<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Oops, the date in my previous message should have been <b>May 27 (Thursday)</b>, as listed on the flyer.<div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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; "><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Rob Latham</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Associate Professor of English </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Coeditor, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Science Fiction Studies</span></font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">English Department</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">University of California, Riverside</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Riverside, CA 92521-0323</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/">http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/</a></span></font></div></span></font></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Rob Latham wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Attached is a flyer for the second annual <i>Science Fiction Studies</i> Symposium, which will be held on May 26 at the University of California, Riverside on the topic of "Animal Studies and Science Fiction." The Symposium will take place from 2:30-5:00 PM in the Reading Room of the Special Collections and Archives Department of Rivera Library, which houses the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature. Here is a list of speakers and the titles of their talks:<div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>“Animal Studies in the Era of Biopower”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>Sherryl Vint</b></span><span style="font-family: Times"> (Brock University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times">Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor of English at Brock University in Ontario. She is the author of <i>Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times">(2007) and <i>Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Times"> (2010) and an editor of the collections <i>The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> (2009), <i>Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> (2009), and <i>Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Times">(2010). She co-edits the journals <i>Extrapolation</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times">, <i>Science Fiction Film and Television</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times">, and <i>Humanimalia.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>“Talking (for, with) Dogs: Science Fiction Breaks the Species Barrier” </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>Joan Gordon</b></span><span style="font-family: Times"> (Nassau Community College)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times">Joan Gordon is Professor of English at Nassau Community College in New York. She is a former president of the Science Fiction Research Association, an editor for <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> and <i>Humanimalia,</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> and a co-editor of several collections of scholarly essays including <i>Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times"> (1997), <i>Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times"> (2002), and <i>Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> (2008). She recently spent a year as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, and is at present working on the connections among science fiction, sociobiology, and animal studies, having published related articles for <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"> and for the <i>Routledge Companion to Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>“The Animal Down-Deep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the Underpeople<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><b>Carol McGuirk</b></span><span style="font-family: Times"> (Florida Atlantic University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Carol McGuirk is Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and an editor of <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Times-Roman">. Her column on science fiction in the <i>New York Daily News </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">during the 1980s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>afforded a close-up view of that decade’s remarkable transformation of the genre. She has written many articles and three books on Robert Burns, including an annotated selection of his poems for Penguin. Her science fiction scholarship has focused on equally mythic yet misunderstood authors, among them Cordwainer Smith. This talk is part of her ongoing project <i>Dominion</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Times-Roman">, which considers literary representations of animals during the three centuries between Milton’s <i>Paradise Lost</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> (1667) and Philip K. Dick’s <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times-Roman"> (1968).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <div><div><br></div><div><div>A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to attend, spread the word, post or distribute the flyer, etc.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>The Symposium is co-sponsored by the journal, by the Eaton Collection, and by the English Department Lecture Committee. My thanks to them all.</div><div><br></div><div>The proceedings from the first annual event, on the topic "The Histories of Science Fiction," were recently published in the journal <i>Science Fiction Studies</i> in March 2010.</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>cheers,<br><br>Rob<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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; "><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Rob Latham</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Associate Professor of English </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Coeditor, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Science Fiction Studies</span></font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">English Department</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">University of California, Riverside</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Riverside, CA 92521-0323</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/">http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/</a></span></font></div></span></font></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div> </div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span><2010 symposium flyer.pdf></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>