UWP Lecturers Final Reminder: 2011 Science Fiction Studies Symposium, Feb. 10
Rob Latham
rob.latham at ucr.edu
Sun Feb 6 15:11:19 PST 2011
Please post and distribute widely.
This event is free and open to the public. A flyer for the event is
available here:
http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf
The Science Fiction Studies Symposium:
The Singularity
in Science Fiction Literature and Theory
February 10, 2011
2:30-5 PM
Spanish Art Gallery
Mission Inn Hotel and Spa
Downtown Riverside, California
Ø “Singularities”
Ø Neil Easterbrook (TCU)
Ø Neil Easterbrook teaches literary theory, comparative
literature, and science fiction at TCU. A member of the editorial
advisory boards of Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, and The
Jounal of the Fantastic in the Arts, he has published essays on
William Gibson, Robert A. Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, and the filmic
adaptations of Philip K. Dick. For an essay on Geoff Ryman and ethics,
he received the 2009 Pioneer Award from the Science Fiction Research
Association.
Ø “That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity”
Ø Brooks Landon (University of Iowa)
Brooks Landon teaches in the English Department at the University of
Iowa, where he is a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate
Fellow and a University College Teaching Fellow. A consulting editor
of Science Fiction Studies for many years, he is the author of The
Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age
of Electronic (Re)Production (1992) and Science Fiction After 1900:
From the Steam Man to the Stars (1997).
Ø “From Outer to Inner Space: New Wave Science Fiction and the
Singularity”
Ø Rob Latham (UC-Riverside)
Rob Latham is Associate Professor of English at UC, Riverside. A
senior editor of Science Fiction Studies since 1997, he is the author
of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
(2002) and coeditor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
(2010). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction
and completing a book on New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and
1970s.
Ø Moderated by: Melissa Conway (UC-Riverside)
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