Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, & Survival
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 - Saturday, Mar 16, 2013 | 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
The Center for Race Gender and the Multicultural Community Center present
Speculative Visions
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/546873702001283
Free and open to the public. Location is wheelchair accessible.
What will survival entail in near and far futures? In light of racialized violence and social control, massive technological innovation, and rapid transformations in science and biomedicine, this conference will engage the imperative to imagine, study, prepare for, and articulate future human life. We are interested in how science and technology shape the material and epistemological boundaries of existence, specifically how and whose existence is valued, policed, corporealized, and corporatized. We will also explore the capacity of embodied subjects to navigate these boundaries in the context of dis/abled, gendered, sex/uality, and queer formations. Recognizing that technology creates kinds of futures (both anticipated and unforeseen), this conference will create a space to analyze how technologies of the past and present contextualize and disclose future realities, and identify opportunities for creating new possibilities.

The Body (Market) in Motion: Embodied Capital in the Now and Future
Rereading the Anxiety Towards Black Athletes Post 9/11
Speculating the Carceral Planet
Dislocating the Human: Crossing Divides of Species and Form
A Short Film by Dean Spade Craig Willse
Eating Brains: Biotechnology and Criminal Minds
Inner Space and its Outer Travels: Cells, Genes, Organs
Risk, Anxiety, and Racial Affect in Genetic Counseling
Screening of FML – Fuck My Life
A short film by Xandra Ibarra / La Chica Boom
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Upward, Outward, Onward:
Afrofuturism, Transhumanism, and the Black Prophetic Tradition
Thinking Lifeforms, Deathforms, Corporeality into the Future