Speakers

Anna McFarlane

University of Glasgow

Dr Anna McFarlane is the James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster (2024). They are the author of Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021), a monograph on William Gibson's novels. They have also co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities (2024), The Routledge Compani

Evie Kendal

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr Evie Kendal is a bioethicist and public health scientist specialising in the ethics of emerging technologies. Her work focuses on reproductive biotechnologies, health communication and media, and space ethics. Evie is a Senior Lecturer of Health Promotion at Swinburne University of Technology's Department of Biomedical, Health and Exercise Sciences and heads the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies (ELSIET) research group, a registered unit of the International Chai

Georgia Walton

University of Glasgow

Georgia Walton specialises in US American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on spatial theory and queer futurity. She is currently working on a monograph that looks at the legacies of the American renaissance in contemporary literature and has published articles on texts by writers Maggie Nelson, Marilynne Robinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other research interests include the representation of fairgrounds and amusement parks, spatial theor