Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson

The Creative Critical Writing Initiative (housed in the English Department) welcomes Dr. Nalo Hopkinson for an upcoming talk, “Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson.” Nalo Hopkinson is an author, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia, and the 2021 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy. Born in Jamaica, Dr. Hopkinson has taught, lived, and created across the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada, producing works that engage with disability, neurodiversity, queer Black feminist and womanist thought, Caribbean literature, folklore, & ecology, Afrofuturism, textile and doll-making praxis, and teaching. Dr. Hopkinson is known best for her works in speculative fiction—novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, and Sister Mine represent only a fraction of Dr. Hopkinson’s contributions to Afrofuturist thought and art practice.

Join us this Winter quarter to welcome Dr. Hopkinson to UCSB. The event will include a moderated conversation, an audience Q&A, followed by a book-signing. Select titles will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there!

Cosponsored by the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, Las Maestras Center for Xican[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice, Center for Feminist Futures, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, English, Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, Black Studies, Feminist Studies, the Transcriptions Center, the Writing Program, and the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group