[Sfts-students] Fwd: upcoming symposium at UCLA: Speculative Fictions from Latin America's Past, Present, and Futures

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From: STEPHEN TOBIN <kiptobin at ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 08:01
Subject: upcoming symposium at UCLA: Speculative Fictions from Latin
America's Past, Present, and Futures
To: <sherryl.vint at ucr.edu>


Dear Dr. Vint,

My name is Stephen Tobin, an Assistant Adjunct at the Spanish and
Portuguese Department at UCLA.

I am writing to inform you of an upcoming symposium *Surviving the
Anthropocene: Speculative Fictions from Latin America's Past, Present, and
Futures *on Oct. 14-15. The event will be hybrid (people in person and
participating from afar), with virtual access and live streaming for the
public. Sessions will be in Spanish and English.

Please consider passing this information, along with the two attached
flyers, to anyone you feel might be interested.

Many thanks in advance.

Warm regards,
Stephen C. Tobin


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*Surviving the Anthropocene:Speculative Fictions from Latin America’s Past,
Present, and Futures*Oct. 14-15, 2022
Luskin Conference Center – Illumination Room

*This event is free and open to the public.*

*To attend in person, no advance registration is required.*

*To attend virtually, you must register at the following link located *HERE.
<https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_33qk9sMvSTW3jwBh116s6g>

*This event will also be live streamed at the YouTube channel for UCLA’s
Spanish and Portuguese Department
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCVX6SQcxjH3_XZk6uFOJA>.*

Link to online program:
https://www.spanport.ucla.edu/event/surviving-the-anthropocene/

This symposium aims to take stock of Latin America’s speculative fiction
production—understood broadly as an umbrella term that includes a variety
of genres, such as science fiction, horror, fantasy, and their subgenres
and derivatives. *Surviving the Anthropocene* will address this earlier
literary production in the 20th century until the cyberpunk boom of the
1990s but, most importantly, will put the focus on the past decade, when
both the writing and the scholarly study of Latin American speculative
fictions have exploded. This cultural phenomenon has coincided with the
emergence of a variety of discourses around the Anthropocene —the current
geological epoch in which the human has become a dominant force on the
environment— that have attempted to make sense of the accelerated global
ecological changes.

Overarching framing questions include: What works, tendencies,
preoccupations, and thematic axes comprise and characterize speculative
fiction in/from Latin America during the era of the Anthropocene? What are
the contours of the local contexts—political, economic, social, and
cultural—that inform and inspire the works produced? How have authors from
the region imagined ecological transformation in the era of global warming
and mass extinction?

Panels, roundtables, book presentations, and keynote speeches compose the
10 sessions presented at this symposium (see the online program for details
and participants' profiles).

Session themes include: Speculative Ecocriticism; New Weird and Gothic
Horror; Science Fiction from the Past; Posthumanism; Necroliberlism; Women
Authors of Speculative Fiction; Neoindigenist, Afrolatino, and Chicanx
Futurisms; Less-studied regions/countries: Central America, the Caribbean
(beyond Cuba), Paraguay, and Colombia.
Keynote speakers: Alberto Chimal and Elizabeth Ginway.

-- 
Stephen "Kip" Tobin, Ph.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor
The Spanish and Portuguese Department
Rolfe Hall 5322
University of California, Los Angeles
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