In the symposium we ask how fictional methods are being employed to rethink and renegotiate our relationship with current and future technologies; how such methods can be used from activist and political perspectives; how they can address and critique post-truth conditions; how they can reveal forgotten histories and non-human perspectives; and how they can be used to speculate on, and design, new futures.
The eleventh edition will be held online on 22 and 23 September 2025, hosted by the University of Enna «Kore», and in person from 24 to 26 September 2025 at the University of Palermo.
We invite scholarly papers and/ or creative practice- based presentations to reflect the centrality of the planetary in film and
screen media, with consideration for the context of the environmental emergency.