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<div><big>This event is free and open to the public. A flyer for the
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times;"><b>The&nbsp;<i>Science Fiction
Studies</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times;"><b>&nbsp;Symposium:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 21px;"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times;"><b>The Singularity<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times;"><b>in Science Fiction
Literature and Theory<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Times;">February 10, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Times;">2:30-5 PM</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Times;">Spanish Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Times;">Mission Inn Hotel and Spa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: Times;">Downtown Riverside, California<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>“Singularities”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>Neil Easterbrook</b></span><span style="font-family: Times;">&nbsp;(TCU)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">Neil Easterbrook teaches
literary theory, comparative literature, and science fiction at TCU. A
member of the editorial advisory boards of&nbsp;<i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">,&nbsp;<i>Extrapolation</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">, and&nbsp;<i>The Jounal of
the Fantastic in the Arts</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">, he has published essays
on William Gibson, Robert A. Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, and the<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>filmic
adaptations of Philip K. Dick. For an essay on Geoff Ryman and ethics,
he received the 2009 Pioneer Award from the Science Fiction Research
Association.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>“That Light at the End of the Tunnel:
The Plurality of Singularity”&nbsp;</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>Brooks Landon</b></span><span style="font-family: Times;">&nbsp;(University of Iowa)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">Brooks Landon teaches in
the English Department at the University of Iowa, where he is a College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Fellow and a University College
Teaching Fellow. A consulting editor of&nbsp;<i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">&nbsp;for many years, he is
the author of&nbsp;<i>The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science
Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">&nbsp;(1992) and&nbsp;<i>Science
Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;">&nbsp;(1997).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>“From Outer to Inner Space: New Wave
Science Fiction and the Singularity”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>Rob Latham</b></span><span style="font-family: Times;">&nbsp;(UC-Riverside)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">Rob Latham is
Associate Professor of English at UC, Riverside. A senior editor of&nbsp;<i>Science
Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">&nbsp;since 1997, he is
the author of&nbsp;<i>Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of
Consumption</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">&nbsp;(2002) and
coeditor of&nbsp;<i>The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction&nbsp;</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">(2010). He is
currently editing&nbsp;<i>The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman;">&nbsp;and completing a
book on New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;">Moderated by: Melissa Conway (UC-Riverside)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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