31st Annual Meeting
Antlers Hilton Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Oct. 12-15, 2006

The Society for Utopian Studies invites you to submit abstracts for any of the following:

* a paper (between 15-20 minutes)
* a panel (usually of 3 papers)
* an informal panel on a topic (e.g., 3 presenters, or a presenter and 2 or 3 respondents)
* a presentation or performance of creative work on any topic related to utopian studies.

Scholars and artists from all disciplines are encouraged to present on any aspect of the utopian tradition-from the earliest utopian visions to the utopian speculations and yearnings of the 21st century, including art, architecture, urban and rural planning, literary utopias, dystopian writings, utopian political activism, theorizing utopian spaces and ontologies, music, new media, or intentional communities.

Given the unique southwestern US location of the conference, we also welcome papers that engage with such topics as utopian visions of the settlement of the western United States, indigenous utopias, environmental utopias, and utopian or intentional communities in the Colorado area.

The Antlers-Hilton hotel is located downtown in the heart of Colorado Springs, with wonderful views of Pikes Peak and the Rocky Mountains, and immediate access to an array of restaurants, shops and watering holes. The hotel is only 25 minutes away from Colorado Springs Airport, with several transportation options. You may make reservations on-line at:
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/private_groups/coscshf_sus101/index.jhtml

Please send a 100-250 word abstract by May 10, 2006 to:

Carrie Hintz
Department of English
Queens College/CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367

Or by email: carriehintz@hotmail.com

As you submit your abstract, please indicate if you have
A. any scheduling restrictions
B. audiovisual needs (overhead projector; DVD/VHS player)
C. A need for a written letter of acceptance of your proposal, or whether an e-mail acceptance will suffice.

Changes in the time and date of your panel will not be possible after panels are scheduled; requests for AV will not be honored unless you submit them with your original abstract.

For inquiries on the program call Carrie at (718) 997-4677.

For information about registration, travel and accommodations, please contact the Conference Coordinator, Brenda Tooley, at the following address:

Nancy Rawson
Executive Secretary
Office of Academic Affairs
Cornell College
600 First Street West
Mount Vernon, Iowa
52314-1098

Phone: (319)-895-5237
Fax: (319)-895-5237

The Hilton on-line reservation address is:
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/private_groups/coscshf_sus101/index.jhtml

The Colorado Springs Antlers-Hilton website is:
http://www.antlers.com/
The Colorado Springs (municipal) website is:
http://www.coloradosprings.com/

About The Society for Utopian Studies:

Founded in 1975, the Society for Utopian Studies is an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms. Scholars and practitioners representing a wide variety of disciplines and endeavors are active in the association and approach utopian studies from such diverse backgrounds as American studies, architecture, the arts, classics, cultural studies, economics, engineering, environmental studies, gender studies, history, languages and literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology and urban planning. The Society encourages participation from those involved in communal living and other utopian arrangements. The Society publishes a journal, Utopian Studies, and a newsletter, Utopus Discovered. The latter contains information on upcoming conferences and workshops, as well as a bibliography of recent publications in the field.

Meetings of the Society for Utopian Studies are ideal occasions for intellectual interchange in a co-operative, non-competitive, congenial, and convivial environment. At each meeting the Society presents the Arthur O. Lewis Award for the best paper by a junior scholar given at the previous annual meeting, and the Eugenio Battisti Award for the best article in each volume of Utopian Studies.