CONNIE SAMARAS: RE-DRAWING MAPS OF INTERDEPENDENCE: SCIENCE FICTION AND RETHINKING AGENCY

Two film screenings and conversations among Connie Samaras, Kavita Philip, (Associate Professor, UC Irvine, Women's Studies and Director of the Critical Studies Institute) and Ward Smith (Librarian Southern California Library and web master/author, www.leveller.org), engage audience members in an interactive dialogue. They examine speculative fiction cinema and literature in relation to science and economy, character construction, and the ability to imagine the future as a series of possibilities rather than a singular probability.