UWP Lecturers Final Reminder: 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, Feb. 11-12
Rob Latham
rob.latham at ucr.edu
Sun Feb 6 15:14:19 PST 2011
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The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, co-sponsored by the
University of California, Riverside's Libraries and College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, will be held at the Mission Inn
Hotel and Spa in Riverside, California, on February 11-12. The topic
of the conference is "Global Science Fiction." A complete program for
the event can be found here:
http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/index.php
Friday, February 11, will feature a full day of paper sessions.
Saturday, February 12, will feature sessions through the early
afternoon. All of these will be held in the Mission Inn.
Beginning at 4 PM on Saturday, a plenary session will be held in
Culver Center in the nearby UCR Arts Block. The plenary events will
include: a keynote address by UCR Professor of Creative Writing Mike
Davis; a panel on Global Science Fiction with attending authors China
Mieville, Nalo Hopkinson, and Karen Tei Yamashita, and SF scholar
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.; and an awards ceremony that will feature
the announcements of this year's winner of the Student Science Fiction
Short Story Contest, the R.D. Mullen Reseach Fellowships supporting
work in the Eaton archive, and the presentation of the Eaton Lifetime
Achievement Award to Samuel R. Delany (in absentia) and to Harlan
Ellison (who will be in attendance). A reception follows the plenary
session.
Full registration for the conference is $165. Single-day registrations
are available for $75. We have also arranged a special rate for
University of California students of $25 on Friday and $20 on
Saturday. The latter does not include attendance at the plenary
session. Some tickets are available for the plenary session at a cost
of $50. For more information about registration, please contact Sarah
Allison at <sarah.allison at ucr.edu>.
The Eaton Conference will be preceded by the third annual Science
Fiction Studies Symposium, which will also be held at the Mission Inn
on Thursday, February 10, from 2:30 until 5 PM. The Symposium is free
and open to the public. A flyer with information about that event can
be found at:
http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf
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