Looking forward to the Science Fiction International Conference 2024 in Fribourg next month! I’m going to talk about herbal zombie healers…

Organisers Lorenzo Andolfatto, Christine Bichsel, Jueling Hu, and Chiara Cigarini have put together this awesome all-stars programme:

MON		March 25, 2024
		9:00		Opening
				Lorenzo ANDOLFATTO
		9:30	Keynote	The Convergence of Chinese SF and Internet Literature
				Feng YAN
		10:30		Coffee Break
		11:00	Panel 1	The Politics of Chinese SF
				Yan WU, Loic ALOISIO, Jessica IMBACH
		12:30		Lunch Break
		13:30	Panel 2	The Logistics of Chinese SF
				Regina Kanyu WANG, Virgina CONN, Cara HEALEY
		15:00		Coffee Break
		15:30	Panel 3	The Co-Production of Chinese SF
				Chiara CIGARINI, Nathaniel ISSACSON, Gwennaël GAFFRIC

		TUE		March 26, 2024
		9:00	Panel 4	Speculating Taiwan
				Mingwei SONG, Wen-Chi LI, Hsin-Hui LIN
		10:30		Coffee Break
		11:00	Panel 5	Chinese SF in Future Versions
				Aaron MOORE, Guangyi LI, Bo WANG
		12:30		Lunch Break
		13:30	Panel 6	Posthuman Becomings in Sinophone SF
				Astrid MØLLER-OLSEN, Jueling HU, Yan OOI
		15:00		Coffee Break
		15:30		Closing
				Christine BICHSEL

“The Cultural Logistics of Chinese and Sinophone SF Conference 2024 scrutinizes the current state of the science fiction (SF) genre in China and the larger Sinophone area. Along these lines, we invite contributions that explore the vitality and potential limitations of “Chinese SF”. We welcome analyses of the textual and extra-textual dimensions of SF, the transformations across formats and languages, the literary and aesthetic politics, and the socio-political affordances granted by this form. Moreover, we encourage discussions of this genre as a medium for cultural exchange across linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries in the present and the past, as well as interventions that recognize the value of this genre in unveiling and questioning existing power dynamics and inequalities, and its potential to fuel global discourse against global threats such as the climate emergency and our growing geopolitical instability.”