Science Fictionality

• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva & Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2024). The Beyond Barcode Experiment: Exhibitions, SciFi Scenarios, and Policy. Forskningspolitikk. ISSN 0333-0273. p. 8–11.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2023). Utopianism After Utopia. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. ISSN 0897-0521. 33(3), p. 152–176. Full text in Research Archive
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2022). Beasts and Burdens: Some Thoughts on the Conditionally Human. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 279–285.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2022). Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change. Fafnir. ISSN 2342-2009. 9(1), p. 7–12.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2021). Fiktionaliseringen av framtider. 20tal. ISSN 2000-5350. p. 26–31.

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• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2024). The Inhumans and Other Stories. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262547611. 188 p. Show summary

  The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the giants of early Bangla literature, and other sf stories from the colonial period in India. Edited, introduced, and annotated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. Kalpavigyan—science fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religion, caste, and class—became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. Translated into English for the first time, in this collection you'll discover The Inhumans (1935), Hemendrakumar Roy's satirical novella about a lost race of Bengali supermen in Uganda. Also included are Jagadananda Ray's “Voyage to Venus” (1895), Nanigopal Majumdar's “The Mystery of the Giant” (1931), and Manoranjan Bhattacharya's “The Martian Purana” (1931).

• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2022). Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction. Future Fiction. ISBN 9788832077513. 335 p.

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• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2023). Sustainability and science fiction.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2023). Indian Genre Fiction: Possible Futures.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2023). CoFutures and Alternative Futures.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2023). Conditioning Possibility: Keynote Lecture.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2022). Fremtidstenkning. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 39(2), p. 269–274.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2022). The Films of George Haggerty, Parts 1 and 2 (1975-1994). Imaginary Papers from the Center for Science and the Imagination, ASU. 9. Show summary

  Article on the science fictional elements in the documentary films of George Haggerty

• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2021). Writing Weird Fiction.” TV Panel Discussion. Coffee Table with Mina Malik-Hussain. Indus News. [TV]. TV.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva & Tveit, Marta (2021). Africanfuturism with Dilman Dila.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2021). “Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction.” Podcast by Christin Höne. Journal of Commonwealth Literature Podcast Series. .
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Thorsson, Bergsveinn; Brock, Patrick; Wang, Kanyu & Tveit, Marta (2021). Imagination Workshop.
• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Thorsson, Bergsveinn; Kanyu Wang, Regina & Larose, Tricia Lynn Lois (2021). Speculative Space Futures .
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Curating Climate: Designing a polycentric approach to the climate crisis for museums. Show summary

  How can museums navigate the incredibly complex phenomenon that the climate crisis is? Is it fair to expect museums to become experts in climate science, the multifarious impacts and implications of climate change and be leading figures in sustainable development? At the same time as they have their hands full with core responsibilities. While the task might seem insurmountable, museums have potentials to contribute in diverse ways. Adopting a polycentric approach to the crisis enables us to reexamine the idea that solutions to a global challenge needs to be global in scale. Rather we could assemble multiple actions and raise awareness on different scales, from the global, national to the local level. In this presentation I will argue that museums can play an important role in a polycentric approach of coping with climate change. I will introduce 5 interconnected pathways that draw from museums’ capacities and are intended to build up competences to become relevant actors in climate action. The pathways are Conceptualisations of Climate Change, Strategy and Futuring, Networking and Collaboration, Climate related Heritage, and Responsibility. The presented work is situated in the growing field of climate related museum studies, and is based on collaborations, conversations and research in Iceland and Norway.

• Tveit, Marta (2021). Gravøl for Olje-eventyret. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Show summary

  Fremtidsfiksjon om slutten på norsk oljetid

• Tveit, Marta (2021). Ytringsfrihet og akademisk frihet: Debatt om rasisme og sexisme.
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Framing Sustainability: How can museums navigate the complexities of sustainable development? .
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Museums assembling Anthropocene(s).
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Speculative Futures of Love.
• Tveit, Marta (2021). Ordstyrer panel om ny norsk science fiction og deltager panel om klimafiksjon.
• Tveit, Marta (2021). Makeshift Modernity: The rise of African Speculative Fiction . Africa Is A Country (Blog). Show summary

  The rise of African Speculative Fiction and other exciting cultural production indicates that modernity is not an exercise in “catching up” with Europe, but an entirely new condition.

• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Assembling Anthropocenes.
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2021). Future of love. Show summary

  A website for the presentation of videos made by Master's students in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design.

• Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva (2020). Afrofuturism.
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2020). More than a Review: On the role of museology in climate change communication and environmental humanities .
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2020). Museums in the Anthropocene.
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2020). Fatbergs as museum objects.
• Thorsson, Bergsveinn (2020). Curating Climate - Museums as contact zones of climate research, education and activism. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. 30(3), p. 4–13. doi: 10.5617/nm.8625.

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