Just Futures Symposium: Speculative Arts and Social Change
Friday, November 22, 2019
Oregon State University
All Sessions are in the Memorial Union Horizon Room and are Free and Open to the Public.
9-9:10am Welcome and Introductions
9:15-10:00am Panel on Star Trek, Star Wars, and Socially Just Pedagogy
Joseph Orosco, Diana Rohlman, and Mohammed Shakibnia
10:05-11:05am Time Capsules, Utopia, and the Ethics of Care
James McDevitt: “Time Capsules: Visiting Speculative Futures with/in the Art Installations of Beatriz Cortez”
Philipp Kneis: “The Politics of Best Intentions: Questioning the Utopia / Dystopia Distinction”
Maurice Hamington & Ce Rosnow “Imagining A More Caring Future: Care Ethics and Poetry”
Break (10 Minutes)
11:15-12:05pm Power and Resistance from Tale to Testaments: The Politics of Margaret Atwood
Malori A. Musselman: “Resistance and Response to Environmental Disaster: The Handmaid’s Tale and the Power of Storytelling”
Courtney Campbell: “From Tale to Testaments: The Power of Story-Telling in Margaret Atwood’s Gilead”
12:15-1pm Keynote Address: Grace Dillon “Indigenous Futurism”
1-2pm Lunch On Your own
2:05-3 Racial Dystopias, and a Future of Restorative Justice
Scott Vignos: “Jemisin’s Dystopic Vision in the Broken Earth Trilogy”
Deidre Keller: “The Below, The Sunken Place, The Upside Down: Representations of Vulnerability in 21st Century America and the Potential for Imagining Liberated Futures”
3:10-4pm Elves, Fantasy Writing, and Decolonizing Role-Play
Colette Ohotnicky: “When the Elves Walk Among Us”
Jason Schindler: “Anthropocene* Games – table-top role-playing pedagogies for diversifying, decolonizing, indigenating, and organizing (*: term actively challenged)”
Break (15 mintues)
4: 15-5pm Keynote: Alex Riccio “Imagining a Better Utopia”
5pm Musical Performance by Space Neighbors