[Sfts-faculty] CFP: Rebooting World SF Seminar at American Comparative Lit Association virtual conference

[andré carrington]

https://www.acla.org/rebooting-world-sf

Organizer: Gerry Canavan

Co-Organizer: Hugh O'Connell
Contact the Seminar Organizers
<gerry.canavan at marquette.edu,%20Hugh.OConnell at umb.edu>


In its journals and on its syllabi, the field of science fiction studies
becomes ever more international in its scope – but significant challenges
persist in the way the US academy approaches texts from outside the US and
the UK. How have we settled on the singularized category of “world sf” as a
concept that encompasses the futurological imaginings of billions of human
beings across countless cultural, historical, and environmental contexts?
How, for that matter, did “world” ever come to signify “the opposite of
American” in the first place? How can we resist the vicious hierarchies
that are implicit in this division of the world into such uneven halves?
How can our work better appreciate the specific histories and contexts that
have gone into the creation and evolution of local science fiction
traditions, and how can it better reflect the truly planetary nature of sf?
This seminar thus invites presentations of all kinds that take up new
approaches to teaching, researching, and otherwise navigating the vast
field of texts that are currently commonly grouped under the umbrella term
“world sf.”
--
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Director, Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science
<https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report>
--
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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