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.
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