UWP Lecturers 2011 Science Fiction Studies Symposium, February 10

[Rob Latham]

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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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