This is the twenty-fourth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider interesting but that I am unlikely to revise for traditional publication, and posting those essays as-is on my blog in the hope of engaging …
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CFP: Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Archiving Utopia – Utopia as Archive, Deadline June 1, 2011
I saw the following call for papers for the annual Society for Utopian Studies conference on the H-Utopia email list this morning. It looks like Sonja Fritzsche, who wrote a very good book on Science Fiction in East Germany that I reviewed in The German Quarterly and wrote about here, is the conference’s programming director. I …
R.D. Mullen Research Fellowship Deadline on April 1 (no joke)
If you want to get funding to research in the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature at UC-Riverside, then you have until April 1 to get in your application. See below for all of the details. JUST A REMINDER: The R.D. Mullen Reseach Fellowship Committee has extended the deadline for receipt …
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CFP, Changing the Climate, Utopia, Dystopia, and Catastrophe 2010 Conference
Leslie Kay Swigart send the following conference cfp to the SFRA email list. It’s for a conference that takes place just before WorldCon and both are in Australia. It sounds like the perfect excuse for an extended stay in the land down under. Read on for the details and the outstanding guest lineup–John Clute, Kim …
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The Utopian Violinist and Conductor, André Rieu
Tonight, Yufang and I drove to Cleveland to hear André Rieu and His Johann Strauss Orchestra. We had third row seats in the Cav’s arena, so we really got to see all of the antics Rieu and his band put on while belting out waltzes and old standards. There was a permeable energy throughout the …
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Dynamic Subspace 