Speculative Futures: Black Studies and Comics
The UC Speculative Futures Collective welcomed comics creators John Jennings and Damian Duffy, who adapted Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower, and Deborah Whaley, author of Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime and co-editor of Keywords for Comics Studies, as part of the multi-year, UC Office of the President funded initiative. They were joined by UCSD Ethnic […]
Mission: AstroAccess
Mission: AstroAccess Making Space Travel Inclusive for All UC San Diego researchers participate in zero gravity flight to understand ability, disability in space By Kiran Kumar In a weightless, microgravity environment like space, what do ability and disability look like? How can someone with partial sight or impaired mobility navigate in a […]
Innovation @ the Edge: The Metaverse
The Metaverse is a shared digital twin or mirror of the real world, first described by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson and now the stated goal of major companies like Facebook, Epic Games, Unity, and Roblox, among others. To realize this goal, the Metaverse must be interactive, immersive, collaborative, and interoperable, accessible via 2D […]
Clarion Winter Writers Series
The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, organized by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego, was pleased to host the Winter Writers Series, a monthly series of conversations between Clarion alumni and instructors about the art of speculative fiction and their writing careers. These conversations, co-hosted by Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, were presented via […]
