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<font face="Times New Roman Bold, Times" size=5><b>SPEAKER SERIES ON
SCIENCE FICTION<br>
SPRING 2009<br>
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<b>Wednesday, April 8: <br>
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Carl
Freedman, “Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction <br>
and Film Noir”<br>
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<b>English Department Conference Room<br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212<br>
3:00
PM<br>
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Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at
Louisiana State University, Carl Freedman is the author or editor of half
a dozen books and the author of many dozens of essays and articles. He is
probably best known for <i>Critical Theory and Science Fiction</i>
(Wesleyan, 2000) and <i>The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and
the Politics of Culture</i> (Wesleyan, 2002). He has also won the Science
Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award in 1999 for an essay on
Stanley Kubrick’s <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. His current work focuses
mainly on Hollywood cinema and on US electoral politics.<br>
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<b>Thursday, April 30: <br>
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Science Fiction Studies Symposium: The Histories of Science Fiction<br>
<br>
Special Collections, Rivera Library, 4<sup>th</sup> floor<br>
2:00-4:30 PM<br>
<br>
Roger Luckhurst, “Science Fiction and
Cultural History: Lines, Pyramids, <br>
Networks, Rhizomes”<br>
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Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College,
University of London. He has published four books: <i>The Angle Between
Two Walls: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard</i> (St. Martin’s, 1997), <i>The
Invention of Telepathy</i> (Oxford, 2002), <i>Science Fiction</i>
(Polity, 2005), and <i>The Trauma Question</i> (Routledge, 2008). He is
currently working on a cultural history of Victorian and Edwardian mummy
curses and editing a new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Bram Stoker’s
<i>Dracula</i>. He won the 1995 Science Fiction Research Association’s
Pioneer Award for his article “The Many Deaths of Sience Fiction: A
Polemic.”<br>
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<b>De Witt Douglas Kilgore, “Aliens, Robots and Other Racial
Matters in the <br>
History of Science Fiction”<br>
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De Witt Douglas Kilgore is Associate Professor of English and American
Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of
<i>Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space
(Pennsylvania, 2003)</i>. His current research includes work on
popular narratives emerging from the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI). He is a consulting editor for <i>Science Fiction
Studies </i>and <i>Extrapolation</i>. Recent publications include
articles in <i>Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction</i>
(Liverpool, 2008) and <i>Societal Impact of Spaceflight </i>(NASA,
2007). His essay “Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre’s Parodic
Astrofuturism” won the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer
Award in 2001.<br>
<br>
<b>Veronica Hollinger, “A History of the Future” <br>
</b> <br>
Veronica Hollinger is Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University
in Peterborough, Ontario. She has published many articles on science
fiction, with particular attention to feminist SF, postmodernism, queer
theory, and technoculture studies. She has been a co-editor of <i>Science
Fiction Studies</i> since 1990 and has co-edited three scholarly
collections: <i>Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary
Culture</i> (Pennsylvania, 2002), <i>Edging into the Future: Science
Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation</i> (Pennsylvania,
2002), and <i>Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction</i>
(Liverpool, 2008). She is a past vice-president of the International
Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and a winner of the 1990
Pioneer Award from the Science Fiction Research Association for her essay
“The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider.”<br>
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<br>
<b>Wednesday, May 6: <br>
<br>
N.
Katherine Hayles, “Vernor Vinge’s <i>Rainbow's End</i> and the
Macropolitics <br>
of Global Spatialization” <br>
</b> <br>
<b>English Department Conference Room<br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212<br>
3:00
PM<br>
</b> <br>
N. Katherine Hayles, Professor at Duke University, teaches and writes on
the relations of science, technology, and literature in the 20th and 21st
centuries. Her book, <i>How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in
Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics</i> (Chicago, 1999), won the
Eaton Prize. Her other books include <i>The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field
Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century</i> (Cornell,
1984), <i>Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and
Science</i> (Cornell, 1990), <i>Writing Machines</i> (MIT, 2002), and
<i>My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
</i>(Chicago, 2005) She is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award
for scholarship from the International Association for the Fantastic in
the Arts. Currently she is at work on a book entitled <i>How We Think:
The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies</i>. <br>
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<br>
<b>Wednesday, May 27: <br>
<br>
Istvan
Csicsery-Ronay, “Help Me! A Short History of Science Fiction in <br>
Music”<br>
</b> <br>
<b>English Department Conference Room<br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212<br>
3:00
PM<br>
</b> <br>
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is a professor of English and World Literature
at DePauw University. He is managing editor of <i>Humanimalia: A Journal
of Human/Animal Interface Studies</i> and co-editor of <i>Science Fiction
Studies</i>. He is the author of <i>The Seven Beauties of Science
Fiction</i> (Wesleyan, 2008) and co-editor of <i>Robot Ghosts and Wired
Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime</i> (Minnesota,
2007). He received the 1992 Science Fiction Association’s Pioneer Award
for his essay “The SF of Theroy: Baudrillard and
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</font><font size=2>Rob Latham<br>
<a href="mailto:Rob.latham@ucr.edu">Rob.latham@ucr.edu</a><br>
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