Sean Estelle hosts a panel discussion on the work of Kim Stanley Robinson and with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Hilary Ashton Strang, & Matt Hauske. We'll start with KSR's most recent book, The Ministry For The Future, and dig into what climate change and science fiction have to do with the horizons of our imagination and how to make knowledge and make and change in the world today.⁠ ⁠

Hilary Strang (she/her) lives in Chicago, where she teaches critical theory, gender studies, and science fiction. she's also the co-host of marooned on mars, a read-along podcast about Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction, utopia, communist possibility and the empirical valley in which we live. ⁠ ⁠

Matt Hauske (he/him) has taught film studies at Colby College, DePaul University, and the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in 2015. He currently lives in Maine, where he has been doing a lot of baking and reading but not nearly enough writing and working. He is also a co-host of the Marooned on Mars podcast with Hilary.⁠ ⁠

Daniel Aldana Cohen (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2 and works on the politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and social class in the United States and Brazil.⁠ ⁠

Sean Estelle (they/them) is a climate justice organizer living in Chicago, IL. They have worked with many organizations over the years, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Power Shift Network; and currently, a national volunteer elected leadership role with the Democratic Socialists of America.