Indigenous Futurisms, Young Adult Literature, and Climate Literacy with Dr. Grace Dillon

September 23, 1pm (cst)

Join us for a presentation on Indigenous Futurisms in YA Fiction and their connections to climate literacy from Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe). Dr. Dillon is a professor in Indigenous Nation Studies at Portland State University and author of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction.

Attendees will have the opportunity to pose questions to and discuss with Dr. Dillon. The event will also be recorded and available for future streaming. 

Please direct any questions to Nick at klees023@umn.edu. 

Grace L. Dillon is an American academic and author. She is a professor of Anishinaabe and European descent in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, at Portland State University.

Similar to the concept of Afrofuturism, Dillon is best known for coining the term Indigenous Futurism, which is a movement consisting of art, literature and other forms of media which express Indigenous perspectives of the past, present and future in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres.