SFRA 2001 Conference

Proposed Topics

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  1. Authors
    1. Any author, but especially our Guests of Honor.

  2. Tolkien
    1. The Language Game: Can anyone play it as well as Tolkien did? (Creating and sustaining linguistic worlds in SF and Fantasy).
    2. Why We Need Tolkien: Archetypes and Cultural Yearnings.
    3. Fantasy as past, SF as future: Time, Tolkien, and Technology.

  3. Storytelling
    1. Differences for the young and the old.
    2. Story form, past, present, and future: Orality in Technology
    3. Story Telling Round Robin (a pre-determined event)
    4. Story Swap - Sit in the circle and tell a tale. Be prepared to tell a short one if the circle is large.
    5. Story Telling Workshop
    6. Folktales to SF: Using the oral tradition to enrich writing.

  4. Media
    1. Influence and Quality
    2. The Golden Years: Did they exist?
    3. Book to film to TV, TV to film to book: How the Medium creates Meaning
    4. What Next, Hollywood? Films we'd love to see, and how we'd like to see them done.
    5. TV - SF or just plain bad SciFi?
    6. TV we'd like to see.

  5. Literary Criticism
    1. Multiple Critiques on the Hugo Winner: An interactive panel (how different critical theories may be applied to the same work and describe how you construct your technique).
    2. Critique and Review: The differences, the similarities.
    3. A Critical Preview: What to expect next from SF and Fantasy.

  6. Teaching
    1. Approaches to Teaching SF in the College Classroom.
    2. Fighting the bias against SF.
    3. SF in the diversity classroom.
    4. How do you get kids to read SF?

  7. Cross-genre
    1. Why we call something Mainstream when it's SF and vice versa.
    2. Paranormal vs. SF.
    3. Other genres in which their stories could read as SF.

  8. Other
    1. SF's connection to, and relevance for interdisciplinary studies
    2. The globalization, Americanization and the future of International SF
    3. The writers, magazines and groups who developed SF.

  9. Your Suggestions?
    1. What additional topics would you like to see added?
    2. Are there other types of programming that you would like to see added?

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