Starhawk and Haraway will engage questions about their lifetimes of activism and writing in a conversation moderated by SJRC Visiting Scholar, Joan Haran. Please register to attend as seating is limited. Magic, Figuration & Speculative Fiction as Calls to Action Please join the Speculative Workshop participants for a reception before the public dialogue with Donna Haraway and Starhawk.Ī Public Conversation with Donna Haraway and Starhawk Read the full CFP and reserve your place by emailing and – 5:00 PM (Workshop Participants) Who and what have (had) attachments to that place, and how are those attachments bound up in larger networks of interrelationship? Do those attachments open up ways of imagining flourishing cohabitation (however you conceive of that), or do those attachments need to be disconnected and / or reconnected to create spaces of possibility? You might conjure up its future, produce a speculative and disruptive history or trace the contours of an alternate present. You are asked to submit 900 words of speculative fiction about a place that is particularly meaningful to you. If you’ve never done creative writing before, do not worry! We are looking for messy and promising provocations, not polished manuscripts. All participants will submit a short piece of work (by October 2nd) which will be circulated to other workshop participants for reading ahead of the workshop. The workshop will focus on this mode of SF and their insistence on accounting for compromised and difficult relationality, shared responsibility and non-innocence.įor this workshop, we invite feminist, queer, antiracist, and decolonial STS scholars or activists working on environmental and racial justice to experiment with the possibilities of speculative and visionary storytelling. They use SF not to conjure purified alternatives or forms of escape, but to remain embedded in and accountable to the world. They are both authors of feminist SF most explicitly with Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) and its sequel City of Refuge (2015) and Haraway’s “The Camille Stories” (2016) but also implicitly in their work on movement-building and figuration. In their writings since the later 1970s we can trace both the influence of a web of feminist SFs, including speculative fiction, science fiction and speculative fabulation, and their own crafting of SF. In this workshop we will take inspiration from Starhawk and Donna Haraway.
With interventions from Starhawk, Donna Haraway, and Elizabeth Stephens Speculative Fiction Workshop with Joan Haran and Martha Kenney
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