Chris Pak
Last Updated: 2nd November 2023
Digital Projects Co-Ordinator for the Medical Humanities Blog
Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Digital Cultures, Swansea University
Talks
2023
“‘Buildings Are the Template of a Society’: Science Fiction and Biophilic Design.” Climate Action Research Institute (CARI), Swansea University (2023).
2022
“The Changing Face of Technology in Wales.” Swansea Science Festival (2022).
“‘A Kind of Continuous Conceptual Drunkenness’? Terraforming and Analogy in Science Fiction.” The Final Frontier: Mythologies of Outer Space, Calgary Institute of the Humanities (2022).
2021
“Climate Crisis and Science Fiction.” Creative and Critical Practice Research Group (CCPRG), Swansea University (2021).
“How Science Fiction Can Inspire Humanity’s Response to the Climate Crisis – Podcast.” The Conversastion (2021). Web.
“Science Fiction, Terraforming and Climate Change.” British Science Festival Award Talk (2021).
2020
“Transforming Space: Climate Change, Terraforming and Science Fiction.” Swansea Science Festival (2020).
2019
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Oriel Science Cafe, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (2019).
[roundtable] “Perspectives on Resilience: Making Connections in Humanities, Medicine and Health Science.” Cross-College Workshop, Medical Humanities Research Centre, Swansea University (2019).
2018
[invited talk] “‘The Economic Sublime!’: Utopia and Dystopia in Three Contemporary Science Fiction Novels.” Bloomsbury Lecture Series, Birkbeck University (2018).
2016
“Science Fiction, Imagination, and the Environmental Future.” Accelerating Human Imagination, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, University of Liverpool in London (2016).
“People, Products, Pests and Pets: How We Talk About Animals.” Science Lates, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD (28th September 2016).
[invited talk] “‘A Symbiotic Culture, Earth and Mars’: The Imagination of Mars in Science Fiction.” DePaul Humanities Centre, DePaul University, Chicago (17th October 2016).
“Talking About Animals.” The University of Lancaster Campus in the City, Lancaster (26th April 2016).
[invited talk] “‘Medicine, Magic, Witchcraft, Fountains of Youth and Utopia’: Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities.” Science Fiction, Medicine, and Utopia, Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, The University of Glasgow (2016).
2015
“Hot Dogs, Fat Cats, Opportunistic Foxes: Exploring Language About Animals.” Meet the Scientists, Liverpool World Museum (10th October, 2015).
“Corpus Carousel Session.” “‘People,’ ‘Products,’ ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets’” Dissemination Event, King’s College London, Waterloo Campus (2015).
“Pecha-Kucha: Our Corpus of 8 Million Words.” “‘People,’ ‘Products,’ ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets’” Dissemination Event, King’s College London, Waterloo Campus (2015).
2014
[invited talk] “A Corpus Linguistics Approach to Investigating Animal Discourse: The ‘People’, ‘Products’, ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets’ Project.” University of Hertfordshire (2014).
“‘Earth is that Blank Materiality of Nature that Exists Before Us’: Nature’s Otherness and Terraforming.” Being Non-Human, King's College London, The Strand (3rd February 2014).
with Alison Sealey. “‘People,’ ‘Products,’ ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets’: Methodological Approaches to Corpus Construction.” PG Tips, University of Birmingham (28th February 2014).
with Alison Sealey. “Representing Animals in Scientific Journals: A Corpus Linguistic Approach.” Arts and Science Festival, University of Birmingham (2014).
2013
[invited talk] “New Earths in Space: Terraforming Our Galactic Neighbourhood.” Science Lates, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD (30th October 2013).
“George Orwell's 1984.” Lunchtime Literary Classics, Liverpool Waterstone's One, 12 College Lane, L1 3DL (29th October 2013).
“Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.” Lunchtime Literary Classics, Liverpool Waterstone's One, 12 College Lane, L1 3DL (4th October 2013).
“On Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris.” Lunchtime Literary Classics, Liverpool Waterstone’s One (2013).
2012
“On Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker.” Lunchtime Literary Classics, Liverpool Waterstone’s One (2012).
[invited talk] “Terraforming/Terrorforming.” AlterFutures: Designing Alternative Futures, Sense Loft, Soho, London (2012).
2011
Visions of the Future: The Art of Science Fiction: panellist at a roundtable discussion held at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, The University of Leeds, as part of its science fiction exhibition held from the 4th April–11th June 2011.
2010
“Science Fiction and Gaia Theory / Gaia Theory in Science Fiction.” Staff-Student Seminar, The University of Liverpool (2010).
2009
“Creating Spaces Where Many Worlds Meet: Science Fiction as Interdisciplinary.” Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum (IDF), The University of Liverpool (2009).