{"277181":{"#nid":"277181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Androids, Shape Shifters, and Vampires","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media and Communication welcomes\u0026nbsp;Susana M. Morris, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, to speak on \u0022Androids, Shape Shifters, and Vampires: Black\u0026nbsp;Women\u0027s Afrofuturist Feminist Cultural Productions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Afrofuturist soul singer Erykah Badu calls herself \u201can analog girl in a digital world,\u201d she is underscoring not only her connection to a pre-digital sensibility, but also her status as an outsider within mainstream American culture. Nevertheless, Badu\u2019s brand of futurist music, fashion, and politics troubles her claim to a wholly \u201canalog\u201d identity and suggests that she has a complicated relationship to the intersections of technology, normative notions of progress, and human relationships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk argues that Badu, alongside other artists and writers such as Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Alice Smith, Octavia E. Butler, and Tananarive Due navigate complex relationships to futurism and remix tropes from science fiction, fantasy, and horror in popular culture and literature in ways that both push back against dominant futurist discourse and expands the possibilities for Black women\u2019s understandings of themselves and their places in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESusana M. Morris, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, explores the Afrofuturist feminism.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Susana M. Morris, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, explores the Afrofuturist feminism."}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2014-02-18 16:17:26","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:08","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-02-20T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-02-20T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-02-20T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-02-20 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-02-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-02-20 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/susanamorris.com\/","title":"Dr. Susana Morris"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4157","name":"african american"},{"id":"61831","name":"Afrofuturism"},{"id":"4765","name":"fiction"},{"id":"3747","name":"literature"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.yaszek@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Literature, Media and Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}