Speculative media: literature, digital story-worlds and social change
- Date
- 6 May 2026
- Time
- 10:00 -16:30
- Location
- Roeterseilandcampus - building V
- Room
- REC V0.08 (Roeterseiland)
MORNING
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10:00 – 11:15
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Readings for Renewal: Speculative literature as new media history, theory, and inventory Dr. Steve Jankowski
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All public |
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11:30 - 12:30 |
Conversation with / talk by science fiction author Ruthanna Emrys
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MA and PhD students welcome |
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12:45 - 13:30 |
Lunch (sandwiches on site)
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AFTERNOON
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13:30 - 14:50 |
Panel presentations of on-going research
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All public |
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15:00- 16:30 |
Imagining Social Change (writing workshop) with Ruthanna Emrys
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All public |
Steve Jankowski is an Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include histories of encyclopedic knowledge, utopian computation, and political theories of democracy. He has published in New Media & Society, Big Data & Society, and Internet Histories. He is currently a co-editor of a special issue of Convergence on “Utopian Media Studies” and he has led projects funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Ruthanna Emrys is a cognitive psychologist and science fiction writer. She is particularly fascinated by the psychology of emerging technologies and their role in governance. She is the author of A Half-Built Garden, a solarpunk novel about crowdsourced decision-making, watershed management, and arguing with aliens. She currently lives in the Netherlands, where she works as an independent consultant.
