Our COP26 events
Inclusive Worldbuilding in SFF Media
Inclusive Worldbuilding in SFF Media
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Hal Duncan, James T. Harding, Etienne Kubwabo, and Rachel Plummer
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 first of four planned roundtables bringing together academics, creative practitioners, and fans. The theme of our October event is:
Inclusive worldbuilding in SFF across different media
Research question: how is worldbuilding used as a creative practice in SFF to imagine different/alternative worlds and address concerns about inclusivity and diversity?
We are delighted to welcome contributors Hal Duncan, James T. Harding, Etienne Kubwabo, and Rachel Plummer who will address this topic, chaired by Dr Dimitra Fimi. Dr Alice Kelly will be the academic respondent for this event.
The event will take part via Zoom webinar.
You can find more details about the network in our website
Participants' bios and other details.