UC Riverside, one of few universities to have a major library archive of science fiction and humanities people devoted to the topic, will convene a symposium on science fiction Thursday, May 17 at 10:30 a.m. in the Special Collections Reading Room on the fourth floor of the Rivera Library.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Parking costs $6.
They hope to create a degree program in this field, say event organizers. Don't scoff, if you have been to an ethnic or gender studies program, you know universities will find a way to create something unneeded if it can make money.
Classic!
Panels and presenters are:
Science and Science Fiction — 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Colin Milburn, professor of English and technoculture studies at UC Davis, author of “Nanovision: Engineering the Future “ (2008); Vernor Vinge, professor emeritus of computer science at San Diego State University, award-winning science-fiction author of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1992) and “Rainbows End” (2006); and Sherryl Vint, professor of English, Brock University, author of “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal” (2010).
Trends in Science Fiction Criticism — 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, author of “The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction” (2008); John Rieder, professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, author of “Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction” (2008); and Lisa Yaszek, professor of literature, communication, and culture at Georgia Tech, author of “Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction” (2008).
Teaching Science Fiction — 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Pawel Frelik, associate professor of English at Marie-Curie Skodowska University (Poland) and Fulbright Scholar in Residence at UCR; Brooks Landon, professor of English at the University of Iowa, author of “Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars” (1995); and Lisa Swanstrom, assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, author of numerous articles on science fiction, technoculture studies, and digital humanities.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Parking costs $6.
They hope to create a degree program in this field, say event organizers. Don't scoff, if you have been to an ethnic or gender studies program, you know universities will find a way to create something unneeded if it can make money.
Classic!
Panels and presenters are:
Science and Science Fiction — 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Colin Milburn, professor of English and technoculture studies at UC Davis, author of “Nanovision: Engineering the Future “ (2008); Vernor Vinge, professor emeritus of computer science at San Diego State University, award-winning science-fiction author of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (1992) and “Rainbows End” (2006); and Sherryl Vint, professor of English, Brock University, author of “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal” (2010).
Trends in Science Fiction Criticism — 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, author of “The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction” (2008); John Rieder, professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, author of “Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction” (2008); and Lisa Yaszek, professor of literature, communication, and culture at Georgia Tech, author of “Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction” (2008).
Teaching Science Fiction — 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Pawel Frelik, associate professor of English at Marie-Curie Skodowska University (Poland) and Fulbright Scholar in Residence at UCR; Brooks Landon, professor of English at the University of Iowa, author of “Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars” (1995); and Lisa Swanstrom, assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, author of numerous articles on science fiction, technoculture studies, and digital humanities.
