Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

5:00pm CDT

Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

Failure of the left to engage with space as both a practical and imaginative realm has allowed the right to weaponize it for its own ends. Space underpins technologies affecting peoples’ daily lives, and space labor happens on Earth. Come learn why space matters for the left’s future… and present!

Speakers

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist, occasional astrophysicist, and theorist of Black science studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021), The Edge of Space-Time... Read More →

Lucian Walkowicz

Lucian Walkowicz is an astronomer, movement artist, and educator based in Chicago. As co-Founder of the JustSpace Alliance, Walkowicz studies how outer space serves as the site where humanity crafts its futures, and works to make those futures more just (both in space, and on Earth... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Socialist Strategy, Intro