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BBC R3 Programme
My brilliant colleague Amy Butt and I were invited to make a 45-minute programme for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on the subject of “Science Fiction.” The programme was recorded in late February,...
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Capek’s Robots
I was delighted to be featured, alongside my Birkbeck colleague Prof. Roger Luckhurst, in a recent radio programme on BBC Radio 3. Titled “The Robots Are Us” and presented by Ken Hollings, the...
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Coastal Dystopias
18 March 2021, 2-3.30pm GMT Online via Zoom (booking required) I’ll be speaking about “Coastal Dystopias” as part of the Institute for Historical Research (IHR) series on “Coastal Connections.”...
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Utopian Hope
This lecture considered how the idea of Utopia helps us galvanise political literary readings within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis. Despite the seemingly relentless,...
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Hypnotic Inhumanism
I was delighted to be able to deliver my keynote online for the rescheduled 10th anniversary conference of Current Research into Speculative Fiction (CRSF) on the theme of “Survival,” which took place...
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Princeton Keynote
Featured image: “Soma Goddess” by Emily Balivet, 2015. used with permission. I was really pleased to be able to deliver my postponed keynote lecture at the “Idyll and Utopia” conference, organised...
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Black Utopias
I’ve been teaching Pauline Hopkins’ lost race narrative, of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self (1902-3) on Birkbeck’s BA Science Fiction module over the past year and was delighted to have the chance to...
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Arboreal Revelation
I’ve been working on a new chapter about trees as part of my current book project, Hopeful Inhumanism: The Elemental Aesthetics of Ecocatastrophe. Titled “Arboreal Revelation,” the chapter will extend...
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Ekow Eshun in Conversation
The Black Fantastic: Ekow Eshun in Conversation with Ekow Eshun and Dr Caroline Edwards Friday 24th February 2023, 6-8pm, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD How are...
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Weird Eroticism
I’ve just returned from a mini lecture tour in Germany! It was an honour to be invited to share my work on the current elemental aesthetics book project with colleagues and students at the University...
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