2019 California Environmental AssemblyConfronting a Future at Risk Saturday, February 23, 2019 McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento CA 2:30 PM CLOSING PLENARY SESSION (Main Hall): Looking Towards the Future The final key session of the day will feature science fiction author, Dr. Kim Stanley Robinson speaking about the various possibilities for the future of the […]

NELSON INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESUNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN–MADISON   13th Annual Earth Day Conference Closing Plenary: Imagining The Possibilities: Climate, Technology, And Society April 22 @ 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm Award-winning science-fiction author, Kim Stanley Robinson, is one of the most read and respected science fiction writers in the world. Known for his reality-based approach to science fiction, Robinson has […]

The Redirect: Technology after CapitalismApril 25th, 2019 7-8PM San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Phyllis Wattis Theater 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 A collaboration between Public Books and SFMOMA’s Public Knowledge initiative, this discussion explores how tech might be redirected beyond capitalism, towards an alternative future. Could new technologies, whether imagined or real, […]

Bay Area Book Festival1569 Solano Ave. #635 Berkeley, CA 94707 Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Film and Conversation Saturday, May 4 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Arwen Curry, Annalee Newitz, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Streitfeld, moderated by Charlie Jane Anders “Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art […]