Optimism, Optopia and Climate Change Stories
Focus on Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
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Optimist Room
UCLA Luskin Conference Center
Join us for the second event in the IoES 2024-2025 Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series, a three-part special seminar series exploring critical environmental challenges.
How can science fiction balance hopeful stories about environmental futures with current realities? What theory of social change should inform these stories? With dire climate change impacts already happening, what kinds of stories can inspire audiences to care about and become active on large-scale environmental issues?
Kim Stanley Robinson
Author of The Ministry for the Future
Program
2:00-2:30 – Refreshments
2:30-3:30 – Seminar
3:30-4:00 – Q&A
4:00-5:00 – Book Signing
Note: The UCLA Book Store will be selling copies starting at 2pm. We will record event for posting afterwards.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an acclaimed science fiction author known for his environmentally focused works, including the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future.
Co-Sponsors: Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies & Department of English