As part of Iniva's 'Research Network' programme of events at the Stuart Hall Library, 'Speculative Climate Stories' will be a session where Worm/Angela Chan and Ama Josephine Budge will share research on climate science fiction, cultures and geopolitics of imaginary climate futures.

"Join us for our first Research Network event in the More-than-Human Care series.

Angela Chan / Worm will present research on communicating climate change through contemporary Chinese speculative and science fiction, and explore the interconnected environmental and socio-economic issues in China today. Responding to Angela, writer, curator and artist Ama Josephine Budge will discuss speculative climate fiction from a West African perspective.

Reading excerpts from selected speculative climate stories, they will navigate how storytelling imaginatively and critically rejects climate colonialism. Whilst decentralising the Western ‘cli-fi’ discourse, they will also problematise the limited debate in Chinese ‘cli-fi’ on the growing political concerns over China’s expanding economic relations with African nations for natural resources.

Angela and Ama’s discussion will emphasise a positionality as global North diaspora, to collectively engage with speculative climate fiction in solidarity with global BIPOC-led climate justice activism."

Event open to everyone.
Please book here.

"The Stuart Hall Library is Iniva’s critical and creative hub. The library holds Iniva’s collections and research, and supports Iniva’s work by documenting and facilitating its research into the contemporary visual arts within an international and transnational context, as well as providing critical material on issues of cultural identity and offering a specialist collection that is open to the public. It also hosts regular talks and events, including the Research Network and the Saturday Reading Group."