[CW-Grad] 2011 Science Fiction Studies Symposium, Feb. 10

[Robin Russin]

This event is free and open to the public. A flyer for the event is available here:
http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf
The Science Fiction Studies Symposium: 

The Singularity

in Science Fiction Literature and Theory

February 10, 2011

2:30-5 PM

Spanish Art Gallery

Mission Inn Hotel and Spa

Downtown Riverside, California

Ø    “Singularities”

Ø     Neil Easterbrook (TCU)

Ø     Neil Easterbrook teaches literary theory, comparative literature, and science fiction at TCU. A member of the editorial advisory boards of Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, and The Jounal of the Fantastic in the Arts, he has published essays on William Gibson, Robert A. Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, and the  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.

Ø    “That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity” 

Ø    Brooks Landon (University of Iowa)

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 Science Fiction Studies for many years, he is the author of The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production (1992) and Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars (1997).

Ø    “From Outer to Inner Space: New Wave Science Fiction and the Singularity”

Ø    Rob Latham (UC-Riverside)

Rob Latham is Associate Professor of English at UC, Riverside. A senior editor of Science Fiction Studies since 1997, he is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002) and coeditor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction and completing a book on New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.

Ø    Moderated by: Melissa Conway (UC-Riverside)

 
 
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Robin Russin

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Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
University of California, Riverside
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