Join us for an evening of strange collisions and alien transmissions. Final Showcase of "Are We Alone?" with themed discussions, performances, presentations and a keynote with New York Times Best Selling Author, Jeff Vandermeer

Wednesday, June 3rd starts at 5pm. Programming until 8:15. Taco Bar at the end of the event!

Open to the public!

Please note seating will be first come, first serve. RSVPing does not ensure you a seat in the main auditorium. We have an overflow room where the event can be viewed if we run out of space in the main room.

ALIENS IN THE AUDITORIUM: Yelena Gluzman Ricardo Dominguez Nichole Speciale Minty Savitsky Kim Schreiber Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Kendall Grady Keith McCleary Kate Clark Jose Villaran Jeanine Webb Gabe Kalmuss-Katz Eric Geiger Elizabeth Losh Curt Miller Charlie Thorpe Anna Joy Springer Angela Washko Adam Veal

Panel by Adam Burgasser, Joseph Hankins, Shelley Streeby, Wayne Yang

Special Guest Jeff VanderMeer, speaking at approximately 7:30 pm.

Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), which prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau.” The series has been acquired by publishers in 23 other countries. Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions acquired the movie rights with Alex Garland set to direct. VanderMeer’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic.com, and the Los Angeles Times. He has also edited or coedited many iconic fiction anthologies, taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference, the Miami International Book Fair, lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress, and serves as the co-director of Shared Worlds, a unique teen writing camp located at Wofford College. He is currently working on a new novel, Borne. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, the noted editor Ann VanderMeer.

Culture, Art and Technology Program And Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination

This program is supported by a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and by VIASAT

This event is supported by a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and by ViaSat, Founding Partner of the Clarke Center

Directions to Atkinson Hall

Via Interstate 5 to Genessee Avenue exit

• Take Interstate I-5 and exit at Genessee Ave.

• Go West on Genessee (From I-5 North it is a right turn; from I-5 south is a left merge)

• Turn Left at North Torrey Pines Rd.

• Turn Left at North Point Dr.

• Follow North Point Dr. as it curves Right and turns into Hopkins Dr.

• Follow Hopkins Dr. to the intersection with Voigt Dr.

• Park in the Hopkins Parking Structure:

  • Continue straight (the entrance is just up the hill on your right)

  • MAKE SURE TO PURCHASE A PARKING PASS AND PARK IN A "V" SPOT

  • To see a map, click here

Directions to Atkinson Hall

Via Interstate 5 to La Jolla Village Drive exit

• Take Interstate I-5 and exit at La Jolla Village Drive

• Go West on La Jolla Village Drive (From I-5 North it is a left turn; from I-5 south is a right merge)

• Turn Right at Villa La Jolla Drive

• Turn Right at Gilman Dr.

• Follow Gilman Dr. as it curves around campus, turn Left at Voigt Dr.

• At next intersection, just after Canyon Vista Pool, turn right (still on Voigt Dr.)

• Atkinson Hall will be on your left on the corner of Equality Lane and Voigt Dr.

• Park in the Hopkins Parking Structure:

• Continue straight (the entrance is just up the hill on your right)

• MAKE SURE TO PURCHASE A PARKING PASS AND PARK IN A "V" SPOT

• To see a map, click here