Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
New journal - with cfp for inaugural issue
Polyfora | A Journal of Speculative CoFutures
journal.cofutures.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New journal - with cfp for inaugural issue
I am so honored that my story "The Island and The Human" just won SF Planet Award for Best SF Short Story!
May all human beings, non-human beings, carbon-based organisms and silicon-based consciousnesses breathe with our planet and share our CoFutures!
May all human beings, non-human beings, carbon-based organisms and silicon-based consciousnesses breathe with our planet and share our CoFutures!
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am so honored that my story "The Island and The Human" just won SF Planet Award for Best SF Short Story!
May all human beings, non-human beings, carbon-based organisms and silicon-based consciousnesses breathe with our planet and share our CoFutures!
May all human beings, non-human beings, carbon-based organisms and silicon-based consciousnesses breathe with our planet and share our CoFutures!
CoFutures welcomed Mingwei Song, Yan Feng, Wu Yan, and Li Guangyi, top scholars of Chinese science fiction for a workshop! We shared knowledges on our research and practices. More future collaborations to come!
April 13, 2024 at 8:09 AM
CoFutures welcomed Mingwei Song, Yan Feng, Wu Yan, and Li Guangyi, top scholars of Chinese science fiction for a workshop! We shared knowledges on our research and practices. More future collaborations to come!
More will be uploaded to CoFutures webpage (cofutures.org and learn.cofutures.org)
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cofutures.org
August 7, 2024 at 10:46 PM
More will be uploaded to CoFutures webpage (cofutures.org and learn.cofutures.org)
Glacier, fireworks, CoFutures.
August 13, 2023 at 12:08 AM
Glacier, fireworks, CoFutures.
New book review from me in The Journal of Science Fiction on The Routledge Companion of CoFutures, which is an excellent, excellent new resource.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/scifi/issue/view/46
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/scifi/issue/view/46
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): General Issue
| MOSF Journal of Science Fiction
publish.lib.umd.edu
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New book review from me in The Journal of Science Fiction on The Routledge Companion of CoFutures, which is an excellent, excellent new resource.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/scifi/issue/view/46
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/scifi/issue/view/46
In May, FutureSpace went to Oslo for a 2-day workshop with colleagues from the ERC funded project CoFUTURES to present and discuss our interests, methodologies and potential synergies to explore multiple futures in the making!
#FutureSpace #CoFUTURES #ERC
#FutureSpace #CoFUTURES #ERC
November 22, 2024 at 1:23 PM
In May, FutureSpace went to Oslo for a 2-day workshop with colleagues from the ERC funded project CoFUTURES to present and discuss our interests, methodologies and potential synergies to explore multiple futures in the making!
#FutureSpace #CoFUTURES #ERC
#FutureSpace #CoFUTURES #ERC
20 days, 3 countries, 4 cities, we did amazing work in Salvador, Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Tijuana for The CoFutures Confluence 2024: CoFutures Literacy. Love and thanks to all participants, on-site hosts, UN Global Pulse, and my foxhole buddies Patrick, Jomy, and Joel! #CoFutures
August 7, 2024 at 10:33 PM
20 days, 3 countries, 4 cities, we did amazing work in Salvador, Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Tijuana for The CoFutures Confluence 2024: CoFutures Literacy. Love and thanks to all participants, on-site hosts, UN Global Pulse, and my foxhole buddies Patrick, Jomy, and Joel! #CoFutures
Call for Papers:
The Virtual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (VICFA5)
Speculative Visions of Care and Hope
Guests of Honor: Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt)
17-19 September 2026
Organized by IAFA and CoFutures
Full CfP can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820583
The Virtual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (VICFA5)
Speculative Visions of Care and Hope
Guests of Honor: Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt)
17-19 September 2026
Organized by IAFA and CoFutures
Full CfP can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820583
June 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Call for Papers:
The Virtual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (VICFA5)
Speculative Visions of Care and Hope
Guests of Honor: Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt)
17-19 September 2026
Organized by IAFA and CoFutures
Full CfP can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820583
The Virtual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (VICFA5)
Speculative Visions of Care and Hope
Guests of Honor: Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt)
17-19 September 2026
Organized by IAFA and CoFutures
Full CfP can be found at iaftfita.wildapricot.org/page-1820583
The essay we wrote for the "Arabofuturs: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires" exhibition held at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris is now available in English. The exhibition, which curates the works of Arab visual artists working with SF imaginaries, is extended until 12 Jan. 2025.
CoFutures—Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Merve Tabur // Sumac Space–Art Practices of the Middle East
The explosion of futurisms in the last three decades as transmedial movements that engage in processes of futuring (i.e. imagining and visualizing new futures) can be termed CoFuturisms. CoFuturisms i...
sumac.space
November 21, 2024 at 4:49 PM
The essay we wrote for the "Arabofuturs: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires" exhibition held at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris is now available in English. The exhibition, which curates the works of Arab visual artists working with SF imaginaries, is extended until 12 Jan. 2025.
Today, our hoper María Martín Ortega took part in the Congress “Speculative Visions of Care and Hope,” organised by IAFA and CoFutures, with her paper: “Decolonial Perceptions of Time and Hope as Ontological Resistance in shalan joudry's Waking Ground (2020)”.
#hope #resistance
#hope #resistance
September 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Today, our hoper María Martín Ortega took part in the Congress “Speculative Visions of Care and Hope,” organised by IAFA and CoFutures, with her paper: “Decolonial Perceptions of Time and Hope as Ontological Resistance in shalan joudry's Waking Ground (2020)”.
#hope #resistance
#hope #resistance
Registration for VICFA 5: Speculative Visions of Care and Hope with Guests of Honor Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt), co-organized by the IAFA and CoFutures, is now live!
Please register here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6742648
We hope to see you there!
Please register here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6742648
We hope to see you there!
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - VICFA 5: Speculative Visions of Care and Hope
iaftfita.wildapricot.org
July 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Registration for VICFA 5: Speculative Visions of Care and Hope with Guests of Honor Zoha Kazemi (Iran) and Ahmed Naji (Egypt), co-organized by the IAFA and CoFutures, is now live!
Please register here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6742648
We hope to see you there!
Please register here: iaftfita.wildapricot.org/event-6742648
We hope to see you there!
11/11 Zhiwen Hu on Cofutures and Chinese Speculative fiction. Zhiwen is a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests include Chinese science fiction, Posthumanism, AfroFuturism, CoFuturism, and Asian American speculative fiction, critical AI studies, and digital humanities.
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
11/11 Zhiwen Hu on Cofutures and Chinese Speculative fiction. Zhiwen is a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests include Chinese science fiction, Posthumanism, AfroFuturism, CoFuturism, and Asian American speculative fiction, critical AI studies, and digital humanities.
November 11th Zhiwen Hu on Cofutures and Chinese Speculative fiction. Zhiwen is a Visiting Assistant Professor His research interests include Chinese science fiction, Posthumanism, and Asian American speculative fiction, critical AI studies, and digital humanities.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
November 11th Zhiwen Hu on Cofutures and Chinese Speculative fiction. Zhiwen is a Visiting Assistant Professor His research interests include Chinese science fiction, Posthumanism, and Asian American speculative fiction, critical AI studies, and digital humanities.
A great many thanks to the special issue editors Heike Härting and Johannes Riquet, and the entire CoFutures team for their help on the paper!
October 10, 2023 at 9:13 AM
A great many thanks to the special issue editors Heike Härting and Johannes Riquet, and the entire CoFutures team for their help on the paper!
My Chinese Zodiac is snake and the story is inpired by a trip to Shenzhen, a city in which hi-tech and traditional wisdom are complex, coeval and compossible (so a CoFutures story!), plus the scent of Aesop's Fables, science fiction, and mythology. Hope you enjoy!
September 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM
My Chinese Zodiac is snake and the story is inpired by a trip to Shenzhen, a city in which hi-tech and traditional wisdom are complex, coeval and compossible (so a CoFutures story!), plus the scent of Aesop's Fables, science fiction, and mythology. Hope you enjoy!
Bodhi will also share insights from his ongoing research in CoFutures, exploring how these futurisms foster opportunities for reexamining, reevaluating, and reshaping strategies to address trauma. I’m thrilled to host Bodhi, and everyone is welcome to attend!
April 5, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Bodhi will also share insights from his ongoing research in CoFutures, exploring how these futurisms foster opportunities for reexamining, reevaluating, and reshaping strategies to address trauma. I’m thrilled to host Bodhi, and everyone is welcome to attend!
Bodhi is currently the PI of ERC project "CoFutures" and of the Norwegian Research Council project “Science Fictionality”. He is also the first-ever recipient of the ERC Proof of Concept grant for humanities in Norway and joint first for the University of Oslo.
April 5, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Bodhi is currently the PI of ERC project "CoFutures" and of the Norwegian Research Council project “Science Fictionality”. He is also the first-ever recipient of the ERC Proof of Concept grant for humanities in Norway and joint first for the University of Oslo.
4:00 p.m. – Guided dialogue through the exhibition “Fixing Futures” with Jordan Rita Seruya Awori and Joshua Wodak
6:00 p.m. – Keynote lecture: “Fixing Things That Are Not Yet”
Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (IKOS, CoFutures, University of Oslo) (4/5)
6:00 p.m. – Keynote lecture: “Fixing Things That Are Not Yet”
Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (IKOS, CoFutures, University of Oslo) (4/5)
June 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
4:00 p.m. – Guided dialogue through the exhibition “Fixing Futures” with Jordan Rita Seruya Awori and Joshua Wodak
6:00 p.m. – Keynote lecture: “Fixing Things That Are Not Yet”
Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (IKOS, CoFutures, University of Oslo) (4/5)
6:00 p.m. – Keynote lecture: “Fixing Things That Are Not Yet”
Prof. Dr. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (IKOS, CoFutures, University of Oslo) (4/5)
CoFUTURES studies the recent proliferation of fiction based on ethnic, cultural, or national identity as take-off points for imagining possible futures despite their globally-spread locations of production. We learned a lot and look forward to more exciting things to come!
Check out CoFUTURES:
Check out CoFUTURES:
CoFUTURES | Home
cofutures.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
CoFUTURES studies the recent proliferation of fiction based on ethnic, cultural, or national identity as take-off points for imagining possible futures despite their globally-spread locations of production. We learned a lot and look forward to more exciting things to come!
Check out CoFUTURES:
Check out CoFUTURES: