After Yang, dir. Kogonada (2022) with a talk on raising children in a world of AI, and AI as our descendants by Silvia Park.

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When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there. With a talk by author Silvia Park on raising children in a world of AI, and AI as our descendants.

Silvia Park is the author of the novel Luminous (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Before Kansas, she taught creative writing at Oberlin, the University of Utah’s Asia Campus, and NYU, courses ranging from Speculative Fiction to Digital Storytelling.

Her specialty slants speculative, applying it as a lens to render the strange ordinary and the ordinary strange. Her fiction won the 2018 Fiction Prize from the Sonora Review and was chosen as a finalist for the 2019 Black Warrior Review Contest. Her stories have been published in Black Warrior Review, Tor.com, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere.

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