CoFutures

4 days to go!! Send in your abstracts for the inaugural issue of Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or artist looking to have a conversation about radically new futures we can't wait to hear from you. Remember to send in your abstracts by the 15th of December 2025. https://journal.cofutures.org/inaugural-issue-re/
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𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖: 𝘼 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨, co-edited by Jomy Joseph, Merve Tabur, and Joel Letkemann, invites submissions for its inaugural issue "Re-"!

𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖 is an online platform for speculating about possible futures. The journal encourages creative and interdisciplinary collaboration and non-traditional forms of knowledge production as a way to foster a multi-faceted dialog about possible futures among researchers, practitioners, artists, and communities in a way which amplifies voices that are often marginalized in images of potential futures. 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖 recognizes that to speculate about possible futures is to intervene in futures, and so maintains a commitment to multiplying possibility, including platforming and amplifying those futures that are already emerging across the pluriverse.

The journal accepts peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives.

You can find the call here: https://journal.cofutures.org/inaugural-issue-re/

Abstract submission deadline: 15th December 2025

Learn more about 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖: https://journal.cofutures.org/about/

𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖: 𝘼 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨, co-edited by Jomy Joseph, Merve Tabur, and Joel Letkemann, invites submissions for its inaugural issue "Re-"!

𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖 is an online platform for speculating about possible futures. The journal encourages creative and interdisciplinary collaboration and non-traditional forms of knowledge production as a way to foster a multi-faceted dialog about possible futures among researchers, practitioners, artists, and communities in a way which amplifies voices that are often marginalized in images of potential futures. 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖 recognizes that to speculate about possible futures is to intervene in futures, and so maintains a commitment to multiplying possibility, including platforming and amplifying those futures that are already emerging across the pluriverse.

The journal accepts peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives.

You can find the call here: https://journal.cofutures.org/inaugural-issue-re/

Abstract submission deadline: 15th December 2025

Learn more about 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙖: https://journal.cofutures.org/about/

Three conversations on Nordic-Arctic Literature and Indigenous Futurisms, produced by 20Tal in collaboration with CoFutures, the Tranströmer Library, and Tjállegoahte – the center for Sami writers. The project received support from the Swedish Arts Council, the Nordic Culture Fund and NAPA (The Nordic Institute in Greenland).

Nordic-Arctic literature and indigenous literary futurisms (digital content) - 20TAL 20TAL’s project Nordic-Arctic conversations were filmed in front of a live audience at the Tranströmer…

CoFutures team member Merve Tabur's review of Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life (written by Jörg Matthias Determann) is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (published by Cambridge University Press)! 🛸 This seminal book contributes to the growing body of scholarship on SFF from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa and its accessible language and interdisciplinary approach make it a compelling read not only for scholars and students of history, literature, and cultural and religious studies but also for general readers curious about ufological imaginations.

You can access the review here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743825000029

Does Science Fiction Shape the Future? Conversations with visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

CoFutures team member Merve Tabur's new article "Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji's Using Life" is published in Utopian Studies! The article examines Arabic sf, climate change, and urban futures in their relationship to Arabfuturisms and Gulf futurism. (Accessible here: https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.1.0187 and on ProjectMuse)

The article is part of a critical forum on "Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean," edited by Burcu Kayışçı Akkoyun, Emrah Atasoy, and Merve Tabur. This critical forum aims to highlight overlooked works of science fiction and offer a more nuanced perspective both on visions of the future from the Mediterranean and on conceptions of the Mediterranean.