SPECIAL GUEST PLENARIES AND INTERVIEWS

"Funhouse or Madhouse: Whimsy in Creativity" ICFA 45 Guests of Honor C.E. Murphy and Mary A. Turzillo, Distinguished Scholar Mame Bougouma Diene, Moderator Novella Brooks de Vita

Geoffrey A. Landis, Transcriber

Whimsy and Social Control in Northern Senegal

Woppa Diallo, Co-Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2024

Translated by Alexis Brooks de Vita

Imaginary Amendments and Executive Orders: The Noirum and Race in United States Science Fiction

Isiah Lavender III, Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2023

Whimsy & Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of the Works of Marcos, Herzl and Young

Mame Bougouma Diene, Co-Distinguished Scholar, ICFA 2024

Biological Haunting: An Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Adaptation, Genre, Eugenics, and Fungi

Interviewed by Taryne Jade Taylor and Karina A. Vado

Wole Talabi's Plenary Address and Interview: Afro-Communitarianism as a Positive Framework for Artificial Intelligence in "A Dream of Electric Mothers"

Creative Think Piece-A Breath of Life: The Necessary Human Touch in Music

An Interview of Nancy Menk, DMA, and Jason Oby, DM

Interviewed by Novella Brooks de Vita

REVIEWS

Alec Nevala-Lee's Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

Rev. by Geoffrey Alan Landis

Stacy Alaimo's The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life

Rev. by Supriya Baijal