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SUMMARY:Ferguson is the Future Symposium: Speculative Arts & Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:“Ferguson is the Future”:\nIncubating Alternative Worlds Through Arts\, Activism\, and Scholarship \nWhat stories about power\, difference\, and belonging fuel the social crises we face today? How does visionary fiction offer us models for creating new possible worlds? Can the combined insights and interventions of artists\, activists\, and scholars plot a different course forward? “Ferguson is the Future” is part of an ongoing collaboration to imagine and create alternative worlds that are more just and representative of humanity. \nThis symposium brings together a multigenerational panel of speculative fiction writers\, activists\, filmmakers\, academics\, and artists to discuss the historical\, present-and-future manifestations of a social reality we wish to create and thrive in. As we work to shape change\, we will use this space as an incubator and laboratory to grow new visions of the worlds we want to exist. Please join us for a day-long celebration and investigation to explore these timely issues. \nMajor support for the symposium was provided by a grant of the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Council of the Humanities and a grant of the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nAdditional Sponsors:\nOctavia E. Butler Legacy Network\, Princeton Public Library\, Princeton Department of English\, Princeton Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and Princeton Department of African American Studies. \nA LIVESTREAM FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE WATCHED HERE \n\nCO-ORGANIZERS\nMOYA BAILEY\nRUHA BENJAMIN\nAYANA A. H. JAMIESON\, Ph.D. \nGUEST SPEAKERS\nREYNALDO ANDERSON\nSTEVEN BARNES\nLISA BOLEKAJA\nADRIENNE MAREE BROWN\nERIN CHRISTOVALE\nDJ LYNNÉE DENISE\nM. ASLI DUKAN\nTANANARIVE DUE\nJOHNETTA ELZIE\nNETTRICE GASKINS\nAMIR GEORGE\nANDREA HAIRSTON\nNALO HOPKINSON\nWALIDAH IMARISHA\nJOHN JENNINGS\nDENNIS LEROY KANGALEE\nCOLORED GIRLS HUSTLE\nSORAYA JEAN-LOUS McELROY\nDERAY_MCKESSON\nALONDRA NELSON\nNNEDI OKORAFOR\nDANIEL JOSÉ OLDER\nBRITTANY N. PACKNETT\nNUMA PERRIER\nOUR OWN RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS\nSOFIA SAMATAR\nDOROTHY ROBERTS\nNISI SHAWL\nBE STEADWELL
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CATEGORIES:Afrofuturist Sciences,Conferences
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