World Futures Day Decolonizing Futures

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The future is much more than the Jetsons could make of it. Join us for a talk about science fiction subgenres that are decolonizing mainstream futures by broadening our views on ancestrality, utopia, afrofuturism, indigenous and LGBTQI+ perspectives. • Meet writers and researchers that are taking science fiction and futurology to a next step towards a more inclusive, diverse, and exciting view of the future. • _______________________________________ • About the hosts: • Lidia Zuin • She is a journalist and futurologist. Holds a MA in semiotics and is currently a PhD candidate in visual arts at State University of Campinas. • Alexander Meireles da Silva • He is an Associate Professor at Goiás Federal University, where he teaches and supervises research on Fantasy Literature from undergraduate and graduate courses in Humanities. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (UFRJ) and a MA degree in English Literature (UERJ). He is a founding member of the research groups “Estudos do Gótico” (CNPq) and “Nós do Insólito: Vertentes da ficção, da teoria e da crítica” (CNPq) that reunite scholars from several Brazilian universities. Since 2016, he leads the YouTube channel Fantasticursos, through which he helps writers, researchers and teachers to explore Fantasy, Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction literatures in their different activities. • Sarena Ulibarri • She is a graduate of the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop at UCSD, and earned an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, and elsewhere. A personal essay on gardening during the pandemic appeared in Strange Horizons, and you can listen to her ranting about solarpunk on about half a dozen podcasts, including Imaginary Worlds, Alan and Jeremy vs SF, and Yale Climate Connections. She has edited two anthologies of optimistic climate fiction, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018) and Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (2020), and co-edited a third, Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures (2021). Find more at SarenaUlibarri.com or on Twitter @SarenaUlibarri. • Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay • He is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He leads the international research group CoFUTURES. He is the leader (PI) of the European Research Council project “CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents” and the Norwegian Research Council project “Science Fictionality.” Explore his website: https://cofutures.org/. • Monika Bielskyte • As futures researcher, Monika has been on an 9-year nomadic journey exploring futures in 90+ countries. • As a futurist and futures designer, Monika Bielskyte consults on and prototypes culturally expansive, socially and environmentally engaged future world designs for the media industry, technology companies, and cities/countries. With expertise in the immersive media space (XR/AI/UX) and edutainment, her work consists in connecting bleeding edge technological innovation with some of the world's most original creative visions that explores the relationship between speculative science fiction narratives (Dystopias, Utopias, , most specifically, Protopias) the unfolding Global Futures. • Monika’s past clients include Universal, Google, DreamWorks, BBC, Microsoft, Mexico City, United Arab Emirates, McKinsey, Anonymous Content, Ridley Scott Associates, Reliance JIO, Telefonica, Intel, Aston Martin, MTN, TATA, Xerox PARC Rick Owens, among others. • Lauren Klein • Creator of Aesthetic Autonomy Virtual Salon and Aesthetic Futures for Social Wellness. A practitioner, researcher, sculptor, + stylist building works, experiences, and services that impact our everyday practices and ‘aesthetic currency’ as a disruptive tool of this colonialist, distributed, planetary era. Klein comes from an artistic and sociological foundational practice and has been gathering experiences, trades, and tools over 20 years which manifest in her futures praxis. • She is currently working in her virtual salon, consulting on aesthetic futures UX, and prototyping services that support social justice + plural, protopian futures. She lives in Centro Historico, Mexico City. • _______________________________________ • Envisioning website: https://envisioning.io/

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