Realities of Science Fiction II

Conferences, discussions, performances

In its second iteration, the symposium Realities of Science Fiction II focuses on a multiplicity of narratives such as Afrofuturism, Indigenous forms of knowledge, and science fiction as a mode of resistance. Through performative and discursive practices in the fields of science, literature, cinema and visual arts, different practitioners will question the current conditions of science-fictional imaginaries.

Adam Haar Horowitz: "What I have been doing is working on a team that tries to change the content of your dreams in small ways."

Peter Watts: "The actual data suggests that our global infrastructure is going to start collapsing big time by 2040."

Nitendra Singh: "ITER is one of our biggest projects right now in the world where 35 nations are working together."

Kara Keeling: "Afro-futurism is a movement that started in the 1980s as a way of thinking about the relationship between black people and technology."

Sabrina Calvo: "Science fiction is literature rooted in reality"

Josèfa Ntjam: "Science fiction lets me create in-between worlds with hybrid and mythological landscapes."

Pascale Obolo and Jean-Pierre Bekolo: "Filmmakers lag one step behind the story."

Conversation
with Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Amie Siegel

You Can't Dream About Dreaming Without Dreaming About Dreaming About Something
with Adam Haar Horowitz

In conversation with Mami Wata #2
Performance by Josèfa Ntjam

The Children of the Pond
with Sabrina Calvo

“It’s after the End of the World (Don’t You Know That Yet?)” Afrofuturism and Poetry from the Future
with Kara Keeling

The Case for Dystopia: Evolution, neurology, and narrative in a world gone to sh…
with Arthur Jafa and Peter Watts

"Maabi-echi-zaagak, "This Great Love": Ninawemagaan, "Kinship" of Indigenous Futurisms"
with Grace L. Dillon

You are the dreamer, and the dream
with Sky Hopinka

Science Fiction as Resistance. Radical Imagination in Critical Times
with Georgy Mamedov

From Fiction to Facts. The Case of ITER
with Nitendra Singh

Living with the Huntington disease. Supporting Reality with Fiction
with Valérie Pihet

Foumban Is Wakanda. When Africa Projects Itself Into the Future Without the West
with Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Pascale Obolo