<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Please post and distribute widely. This event is free and open to the public. A flyer for the event is available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf">http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times; "><b>The <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times; "><b> Symposium:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 21px; "><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times; "><b>The Singularity<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-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" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; "><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">February 10, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">2:30-5 PM</span></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">Spanish Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">Mission Inn Hotel and Spa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">Downtown Riverside, California<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; ">Ø<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </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: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; "><b>Neil Easterbrook</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; "> (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: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </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 <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; ">, <i>Extrapolation</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; ">, and <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> </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-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; ">Ø<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; "><b>“That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of 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: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; "><b>Brooks Landon</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; "> (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 <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; "> for many years, he is the author of <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; "> (1992) and <i>Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; "> (1997).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; ">Ø<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </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: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; "><b>Rob Latham</b></span><span style="font-family: Times; "> (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 <i>Science Fiction Studies</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman; "> since 1997, he is the author of <i>Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman; "> (2002) and coeditor of <i>The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction </i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman; ">(2010). He is currently editing <i>The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times-Roman; "> and completing a book on New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; ">Ø<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; ">Moderated by: Melissa Conway (UC-Riverside)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; "> </span></div></div></body></html>