SFRA 2001 Conference

The 32nd Science Fiction Research Association Conference
SF In The Next Millenium : Looking Forward While Remembering the Past!
May 24-27, 2001
(Memorial Day Weekend)

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Day	Time	Event
Wednesday	1900	Non-Banquet Banquest - Kennedy Room: Setting up the art hangings for the Di Fate Exhibit, pizza and meeting with the guests and early arrivals.
Thursday	1200	Conference Registration
	1500	Programming Begins
	1530	Edison Room: Cold War Politics & SF Slugs, Commies & Dads - Joe Sanders Our Reaction Was Only Human and Monstrous Becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers - Jay McCroy
	1700	Dinner Break
	1900	Edison Room: Opening Ceremonies followed by the Ice Cream social
	2000	Edison Room: Joan's Clones A Discussion of Cloning with Joan Slonczewski
	2100	Edison Room: Authors Readings READERS -9-10pm Lyra McMullen, Ed Carmien, and Barbara Lucas. 10pm on - Open Mic Room 119 - Hospitality Suite hosted by LASTSFA.
Friday	0900	Edison Room: Who lives and Dies. They Thought they were Dead and They were Wrong: Children and Salvation in David Almond's "Kit's Wilderness" - Mike Levy; There Are Always Survivors: American Ideology and Life after the Apocalypse - M. Wolfmeyer Washington Room: Rising and Falling Techno-poetics Past and Future Technologies Riding the Cosmic Express in the Age of Mass Production: Thrilling Science in American Science Fiction, 1926-1939 - Eric M. Drown AI, Alife and Ethics in SF: The Rise and Demise of the Machine - Martin Griffiths Outline for a Mode Manifesto: SF, Transhumanism, and Technoscience - Sha La Bar Stockade Room: Future Futilities Something to Look Forward to; The Future is out there? Star Wars vs. the Beer Buddy Universal Remote Control - Suzanne Culph; The Future in an Instant: Macbeth as a Subtext for The Time Machine - Kris Jagusch Plunging Ahead to the 21st Century from the Shoulders of the 20th: The Shape of Things to Come - Betty Hull
	1030	Edison Room: Teaching International SF Teaching SF in the Austrian University and High School - Elisabeth Kraus; International Science Fiction in the Classroom - Elizabeth Davidson Washington Room: SF: Moving in and Out Interior and Exterior Space in SF; The Inner Plots of CJ Cherryh - Ed Carmien Roger Zelazny’s Road to Amber - Ted Krulik Stockade Room: Once and Future Heroes From Natty Bumpo to Luke Skywalker Hero Concepts in SF- Robert F. Tredray; Back to the Future: revisiting 2001, A Space Odyssey - Michael Johnson
	1200	Luncheon, Cash Bar
	1230	Luncheon at the Ramada Restaurant
	1330	Edison Room - "Carbon Nanotubes: Building for the Space Age." - Joan Slonczewski
	1430	Edison room - Fashioning the Study of SF Films Extending the Fifth Element Eyes and Ears: Representations of the Panoptic Future - Peter Schmidt What Do We Do with this Junk? The Future of Salvage Operations - Jean Anne Lauer Visual Transgressions: The Fashioning of Identity in the Future - Marissa Filippo Ew, That's Gross; Wow, That's Cool; Special Effects and Speculative Fiction Film - Shelly Rodrigo Washington Room: The Place of Law in Science Fiction Discussion panel with Bruce Rockwood and B.A. Chepaitis Stockade Room: Surviving Grad School Discussion Panel with Matt Wolfmeyer and Mark Brake
	1600	Edison Room: Vincent diFate GoH Presentation
	1800	Dinner Break
	2000	Edison Room: David Weber GoH Presentation
	2100	Edison Room: Authors Readings 9-10 B.A. Chepaitis, Steve Sawicki, Karen Michaelson. 10 - open mic. Room 119 - Hospitality Suite hosted by LASTSFA.
Saturday	0900	Edison Room: Mixed Genre Fantasy & SF Who Knows what a Cat Thinks: Postmodernism in the Picture Books of David Weisner - Carol Stevens Gulliver's Travel and Science Fiction - Jie Lu SF and Fantasy in Atwood's "The Blind Assasin" - David Ketterer Washington Room: Racial Paradigms Then and Now Passages of Power Reading A.E. van Vogt's "Slan" as Racial Fantasy - Javier Martinez Race and Degeneration in the Early Martian Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs - James Biggs The Role of Speculative Fiction in Revealing and Masking Objective Possibilities About Race - Alison Crane Stockade: Reading Ecstasy Ecstasy in Creation: The experience of Creative Action-Mike Pohjola Sex and the Single Man: A Guide to Social Intercourse in LeGuin - Barbara Bengels
	1030	Edison room: Nature, Including Human - Nature Human Nature and Virtual Reality in William Gibson's "Idoru" - Yeonman Kim Cordwainer Smith and John Carter Battle for Control of the Jet Propelled Couch - Alan C. Elms Embracing the World: Characterization in Ivan Yefremov and Ursula LeGuin - Larisa Mihaylova Washington Room: Teaching SF The Shape of Things to Come: SF and Education at Degree Level - Mark Brake Which Science Fiction(s) Should I Teach? - Andrew M. Butler Teaching Stephenson: Hardcore Hurdles for the Undergraduate Audience and How to Leap Them - Ed Carmien Stockade Room: Vincent Di Fate
	1200	Lunch [On your own.]
	1330	Edision Room: Jane Yolen GoH Presentation
	1500	Edision Room: CJ Cherryh GoH Presentation
	1630	Edison Room: Global Thinking: International Traditions in SF A Small Nation's Science Fiction: Re-examining the Genre through Czech Eyes - Esther Peters The Use of Asian dress in SF - Lyra McMullen; Scientists in the Chinese Science Fiction - Wu Yan Washington Room: Exploring Privilege and the Places of Power It's Not Just about Honor: The Ethics of Power in David Weber - Debra Combs "Black Wine" and the Vampire Novel - Leigh Fullmer; Stockade Room: Teaching SF A Discussion with Ted Krulik, jan howard finder, Betty Hull, and Joe Sanders
	1830	Edison Room: Banquet and Awards
	2100	Room 119 - Hospitality Suite hosted by LASTSFA.
	2200	Edison Room: Storytelling with Jane Yolen and Barbara Chepaitis
Sunday	0900	Edison room: Business Meeting
	1300	Leave for cruise on the Mohawk River.
	1400	Cruise on the Mohawk River.

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Last Modified : May 17, 2001