PROGRAMME – 12 November 2015

Tea/coffee/biscuits/fruit from 9.30am

Morning sessions chair: Professor Jonathan MorrisSession 1: Situating utopias 10.30 Welcome - John Lewis LHF10.40 Introduction to SSAHRI conference - Professor John Senior, UH10.45 Keynote lecture – Professor Alan Powers - Milton Keynes or

Civilia? Real and imagined utopia of the Pop period11.35 Q and A with speaker

Session 2: Exploring utopian places - design, planning and architecture11.45 Mr. David Ames, LHF: Letchworth - the first garden city utopia?12.00 Dr. Daniel Marques Sampaio: Canary Wharf and Greenwich Peninsula: Reflections on the Utopias

of Turbo Capitalism12.15 Dr. Paul Cureton: Garden City Utopias & Everyday Life: exploring the spatial accessibility of

Welwyn Garden City 12.30 Eva Sopeoglou: Utopia 'outside': exploring architectural approaches12.45 Dr. Susan Parham: Utopias, food and the radical tradition13.00 Dr. Ian Waites: A paradise, what an idea! The postwar council estate and ‘Utopia’

13.15 Buffet lunch

Afternoon sessions chair: Dr Steven Adams Session 3: Considering utopian ideas - health, place, work, gender and beyond14.00 Dr. Pat Simpson: Prince Peter Kropotkin: Anarchism, eugenics and the utopian ideal of Letchworth

Garden City 14.15 Dr. Steve Shelley: Multiple Utopias when exploring the future of work and the environment14.30 Professor Ursula Huws: When Adam blogs: Cultural work and the gender division of labour in

Utopia 14.45 Dr. Marta Rabikowska: Community Utopia and Agonism: The role of multiplicity and embodiment

in building community relations in a context of participatory arts in superdiverse community 15.00 Dr. Chamu Kuppuswamy: Urban Commons: Utopian idea or the future? 15.15 Q and A

15.40 Afternoon tea

Session 4: Part A: Investigating the utopian imagination16.00 Alex Anthony-Lewczuk: Re-evaluating DUNE – Ecological and Theological Dystopias?16.15 Dr. Neil Maycroft: Never mind my jet-pack, where’s my four-legged chicken?

16.30 Part B: Facilitated discussion between panelists and participants (ranging across ideas from the whole day, facilitated by Steven Adams)

17.15 Drinks and exhibition

Evening session chair: Professor Matthew Cragoe, UL 18.00 Introduction by Matthew Cragoe18.05 Public lecture - Professor Carenza Lewis –

Brave new world or toil and trouble? The long view of new towns19.00 Q and A

19.30 Close

UTOPIA:Experiments in Perfection

Spirella BuildingBridge Road Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4ET