The mid-term evaluation is organized in two parts and starts with a 2-hour public seminar, followed by a closed meeting.
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the progress of the PhD project at a point when it is still possible to make small or substantial changes. In general, we want to know how the candidate is doing, how much work is done, and what is left.
About the PhD candidate and her Research:
This research takes an ecocritical look at African and Norwegian speculative texts and genre infrastructure. What work is futuring doing now that the alarming realities of climate change are upon us? This research maps these emerging sub-genres and explores textual engagement with climate change through refusals, repentances and (re)emerging ecosophies.
Artifacts thematizing the future, and the people who create them, can tell us something about how current global crises are comprehended, contemplated and reimagined in different cultural contexts. We need to further understand what "wicked problems" look like through (g)local prisms, in order to better understand presents.
This research is part of both the ScienceFictionality (https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/science-fictionality/) and the CoFUTURES (www.cofutures.org) multidisciplinary reserach project.