<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This is a year in advance, but here's the Call for Papers for the next Eaton Conference, in February 2011, on the topic of "Global Science Fiction." The date for submission of abstracts is June 15. UCR's own Mike Davis will be our keynote speaker. For the first time ever, we'll be at the Mission Inn. We hope to expand the event to four tracks and thus become more self-supporting. </div><div><br></div><div>Please post and distribute widely. A PDF version suitable for printing and posting is also attached. Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>Rob Latham<br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Associate Professor of English </div><div>English Department</div><div>University of California at Riverside</div><div>Riverside, CA 92521-0323</div><div>Phone: 951-827-1966</div></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; "><b>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; "><b>The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; "><b>Global Science Fiction</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; "><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b>February 11-13, 2011<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b>Mission Inn Hotel<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b>Riverside, California<o:p></o:p></b></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">This three-day conference—sponsored by the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature at the University of California, Riverside—proposes to examine the ways in which science fiction (SF) is a truly global phenomenon, crossing territorial, linguistic, and ideological boundaries in its imaginative engagement with the possibilities of the future. We are interested in papers that explore historical and contemporary SF in relation to processes of globalization, international social movements, universalist ideologies, multinational cultures, technoscientific networks, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, neo- and postcolonial politics, separatist and sovereignty movements, and more. We invite paper and panel proposals that focus on all forms of SF, including prose fiction, film, television, comics, and digital culture, and that address (but are not limited to) the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">How is SF, as a form of multimedia production and a mode of visionary speculation, linked to the structures and world-views of an emerging global marketplace of ideas, commodities, and lifestyles?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">How have SF cultures around the world evolved and adapted in relation to the processes of globalization, internationalization, and multinationality?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">How do the legacies of colonialism and imperialism continue to inform global SF, and how have various local SF cultures negotiated their relationship with an Anglophone hegemony?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">How have the relative paucity or poor quality of English-language translations served to obscure the fact that SF, thoughout its history, has always been a global phenomenon?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">What has been the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of new forms of sociopolitical collectivity such as the European Union on the development of local SF cultures?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">How has “hard SF” responded to a globalized world of corporate technoscience, multinational research ventures, and international scientific accords?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Has the growth of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other information networks served to further “globalize” SF as a mode of production and a subcultural formation?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">In what ways does SF foster outlooks that promote or critique the processes of globalization?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">The keynote speaker will be Mike Davis, UCR Professor of Creative Writing and author of <i>City of Quartz</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">, <i>The Ecology of Fear</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">, <i>Planet of Slums</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">, and many other works exploring the linkages among social history, political economy, popular culture, and the processes of globalization. SF author guests will be announced as they are confirmed; see the conference website at <<a href="http://eaton-collection.ucr.edu/TheEatonConference.htm">http://eaton-collection.ucr.edu/TheEatonConference.htm</a>> for periodic updates.</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">The conference will be held in the historic Mission Inn hotel in downtown Riverside (see their website at <<a href="http://missioninn.com/">http://missioninn.com/</a>> for more information).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8pt; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Abstracts of 500 words (for papers of 20-minutes in length) should be submitted by June 15, 2010 to Melissa Conway, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Rivera Library, UC-Riverside. Electronic submission is preferred via email at <<a href="mailto:melissa.conway@ucr.edu">melissa.conway@ucr.edu</a>>.</span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"></div></body></html>