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 […]

“Science is Politics by Other Means”: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy  Tue May 29, 2018 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Location: Lillian H. Smith  Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) tells the story of making Mars into a habitable planet. It explores climate change, revolution, and scientific communication in an environment where […]