tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post6626956758830814299..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: A Modern Utopia: Wells and MorrisTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-18162849534749704232013-10-29T01:17:26.146-07:002013-10-29T01:17:26.146-07:00Sounds an excellent event! Were you aware that Pa...Sounds an excellent event! Were you aware that Patrick Parrinder extends his thoughts on modern utopias in a review-essay entitled 'Modern Utopias, Major and Minor' in 'Modernism/Modernity', vol 19, no 4, 2013, pp.793-798? Well worth turning up.Koticknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-24797583274012584002013-10-09T07:37:36.402-07:002013-10-09T07:37:36.402-07:00I've had several e-mail requests for the full ...I've had several e-mail requests for the full programme for the Wells-Morris conference, so here it is:<br /> <br />Social Fabrics:<br />Utopias and Dystopias in relation to the Works of William Morris and H. G. Wells<br /> <br />Programme:<br /> <br />9.15-9.50: REGISTRATION (with coffee in the library)<br /><br />9:45: WELCOME: Helen Elletson (Curator, Kelmscott House) and Jan Marsh (Current President, William Morris Society).<br /><br />9.55: INTRO: Ruth Levitas (Chair, William Morris Society): Ghosts: Hauntings of Hammersmith Riverside<br /><br />10.10: Bill Bell (The University of Cardiff) introducing Mike Sherborne: Morris, Wells and Kelmscott House and:<br />10.30: Patrick Parrinder (Vice-President, H.G. Wells Society): Do Utopias Need to Be Modern?<br /><br />10.50: SESSION ONE: Brave New Words: Locating Utopia (Chaired by Patrick Parrinder)<br />Károly Pintér (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): The Ontology of Utopia – Morris’s Dream v. Wells’s Ratiocinations<br />Ben Carver (The University of Exeter): Promised Lands: Utopian Topography in Morris and Wells<br />Benjamin Barrett (Georgia State University): Morris, Wells, and Romance: Utopian and Dystopian Figurations of Individual and Communal Subjectivity<br /><br />12:00: SESSION TWO: Dissected Dreams (Chaired by Mike Sherborne)<br />Genie Babb (SUNY Plattsburgh): Indivisible Man: Probing the Utopian Body in H. G. Wells’s ‘Under the Knife’<br />Elizabeth Dianne Macaluso (Binghamton University): H.G. Wells’s Critique of Eugenics and Imperialism in The Island of Doctor Moreau<br />Rhys Williams (University of Warwick): Moreau’s Eewtopia <br /><br />13:10: LUNCH (in the library)<br /><br />13:50: SESSION THREE: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Chaired by Emelyne Godfrey)<br />Helen Kingstone (University of Leeds, Leeds Trinity): Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H.G. Wells<br />Rob Burroughs (Leeds Metropolitan University): ‘Savage Times Come Again’: The African Soldiery in H.G. Wells’s When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)<br />Tony Pinkney (Lancaster University): News from Nowhere Two: Principles of a Wellsian Sequel<br />Vera Benczik (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The Urban Wasteland in H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds<br /><br />15:20: TEA (in the library)<br /><br />15:45: SESSION FOUR: Art and Society (Chaired by Bill Bell)<br />Sarah Faulkner (University of Edinburgh): Labour and Community in the Utopian and Dystopian Fictions of William Morris and H. G. Wells<br />Kirsi Kaisla Sundholm (University of Turku): The Finnish National Painter as an Apprentice of Arts and Crafts Ideas after 1895 as well an Intermediary to Russia c. 1898-1906<br />Sharon Worley (University of Phoenix/North American College): Gender and Utopia in the William Morris Circle<br />Jennifer Walker: Alternative Utopias: The Cobden-Sandersons in Hammermith and Switzerland<br /><br />17:15: ROUNDUP with Ruth Levitas and Patrick Parrinder<br /><br />17:30 (approx) CONFERENCE CLOSE<br /><br />18:00: GO FOR DRINKS AND FOOD at The Dove!Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.com