UWP Lecturers 2nd Annual Science Fiction Studies Symposium, May 26

[Rob Latham]

Attached is a flyer for the second annual Science Fiction Studies  
Symposium, which will be held on May 26 at the University of  
California, Riverside on the topic of "Animal Studies and Science  
Fiction." The Symposium will take place from 2:30-5:00 PM in the  
Reading Room of the Special Collections and Archives Department of  
Rivera Library, which houses the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science  
Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature. Here is a list of  
speakers and the titles of their talks:

Ø    “Animal Studies in the Era of Biopower”

Ø    Sherryl Vint (Brock University)

Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor of English at Brock University in  
Ontario. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology,  
Subjectivity, Science Fiction (2007) and Animal Alterity: Science  
Fiction and the Question of the Animal (2010) and an editor of the  
collections The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Fifty  
Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009), and Beyond Cyberpunk: New  
Critical Perspectives (2010). She co-edits the journals Extrapolation,  
Science Fiction Film and Television, and Humanimalia.

Ø    “Talking (for, with) Dogs: Science Fiction Breaks the Species  
Barrier”

Ø    Joan Gordon (Nassau Community College)

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 Science Fiction Studies  and Humanimalia,   
and a co-editor of several collections of scholarly essays including  
Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture (1997),   
Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural  
Transformation (2002), and Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science  
Fiction (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 Science Fiction Studies and for the Routledge Companion  
to Science Fiction.

Ø    “The Animal Down-Deep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the  
Underpeople

Ø    Carol McGuirk (Florida Atlantic University)

Carol McGuirk is Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University  
and an editor of Science Fiction Studies. Her column on science  
fiction in the New York Daily News during the 1980s 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  
Dominion, which considers literary representations of animals during  
the three centuries between Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and Philip  
K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968).


A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.  
Please feel free to attend, spread the word, post or distribute the  
flyer, etc.

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the journal, by the Eaton Collection,  
and by the English Department Lecture Committee. My thanks to them all.

The proceedings from the first annual event, on the topic "The  
Histories of Science Fiction," were recently published in the journal  
Science Fiction Studies in March 2010.

cheers,

Rob


Rob Latham
Associate Professor of English
Coeditor, Science Fiction Studies
English Department
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/



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