If you're in Chicago you might find this interesting.
The Annual Leon F. Forrest Lectureship
April 15, 2004
4:30PM
Abbott Auditorium of the Pancoe-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences
Pavilion 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston
Samuel R. Delany
Professor of English, Temple University
Author of Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, The Motion of Light in Water, Silent Interviews, and Times Square, Red Square
April 16, 2004
2-6 PM
Harris Hall 107
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston
The Politics of the Paraliterary: A Symposium on Afro-Diasporic Speculative Fiction and Theory
Speakers:
Kodwo Eshun
Author of More Brilliant than the Sun, a treatise on futurism in Black popular music.
Alondra Nelson
Assistant Professor, Yale University. Co-editor of Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life. Founder and moderator of the Internet discussion group, AfroFuturism.
Greg Tate
Staff Writer at The Village Voice. Author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk and Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience.
Sheree R. Thomas
Editor of two anthologies: Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.
