Speaking
A collection of speaking engagements that I’ve participated in over the years, which provide an idea of the type of talks that I tend to give, both the category / style and topics thereof.
Forthcoming
Colouring Outside Academic Lines: How Collective Learning within the Social Innovation Research Group (SIRG) Contributes to Community-Led Research and Development in the Region of Waterloo
Lafrenière, G., van Zyl, U., Tremblett, S., Keeley, A., MacDonald, S., Kroon, A.
ISIRC (International Social Innovation Research Conference), Calgary, Alberta, 3-5 Sept. 2025
Presentations
Recorded
From Capitalist Realism to a Solarpunk Reality: Theorizing and Building the Infrastructures of a Better Future
Kroon, Ariel, Luka Dowell, André aka HydroponicTrash, Elia J Ayoub
The Solarpunk Conference, 24 Jun. 2023
Link
From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: The Evolution of the Future
Kroon, Ariel
PhilosophyCon 77: Aborted Carbon, PhilosophyCon: Fan Convention and Academic Conference, Uniwersytet Śląski; Szkoła Doktorska, Krakow, Poland, 4-5 Dec. 2021
Link. Invited.
Solarpunking the Impasse of the Anthropocene
Kroon, Ariel
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, ASLE 2020 Virtual Symposium, 10-31 Jul. 2020
Link
Shortened version of article: “Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance.
Kroon, Ariel
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada biennial conference 2020: Watershed, “Watershed, lit., fig.”, Virtual conference, 8-22 July 2020
Link
Unrecorded (selection)
Speculative Fiction for Entrepreneurs
Kroon, Ariel
virtual talk, 11 Feb. 2025
Invited by Professor pk Mutch
EN409M: Hopepunk Narratives
Kroon, Ariel
Wilfrid Laurier University,, 9 Jan. 2025
Invited by Dr Tanis MacDonald
‘It might be easier now’: Non-migrants’ adaptations to a changed environment
Kroon, Ariel
Migrations: Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, 19-22 Jun. 2024
Part of conference organizing team
Right Managements of your Rights Management: Digital audio file rights management with SpokenWeb Ualberta
Kroon, Ariel, Michael O’Driscoll and Sean Luyk
Project Management in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, Victoria BC. 14 Jun 2023
Presented by Kroon
The ethics of de-archiving: activating audio with SpokenWeb at the University of Alberta
Miya, Chelsea and Ariel Kroon
CSDH-SCHN, 2023, York University. May 29, 2023
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Future of Speculative Fiction: Writing in and beyond a world of climate crisis
Kroon, Ariel and Holly Schofield
When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, August 13, 2022
Deliberate hope: strategies of queer utopia in a Canadian post-apocalypse
Kroon, Ariel
When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, August 13, 2022
Invited.
‘Condemned to Life’ vs ‘The Lightheartedness of Utter Despair’: Two different ways to live in the post-apocalypse
Kroon, Ariel
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACSFF), Toronto ON, 4 Jun. 2022
‘A Voice of One’s Own’: Making (Air)Waves about Gendered Language in 1980s Campus Radio
Beauchesne, Nick, Chelsea Miya and Ariel Kroon
SpokenWeb Symposium 2022, Concordia University, Montreal QC, 17 May 2022
Living Beyond the End Times: An Argument for Queer Utopianism
Kroon, Ariel
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics Virtual Conference, Cappadocia University, Turkey. 13-15 Jan. 2021
Solar Burn: Endurance of/in the Anthropocene
Kroon, Ariel
Paradise on Fire: 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UC Davis, Davis, CA, 26 Jun 2019
A Critical Evaluation of Character Relations in Two Canadian Women’s Science Fiction Narrative.
Kroon, Ariel
Canadian Literature Centre conference: The Ethics and Poetics of “Living With” / Les éthiques et poetiques du « vivre avec », Canadian Literature Centre (U of Alberta) & Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway), Banff, AB, 14 Oct 2018
Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City: Feminist theory in Science Fiction
Kroon, Ariel
ReSurfacing: women writing across Canada in the 1970s / Réfaire Surface: écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970 (Mount Allison University & Université de Moncton), Sackville NB, and Moncton NB, 28 Apr. 2018
Surviving H/hope: Commenting on Crisis in Apocalypse for Beginners
Kroon, Ariel
Canadian Literature Centre conference: Les maladies de l’âme, affect, émotion/ Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect Conference. Canadian Literature Centre (U of Alberta)/ Canadian Studies Centre (U of Innsbruck), Banff, AB, 23 Sept. 2016
Workshops and Panel Chairing / Participation
Oceans and Coastlines of the Near Future
Kroon, Ariel, Mark Robinson, Cathy Hird, Clare Wall (chair)
Can*Con 2024: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 1 Nov. 2024
Panelist.
Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse
Morris, Tiffany, Suzan Palumbo, Waubgeshig Rice, Ariel Kroon (chair)
Can*Con 2024: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 1 Nov. 2024
Chair.
Climate, Infrastructure, and Gentrification
Newitz, Annalee, Premee Mohamed, Mark Robinson, Ariel Kroon (chair)
Can*Con 2023: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 14 Oct. 2023
Chair.
Art, Literature, & the Aesthetics of Hopeful Futures
Kroon, Ariel, Mathieu Lauzon-Dicso, Malte Leander, Alex Nathanson, Jasmine Sihra
Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age, Solar Media Collective, Concordia University, Montreal QC. 11 May 2023
Invited.
Right Managements of your Rights Management: Digital audio file rights management with SpokenWeb Ualberta
Kroon, Ariel, Michael O’Driscoll and Sean Luyk
SpokenWeb, Virtual Workshop, 8 Feb 2023
Workshop facilitator and presenter.