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Conference

Learn more about upcoming and past conferences, as well as any additional planned convenings.

Upcoming Conference

Please join us to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society for Utopian Studies! Proposals due July 15, 2025.

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2026: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis. November 12-14, 2026, Portland, OR.


Sangita Gopal (Local Chair, University of Oregon)
Edward K. Chan (Program Co-Chair, Waseda University, Tokyo)
Patricia Ventura (Program Co-Chair, Spelman College)
Donald Zarate (Graduate Assistant, University of California, Riverside)
#SUS2026

Past Conferences

Explore our archive of past conferences, complete with electronic programs where available. We are committed to digitizing the programs of our earliest conferences to preserve and share the rich history of our society. Stay tuned for updates.

2020 - present

  • 2025: Blue Utopias: Utopian Dreams on Sea and Shore. October 30–November 1, Wrighstville Beach, NC (Program Chair:  Mark Jendrysik / Local Chair: Peter Stillman) #SUS2025

  • 2024: October 17-19, Tulum, Mexico (Local Chair: Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Program Chair: K. Allison Hammer) #SUS2024

  • 2023: November 8-12, Austin, TX (Local Chair: Stephanie Peebles Tavera; Program Chair: Jill Belli) #SUS2023

  • 2022: "make, unmake, remake," November 10-12, Charleston, South Carolina (Local Chair: Claire Curtis; Program Chair: Carrie Hintz) #SUS2022

  • *2020 + 2021: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person 2020 and 2021 Society for Utopian Studies conferences were cancelled (and rescheduled for 2022 and 2023, respectively).

2010 - 2019

  • 2019: “Subaltern, Suburban, and Subterranean,” October 17-19, 2019, East Lansing, Michigan (Local Chair: Sonja Fritzsche; Program Chair: Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2019, 2019 Program, 2019 Minutes (DRAFT)​

  • 2018: November 1-3, Berkeley, California, "Disruption, Displacement, Disorder" (Local Chair Ellen Rigsby; Program Co-Chairs Andrew Byers and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2018, 2018 Program, 2018 Minutes (DRAFT)​

  • 2017: November 9-12 , Memphis, TN(Acting Local Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Byers and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers) #SUS2017, 2017 Program, 2017 Minutes​

  • 2016: October 26-30, St. Petersburg, FL (Conference Chair: John Barberet; Program Chair: Justin Nordstrom) #SUS2016 #More500, 2016 Program, 2016 Minutes​

  • 2015: November 5-8, Pittsburgh,PA (Conference Chair: Cliff Manlove; Program Chair: Clint Jones), #SUS2015, 2015 Program, 2015 Minutes​

  • 2014: Montréal, Québec (Conference Chair: Brian Greenspan; Program Chair: Pete Sands), 2014 Program, 2014 Minutes​

  • 2013: Charleston, South Carolina (Conference Chair: Claire Curtis; Program Chair: Dina Smith), 2013 Program, 2013 Minutes​

  • 2012: Toronto, Ontario: 4-7 October (Conference Chair: Peter Fitting; Program Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent), 2012 Program, 2012 Minutes​

  • 2011: State College, PA; October 20-23 (Conference Chair: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Program Chair: Sonja Fritzsche): #SUS11, 2011 Program, 2011 Minutes​

  • 2010: 35th Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Peter Sands; Brian Greenspan), 2010 Program, 2010 Minutes

2000 - 2009

  • 2009: 34th Annual Meeting in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina (Peter Stillman; Claire Curtis), 2009 Program, 2009 Minutes

  • 2008: 33rd Annual Meeting in Portland, Maine (Naomi Jacobs; Shelton Waldrep), 2008 Program, 2008 Minutes

  • 2007: 32nd Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario (Peter Fitting; Phillip Wegner), 2007 Program, 2007 Minutes

  • 2006: 31th Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado (Brenda Tooley; Carrie Hintz), 2006 Program, 2006 Minutes

  • 2005: 30th Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee (Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; Doretta Cornell), 2005 Program, 2005 Minutes

  • 2004: 29th Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario (Peter Fitting; Alex MacDonald), 2004 Program, 2004 Minutes

  • 2003: 28th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California (Paul Majkut; Naomi Jacobs), 2003 Program, 2003 Minutes

  • 2002: 27th annual meeting in Orlando, Florida (John Barberet; Peter Sands), 2002 Program, 2002 Minutes

  • 2001: 26th Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY (Lynda Schneekloth; Phillip Wegner), 2001 Program,  2001 Minutes

  • 2000: 25th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. (Nancy Sloan Goldberg; Andrea Anderson), 2000 Program,  2000 Minutes

1990 - 1999

  • 1999: 24th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX (Alex MacDonald; Peter Fitting), 1999 Program, 1999 Minutes

  • 1998: 1998 Program, 1998 Minutes

  • 1997 Memphis: Jennifer Wagner; Peter Fitting, 1997 Program, 1997 Minutes

  • 1996 Nashville: Nancy Sloan Goldberg

  • 1995 Toronto: June Deery; Mickey Abrash; Peter Fitting

  • 1994 Toronto: Kenneth Roemer; Peter Fitting

  • 1993 St. Louis: Lyman Tower Sargent; Naomi Jacobs

  • 1992 Baltimore: Carol Kolmerten

  • 1991 Las Vegas: Felicia F. Campbell

  • 1990 Lexington, KY: Susan Matarese

1980 - 1989

  • 1989 Asilomar Conference Ctr.: Samson Knoll

  • 1988 Emerson College: Lynn Williams

  • 1987 Penn State Delaware County: Carol Farley Kessler, Pacific Grove, CA: Dennis Rohatyn

  • 1986 Asilomar Conference Ctr.: Samson Knoll; Michael Orth

  • 1985 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Mickey Abrash

  • 1984 University of Missouri-St Louis: Lyman Tower Sargent

  • 1983 Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Edward D. Wilson

  • 1982 University of New Brunswick: William Prouty

  • 1981 Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Nicholas Smith

  • 1980 Pennsylvania State University: Arthur O. Lewis

1976 - 1979

  • 1979 University of Colorado-Denver: Michael Cummings

  • 1978 Pennsylvania State University: Arthur O. Lewis

  • 1977 University of Michigan: Gorman Beauchamp; Alexandra Aldridge

  • 1976 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Mickey Abrash

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