alternative Schools
· Utopias and Sexuality
· Utopias and Nationalism
· Terrorism, Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution
· Utopias and the Media
· Utopian Theory
Send 250 word abstracts by February 28, 2002 to:
Angela Nepodal
Department of English
308 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
angela-nepodal@uiowa.edu
Email submissions are preferred.
For more information about the CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE conference, please
visit our website at www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf.
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