You are cordially invited to the 24th conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe, entitled Utopia and Democracy.
If you wish to participate online or in person, please register here.
Registration for guests is free of charge but space is limited. Please note that no food or beverages will be provided for guests.
The Conference is organized and hosted by the research project “Democracy in East Central European utopianism” (2022-2025), funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, based at the Democracy Institute, Central European University in Budapest.
For an overview of the program, please click here. The full program including abstracts can be found here.
For information on the conference exhibitions on view at CEU Open Gallery, please see this link.
Opening and keynote speeches:
Wednesday, July 3
9:30-11:00 Auditorium A
Opening Remarks
- Dr. Shalini Randeria (President and Rector of CEU)
- Dr. Gregory Claeys (Chair of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe)
Keynote I:
Dr. Nicole Pohl: ‘… The love of his country’: Patriotism, democracy and utopianism in the eighteenth century
Chair: Zsolt Czigányik
Thursday, July 4
12:00-13:15 Auditorium A
Keynote II:
Dr. Nathalie Vanfasse (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, France): Dickensian Embodied Economics and the Challenges of/to Democracy
Chair: Marta Komsta
Friday, July 5
12:00-13:15 Auditorium A
Keynote III:
Dr. György Majtényi (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger): “Communist Utopia and Luxury Communism: Ruling Elite in the State Socialist Hungary”
Chair: Éva Antal