The reading group of Speculative Fiction continues in spring 2026
The reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities continues during spring semester 2026. The first meeting is on January 22th. 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 explores the places where environmental humanities, archaeology and speculative fiction overlap. They discuss a range of texts - academic and fictional - and may 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”.
Read more about the upcoming meetings and themes here:
Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group
Last updated: 2025-12-15
Source: Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies