{"id":644,"date":"2023-01-23T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/2023\/01\/23\/finncon-academic-guest-of-honor\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:35:19","slug":"finncon-academic-guest-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/2023\/01\/23\/finncon-academic-guest-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finncon Academic Guest of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finncon is happy to announce the Academic Guest of Honor for this year&#8217;s event will be Marek Oziewicz, the Professor of Literacy Education and Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n<p>His current research concerns the Anthropocene as a challenge to our story systems and on the transformative power of literature for young readers. He is particularly interested in ways speculative genres assist young readers in the formation of global consciousness built on inclusiveness and equality. <\/p>\n\n<p>Oziewicz serves as Director of the Center for Climate Literacy whose mission is to promote universal climate literacy education as a means to transition to an ecological civilization. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Center\u2019s flagship project Climate Lit: a resource hub for building young people\u2019s climate literacy with literature, film, and stories in other media. His recent publications include a special issue of T<em>he Lion and the Unicorn<\/em> on Children\u2019s Literature and Climate Change (2021, co-edited with Lara Saguisag), and a collection <em>Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene<\/em> (2021, co-edited with Brian Attebery and Tereza Dedinov\u00e1). <\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finncon is happy to announce the Academic Guest of Honor for this year&#8217;s event will be Marek Oziewicz, the Professor of Literacy Education and Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Minnesota. His current research concerns the Anthropocene as a challenge to our story systems and on the transformative power of literature for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2023.finncon.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}