[Sfts-students] participate in online workshop series?

[Sherryl Vint]

Hello everyone,

The workshop slots are now full. I'll circulate the schedule to those who
responded. And if more opportunities for this project come up in future,
I'll recirculate to the full list.

Thanks for your prompt responses.

cheers,
Sherryl

Sherryl Vint (she/her)
Professor
Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science
Editor, *Science Fiction Studies*
Editor, *Science and Popular Culture* book series
<https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760>


On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 14:19, Sherryl Vint <sherrylv at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hello students,
>
> I'm writing to see if any of you are interested in participating in a
> series of 4 online workshops (details below) that andré and I will be
> involved in, related to a grant secured by the University of Queensland.
> This grant is about exploring how sf can be used to help us respond to and
> navigate real-world process through sf thinking and worldbuilding. The
> workshops are 2 hours each (from noon to 2 pm our time on the dates below);
> two are in the summer, and then two in Fall.
>
> If you are interested, please let me know. We have limited space and so
> I'll allocate the available 'seats' on a first-come basis.
>
> Thanks!
> Sherryl
>
> Workshop Dates and Keynotes
>
> June 23 - Envision, with Nick Harkaway
>
> Nick Harkaway is a British novelist and commentator who is best known for
> his novels: The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, and Gnomon, which take
> place in modern fantasy and science fiction settings. His works are a
> determined attempt to re-frame current concerns over artificial
> intelligence– an issue he suggests would be “staggeringly irresponsible”
> for fiction writers to ignore. He intricately details the heroism of
> ordinary people in extraordinary situations in his novels. He will be
> speaking on the theme, Envision, and will focus particularly on how
> storytelling can help researchers envision the future and improve their
> decision-making.
>
> July 7 - Engage, with Karin Tidbeck
>
> Karin Tidbeck is a Swedish author who writes fantasy, speculative fiction
> and weird fiction in Swedish and English. Their English debut, the 2012
> collection Jagannath, received the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for
> the World Fantasy Award. Their first novel, Amatka, was shortlisted for
> the Locus Award in 2018. They have been described by Gary K. Wolfe as “one
> of the most distinctive new voices in short fiction since Margo Lanagan”.
> The intersections of their work between fiction, method acting and
> experimental role-playing are particularly intriguing, and they will be
> speaking on the theme, Engage, which focuses on how storytelling and
> role-playing can help engage researchers to think about new environments
> and adopt new mindsets.
>
> Oct 6 - Inhabit, with Kim Stanley Robinson
>
> Kim Stan Robinson is an American science fiction novelist who is best
> known for his Mars trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have
> ecological, cultural, and political themes that feature scientists as
> heroes, and his work has been described as “humanist science fiction” and
> “literary science fiction”. He has taught at the University of California
> where he earned his B.A. and PhD, and regards science fiction as one of the
> most powerful literary forms. He has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the
> Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. For our What If? consortium,
> he will be speaking on the theme, Inhabit, which looks at how
> worldbuilding techniques can help researchers imagine the impacts of their
> research in the future.
>
> Oct 20 - Empathise, with Nisi Shawl
>
> Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist, best
> known for authoring science fiction and fantasy short stories. They write
> and teach about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of
> gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and
> other sociocultural factors. As co-author of Writing the Other: Bridging
> Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction, they explore techniques for
> writers to write credible characters outside their own cultural experience.
> They will be speaking on the theme, Empathise, which explores the skills
> used by SFF writers that might allow researchers to empathise with those
> impacted by their research as well as specific tools that can help with
> intercultural communication.
>
>
> Sherryl Vint (she/her)
> Professor
> Director, Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science
> Editor, *Science Fiction Studies*
> Editor, *Science and Popular Culture* book series
> <https://www.palgrave.com/in/series/15760>
>
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