Souvik Mukherjee: ‘No Cyclones in Age of Empires’: Colonialism and Ecocriticism in Videogames
Souvik Mukherjee (CSSSC, Kolkata, and Tampere University) on colonialism and video games. In-person event, Blindern Campus.
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Hanna-Riikka Roine: “Digital Media and the Futurity of Fiction”
Hanna-Riikka Roine (Tampere University, and visiting fellow, CoFUTURES) will present her ongoing research on futurity. In-person event, Blindern Campus, UiO. Contact us directly if you want to join the event.
Lena Pfeifer: “The Ethics of ‘Nature’ and ‘Environment’ in the Discourse of the Anthropocene Since the 1980s”
Lena Pfeifer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, and visiting fellow, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities) will discuss her ongoing research. In-person, Blindern campus.
Filip Hauer: Dreaming About Work: The Board Game playthrough/playtesting and discussion
PAM: Møterom 489 , NorwayFilip Hauer (Academy of Fine Arts in Prague) will present his game "Dreaming About Work: The Board Game," developed as part of his doctoral research, and at the Erasmus internship […]
Monsters sans Frontières
Monsters sans Frontières (MSF) is a panel-discussion-cum-mini-workshop organized as part of the Futures from the Margins events.
Norse Tomorrow
Parksalongen Waldemar Thranes gate 1A, Oslo, NorwayNorse Tomorrow is an event/workshop showcasing what is going on within Norwegian speculative fiction. It is part of the Futures from the Margins arrangements. The event is financed by the […]
Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey
Vega Scene Hausmanns gate 28, Oslo, NorwayMovie screening as part of the Futures from the Margins arrangements. Location VEGA SCENE Hausmanns gate 28 0182 Oslo
In Conversation with Manjula Padmanabhan
OnlineManjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953), is an author, playwright, artist and cartoonist. She grew up in Europe and South Asia, returning to India as a teenager. Her plays include LIGHTS OUT and the MATING GAME SHOW. Her play HARVEST won the first ever Onassis Award for Theatre, in 1997, in Greece. She writes a weekly column and draws a weekly comic strip in Chennai’s “Business Line”. Her books include UNPRINCESS, GETTING THERE and THE ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS. She lives in the US, with a home in New Delhi. Website: https://magnoliana.com/
WU Yan: Chinese Science Fiction Futurism
OnlineWU Yan is professor and director of the Science and Human Imagination Center of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He is a science fiction writer and scholar, a Vice Chair of China Science Writers’ Association, a winner of Chinese Nebula Award and the Galaxy Award, as well as Thomas D. Clareson Award by Science Fiction Research Association for Distinguished Service.
He is the leading scholar of Chinese Science Fiction studies inside China. He has co-edited the special issue on Chinese Science Fiction for Science Fiction Studies back in 2013: https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a119.html#yan
His recent works include Meditations on Chinese Science Fiction Literature: Wu Yan’s Self-selected Academic Works. You can find a review here in English. The key essay we are going to discuss is only available in Chinese for now, but DeepL provides a good result of Chinese-English translation for academic essays (better than Google Translate)! You can find the copiable Chinese version here.
The talk will be in Chinese.
SF and CoFUTURES Workshop
Training workshop on SF.
Afrofuturism in Brazil and Latin-America: imagining the future to rebuild the past
PAM: Møterom 389We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Science Fiction (SF) Studies Patrick Brock. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Dale Knickerbocker, from East […]
Troublesome Climate-Futures in Africa and Norway: refusals, repentances, and (re)emerging ecosophies
PAM: Møterom 389We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Science Fiction (SF) Studies Marta Tveit. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, from […]