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Imagining Environmental Futures: Science Fiction as Practice

Title: Imagining Environmental Futures: Science Fiction as Practice
Time: 5/10/2022, 4:00-5:30
Place: HG 1030

Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆, aka. Stanley Chan) is an acclaimed Chinese science fiction writer. His first novel The Waste Tide depicts a near-future version of China that invites a reexamination of how we understand humanity itself against the massive tidal wave of environmental damage. Describing himself as “an anthropologist conducting fieldwork,” Chen calls his work “science fiction realism.” His most recent work is AI 2041:Ten Visions for Our Future (with the computer scientist Kai-fu Lee) which explores the possible futures of human-AI co-evolution. Chen’s stories have been published in venues such as Esquire, Chutzpah! Clarkesworld, Interzone, and Science Fiction World.  His works have garnered numerous Galaxy Awards and Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy and have been translated into English, German, French, Finnish, Korean, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Polish and other languages.

Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology
Co-Sponsors: Humanities Center, Center for Asian Studies, Illuminations