UWP Lecturers 2011 Eaton Conference CFP: Global Science Fiction

[Rob Latham]

This is a year in advance, but here's the Call for Papers for the next  
Eaton Conference, in February 2011, on the topic of "Global Science  
Fiction." The date for submission of abstracts is June 15. UCR's own  
Mike Davis will be our keynote speaker. For the first time ever, we'll  
be at the Mission Inn. We hope to expand the event to four tracks and  
thus become more self-supporting.

Please post and distribute widely. A PDF version suitable for printing  
and posting is also attached. Thanks!

Rob



Rob Latham
Associate Professor of English
English Department
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
Phone: 951-827-1966




Call for Papers



The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference



Global Science Fiction



February 11-13, 2011



Mission Inn Hotel

Riverside, California


This three-day conference—sponsored by the Eaton Collection of Science  
Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature at the University of  
California, Riverside—proposes to examine the ways in which science  
fiction (SF) is a truly global phenomenon, crossing territorial,  
linguistic, and ideological boundaries in its imaginative engagement  
with the possibilities of the future. We are interested in papers that  
explore historical and contemporary SF in relation to processes of  
globalization, international social movements, universalist  
ideologies, multinational cultures, technoscientific networks,  
philosophies of cosmopolitanism, neo- and postcolonial politics,  
separatist and sovereignty movements, and more. We invite paper and  
panel proposals that focus on all forms of SF, including prose  
fiction, film, television, comics, and digital culture, and that  
address (but are not limited to) the following questions:

How is SF, as a form of multimedia production and a mode of visionary  
speculation, linked to the structures and world-views of an emerging  
global marketplace of ideas, commodities, and lifestyles?
How have SF cultures around the world evolved and adapted in relation  
to the processes of globalization, internationalization, and  
multinationality?
How do the legacies of colonialism and imperialism continue to inform  
global SF, and how have various local SF cultures negotiated their  
relationship with an Anglophone hegemony?
How have the relative paucity or poor quality of English-language  
translations served to obscure the fact that SF, thoughout its  
history, has always been a global phenomenon?
What has been the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the  
emergence of new forms of sociopolitical collectivity such as the  
European Union on the development of local SF cultures?
How has “hard SF” responded to a globalized world of corporate  
technoscience, multinational research ventures, and international  
scientific accords?
Has the growth of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other  
information networks served to further “globalize” SF as a mode of  
production and a subcultural formation?
In what ways does SF foster outlooks that promote or critique the  
processes of globalization?
  The keynote speaker will be Mike Davis, UCR Professor of Creative  
Writing and author of City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, Planet of  
Slums, and many other works exploring the linkages among social  
history, political economy, popular culture, and the processes of  
globalization. SF author guests will be announced as they are  
confirmed; see the conference website at <http://eaton-collection.ucr.edu/TheEatonConference.htm 
 > for periodic updates.
  The conference will be held in the historic Mission Inn hotel in  
downtown Riverside (see their website at <http://missioninn.com/> for  
more information).

  Abstracts of 500 words (for papers of 20-minutes in length) should  
be submitted by June 15, 2010 to Melissa Conway, Head of Special  
Collections and Archives, Rivera Library, UC-Riverside. Electronic  
submission is preferred via email at <melissa.conway at ucr.edu>.











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