Webinar discusses genre\u2019s profound impact on reimagining what ails us<\/p>\n
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From Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to Octavia Butler’s “Parable” books, science fiction has long addressed a myriad of societal issues. Throughout the years, these stories of social disruption, restructuring, and transformation have been at the heart of how the genre radically reimagines what ails us.<\/p>\n
On July 8, Clark University Dean of the Faculty Esther Jones<\/a> and Dean of the College Betsy Huang<\/a> held a webinar — “Sci Fi, Race & the Radical Imagination<\/a>” —as part of Clark’s Summer Series<\/a>. The session explored the profound ways in which science fiction can help us think critically and reimagine our future drastically — especially when it comes to current issues like race, gender, injustice, and climate change. After sharing their own experiences with the genre, Jones and Huang, who are both professors of English, opened the webinar up for discussion among attendees.<\/p>\n “There is a lot happening in our society, and science fiction is a really important space where these kinds of issues have always been central to thinking throughout the current situation and circumstances,” Jones says. “For us, science fiction provides spaces for radical imagination.”<\/p>\n Story continues after video<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n