LibGuides: Global Utopias Project Resource Guide: Marking 500 Years of Thomas More's Utopia

500th Anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia

Abraham Ortelius' map of Utopia circa 1595 (taken from Wikimedia Commons)

2016 marks the 500-year anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia. You can use this page to find out more about what people and organizations around the world are doing to mark the occasion.

You can read Utopia for free on Project Gutenberg and other websites.

If there are events or articles that you would like to see added to this page, please email Emily Ewers (ewers1@illinois.edu), graduate assistant at the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library.

Upcoming Conferences and Events Dedicated to More's Utopia

"Utopia, Dystopia, and Climate Change"
20th annual conference of the Utopian Studies Society. Taking place July 1-5th, 2019.
"Self-Representation and Rhetoric in Thomas More's Epigrams and Letters"
Link to call for papers, containing some information on the conference taking place on the 2-3rd of November, 2018. Conference is sponsored by the Center for Thomas More Studies at the University of Dallas.

Articles

"Free Love or Genocide: The Trouble With Utopias"
From The Guardian, by Tobias Jones. Jan. 24, 2016
"Openings: Going back to Utopia"
"Was More’s ‘Utopia’ a blueprint for dreamers or a sprightly satire on the England of the day?" From Financial Times, by Jan Dalley (Dec. 30, 2105).