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WU Yan: Chinese Science Fiction Futurism

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WU 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.

SCI-FI Library 10th Anniversary

UiO: Realfagsbiblioteket Vilhelm Bjerknes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Science Fiction collections at the UiO Science Library, with an exhibition designed by CoFUTURES in association with the UiO science library and events celebrating the link between science, science fiction, and creativity. Arranged by the Science Library.

Alternative Futures – The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Drammensveien 78, Oslo, Norway

As we face an increasing set of intertwined crises—from climate change to economic, social, and political upheaval across the world—is there a need for new imaginations of alternative futures?

Språk og stillhet Hannah Gibson og Ida Hadjivayanis

Litteraturhuset , Norway

Av de 54 landene i Afrika er engelsk offisielt språk i 27, mens 21 land har fransk som offisielt språk. De aller færreste har likevel et av de tidligere kolonispråkene som morsmål. Konsekvensen er at mange får dårligere muligheter både i et utdanningssystem og jobbmarked basert på et språk de ikke behersker til fulle, og […]

Beyond Barcode: Exhibition Opening

Interkulturelt Museum Tøyenbekken 5, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Exhibition Opening Beyond Barcode: Experiments in Radical Futures More details TBA  

Chiara Cigarini: Tales of (technological) anomalies: Chinese SF’s re-enchantment

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Tales of (technological) anomalies: Chinese SF's re-enchantment Dr. Chiara Cigarini is a lecturer in Chinese Studies, a translator, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She received her PhD at Beijing Normal University, with a project focused on contemporary Chinese SF. In China, she collaborates w/the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination […]

CoFUTURES Conference 2023: Community Speculations and Technopolitics

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CoFUTURES 2023: “Community Speculations and Technopolitics” is dedicated to ideas of community: How and why do communities come together, enact, and utilize speculative methods to rethink the world? What kinds of technologies and what kinds of politics come together to allow or necessitate the formation of communities? In the last two decades, Future-oriented movements and communities […]

CoFutures Literacy Workshop (Iceland)

Bifrost University , Iceland

The inaugural workshop of the ERC Proof of Concept project CoFutures Literacy. Organized at Bifröst University, Iceland, along with expeditions to various various research sites in Iceland.   CoFutures Literacy is financed by the European Research Council under the Proof of Concept Scheme (Grant No. 101113215).