“International & Minority Science Fiction in a Global World”

The first public event organized by UF’s newly-formed Science Fiction Working Group will take place on Oct. 1, 2014 at the University of Florida.

“International & Minority Science Fiction in a Global World” will be a day-long workshop on global cultures and subcultures of science fiction, featuring talks by UF scholars working across a broad range of historical and contemporary science fiction and fantasy.

Morning and afternoon sessions will run from 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM, in Smathers Library Room 100, and will feature talks by: Luis Álvarez-Castro (UF, Spanish and Portuguese Studies), M. Elizabeth Ginway (UF, Spanish and Portuguese Studies), Andrew Gordon (UF, English, Emeritus), Terry Harpold (UF, English), Tace Hedrick (UF, English & Women’s Studies), Kostas Kapparis (UF, Classics), Jennifer Rea (UF, Classics), Stephanie A. Smith (UF, English), and Philip Wegner (UF, English).

The workshop will conclude with an evening keynote address by noted Cuban sf author Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro, on “The Image of Women and Female Identity in Cuban Science Fiction and Fantasy” (7:30–9 PM in Ustler Hall).

All Workshop events are free and open to the public.

For more information and a complete program of Workshop events, see this page.

Co-sponsored by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the UF Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese Studies, the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, and the George A. Smathers Libraries. For more information, contact Terry Harpold or M. Elizabeth Ginway.