[Sfts-students] Speculative Fiction Across Media conference; deadline June 1

[Sherryl Vint]

Dear students,

I'm co-organizing a Speculative Fiction Across Media conference in the LA
area that will be held in September 25-27, 2025. We have recently extended
our deadline to June 1 and I invite UCR graduate students to submit
proposals (info below).

I will be able to pay the conference fees for UCR students presenting at
the conference from my research funds. For those of you who have already
submitted proposals, this includes you.

best,
Sherryl

*Deadline for proposals extended to June 1st. *



Speculative Fiction Across Media 2025

Artificial Intelligence: Fantasies, Realities, Futures

September 25-27, 2025, at the Courtyard Marriott Monterey Park, Los Angeles



The second annual Speculative Fiction Across Media (SFAM) conference will
explore AI narratives in speculative media, from the foreboding, through
the mundane, to the celebratory. We will explore how speculative media
shapes our anticipations of a world in which we live with and use AI and
consider the degree to which certain sf tropes—such as Isaac Asimov’s Three
Laws of Robotics—have found their way into research and design
conversations. We invite papers on a wide range of media and topics, but
especially encourage submissions that consider the intersections of AI and
speculative imaginaries from multiple disciplinary and methodological
perspectives.



*Confirmed Special Guest*: *Ted Chiang*, author of multiple award-winning
works, including *The Lifecycle of Software Objects*(2011), and
sought-after commentator in venues such as *The New *Yorker regarding AI
discourse and the implications of AI tools.



*Confirmed Special Guest*: *Brit Marling, *writer, director, actor and
producer, who wrote and starred in multiple sf media works, including the
critically acclaimed series *The OA* and the limited series *A Murder at
the End of the World*, which addresses issues of AI and political culture.

Visit our website at www.SFAMLA.org for the full call for papers.



Proposals of 250-300 words should be sent as PDF attachments to Sherryl
Vint (sherryl.vint at gmail.com) by *June 1, 2025*. Proposals for individual
papers, pre-constituted paper panels, and roundtable discussion panels are
all welcome. Please ensure the names and contact details for each proposed
participant are included in the proposal.


Sherryl Vint (she/her)
Professor, Departments of English and of Media & Cultural Studies

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