<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>The <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times"><b> Symposium: <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times"><b>Animal Studies and Science Fiction</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times">Thursday, May 27, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times">2:30-5 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times">Special Collections and Archives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times">Rivera Library, 4<sup>th</sup> floor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times">University of California, Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 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:l3 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"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br></i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 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:l2 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"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></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”</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).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times-Roman" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4; 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">Moderated by: Rob Latham (UC-Riverside)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><br></font></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>