Suspicious Minds: trust and mistrust in sci-fi narratives
Thu 6 Mar 2025, 18:30
- Accessibility
- Hearing loop
- Live subtitling
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- Wheelchair accessible venue
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- Venue
- The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH
- Price
- Free
- Event series
- The Age of Mistrust?
Join celebrated feminist theorist Professor Donna Haraway FBA, author of the 'Cyborg Manifesto', and British Academy Funded Researcher Dr Anna McFarlane, as they explore the themes of trust and mistrust in science-fiction. They will be sharing and discussing examples from the worlds of film, television and books that have resonated with their own work. Dystopian stories of alien invasions and climate apocalypse dominate our screens and bookshelves, and our panel will dig into why these stories continue to fascinate us, but they will also be dissecting works that cultivate hope and inspire us to imagine better futures.
Join us at the bar from 18:00.
Speakers:
Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her pioneering work brings together the fields of science, technology, feminist theory, and animal studies. Her books include 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene' (2016); 'When Species Meet' (2008); 'The Haraway Reader' (2004); 'The Companion Species Manifesto' (2003); and 'Simians, Cyborgs', and 'Women' (1991). She was elected an international Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.
Dr Anna McFarlane
Anna McFarlane is Lecturer in the Medical Humanities at the University of Leeds. Before joining the University of Leeds, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Glasgow for her project, ‘Products of Conception: Science Fiction and Traumatic Pregnancy, 1968–2015’. Her work explores the relationship between science fiction and the medical humanities; she is also interested in the representation of AI and Silicon Valley in literature. She co-edited the 'Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction' and the 'Medical Humanities' and she is the author of 'Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades' (2021).
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