"Worlding SF" is more than just an academic conference ...

More than a week of sf-related lectures and other events will take place at the University of Graz.

December 3:

3.15-4.45pm, Attemsgasse 25, top floor:

lecture by Dan Hassler-Forest, "I Want My Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism! Neoliberalism and Utopian Science Fiction" (please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan to attend)

December 4:

1.30-3pm, Attemsgasse 25, top floor:

lecture by and following workshop with Dan Hassler-Forest, "'It's Happening Again': Stranger Things, Twin Peaks: The Return, and the Industrial Logic of Nostalgia Culture" (please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan to attend)

7pm, UniGraz@Museum (main building, basement):

reading by the Austrian sf, horror, fantasy, and crime author Andreas Gruber (in German!)

December 5:

10-11.30am, Attemsgasse 25, top floor:

lecture by Dan Hassler-Forest, "Transmediating Afro-Futurism: Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer across Media" (please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan to attend)

5-6.30pm, Attemsgasse 25, top floor:

lecture by Pawel Frelik, "Darkness on the Edge of Town: Depression, Desperation, and Lost America in Kentucky Route Zero" (ok, it's not sf, but it's Pawel; please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you plan to attend)

December 7:

7pm, Murinsel:

Screening of 1. April 2000 (1952; German with English subs)

December 10:

6-7.30pm, UniGraz@Museum (main building, basement):

lecture by Gerry Canavan, "Transitional Power: Superheroes vs. The Climate"