| 8 a.m. |
Announcements (all rooms)
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| 8:15–9:30 a.m. |
Paper sessions
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| Monterey |
Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms
Moderator: Roger Luckhurst
(University of London)
Chris Goto—Jones (Leiden University),
“Alien Theory: Cosmo - Politics and Cosmic Politics”
David M. Higgins (Indiana University), “‘Why
do things happen the way that they do?’ Globalization and Causality in David
Mitchell’s Ghostwritten (1999)”
Peter Sands (University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee), “Global Cyberstates, Borders, and Utopias”
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| San Gabriel |
Trans - Pacific Encounters In Popular Culture
Moderator: Mingming Liu (UC Riverside)
Elyce Rae Helford (Middle Tennessee State
University), “Global Encounters of the Fandom Kind: Talking to Manga and Anime
Fanfiction Writers”
Andrew Howe (La Sierra University), “Robotech
and the Blending of Science Fiction and Anime”
William Tung Peng Sun (UC Riverside),
“Waylaying Transcultural Transactions: Wuxian Liu, Shanzhai Culture, and
Globalization”
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| San Diego East |
Euro - American Encounters
Moderator: Paweł Frelik
(Maria Curie - Skłodowska University)
Simon Bréan (University of Paris IV,
Sorbonne), “American and French Science Fiction: A Study in Influence and
Confluence (1950 – 1980)”
Umberto Rossi (Independent Scholar), “The
Italian Connection: Valerio Evangelisti’s Cherudek”
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| San Diego West |
Globalization And Comics
Moderator: Jess Nevins (Lone
Star College)
David Bañuelos (UC Riverside), “Squadron
Supreme, Watchmen, and Global Intervention”
Jonathan Newell (University of British
Columbia) “Loud Bright Stinking Mess: The Globalized City in Warren Ellis’
Transmetropolitan and Doktor Sleepless”
Ian Ross (UC Riverside), “Biocomics: The
Mapping of an Industry’s Evolution as an Illustration of the Ramifications of
Industrial Biocapital”
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| 9:45–11 a.m. |
Paper sessions
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| Monterey |
China Miéville #1: Politics, Aesthetics, And Post-humanism
Moderator: John Rieder (University of
Hawaii)
Neil Easterbrook (Texas Christian
University), “Kracking Miéville”
Carl Freedman (Louisiana State University),
“The City & The City: China Miéville and Uneven Development”
Joan Gordon (Nassau Community College),
“Post-colonial Post-humanity in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station:
Returning the Gaze”
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| San Gabriel |
Early French SF: Verne And Robida
Moderator: Paul Alkon (University of
Southern California)
Arthur B. Evans (DePauw University), “The
Future Wars of Albert Robida”
Terry Harpold (University of Florida), “‘An
End to Novels’: A Forgotten Transatlantic Dialogue with Jules Verne on the
Future of the Novel”
Marie—Hélène Huet (Princeton University),
“Residual Space: Verne’s Mysterious Island”
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| San Diego East |
African - American SF And Comics
Moderator: David Bañuelos (UC Riverside)
Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University),
“The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in Steven Barnes’ Lions Blood and Zulu
Heart”
Ali Madha (Texas A&M University), “It’s
a Bird, It’s a Plane, Nope, It’s Just a Minority”
Thomas Wendell Williams III (Texas A&M
University), “The Human Contradiction: Octavia Butler’s Xenogensis Trilogy”
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| San Diego West |
Apocalypse In SF Literature And Film
Moderator: Jeffrey Hicks (UC Riverside)
Winona Howe (La Sierra University), “Hunger
and Starvation, Gambles and Games: Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy”
Michael J. Klein (James Madison University),
“Leveling the Playing Field: Post - Apocalyptic Cinema and the New Global
Frontier”
Alexis Lothian (University of Southern
California), “The Future Stops Here: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men and the
Limits of Liberal Possibility”
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| 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Paper Sessions
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| Monterey |
China Miéville #2: Bodies and Cities
Moderator: Carl Freedman (Louisiana State
University)
Jake Casella (independent scholar), “Leaving
the White City: The New Fantastic Urban”
Elizabeth Kelly (University of Miami),
“Science Fiction’s Evolving Resistance to Empire: From Maxwell Philip’s
Emmanuel Appadocca to China Miéville’s The Scar”
Eric White (University of Colorado), “Mind
as Matter: China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and the Tactility of
Thought”
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| San Gabriel |
Fantastic Architectures: Theme Parks, World’s Fairs, and The Mission
Inn
Moderator: Rob Latham (UC Riverside)
Roger Luckhurst (University of London),
“Globalization 1.0: World’s Fairs, Paris 1867 to London 1899”
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod (Occidental College)
and Craig Svonkin (Metropolitan State College of Denver), “Future’s Past: The
Erosion of Possibility in Disney Theme Park Science Fictional Discourse”
Stanley Orr (University of Hawaii, West
Oahu), “Anne Rice’s Angel Time and the Chrononautical Mission Inn”
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| San Diego East |
Orientalism in SF and The Pulps
Moderator: Jerome Winter (UC Riverside)
Mingming Liu (UC Riverside), “Premodern
Techno—Orientalism in New Wave SF”
Jess Nevins (Lone Star College), “White
Perils, Yellow Perils: The Changing Nature of Foreign Villainy in Pre - War
Asian Fantastic Pulps”
Stephen Hong Sohn (Stanford University), “Of
Other Inclusions: Peripheral Orientalisms and Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the
Alchemist’s Gate”
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| San Diego West |
Female Cyborgs and Other Monstrous Bodies
Moderator: Cheryl D. Edelson (Chaminade University)
Margherita Long (UC Riverside), “Feminism,
Vision, and the Vanishing Hyper - Girl in Hagio Moto’s Star Red”
Kristin Noone (UC Riverside), “The Land
Woman and the Sea Woman: Monstrous Bodies in Vonda N. McIntyre’s The Moon and
the Sun”
Aryong Choi—Hantke (Sogang University),
“Why Does She Believe She’s a Cyborg? I am a Cyborg, But That’s OK by Park Chan
- Wook”
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| 12:30–2 p.m. |
Lunch Break
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| 2–3 p.m. |
Paper Sessions
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| Monterey |
Speculative California Landscapes In A Global Age
Moderator: Gerry Canavan (Duke University)
Connie Samaras (UC Irvine), “Speculative
Landscapes and Future Imaginaries”
Sherryl Vint (Brock University), “Orange
County: Global Networks in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange”
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| San Gabriel |
Chinese SF
Moderator: William Tung Peng Sun (UC Riverside)
Nathaniel Isaacson (UCLA), “The
Impossibility of Occidentalism”
Guangyi Li (UCLA), “Chinese Science Fiction
in the Global Context”
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| San Diego East |
North American Colonialisms and Their Legacies
Moderator: David Layton (DeVry University)
Päivi Väätänen (University of Helsinki),
“The Gray Alien’s Burden: Colonialism in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and
‘Bloodchild’”
Nathaniel Williams (University of Kansas),
“From ‘Used Up’ Man to Steam Man: Prosthetic Technology and U.S. Imperialism in
Poe and Ellis”
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| San Diego West |
Local vs. Global: Taiwan, South Africa
Moderator: Regina Yung Lee (UC Riverside)
Yenna Wu (UC—Riverside), “Fracturing
Subjectivity and Agency in Ping Lu’s Works: An Example of Taiwan’s Science
Fiction”
Nick Wood (University of Hertfordshire), “An
Overview of South African Speculative Fiction”
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| 3:15–4:45 p.m. |
Paper Sessions
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| Monterey |
Early And Pulp SF
Moderator: Terry Harpold (University of
Florida)
Gerry Canavan (Duke University), “Star Maker
and Empire”
Dianne Newell (University of British
Columbia) and Victoria Lamont (University of Waterloo), “The Anthropological
Gaze in Judith Merrill’s Short Stories ‘The Lonely’ and ‘Shrine of Temptation’”
David Wittenberg (University of Iowa), “The
Physics of Narrative: Time Travel Fiction as Philosophy of Form (from G. Peyton
Wertenbaker to Robert A. Heinlein)”
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| San Gabriel |
Labor, Transnationalism, and Trauma In SF Film
Moderator: Michael J. Klein (James Madison
University)
Mark Bould (University of the West of England),
“Border Crossings: Labor in Contemporary World SF Cinema”
Tiffany Lopez (UC Riverside), “Nodal Points:
Critical Witnessing, Transnationalism, and the Trauma - Sensitized Future in
Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer”
Matthew Snyder (UC Riverside), “The Tongue
Untied: Science Fiction Cinema Finds Its Third World”
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| San Diego East |
The Rhetoric and Politics of SF’s New Wave
Moderator: David Higgins (Indiana
University)
Jeffrey Hicks (UC Riverside), “Standing Room
Only: The New Wave Response to the Population Explosion”
Richard Hunt (UC Riverside), “Rise of the
Hippie Christs: Inner Space, Psychedelia, and 1960s Counterculture in Brian
Aldiss’ Barefoot in the Head”
Mark Young (UC Riverside), “Inner Visions:
Aesthetic Shifts in New Wave Visual Culture”
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| San Diego West |
Science And Science Fiction
Moderator: Howard Hendrix (CSU, Fresno)
Mark Biswas (UC Riverside), “Actor - Network
Theory in Stanisław Lem’s His Master’s Voice”
Robert L. Heath (UC Riverside), “Drivers of
Globalization: Who Does What?”
Gilbert Hottois (Free University of
Brussels), “Technoscience and SF: From Modern Universalism to Postmodern
Globalism, A Philosophical Approach”
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| 5 p.m. |
Science Fiction Poetry Association poetry
reading and open mike
Ho - O - Kan room, Mission Inn
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| 7 p.m. |
Dreams with Sharp Teeth, a documentary about
Harlan Ellison
Culver Center Screening Room. After the screening, Harlan Ellison will be answering
questions and signing his books
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