UWP Lecturers Thursday, May 27: Animal Studies and Science Fiction

[Rob Latham]

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> The Science Fiction Studies Symposium:
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> Animal Studies and Science Fiction
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> Thursday, May 27, 2010
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> 2:30-5 PM
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> Special Collections and Archives
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> Rivera Library, 4th floor
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> University of California, Riverside
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> Ø    “Animal Studies in the Era of Biopower”
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> Ø    Sherryl Vint (Brock University)
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> 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.
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> Ø    “Talking (for, with) Dogs: Science Fiction Breaks the Species  
> Barrier”
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> Ø    Joan Gordon (Nassau Community College)
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> 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.
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> Ø    “The Animal Down-Deep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the  
> Underpeople”
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> Ø    Carol McGuirk (Florida Atlantic University)
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> 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).
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> Ø    Moderated by: Rob Latham (UC-Riverside)
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