Sat, Sep 23, 2017, 2:00 —3:00 p.m. Auditorium 150 Visiting Artist Lecture Image Kotani Mari is a Japanese science fiction critic, best known in the West for her work Techno-Gynesis: The Political Unconscious of Feminist Science Fiction, which won the 15th Nihon SF Taisho Award. She is now the chair of the Japan PEN Women Writers Committee and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan.