"Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Climate Change SF" | A Guest Lecture by Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside) | Feb 3 2025

Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Climate Change SF

-- A Guest Lecture by Prof. Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside)

February 3, 18:30
Room W48.004


Sherryl Vint is Professor of English, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she also directs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. A leading scholar in speculative fiction studies and winner of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Science Fiction Research Association, Prof. Vint is the author of numerous influential books, including Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014), Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (2012), and Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Science Fiction (2007). She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and editor of book series Science in Popular Culture.

This guest lecture is hosted in the context of the survey lecture "Issues in North American Literature: Nature and Technology" (Prof. Ingwersen).