Center for Science and the Imagination | Crafting Climate Futures @imagineASU | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 34 minutes ago.
This virtual event was hosted on 8 November, 2021, during the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. This international convening presents an opportunity for decisive global action amidst escalating climate chaos. Now, more than ever, we need narratives of positive climate futures alongside coordinated interventions in order to ameliorate the crisis. In this session, an international panel of climate fiction authors explore the stories that might catalyze new understandings and connect narrative interventions to transformations in policy, governance, and culture.
During the event, the panelists respond to questions and provocations posed by a global group of policy thinkers, researchers, and fiction authors.
"Crafting Climate Futures" is presented by the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures at the University of Liverpool, and the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.
About our speakers:
Vandana Singh is an author of speculative fiction, a professor of physics at Framingham State University, and an interdisciplinary researcher on the climate crisis. She is the author of two short story collections, “The Women Who Thought She Was a Planet” and “Ambiguity Machines.” She was brought up in New Delhi and now lives near Boston.
Hannah Onoguwe is a writer of fiction and nonfiction based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, a region famous for its oil industry. She is the author of the short story collection “Cupid’s Catapult,” and an award-winning poet. Her work has been published in the anthology Africa 500 and the periodicals Omenana and Brittle Paper.
Xia Jia is a speculative fiction author and associate professor of Chinese literature at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Seven of her short stories have won the Galaxy Award, China’s most prestigious science fiction award. She is the author of the novel “Odyssey of China Fantasy: On the Road”, an academic volume, “Coordinates of the Future,” and four short fiction collections, most recently “A Summer Beyond Your Reach.”
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling novelist and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He has published more than twenty books, including the Mars trilogy, “Green Earth,” “New York 2140,” and most recently “The Ministry for the Future.” He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Davis, California.
Adeline Johns-Putra is a professor of literature at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. Her books include “Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel” and “The History of the Epic.” She is an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Born and raised in Malaysia, she has studied and worked in Australia, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
This virtual event was hosted on 8 November, 2021, during the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. This international convening presents an opportunity for decisive global action amidst escalating climate chaos. Now, more than ever, we need narratives of positive climate futures alongside coordinated interventions in order to ameliorate the crisis. In this session, an international panel of climate fiction authors explore the stories that might catalyze new understandings and connect narrative interventions to transformations in policy, governance, and culture.
During the event, the panelists respond to questions and provocations posed by a global group of policy thinkers, researchers, and fiction authors.
"Crafting Climate Futures" is presented by the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures at the University of Liverpool, and the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.
About our speakers:
Vandana Singh is an author of speculative fiction, a professor of physics at Framingham State University, and an interdisciplinary researcher on the climate crisis. She is the author of two short story collections, “The Women Who Thought She Was a Planet” and “Ambiguity Machines.” She was brought up in New Delhi and now lives near Boston.
Hannah Onoguwe is a writer of fiction and nonfiction based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, a region famous for its oil industry. She is the author of the short story collection “Cupid’s Catapult,” and an award-winning poet. Her work has been published in the anthology Africa 500 and the periodicals Omenana and Brittle Paper.
Xia Jia is a speculative fiction author and associate professor of Chinese literature at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Seven of her short stories have won the Galaxy Award, China’s most prestigious science fiction award. She is the author of the novel “Odyssey of China Fantasy: On the Road”, an academic volume, “Coordinates of the Future,” and four short fiction collections, most recently “A Summer Beyond Your Reach.”
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling novelist and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He has published more than twenty books, including the Mars trilogy, “Green Earth,” “New York 2140,” and most recently “The Ministry for the Future.” He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Davis, California.
Adeline Johns-Putra is a professor of literature at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. Her books include “Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel” and “The History of the Epic.” She is an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Born and raised in Malaysia, she has studied and worked in Australia, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
