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Pseudo-Apocalypse
In June 2017, I'll be returning to the Speculations Lecture Series run at King's College London to deliver a lecture on “Islands at the End of the World: The Pseudo-Apocalypses of Claire Fuller and...
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Dystopia Now
Birkbeck's Centre for Contemporary Literature recently organised a one-day conference titled "Dystopia Now," held at the School of Arts on 26 May 2017. I was really thrilled to be asked to deliver the...
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Margaret Atwood Interview
As part of the New Scientist Live 2017 festival of ideas, I'm really excited to announce that I'll be interviewing Margaret Atwood on the Main Stage – VIP Area on Sunday 1st October 2017. The event is...
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Hull City of Culture
Following a talk I gave on "The Deep Sea in Science Fiction" at the Wellcome Trust in 2015, as part of the "Incredible Encounters with Light" exhibition, I was delighted to be invited by Invisible...
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LLS Keynote
I was really pleased to be invited to deliver one of the plenary addresses at the London Literary Society's annual conference in July 2017, which was organised around the theme of "Fantastic London:...
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Museum of London
I'm really thrilled to announce that the Museum of London has recently installed my curated display "Imagined Futures." The display was commissioned as part of the year-long "City Now: City Future"...
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Grrrl Zine Fair
The Grrrl Zine Library at Royal Albert Wharf, which opened as a dedicated space for the library and community meetings, recently held a Feminist Christmas Fair on Saturday 9th December 2017. I was...
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LARB Review
The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a review article of China Miéville: Critical Essays, the collection I co-edited for Gylphi published in 2015. Gylphi also published Carl Freedman's...
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Utopian Topographies
I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary Topographies and Times: Literary...
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Imagined Futures
As part of an ongoing public engagement project on "Communicating the relevance of speculative fiction to different publics" I've been working on between 2017 – 2018, I was really pleased to be awarded...
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Fantastika Keynote
In July 2018, I was delighted to be invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at After Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, the fifth annual conference organised by Fantastika Journal....
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Economic SF
The economics magazine STIR hosted a panel discussion on "Economic Science Fictions" to celebrate the launch of its Autumn 2018 issue on "Co-operating out of Crisis." I was pleased to be ask to...
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Moon Landings
Illustration for The First Men In the Moon by E. Herring (1901) As part of the Moon Landing in Context project, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on 20th July 1969,...
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Automated Futures
I’ve been working on a new side project on automation and utopian visions of futurity – from Marxist revolutionary theory to theories of post- and anti-work. When the London Science Fiction Research...
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Ralahine Keynote
I was thrilled to be invited by the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick to give the opening keynote lecture for their conference “(Un)Fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and...
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British Academy
I was delighted to be asked to chair a recent panel discussion for the British Academy on Dystopian Literature in Our Time. The panel brought together three important contemporary writers, Season...
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BBC R4 Documentary
After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I...
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Arcadian Revenge
I’m currently working on my new book project, Arcadian Revenge: Science Fiction in the Era of Ecocatastrophe, which considers “ecocatastrophe” narratives in literature, film, graphic fiction,...
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Whitechapel Gallery
I’m currently working on my new book project, Arcadian Revenge: Science Fiction in the Era of Ecocatastrophe, which considers “ecocatastrophe” narratives in literature, film, graphic fiction,...
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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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