I've been invited to the University of Nottingham's graduate "Popular Culture Lecture Series" on 12th May 2015 to talk with writer and academic Professor Adam Roberts about science fiction and SF scholarship. The Popular Culture Lecture Series is a new weekly lecture series...

I've been invited by the National Library of Sweden to give the keynote for the "Meeting Place: Open Access Conference" in Malmö, April 2015. The title of my talk will be "Opening Up Open Access Beyond the Sciences: Learning from the Open Library of...

I was invited to participate in a panel discussion as part of the LSE Literary Festival 2015, titled "Visions of Future Humans: Science Fiction and Human Enhancement." The panel consisted of Professor Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway), Dr Andres Sandberg (Future of Humanity...

As part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2015 (see video about this below), I'm organising a panel titled "Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures" on Monday 18th May 2015, 2-5pm. Birkbeck Arts Week 2015 from The Derek Jarman Lab on Vimeo. Oil shapes our geopolitics...

The BBC World Service invited me to be interviewed for a programme titled "Crunch Lit," which explored the rise in recent novels and plays dealing with the 2008 financial crash and post-2008 economic conditions. Journalist Audrey Tinline was interested in examining the way in which...