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April 12, 2005
Study Day at U of Nottingham
Science Fiction(s):
A Study Day on Science Fiction Film, Television, Literature and New Media
University of Nottingham,
Friday, 19th August 2005
We are delighted to announce Will Brooker, Cathy Johnson and Sara Gwenllian-Jones as keynotes speakers at this event, in addition to a presentation by Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou surrounding their cross-disciplinary project, The Invisible Force Field Experiments.
Call for Papers:
While popular representations of science fiction have been granted a certain degree of academic legitimacy in recent years, this study day represents an attempt to rethink the frameworks in which the study of science fiction has been defined generically by industries, audiences and texts. The Science Fiction(s) event seeks to redress the balance in order to examine the crossover of sf spectacularity, and the intermediality of sf's intersection with television, literature and new media.
This one day forum for debate is intended to facilitate an interrogation of the cultural value of these peripheral and multidisciplinary engagements with science fiction(s), seeking to examine how sf space has transmuted into divergent media. Our intention is to look specifically at the extensive crossover potentials that emerge between sf manifestations such as television, literature, DVD and video, as well as gaming and internet community participation.
Possible topics might include but are by no means limited to:
SF Crossing the Generic Divide
Science Fiction/Science Fact
Science Fiction and Science Eventuality
Selling Science Fiction To Infinity and Beyond
Blockbusting SF SFX
Low Budget and Independent SF
Time Travel and Quantum Leaps
Transgressive Hyperbodies
Internet Communities, Fandom and Collecting
Gaming and Console Creativity
Please send proposals of 300 words and a short biographical note by Friday, 29 April 2005 to
Kerry Gough: arxklg1 AT nottingham.ac.uk
Or by post to:
Kerry Gough
Science Fiction(s) Committee
Institute of Film and Television Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Further details and a registration form are available at: the website.
Posted by ChrissieMains at April 12, 2005 05:44 PM