Contemporary Futurisms:  Postcolonial Perspectives
Seminar

Contemporary Futurisms: Postcolonial Perspectives

A seminar with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at IKOS, University of Oslo, Norway), hosted by the Unesco Chair on Heritage Futures and the Aesthetics of Empire Research Cluster

What is the relation between the conceptual architecture of contemporary futurisms and the trauma of historical violence, both colonial and post-colonial? In this research seminar, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay presents his ongoing research on contemporary futurisms, and how these futurisms create conditions of possibility for revisiting, revising, and altering strategies for negotiating trauma. While there is historical risk in these maneuvers, Chattopadhyay argues that the narrative strategies of telling and retelling are essential for developing an ethics of futurity, and can thus be seen as worth the risk.

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at IKOS, University of Oslo, Norway. He leads the international research group CoFUTURES. Chattopadhyay is the leader (PI) of two major research projects funded by the European and Norwegian Research Councils, which explore contemporary global futurisms movements from a transmedial perspective, including literature, film, visual arts, and games. Chattopadhyay runs the Holodeck, a state of the art games research lab at UiO. He is also an Imaginary College Fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University. Chattopadhyay is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the World Fantasy Award (2020). He has written, translated, or edited ten books, published numerous articles, exhibited in six transnational art projects, and produced the award-winning film Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey, the first documentary on science fiction from India and Bengal. His research website is: https://cofutures.org

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