“CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination”CONTACT 2018 is our 30th conference! Come celebrate with a full line-up of speakers on a broad range of topics. 6-8 April 2018  At the Domain Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA CONTACT has evolved into a premier forum on the future. After 29 years of our multi-disciplinary conferences, CONTACT includes some of […]

Future Humans: A conversation between Hao Jingfang and Kim Stanley Robinson, moderated by John MarkoffHao Jingfang’s Folding Bejing won the 2016 Hugo Award for best novelette (the first Chinese woman to win the award). Her fiction has appeared in various publications, including Mengya, Science Fiction World, and ZUIFound. She has published two full-length novels, Wandering […]

Symposium: After the West—Rethinking John Muir’s TrailPlease join us for a special symposium as part of UC San Diego’s John Muir College 50th Anniversary Celebration. What is the role of John Muir today? In a time where environmentalism has never been more widespread and, yet, more necessary, can his thought still shape our debates and […]

Gary Snyder & Kim Stanley Robinson: Mt. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, and Naming What Can’t Be NamedSaturday, April 28 | 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Gary Snyder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laurie Glover, introduced by Jack Shoemaker Legendary Zen poet (and Pulitzer Prize winner) Gary Snyder and his friend […]