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Venue: Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg/MS Teams meeting roomOrganisers: Lorenzo Andolfatto and Christine BichselDay 1 – Friday, August 289h-9h30 Workshop opening – Christine Bichsel &#38; Lorenzo Andolfatto, University of Fribourg9h30-12h Session 1 – Lorenzo Andolfatto (Discussant) « Thinking beyond the Antropocene: Excavating Potential Futures/Future Potentials in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home » — Ben Garlick &#38; Liesl King, York St John University « Social Space and Dystopian Geography in Hao Jingfang’s Novel Wandering Maerth » — Nicoletta Persaro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice « Future Spaces: Geo Fiction, Science Fiction, Utopia » — Anke Schwarz &#38; Frank Müller, Technical University Dresden13h30-16h Session 2 – Christine Bichsel (Discussant) « Zheng He’s Travels and Alternative Geographies of Earth in Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction » — Gwennaël Gaffric, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III « “You Have Forgotten How to Care”: Accelerationism’s Uneven Geographies in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine » — David K. Seitz, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA « Lost Utopia: Star Trek’s Socio-spatial Reflections » — Mark Rhodes, Michigan Technology UniversityDay 2 – Saturday, August 299h30-12h Session 3 – Lorenzo Andolfatto (Discussant) « “It was quiet”: The Radical Architectures of Understatement in Feminist SF » — Amy Butt, University of Reading « Biopunk(ed) Urban Ecologies: Miéville’s (2000) Perdido Street Station as a Counterposition to Contemporary Ecological Design » — Ben A. Platt, University of Cambridge « Heterotopias in Han Song’s Science Fiction » — Loïc Aloisio, Aix-Marseille Université14h-16h Closing Remarks/Plenary Session – Chaired by Lorenzo Andolfatto &#38; Christine Bichsel