CFP: make, unmake, remake

The Society for Utopian Studies invites creative and scholarly responses to its conference theme–“make, unmake, remake”– with a particular interest in panels that offer interdisciplinary approaches to shared questions in utopian studies, including those that speak to post-pandemic life and renewal. Submissions are due by May 22, 2022.

Topics might include:

• “Tinkering towards utopia” vs. large scale utopian plans
• Arts and crafts, “craftivism,” and sustainability
• Reparations for slavery and other historical atrocities
• Utopian labor; labor in dystopian times
• Building from the ashes / post-disaster and post-apocalyptic re-building
• Utopia as apology and social repair
• Revision, recursivity, play, and experimentation in utopian thought
• Hope in dystopian times
• Preparing, preserving, rebuilding, resilience
• Local responses to global change