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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.
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Science Fiction Foundation Awards
A reminder from Michelle Reid about two separate awards run by the Science Fiction Foundation.
First, a reminder that the deadline for the annual SF Foundation Essay Prize is coming up on 31 May 2005.
Judges for 2005:
Brian Attebery (Idaho State University)
Graham Joyce (World Fantasy Award winner)
Dianne Newell (University of British Columbia)
Essay submissions are invited for the annual Foundation Essay Prize. Authors must be graduate students at the time of submission. The essay, which must be in English, should be between 5000 and 8000 words long and may be on any aspect of science fiction.
Please send your submissions to Dr Michelle Reid in Word format, at michelle AT surguy.net
The winning essay will be published in Foundation; all submissions to the prize will be regarded as submissions to the journal, and will be considered for publication.
Second, the SF Foundation Bursary, which is open to everyone:
A £250 bursary will be awarded by the Science Fiction Foundation to be put towards the cost of a research visit to the SFF Collection at the University of Liverpool. Preference will be given to those not normally resident in Liverpool and its region.
Send a proposal of the planned research (maximum 300 words) to Dr Michelle Reid at michelle AT surguy.net
There is no deadline for applications as proposals will be judged on a case by case basis according to the needs of the applicant and merit of the research. More than one bursary may be awarded per year.
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