Speaking

A collection of speaking engagements 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.

Presentations

Recorded

Kroon, Ariel, Luka Dowell, André aka HydroponicTrash, Elia J Ayoub
From Capitalist Realism to a Solarpunk Reality: Theorizing and Building the Infrastructures of a Better Future
The Solarpunk Conference, 24 Jun. 2023
Link

Kroon, Ariel
From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: The Evolution of the Future
PhilosophyCon 77: Aborted Carbon, PhilosophyCon: Fan Convention and Academic Conference, Uniwersytet Śląski; Szkoła Doktorska, Krakow, Poland, 4-5 Dec. 2021
Link. Invited.

Kroon, Ariel
Solarpunking the Impasse of the Anthropocene
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

Kroon, Ariel
Shortened version of article: “Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance.
Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada biennial conference 2020: Watershed, “Watershed, lit., fig.”, Virtual conference, 8-22 July 2020
Link

Unrecorded (selection)

Kroon, Ariel
‘It might be easier now’: Non-migrants’ adaptations to a changed environment
Migrations: Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, 19-22 Jun. 2024
Part of conference organizing team

Kroon, Ariel, Michael O’Driscoll and Sean Luyk
Right Managements of your Rights Management: Digital audio file rights management with SpokenWeb Ualberta
Project Management in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, Victoria BC. 14 Jun 2023
Presented by Kroon

Miya, Chelsea and Ariel Kroon
The ethics of de-archiving: activating audio with SpokenWeb at the University of Alberta
CSDH-SCHN, 2023, York University. May 29, 2023
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities

Kroon, Ariel and Holly Schofield
The Future of Speculative Fiction: Writing in and beyond a world of climate crisis
When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, August 13, 2022

Kroon, Ariel
Deliberate hope: strategies of queer utopia in a Canadian post-apocalypse
When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, August 13, 2022
Invited.

Kroon, Ariel
‘Condemned to Life’ vs ‘The Lightheartedness of Utter Despair’: Two different ways to live in the post-apocalypse
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACSFF), Toronto ON, 4 Jun. 2022

Beauchesne, Nick, Chelsea Miya and Ariel Kroon
‘A Voice of One’s Own’: Making (Air)Waves about Gendered Language in 1980s Campus Radio
SpokenWeb Symposium 2022, Concordia University, Montreal QC, 17 May 2022

Kroon, Ariel
Living Beyond the End Times: An Argument for Queer Utopianism
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics Virtual Conference, Cappadocia University, Turkey. 13-15 Jan. 2021

Kroon, Ariel
Solar Burn: Endurance of/in the Anthropocene
Paradise on Fire: 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UC Davis, Davis, CA, 26 Jun 2019

Kroon, Ariel
A Critical Evaluation of Character Relations in Two Canadian Women’s Science Fiction Narrative.
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

Kroon, Ariel
Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City: Feminist theory in Science Fiction
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

Kroon, Ariel
Surviving H/hope: Commenting on Crisis in Apocalypse for Beginners
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

Kroon, Ariel, Mark Robinson, Cathy Hird, Clare Wall (chair)
Oceans and Coastlines of the Near Future
Can*Con 2024: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 1 Nov. 2024
Panelist.

Morris, Tiffany, Suzan Palumbo, Waubgeshig Rice, Ariel Kroon (chair)
Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse
Can*Con 2024: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 1 Nov. 2024
Chair.

Newitz, Annalee, Premee Mohamed, Mark Robinson, Ariel Kroon (chair)
Climate, Infrastructure, and Gentrification
Can*Con 2023: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention, Ottawa, ON, 14 Oct. 2023
Chair.

Kroon, Ariel, Mathieu Lauzon-Dicso, Malte Leander, Alex Nathanson, Jasmine Sihra
Art, Literature, & the Aesthetics of Hopeful Futures
Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age, Solar Media Collective, Concordia University, Montreal QC. 11 May 2023
Invited.

Kroon, Ariel, Michael O’Driscoll and Sean Luyk
Right Managements of your Rights Management: Digital audio file rights management with SpokenWeb Ualberta
SpokenWeb, Virtual Workshop, 8 Feb 2023
Workshop facilitator and presenter.