[Sfts-students] Upcoming event of interest

[andré carrington]

Dear colleagues,

For any interested parties, I'll be doing a virtual event on April 23.
Jayna Brown will be moderating a conversation between me and Tavia Nyong'o
about our recent books, *The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories*
and *Black
Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World*.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-on-black-apocalypse-and-the-black-fantastic-tickets-1270605759029


Webinar on Black Apocalypse and The Black Fantastic

Join us for a conversation between Dr. andré m. carrington, Associate
Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and editor
of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories (Library of America, 2025),
an essential anthology showcasing the depth and range of Black speculative
fiction, and Dr. Tavia Nyong’o, Professor of American Studies at Yale
University, and author of Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the
World (University of California Press, 2025), a critical examination of how
Black artists and intellectuals have engaged the apocalyptic imagination as
both historical reality and speculative possibility.The discussion will be
introduced and moderated by Dr. Jayna Brown, Professor of Modern Culture
and Media at Brown University, and author of Black Utopias: Speculative
Life and the Music of Other Worlds (Duke University Press, 2021). Brown’s
work examines Black speculative thought, radical world-building, and sonic
futures—providing the perfect foundation for this conversation on how Black
artists and intellectuals use the fantastic as a tool of critique,
survival, and transformation.Together, carrington and Nyong’o will explore
the intersections of Black speculative thought, cultural theory, and
radical imagination. How do Black artists and intellectuals engage
speculation as a lived reality? What does the apocalypse mean when it has
already arrived for some? This free webinar will be followed by an audience
Q&A. Free with RSVP.

-- 
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>
--
Editor, The Black Fantastic
<https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/>,
Library
of America, 2025
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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