UWP Lecturers PKD in the OC: Philip K. Dick in Orange County--a symposium

[Rob Latham]

Here's some information about an upcoming event at UC-Irvine that will  
include me and one of my Ph.D. students, Jeff Hicks, discussing the  
work that Philip K. Dick did late in life during his years living in  
Orange County. Three major science fiction writers, including two who  
were close friends of Dick's at the time, will be participating.

best,

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/



TITLE: A County Darkly:  Philip K Dick in the OC

TIME:  Friday, May 21, 12-2

PLACE: Humanities Gateway 1030, University of California, Irvine campus

PARTICIPANTS:

Science Fiction Authors:
*Gregory Benford
*Tim Powers
*James Blaylock

Science Fiction Critics
*Rob Latham
*Jeff Hicks

Moderator: Jonathan Alexander

ABOUT: This panel presentation will consider the inter-relationship of
Philip K. Dick's work and his life in Orange County.  Spending the last
ten years of his life in the OC, Dick composed some of his most  
important
SF works here.  In many ways, the OC is a peculiarly Dickian space, with
managed communities and a veneer of the unreal.  Conversely, Dick's late
novels (A Scanner Darkly, Valis, and The Transmigration of Timothy  
Archer)
seem at least partly inspired by Dick's life in Orange County.  Our
panelists will explore such connections, bringing the work of the
century's most noted SF author to bear on our cultural imagination of
Orange County, while also bringing our imagination of the OC to bear on
possible interpretations of Dick's work.


A light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP to Ms. Iveta Cruse at icruse at uci.edu by May Monday, May  
17, 2010


_____________________
Jonathan Alexander, PhD
Campus Writing Coordinator
Professor of English
University of California, Irvine



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