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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Viral Science Fiction, a Virtual Roundtable</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Join us for this important conversation via Zoom on Monday 14 September,
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">While science fiction often reflects human fears and anxieties, it can also encourage audiences to reconsider the
world from different perspectives and in more hopeful, productive ways. Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of science fiction means engaging with both fear and hope in an attempt to reconcile the unreality of our current circumstances.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">From Richard Matheson’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I Am Legend</span></em> (1954) and Margaret Atwood’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">MaddAddam</span></em> trilogy
(2003-2013) to Edgar Wright’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Shaun of the Dead </span></em>(2004) and Kim Seong-hun’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kingdom</span></em> series (2019), viral science fiction presents a
unique opportunity for both audiences and researchers to better understand what it means to live during a pandemic.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">This virtual roundtable will explore what science fiction and related genres can reveal about the everyday challenges, socio-political upheavals and ethical implications of the current pandemic.
With a range of expertise across literary studies, media and entertainment and cultural studies, our presenters will navigate these complexities as they each speak to the topic of "Viral Science Fiction", discussing film and literature, pandemic media, zombies,
the Anthropocene, and more. The roundtable will then conclude with a Q and A discussion.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Speakers:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney
(UTS) & Associate Researcher at the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne. She is currently finishing the book, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jack Lindsay: writer, Romantic, revolutionary</span></em> and continues her
research on embodiment, technology and culture. Her books include <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction </span></em>(1990), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Engendered Fictions:
Analysing gender in the production and reception of texts </span></em>(1992), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Popular Culture </span></em>(1994), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Body in the Text</span></em> (1995), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Multimedia:
Texts and Contexts</span></em> (2005) and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Technology and Touch: the Biopolitics of Emerging Technologies</span></em> (2013), as well as the co-edited <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feminine,
Masculine and Representation</span></em> (1990) and the co-written <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gender Studies: Terms and Debates </span></em>(2003). Web page: <a href="https://uts.academia.edu/AnneCrannyFrancis" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">https://uts.academia.edu/AnneCrannyFrancis</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">ANITA JABOOR </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication and Creative
Arts at Deakin University. Her research focus is climate change fiction. Through an exploration of literary texts representative of climate concerns, Anita is examining the way that these texts use space and time to critically comment against climate devastation.
She has written a paper, ‘The End of the Road: Constructing the Enigmatic Character’, for <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In/Stead</span></em>, and presented at <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Double Dialogues </span></em>conference
at The University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">ANDREW MILNER</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"> is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
at Monash University. His publications include <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">John Milton and the English Revolution </span></em>(1981), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Road to St Kilda Pier</span></em> (1984), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cultural
Materialism</span></em> (1993), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Class</span></em> (1999), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Re-Imagining Cultural Studies</span></em> (2002), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Contemporary
Cultural Theory </span></em>(2002), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Literature, Culture and Society</span></em> (2005), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Utopia, Dystopia and Science
Fiction</span></em> (2010), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Locating Science Fiction</span></em> (2012), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism </span></em>(2018) and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Science
Fiction and Climate Change</span></em> (2020, co-authored with J.R. Burgmann).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">ANGELA NDALIANIS </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">is Research Professor in Media and Entertainment, and Director
of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research focuses on entertainment media; visual effects technologies; the transformative nature of media technologies – past and present – and how they impact on
embodiment, the senses and perception; and the superhero, horror and science fiction genres. Her publications include <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment </span></em>(MIT Press 2004), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Science
Fiction Experiences</span></em> (New Academia 2010), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses </span></em>(McFarland 2012) and the edited books <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Contemporary
Comic Book Superhero </span></em>(editor, Routledge 2009), <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Neo-baroques: From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster</span></em> (co-editor, Rodopi Press/Brill 2016), and <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fans
and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives</span></em> (co-editor, Routledge, 2017).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">This roundtable will be held via Zoom and parts of the event will be recorded. Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders the day before the event.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Reading & Screening the Fantastique </span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">is
an interdisciplinary research network that explores science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural across the art forms. The group consists of postgraduates and academics working within film studies, literary studies, creative writing,
education, bioethics, technoscience, gender studies, media studies and more. First established at Deakin University, the group extends beyond this to scholars around Australia, with the hope of connecting with others internationally. You can find them on Twitter
at </span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/RSTFantastique" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">@RSTFantastique</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></em></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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