ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

Monday 9th
Venue: Campus Catalunya
(Avinguda Catalunya, 35)

09:00 -11:30

Registration

10:00 – 11:30

PhD Workshop
Lyman Tower Sargent & Gregory Claeys

Venue: Campus Catalunya (Avinguda Catalunya, 35)

Room 309 (Classrooms bldg, 3rd floor)

12:00 – 14:00
Venue: Rectorat Building (Plaça de l’Escorxador)
Paranimf
Opening Ceremony & Plenary Lecture-1
Manjula Padmanabhan
Writer and artist
“Mytopia, Youtopia”
Monday 9th
16:00-18:00
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313
Intercultural Utopianism Architecture & Utopianism Literature-1 Gendered Utopias Theoretical Approaches-1
Mir Saeed Mousavi Razavi & Vasilina Khvostikova Emrah Atasoy Eva Antal Dimitris Foufoulas
Morteza Gholami Southern Federal University, Hacettepe University, Eszterhazy Karoly University, Panteion University of
Allameh Tabataba’i Russia Turkey Hungary Athens, Greece
University, Iran
“Translation at the Service of “Urban Utopia: The Connection “Search for Harmony in “The New Woman in the ‘New “A Saint-Simonian Dream of
Utopian Harmony: How Between Form and Fiction” Disharmony in The Children of Harmonies’: Socialist-Feminist Harmony: Gustave d’Eichenthal
Utopian Ideas Travel Across Men by P.D.James Utopias of 1880 to 1890” in Greece (1833-1835)”
Human Societies”
Mohammad Nasravi Aleksi Lohtaja Anna Campbell Almudena Machado Jiménez Phil Hardwicke
Royal Holloway, University Jyväskylä University, Finland University of St. Andrews, University of Jaén, Spain Imperial College of Science
of London,UK UK “O’Neill’s Disruptive & Technology RUTC, UK

“Pilgrimage as the Heterotopic “Utopian Socialist Roots of “Ectogenesis and Class Politics Harmonies: Analysing Female “Zero Competition (OC)
Space of Hope: On the Edge of Bauhaus” in Twentieth-Century Breeds in Only Ever Yours” Utopian System”
Concrete and Abstract Utopia” Literature”
Timothy Miller Thilo Schaefer Daniel Panka Emine Şentürk Keijo Lakkala
University of Kansas, USA University of Toronto, Eötvös Loránd University, Akdeniz University, Turkey University of Jyväskylä,
Canada Hungary Finland
“The New Millennial “Laneways of the Imagination: “’The next city of Friends’: J.B. “Escape and Salvation as a Self- “Utopian Practice as Counter-
Harmonies of Joanna Southcott The Importance of ‘Utopia’ for Priestley’s They Came to a City Discovery in Hillary Jordan’s logical Disharmony”
and her Successors” (Part 1) City-building” (1943)” When She Woke”
Heather Van Wormer Janusz Słodczyk Marta Komsta Francisco J. Martínez Mesa
Grand Valley State University of Opole, Poland Maria Curie-Skłodowska Universidad Complutense de
University, USA University, Poland Madrid, Spain

“The New Millennial “In Search of a Harmonious “Contesting Harmonies: The “Harmonic Worlds or Uniform
Harmonies of Joanna Southcott City: Sustainable Development Body in 19th-Century Utopias” Societies? The Evolution of a
and her Successors” (Part 2): as a New Utopia in Urban Utopian Concept in Rough
From Southcott to the House of Design” Times”
David and City of David”

19:30 – 21:00
Wine Reception
Venue: Casa Canals (Carrer d’en Granada = Granada Street, near Rectorat Building)
Tuesday 10th
09:00 – 11:00
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Communities-1 Literature-2 Politics & Ideology-1 Environment & Cinema, Media, Art, Panel:
Ecopolitics-1 Music-1 Harmonizing Utopia and
the State

Lucy Sargisson & Ana Isabel Correia Shoja Ahmadvand Adam Stock Pekka Gaiser & Jonathan Baldwin
Lyman Tower Sargent Martins Allameh Tabataba’i York St. John Lars Vadjina Independent Scholar, UK
U. of Nottingham, UK & University of Coimbra, University, Iran University, UK Eberhard Karls
U. of Missouri-St. Louis, Portugal Universität Tübingen,
USA Germany

“Lived Utopianism: “The Book of “The Utopian Ruler in “Utopian Rubbish: Place, “In Perfect Harmony: “Peter Kropotkin: The
Everyday Life and Chameleons: The the Political Thought in Waste and Temporality” Cylons and Humans in Plague of the State and the
Intentional Communities” Metaphor of New Ancient Iran” Battlestar Galactica” Salvation of Humanity”
Harmonies”
Annette M. Magid Laura De Simoni Olga Kubińska & Philipp P. Thapa Alex Marshall Matthew Wilson
SUNY Erie Community University of Wojciech Kubiński University of Sheffield Hallam Ball State University, USA
College, USA Nottingham, UK University of Gdańsk, Greifswald, Germany University, UK
Poland
“Disharmony in New “Dis-harmonic Language: “Stitching Together “Ecotopianism: “Anxiety in Arcadia: Anti- “The Utopian Mission of
Harmony: A Study of the Dystopian Discourse and What Had Been Rent Unearthing the Utopian Utopian Resistance and Richard Congreve”
Transition From Harmony Ideology in Edward Apart: The Utopia of Roots of Environmental Fear of Finding Gold in
to New Harmony in Bond’s The Chair Plays” Reinstating Harmony in Ethics” the Sitcom Detectorists”
Indiana, USA” the Landscape of Post-
Holocaust Poland”
Kirsten Stevens-Wood Aria Farmani Manuela Salau Brasil Elena Colombo Douglas Muzzio Cheryl Coulthard
Cardiff Metropolitan Allameh Tabataba’i Universidade Estadual University of CUNY Baruch College, Texas A & M University,
University, UK University, Iran de Ponta Grossa, Nottingham, UK USA USA
Brazil
“Desperately Seeking “The Burden of Memory: “Disharmonic Notes of a “The Role of Agency in “Perfect Worlds, Perfect “Harmony Under Fire:
Utopia: The Use of Pre- Quest for Harmony Coup: Considerations the Environmental Nightmares: Utopias and Harmony, Society, Pacifism
figurative Language by Between Remembrance from Brazil” Discourse and Climate Dystopias From the and the American Civil War”
Communards Seeking and Forgetfulness in Change Dystopias” Golden Age of Science
Others to Create Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Fiction to Cyberpunk”
Intentional Communities” Buried Giant”
Carla Almanza-Gálvez Patricia Sørensen Teresa Botelho Lise Lerichomme
Independent Scholar, University of Gdańsk, Nova University of Amiens University,
UK Poland Lisbon, Portugal France

“Pacific City: The Dream of “Off-key Harmony: Anti- - “Utopian Harmonies in “The Harem Hoisted The -
a Co-Operative Utopias in Young Adult Dystopian Disharmonies: Standards of Revolt:
Community in Late Dystopian Novels” Eating and Surviving in Utopian Novel as
Nineteeth-Century Post-Climate Change Emancipatory Lever”
Sinaloa, Mexico” Fiction”

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Tuesday 10th
11:30 – 13:30
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Religion & Myth Literature-3 Politics & Ideology-2 In Spanish Theoretical Non-English Utopian
Approaches-2 Fictions-1
Mohammad Kazem Andrew Milner Lyman Tower Sargent María J. González Nicholas Marco Lauri
Shaker Monash University, University of Missouri- Madrid Anastasopoulos University of Macerata,
Allameh Tabataba’i Australia St. Louis, USA University of Barcelona National Technical Italy
University, Iran University of Athens,
Greece
“The Harmony of “Guns Under the Table: “Seceding in Utopian “Creatividad y armonía: El “Imagining ‘Buen Vivir’” “Tradition, Modernity,
Thought, Speech and Kim Stanley Robinson and Literature: Eutopian and cosmos de Remedios Society and History in
Action: The Cornerstone the Transition to Eutopia” Dystopian Versions of Varo” Arabic Utopias of the
of Utopia” (The Scriptural Secession” Nahda”
and Hermeneutical Study
Based on the Qur’an)
Mohammad Amir Jalali Pavla Veselá Ewelina Drzewiecka Taissia S. Paniótova Lisa Garforth Shashi Khurana
& Alireza Omidbakhsh Charles University, Polish Academy of Southern Federal Newcastle University, University of Delhi,
Allameh Tabataba’i Czech Republic Sciences, Poland University, Russia UK India
University, Iran

“Harmony in Iranian “The Martians: A “Towards National “Vanguardia rusa de los “For a Sociology of “Translation and
Mystical Literature: La Postscript to Kim Stanley Harmony: Bulgarian años veinte: Búsqueda de Utopia” Emerging Literatures of
Convivencia in Hatef Robinson’s Mars Trilogy” Struggle with the la armonía social” Harmonies”
Esfahani’s Poem” Difference”
Abbas Ashrafi Chiara Xausa Simon Spiegel Felipe Schwember Jacqueline Dutton Eva Vancso
Allameh Tabataba’i U. of Utrecht, The University of Zurich, Augier University of Eötvös Loránd
University, Iran Netherlands/U. of Switzerland Universidad Adolfo Melbourne, Australia University, Hungary
Bologna, Italy Ibáñez, Colombia

“Harmony of the Body “Creating Tentacular “The Caliphate: A Jihadist “¿Platón y Moro en las “Comparative Harmonies “Possibilities of Eutopia in
and the Soul in Harmony: Octavia Butler Utopia? Reading ISIS Indias? La utopía viva en and Dissonances in Contemporary Hungarian
Abrahamic Religions” and Nnedi Okorafor’s Propaganda Videos as la América colonial Utopias from Other Science Fiction Novels”
Future Worlds” Utopian Texts” hispana: Vasco de Cultures”
Quiroga y las misiones de
los jesuítas en el
Paraguay”
Ahmadali Heydari & Lu Gan Andrea Bellot Rahime Cokay Anna Ursulenko
Alireza Omidbakhsh University of Bayreuth, Universitat Rovira i Nebioglu University of Wrocław,
Allameh Tabataba’i Germany Virgili, Spain Middle East Technical Poland
University, Iran University, Turkey
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“Intercultural Utopianism “Utopian Harmonies in “Finding New Harmonies: “Deterritorialized Space “Where Does Harmony
in Farabi’s Harmonious Bacigalupi’s Dystopian Identification of 90 of Contemporary End? Ambiutopianism of
Thinking” Novel The Windup Girl Argentinian Soldiers’ Dystopia” Akunin-Chkhartishvili’s
(2009)” Graves from the Happy Russia”
Falklands War”
Tuesday 10th
15:30 – 17:30
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Education Literature-4 Workshop: Panel: Cinema, Media, Art, Politics & Ideology-3
“Once upon a time…” Food & Utopia: Live Music-2
Reviews
Laurence Peters Funda Hay Tim Waterman João Santos Hubert Łaszkiewicz Alba Garmendia
Johns Hopkins Ankara University, University of University of Porto, John Paul II Catholic Castaños
University, USA Turkey Greenwich, UK Portugal University, Poland University of the
Basque Country, Spain
“New Trends in Education “Capitalism As the “Frugality’s Futurity” “Going Through the Dark “On the Ambivalence of
Technology” Reason of a Dystopian and Death: Tsar Ivan the Utopia. A Case Study
World in Jack London’s Terrible in the Quest for from the Basque Culture”
The Iron Heel” the New Jerusalem”
Mike Peters Deepthi Siriwardena Workshop: Joana Caetano Carlos Ferrera Cuesta Francis Tarpey
The Open University, University of Florida- University of Porto, Autonomous University La Trobe University,
Once upon a time…
UK/Independent Gainesville, USA Portugal of Madrid, Spain Australia
Scholar

“Paulo Freire’s Utopian “Hawaiian Dreams: The Tim Waterman & “Space 1999: Harmony in “Cracking the Present:
Ideas in Action: The Case Utopian Imagination in Jim Block the Cosmos” Utopian Desire,
of the South African Anti- Selected Short Stories by University of Resistance and Ghostly
Apartheid Movement’s Michael Puleloa & Gary Greenwich, UK & Communities”
Struggle for a More Just Pak” DePaul University, USA
Society”
José Eduardo Reis Kirsten Sandrock Maria Luísa Malato Giancarla Brunetto Rodrigo Escribano Roca
University of Tras-os- University of University of Porto, Federal Univ. of Rio University of Alcalá,
Montes e Alto Douro, Göttingen, Germany Portugal Grande do Sul, Spain
Portugal Brazil/Portuguese
Catholic U. of Braga,
Portugal

“Issues of Human Food “Post-Colonial Utopias: “From the Disharmony of “Lords and ‘Negros’ in the
and Nutrition in the Recent Nigerian Power to Empowerment ‘Harmonious Future’:
Encyclopedic Utopian Literature and Utopias of with Harmony: The Slavery and Retrotopia in
Pedagogy of the Migration” Guarani Utopia” the Historical Thought of
Portuguese Philosopher José Ferrer de Couto
Agostinho da Silva” (1859-1877)”
Mohsen Amin & Ludmiła Gruszewska- Marinela Freitas Sam Bunn Geraldo Witeze Junior
Hossein Sarfaraz Blaim University of Porto, Kunstuniversität Linz, Federal Institute of
Allameh Tabataba’i Universty of Gdańsk, Portugal Austria Goiás, Brazil
University & University Poland
of Tehran, Iran

“Puberty Celebration in “On Utopia and Its “The Ministry of Reaching “Utopian Harmony
Schools of Iran: Creating Discontents: Berrigan, (for Utopia)” Inspired by the Holy
a Utopic World for the Blake, Enzensberger, Spirit”
Passage from Childhood Herbert, LeGuin, Ostriker,
to Adulthood’s Islamic Szymborska”
Responsibility”
Wednesday 11th
09:00 – 11:00
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Theoretical Literature: Atwood Communities-2 Literature-5 Cinema, Media, Art, Politics & Ideology-4
Approaches-3 Music-3
Ali Asghar Mosleh Mary Green Verena Adamik Artur Blaim Federica Matelli Mohammad Ali Feizpour,
Allameh Tabataba’i Ryerson University, University of Potsdam, University of Gdańsk, University of Barcelona, Abolfazl Shahmohammadi
Mehrjardi & Saeideh
University, Iran Canada Germany Poland Spain Radmanesh
Yazd University & Shahid
Beheshti University, Iran
“Intercultural Utopianism” “‘In a gradually heating “New Harmonies: From “Reachable Heights: “The ‘Everyday’ in Science “Economic Harmonies: A
bathtub, you’d be boiled Utopian Socialism to Utopian Fictions and the Fiction, Avant-garde Art Neglected Approach in
to death before you Individual Romance in Fantastic” and Speculative Design: Iranian Cities”
knew it’: Margaret Seth Way (1917) by Utopias and Dystopias of
Atwood’s The Caroline Dale Future Consumption”
Handmaid’s Tale” Snedeker/Owen”
Sayed Bokhari Ece Çakir Lyman Tower Sargent Zsolt Czigányik Katarzina Baran Francesca Russo
Independent Scholar, Hacettepe University, Lucy Sargisson ELTE University, Universitat Rovira i Suor Orsola Benincasa
UK Turkey U. of Missouri-St. Hungary Virgili, Spain University, Italy
Louis & U. of
Nottingham, UK

“Has the Quest for Utopia “Utopia After the “Aging in Utopia: The “Harmony of Past, Present “Memory and Black “Political Harmony and
Given Rise to Dystopia?” Human: Margaret Mixed Message from and Future: The Idea of Mirror” International Peace in
Atwood’s MaddAddam Utopian Literature and the Recurrence of Political Seventeenth Century
Trilogy and the Intentional Cycles” French Culture: The
Possibility of a Post- Communities” interesting ‘case’ of Le
Human Harmony” Nouveau Cygnée written
by Emeric Crucé”
Francisco J. Martínez Darren Dillman Silvia Anna Rode Justyna Galant Elisabetta Di Minico U. Ceren Ünlü
Mesa Western Sydney University of Southern Maria Curie-Skłodowska Autonomous University Boğaziçi
Universidad University, Australia Indiana, USA University, Poland of Madrid, Spain University/Istanbul
Complutense de Medeyinet University,
Madrid, Spain Turkey

“Elevation and Harmony: “Resistance in Dystopian “New Harmonies and “Women Without Poetry: “Dystopian Authority and “The Utopia of Direct
Some Notes on the Role of Fiction” Involuntary Utopias: The Femininity and the ‘Otherness’: Gender, Communication in the
Emotions in Utopian Prisoner of War Camp” Disharmony in 19th Sexuality, Race and Politics 1060s and 1970s in
Speech” Century Dystopias” in Superhero Worlds” Turkey”
Ayça Berna Görmez Fan Yang Stankomir Nicieja Bahar Inal Hadi Ajili
Middle East Technical Sun Yat-sen University of Opole, Ondokuz Mayis Allameh Tabataba’i
University/Manisa Celal University, China Poland University, Turkey University, Iran
Bayar University, Turkey
_
“Biopower: A Way “Oryx and Crake: “Against Wellness: False “From Idyllic Past to “The Ideal World Order
Towards Harmony?” Towards a Social Harmonies and Flawed Apocalyptic Future: A From the Perspective of
Harmony or Calamity” Private Utopias in Eat, Painful Reimagining of the Islamic Revolutions
Pray, Love (2010), and Disharmony in Cormac Discourse of Iran”
The Best Exotic Marigold McCarthy’s No Country for
Hotel (2011)” Old Men”

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Wednesday 11th
11:30 – 13:30
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Theoretical Literature: Environment & Panel: Politics & Ideology-5 Non-English Utopian
Approaches-4 Atwood & Ballard Ecopolitics-2 Art & Coomunity-1: Fictions-2
Paths of Collaborative
Creativity
(in English)
Gregory Claeys Javier Álvarez Caballero Ruzbeh Babaee & Julia Ramírez Blanco Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés Diana Palardy
Royal Holloway, Univ. of Salamanca, Siamak Babaee University of University of Alcalá, Youngstown University,
University of London, Spain/Trinity College University of Porto, Barcelona, Spain Spain USA
UK Dublin, Ireland Portugal & University
of Kashan, Iran
“’Liberation’ and the “Liquid Modernity and “Disguise, Ritual, and “Is ‘Human Rights in “Sensescapes of Precarity
utopias of 1968: Some the Society of Spectacle “Harmony and Utopia in Cohabitation: The Legend Utopia’ an Oxymoron?” in Nos mienten (2015) by
Reflections” in Margaret Atwood’s Ecocriticism” of the Barbus in France” Eduardo Vaquerizo”
Oryx and Crake”
Sorin Antohi Barbara Klonowska Verity Burgman Laura Mercader & Maxim A. Romanenko Anna Boguska
Orbis Tertius Catholic University of Monash University, Tania Alba Southern Federal Polish Academy of
Association, Bucharest, Lublin, Poland Australia University of University, Russia Sciences, Poland
Romania Barcelona, Spain

“Utopia and Harmony: “Strange New Harmony: “Climate Movement “Utopias of Feminine “Soviet Utopia: In Search “In Search of New
The Short History of an A Post-Humanist Reading Politics and the Utopian Creativity: The Cushman of Harmony Between the Harmony on the Pacific.
Idea” of J.G. Ballard’s Crystal Imperative” House in Papal Rome Past and the Future” Milan Shufflay’s Idea of
World” (1851-1870)” East as a Future Paradise”
Matthew Wilson Carmen González Aurelio de Prada Marta Piñol Lloret Csaba Toth Kenneth Hanshew
Ball State University, Varela Rey Juan Carlos University of Carlow University, USA University of
USA University of Santiago University, Spain Barcelona, Spain Regensburg, Germany
de Compostela, Spain

“The Comte-Aristotelian “Science, Technology, “Democracy and Climate “Cosmic Harmonies: “’Workers’ “Harmonizing and
Connection: Richard and the Human in J.G. Change: A Confucian Visual Configurations of Commonwealth’: Utopian Improvising Utopia”
Congreve’s Anti- Ballard’s Short Fiction” Proposal” Scientific, Social, and Elements in American
Imperialist Utopianism, Spiritual Utopias Syndicalist Theory and
1855-1899” According to the Practice”
Hermetic Tradition”
Aline Ferreira Olga Sureda & Serhat Tutkal
University of Aveiro, Tai Lomas Universidad Nacional
Portugal University of de Colombia, Colombia
Barcelona, Spain

“Becoming Tree: “Nectar: An Alternative “A Study on FARC’s

- Metamorphic - Vision of a Sustainable, Héctor Ramírez Zone as -
Negotiations and the Open, and Collaborative an Autonomous
Gendered Politics of Integration of Work and Community”
Meat in Kang’s The Life”
Vegetarian, Atwood’s The
Edible Woman and
Ozeki’s My Year of
Meats”
Wednesday 11th
15:30 – 17:30
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313 Room 314
Literature-6 Theoretical Cinema, Media, Art, Panel: Art & Panel:
Approaches-5 Music-4 Community-2: Utopía, Grounded Utopianism -
arte y acción & Prefigurative
(in Spanish) Politics
Harald Freidl Hugo García John Style Laia Manonelles Laurence Davis
University of Vienna, Fernández Universitat Rovira i University of Barcelona, University College
Austria Autonomous Univ. of Virgili, Spain Spain Cork, Ireland
Madrid, Spain

“Margaret Cavendish’s “Utopianism and History “The Overdriven Electric “Utopías y mitos en arte “Grounded Utopianism
-
Blazing World as a in the Modern Hispanic Guitar Sound as a Herald de acción en China” and Revolutionary
Feminist, Anti-colonialist World: 19th and 20th of Musical Utopia: Change”
and Anti-speciesist Centuries” Development, Ubiquity,
Utopia” Meanings”

Martín P. González Annika Gonnermann Anna Bugajska Magda Polo Pujadas Darren Webb
University of Buenos University of Tichner European University of Barcelona, Sheffield University,
Aires, Argentina Mannheim, Germany Univ-Cracow, Poland Spain UK

“Utopian Literature and

Political Thought at the
“Utopia, Resonance and
the Failure of the Perfect
“Harmonizing with the
Post-Human: Music as a
“Música y acción en
Fluxus: El camino utópico
“Prefigurative Politics As
Pedagogical Practice?
-
Arrival of a New King State” Device in Eugenic hacia el anti-arte” “Grounded” Utopianism
(1763-1769)” Dystopias” and the Occupy
Movement”
Isabelle Constant Céline Keller Susanna Layh Víctor Ramírez Tur Emile Bojesen
University of the West Independent Scholar, University of University of Barcelona, University of
Indies, Barbados Germany Augsburg, Germany Spain Winchester, UK

“The Absents in The

Shipwrecked of Tromelin
“When the Undead
Dream of Living: The
“Dystopian
Disharmonies: Dystopian
“Performance y rituales de
cohesión social en Europa
“Optimism in Education”
-
Island by Irène Frain Utopian Potential of Manifestations in del Este”
(2009)” Zombiism” Popular Music”

Stella Achilleos Annie Kelly & Pere Gallardo-Torrano Daniel López del Rincón Judith Suissa
University of Cyprus, Alex Marshall Universitat Rovira i University of Barcelona, University College
Cyprus University of East Virgili, Spain Spain London, UK
Anglia, UK &
Idependent Scholar -
From Utopia to Dystopia: “Memes Against “The Commodification of “Bioarte: Subversiones “Education and Non-
The Matter of Harmony in Sincerity: Utopianism, Space Utopia in Pop creativas del conocimiento Domination:
Margaret Cavendish’s The the Alt-Right and Ironic Music: From David científico” Prefigurative Practice
Blazing World Overreach” Bowie to Elton John” and Utopian Politics”

20:00 – 22:00
Dinner
Venue: Muralles (Roman Walls - Entrance: Arc del Roser/Via de l’Imperi)
Thursday 12th
09:15 – 10:30
Plenary Lecture-2
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room: Aula Magna

Juan Pro
Professor of History,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
“Utopia as History of the Future”

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
Thursday 12th
11:00 – 13:00
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room 309 Room 310 Room 311 Room 312 Room 313
Theoretical Approches-6 Panel: Panel: Communities-3 Literature-7
Renegotiating Utopia Alter Modernities of the
Spanish Exception: Three
Communitarian Experiences
in Spain and the New World
(1516—1962)
Mehdi Parsakhanqah Shawna Guenther Víctor M. Pueyo Aristidis G. Romanos Caitlin Maling
Allameh Tabataba’i Dalhousie University, Temple University, USA Independent Scholar, University of Sydney,
University, Iran Canada Greece Australia

“A Harmony without Harmony: “Renegotiating Utopia: Where “The Connection with Crypto- “Protest Pastoral as Utopia in
Genetic Organization in is the New Harmony for the utopian movements” the Work of Juliana Spahr”
Deleuze and the Real Utopia” Marginalized?”
Samantha Hyler Jessica Day Ana Fernández Cebrián Helder Mendes Baiao Edson Luiz André de Sousa
Lund University, Sweden University of Lincoln, UK Columbia University, USA University of Porto, Portugal Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil

“Sustainability: Ambitions for a “Everyday Sextopianism: “Austerity in 18th Century Swiss “The Utopian Melody of Rainer
New Harmonious Life?” Sustaining the Utopian Spirit of Republican Utopianism” Maria Rilke”
(Fictional) Sextopias”
Szymon Wróbel Guillermo Morales-Jodra Sarah Holzgreve Alireza Omidbakhsh &
Polish Academy of Georgia College and State University of Greifswald, Vasé Alavi
Sciences/University of University, USA Germany Allameh Tabataba’i
Warsaw, Poland University, Iran

“Utopia and Technology. The - “Commoning and Utopia in the “The Common Other: A Study
Poverty of Utopian Imagination Intentional Community of Alt of the Notions of Exoticism and
on the Subject of Work, Ungnade, Germany, and their Divided Self in Viet Thanh
Machinery and Political Meaning for Socio-ecological Nguyen’s The Sympathizer”
Organization” Transformation”
Luis A. Toledo Machado
Autonomous University of
Madrid, Spain

“From the Criticism of Everyday - - - -

Life to Utopia: The World and
the Subject Within the Spanish
Counter-cultural Transition
(1968-1986)”

Thursday 12th
13:00 – 14:30
Campus Catalunya (Av. Catalunya, 35)
Room: Aula Magna

AGM & Closing Remarks

Social
Programme

 Monday 9th, 19:30 - 21:00, Wine Reception

Venue: Casa Canals, Carrer d’en Granada (Granada Street); near Rectorat Building

(Free admittance)

 Tuesday 10th, 18:00 – 19:30, Guided walking tour of Tarragona (Group-1)

Meeting point: Muralles (Roman Walls, Arc del Roser/Via de l’Imperi; at the top end of Avinguda Catalunya)

(Free admittance, sign on at Registration desk—first come, first served)

 Tuesday 10th, 20:00 - 21:30, Jazztopia (jazz session by Tarragona Hot Trio)

Venue: The Highland, Rambla Vella, 9 (near Plaça de la Font – Town Hall Square)

(Free admittance, drinks not included)

 Wednesday 11th, 18:00 – 19:30, Guided walking tour of Tarragona (Group-2)

Meeting point: Muralles (Roman Walls, Arc del Roser/Via de l’Imperi; at the top end of Avinguda Catalunya)

(Free admittance, sign on at Registration desk—first come, first served)

 Wednesday 11th, 20:00 – 22:00, Buffet dinner

Venue: Muralles (Roman Walls, Arc del Roser/Via de l’Imperi; at the top end of Avinguda Catalunya)

(Free admittance)