Representation of Change and the Future in SFF Worlds and Narratives
Representation of Change and the Future in SFF Worlds and Narratives
Future Voices of Scottish SFF Network
Date: Wednesday 07 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Jon McKellan, Kirsty Logan, Tanya Roberts, Lorraine Wilson, and Post Coal Prom Queen
Website: futurescottishsff.glasgow.ac.uk/
This AHRC-funded network privileges under-represented Scottish voices of Science Fiction and Fantasy (SFF) working across different media (literature, gaming, film, art), with an emphasis on BAME and LGBTQ+ communities as well as practitioners with disabilities. In these dramatic times, we ask how creative practitioners imagine future worlds and respond to rapidly-changing global circumstances (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic), concerns and anxieties (e.g. as expressed in the Me Too or Black Lives Matter movements) through SFF writing/art/creativity. This is the second of four planned roundtables bringing together academics, creative practitioners, and fans. The theme of our December event is:
Representation of Change and the Future in SFF Worlds and Narratives
Research question: How does SFF engage with the future as a time when inequalities may be altered or improved, or a space to imagine the worst if inequalities are allowed to continue?
We are delighted to welcome contributors Jon McKellan, Kirsty Logan, Tanya Roberts, Lorraine Wilson, and Post Coal Prom Queen's Lily. Dr Taylor Driggers will be the academic respondent for this event.
The event will take part via Zoom webinar.
You can find more details about the network and the event in our website.
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