UWP Lecturers 2nd Annual Science Fiction Studies Symposium, MAY 27th

[Rob Latham]

Oops, the date in my previous message should have been May 27  
(Thursday), as listed on the flyer.


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/



On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Rob Latham wrote:

> 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/
>
>
>
> <2010 symposium flyer.pdf>

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