hello there!
I'm in Santa Cruz, on the University campus, getting ready to liveblog at least part of the
Emerging Terraformations: Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Science Fiction
conference. Yay! Very exciting. My lovely cousin Mike Light is presenting at the end of the conference tomorrow, and he hooked me up. (I think it's free, actually, but who knows?) Aside from the general atlas(t)iness of the topic, I'm here for the Oliver Morton, Kim Stanley Robinson love. There's more: one and a half solid days worth of more. But I won't detail it. Here's the schedule.
I think I'll make a different post for each event bloc. This one will be for the brief intro and goals part, then I'll start a new one for the geoengineering part.
Andrew Matthews (organizer) is now speaking (not closely enough to the microphone):
Conference arose out of terraforming of Mars in sf. Let's take this project seriously. Conference is about the power of imagination. Conf backers: UC Humanities Research Inst. (stories about how the world might be), Kresge College (hall and money), Crown College, Oakes College, UCSC departments: Humanities, Social Sciences (too many for me to care about.) Also individuals: Shelley Arrington, ??
Three panels this afternoon: Presentation 20 min. public interview Open Q&A session
Note: I'll put my comments in italics. And I'll post stuff asap and clean up later.
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