UWP Lecturers 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference 2/11-12

[Rob Latham]

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The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, cosponsored 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 flyer and 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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