Demanding the Impossible: The Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction is being organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. The conference will run for two days, 5th - 6th
December 2007, and will feature the following keynote speakers: Terry Eagleton (Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester), Tom Moylan (Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing and Director of the Ralahine Center for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick), Lyman Tower Sargent (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford), Lucy Sussex (Distinguished Australian science fiction writer and author of A Tour Guide in Utopia).
Further details about the conference can be obtained from their website.