Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to an Afrofuturism and Black Imaginaries Fall Series event Saturday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The event will feature a conversation between Michele Tracy Berger, the Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and Isis Asare, CEO/founder of Sistah Scifi.
Berger is the 2019 winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society for her story “Doll Seed,” her debut collection of speculative stories published in FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.
Berger and Asare will discuss Afrofuturism, Black women writing speculative fiction and themes in Doll Seed, including freedom and sacrifice, trust and betrayal, otherness, and intersections of identity. Berger will read from the collection and they will participate in audience Q&A.
A book signing and reception will immediately follow.
The event is free and open to the public. Register to attend.