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This podcast features an interview of Dr. Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside) by Dr. Priscilla Layne (UNC-CH). Dr. Layne is an Associate Professor of German, Adjunct Associate Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Key Faculty Member. Dr. Vint is is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and director of the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. During their conversation, Drs. Vint and Layne discuss how sci-fi texts shape and inform understanding of contemporary biopolitical trends in Europe and the US.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to EU today, a podcast from the Center for European Studies, a Jean-Monnais Center of Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 0:19.3 | Thank you to the Erasmus Plus program of the European Commission, |
| 0:23.3 | the EU delegation to the U.S., and the U.S. Department of Education for supporting our center and its programs. |
| 0:29.8 | On this podcast, we sit down with scholars and policy leaders to discuss pressing issues facing the European Union. |
| 0:36.6 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello and welcome to EU today. My name is Brett Harris and I'm a contemporary |
| 0:44.3 | European Studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 0:48.3 | In this episode, UNC faculty and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence key staff member, Dr. Priscilla Lane, |
| 0:55.7 | will be interviewing Dr. Cheryl Vint of the University of California Riverside |
| 0:59.9 | on the ability of science fiction texts to provide insight into contemporary European and transatlantic politics. |
| 1:07.4 | This interview occurred in anticipation of Dr. Lane's conference, environmentalism, fantasy, and intersectionality, a comparison between the U.S. and the EU. |
| 1:17.6 | During the conference, Dr. Vint gave the keynote lecture entitled Humanization and Belonging, Reproduction, Environment, Futurity. |
| 1:26.6 | Priscilla Lane is an associate professor of German, an adjunct associate and belonging, reproduction, environment, futurity. |
| 1:32.9 | Priscilla Lane is an associate professor of German, an adjunct associate professor of African, |
| 1:38.1 | African American, and diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 1:46.7 | Dr. Lane is currently working on her second book, Out of this World, Afro-German Afro-Futurism, which focuses on Afro-German authors' use of Afro-Futurist concepts in literature and theatre. In addition to this project, |
| 1:53.3 | some of the broader theme she is interested in are German national identity, conceptions of race, |
| 1:59.2 | and self and other in Germany, cross-racial empathy, |
| 2:02.8 | post-colonialism, and rebellion. Cheryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies at the |
| 2:09.1 | University of California Riverside, where she directs the speculative fictions and cultures of |
| 2:14.0 | science program. Her books include Bodies of Tomorrow, Animal Altarity, |
| 2:19.1 | Science Fiction, A Guide to the Perplexed, Science Fiction, The Essential Knowledge, and Biopolitical |
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