Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe

Opening Address

The opening address will be given by Kate Rigby, Founding President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Australia-New Zealand, and author of Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004).

Keynote Speakers

John Clute
Science fiction writer, Director of the Department of Story Future in the Centre for the Future at Slavonice and co-author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997).

Tom Moylan
Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Ralahine Center for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, author of Demand the Impossible (1986) and Scraps of the Untainted Sky (2000) and co-editor of Dark Horizons (2003).

Kim Stanley Robinson
Distinguished science fiction writer, winner of two Hugo Awards and author of the Orange Country Trilogy, the Mars Trilogy, Antarctica, The Years of Rice and Salt and the Science in the Capital Trilogy.

Linda Williams
Associate Professor in Art History at RMIT University, curator of The Idea of the Animal exhibition (2004) and the HEAT: Art and Climate Change exhibition (2008).

Other Speakers will include:

Roland Boer (Professor of Theology, University of Newcastle), Ian Buchanan (Professor of Critical Theory, Cardiff University), Verity Burgmann (Professor of Politics, University of Melbourne), Jacqueline Dutton (Head of French, University of Melbourne), Andrew Milner (Professor of Cultural Studies, CCLCS).

Links

• Call for Papers
• Registration
• Acknowledgements
• Travel and Accommodation
• Conference Program
  
  
• CCLCS Home
• Colloquy Home
  
  
• Aussiecon 4
  (The 68th World Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne, 2~6 September, 2010)

Venue

Monash Conference Centre,
Level 7,
30 Collins Street,
Melbourne,
Victoria 3000,
AUSTRALIA.

ph: +61 3 9903 8000
fax:+61 3 9903 8052

Further Information

Email: Utopias@arts.monash.edu.au