New reading group of Speculative Fiction within Environmental Humanities

On February 6th a new reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's first meeting. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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The reading group will explore the places where environmental humanities, archaeology and speculative fiction overlap. They will meet to discuss a range of texts - academic and fictional - and perhaps create their own texts about possible futures. The group will explore Octavia’s Butler’s prescient visions, Donna Haraway’s notion of “SF” (speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, speculative fiction, science fact, science fantasy, string figures), and Le Guin’s writings about a people who “might be going to have lived a long, long time from now”.

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Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group

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Last updated: January 22, 2025

Source: Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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