UWP Lecturers Speaker Series on Science Fiction-Spring 2009

[John Ganim]

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>>SPEAKER SERIES ON SCIENCE FICTION
>>SPRING 2009
>>
>>
>>Wednesday, April 8:
>>
>>             Carl Freedman, "Marxism, Cinema, and Some Dialectics 
>> of Science Fiction
>>                         and Film Noir"
>>
>>             English Department Conference Room
>>             Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212
>>             3:00 PM
>>
>>Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at 
>>Louisiana State University, Carl Freedman is the author or editor 
>>of half a dozen books and the author of many dozens of essays and 
>>articles. He is probably best known for Critical Theory and Science 
>>Fiction (Wesleyan, 2000) and The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, 
>>Modernity, and the Politics of Culture (Wesleyan, 2002). He has 
>>also won the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award 
>>in 1999 for an essay on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
>>His current work focuses mainly on Hollywood cinema and on US 
>>electoral politics.
>>
>>
>>Thursday, April 30:
>>
>>             Science Fiction Studies Symposium: The Histories of 
>> Science Fiction
>>
>>             Special Collections, Rivera Library, 4th floor
>>             2:00-4:30 PM
>>
>>       Roger Luckhurst, "Science Fiction and Cultural History: 
>> Lines, Pyramids,
>>                   Networks, Rhizomes"
>>
>>Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck 
>>College, University of London. He has published four books: The 
>>Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J.G. Ballard (St. Martin's, 
>>1997), The Invention of Telepathy (Oxford, 2002), Science Fiction 
>>(Polity, 2005), and The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008). He is 
>>currently working on a cultural history of Victorian and Edwardian 
>>mummy curses and editing a new Oxford World's Classics edition of 
>>Bram Stoker's Dracula. He won the 1995 Science Fiction Research 
>>Association's Pioneer Award for his article "The Many Deaths of 
>>Sience Fiction: A Polemic."
>>
>>De Witt Douglas Kilgore,  "Aliens, Robots and Other Racial Matters in the
>>       History of Science Fiction"
>>
>>De Witt Douglas Kilgore is Associate Professor of English and 
>>American Studies at Indiana University.  He is the author of 
>>Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space 
>>(Pennsylvania, 2003).  His current research includes work on 
>>popular narratives emerging from the search for extraterrestrial 
>>intelligence (SETI). He is a consulting editor for Science Fiction 
>>Studies and Extrapolation. Recent publications include articles in 
>>Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool, 2008) 
>>and Societal Impact of Spaceflight (NASA, 2007).  His essay 
>>"Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism" won 
>>the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award in 2001.
>>
>>Veronica Hollinger, "A History of the Future"
>>
>>Veronica Hollinger is Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent 
>>University in Peterborough, Ontario. She has published many 
>>articles on science fiction, with particular attention to feminist 
>>SF, postmodernism, queer theory, and technoculture studies. She has 
>>been a co-editor of Science Fiction Studies since 1990 and has 
>>co-edited three scholarly collections: Blood Read: The Vampire as 
>>Metaphor in Contemporary Culture (Pennsylvania, 2002), Edging into 
>>the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural 
>>Transformation (Pennsylvania, 2002), and Queer Universes: 
>>Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool, 2008). She is a past 
>>vice-president of the International Association for the Fantastic 
>>in the Arts and a winner of the 1990 Pioneer Award from the Science 
>>Fiction Research Association for her essay "The Vampire and the 
>>Alien: Variations on the Outsider."
>>
>>
>>Wednesday, May 6:
>>
>>             N. Katherine Hayles, "Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End and 
>> the Macropolitics
>>                         of Global Spatialization"
>>
>>             English Department Conference Room
>>             Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212
>>             3:00 PM
>>
>>N. Katherine Hayles, Professor at Duke University, teaches and 
>>writes on the relations of science, technology, and literature in 
>>the 20th and 21st centuries. Her book, How We Became Posthuman: 
>>Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (Chicago, 
>>1999), won the Eaton Prize. Her other books include The Cosmic Web: 
>>Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth 
>>Century (Cornell, 1984), Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in 
>>Contemporary Literature and Science (Cornell, 1990), Writing 
>>Machines (MIT, 2002), and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital 
>>Subjects and Literary Texts (Chicago, 2005) She is a recipient of 
>>the lifetime achievement award for scholarship from the 
>>International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Currently 
>>she is at work on a book entitled How We Think: The Transforming 
>>Power of Digital Technologies.
>>
>>
>>Wednesday, May 27:
>>
>>             Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, "Help Me! A Short History of 
>> Science Fiction in
>>                         Music"
>>
>>             English Department Conference Room
>>             Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 2212
>>             3:00 PM
>>
>>Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is a professor of English and World 
>>Literature at DePauw University. He is managing editor of 
>>Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies and 
>>co-editor of Science Fiction Studies. He is the author of The Seven 
>>Beauties of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2008) and co-editor of Robot 
>>Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to 
>>Anime (Minnesota, 2007). He received the 1992 Science Fiction 
>>Association's Pioneer Award for his essay "The SF of Theroy: 
>>Baudrillard and Haraway."
>>
>>Contact: Professor Rob Latham
>><mailto:Rob.latham at ucr.edu>Rob.latham at ucr.edu
>>
>>
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