The 31st International Conference
on the Fantastic in the Arts
Race and the Fantastic
March 17-21, 2010
Guest of Honor: Nalo
Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart
Man, Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk, The
New Moon’s Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root:
Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo:
Conjure Stories, Tesseracts 9, and So
Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater, Hiroshima,
Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea
Glass, Dragon Steel, The Rainbow People, Dragon’s Gate,
Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord; co-editor
of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache: Transactions
Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America,
Cyberpunk America, Japanese SF
Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams:
Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
As always, we also welcome proposals for individual
papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in
any media. The deadline is October 31, 2009.
We encourage work from institutionally-affiliated scholars, independent
scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English,
graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Submission Guidelines
In order to be considered for the 2010
program, your proposal to (1) read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper
session, or (3) organize and chair a panel discussion should be date-stamped no
later than October 31, 2009; electronic correspondence is welcome.
Proposals must be sent to the appropriate Division Head (addresses below).
Advise the Division Head if you would like to volunteer to chair a paper
session. Proposals must include a 500-word abstract and
appropriate bibliography indicating the project's scholarly or theoretical
context. Presenters must be members of IAFA at the time of the
conference. Be sure to indicate all
audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal; later A/V requests
cannot be guaranteed.