Conference :: SFRA 2005
Imperial Palace Hotel
and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
June 23 - 26, 2005
Distinguished Guest Author:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Featured Guest Authors:
John Barnes
Kij Johnson
Tim Powers
Guest Authors:
Steven Brust
Elizabeth Bear
SFRA 2005
Preliminary Program and Participants
Preliminary Program
As of June 14, 2005
Thursday 12 Noon to 6 PM Osaka
- Conference Registration
Thursday 3-5 PM Samurai
- SF and Games I
- - Thomas J. Morrissey: "SF Plays Dice with the Universe I"
- - Oscar De Los Santos: "SF Plays Dice with the Universe II"
- - David Mead: "Sports, Games and Play in the Fiction of Jack Vance"
Thursday 3-5 PM Koko
- SF, Film and Media I
- - Peter Lowentrout, moderator
- - Shelley Rodrigo: "Alice in Alien Land: Video Games, Cinema & the SF Genre"
- - Fred Erisman: "Stagecoach in Space: The Saga of the Firefly"
- - Jonathan Vos Post: "Beyond the Frontier: Science Fiction and the Western"
- - Joe Milicia: "Books on SF Film and TV: What We Have, What We Need--A Roundtable Discussion."
Thursday 7 PM Samurai
- Authors' Roundtable and Discussion
- - Veronica Hollinger, moderator
- - John Barnes
- - Elizabeth Bear
- - Steven Brust
- - Kij Johnson
- - Ursula K. Le Guin
- - Tim Powers
Friday 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Jade
- Bookroom and Conference Registration
Friday 8:30 AM Osaka
- The SF of Phillip K. Dick
- - Robert O'Connor: "Strategy in Phillip K. Dick's The Game-players of Titan: Competing in the Rigged Game"
- - Eyal Tamir: "The Aura-less Pleasure of Artifacts: Collectors, Artifacts, and the Metafiction of Reproduction in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle"
- - Sherryl Vint: "Androids or Electric Sheep? Speciesism and Otherness in Dick's Novel"
Friday 8:30 AM Koko
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- - Antonia Levi: "American Bishounen: Why 'Angel' is Not a Man's Man"
- - Stacie L. Hanes: "If It Isn't a Story, How Do You Explain the Soundtrack?: the Ethical Dangers of the Epic Narrative in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- - Lori L. Rowlett and Philip Kaveny: "The Paradox of Mary: The Television Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Case Study"
Friday 8:30 AM Samurai
- "The Use of Fantastical Science Fiction in the Teaching of English Language Learners"
- - Joyce Zongrone, panel moderator
- - Kimberly Caldwell
- - Paula Pierre
Friday 8:30 AM Dynasty
- Author Reading and Book Signing
- - Elizabeth Bear
- - Steven Brust
Friday 10:30 AM Osaka
- Author Reading and Book Signing
- - Ursula K. Le Guin
- - Tim Powers
Friday 10:30 AM Koko
- On SF
- - Dave Samuelson: "Breach of Promise: the Paradox of Literary SF"
- - Gary Westfahl: "2,928 Ways to Define Science Fiction"
- - Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.: "Annexing the Stars: SF and Imperialism"
Friday 10:30 AM Samurai
- Star Trek
- - Susan A. George: "The Star Trek Experience: The Tingler meets the Battle of the Bitches"
- - Michael Johnson: "An enterprise that lost its temper?"
- - Lincoln Geraghty: "A Reason to Live": Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters
(Conferees might choose to attend The Star Trek Experience in the Hilton Hotel following this session, having a bite to eat, too, in Quark's Bar and Restaurant just outside said attraction. The Hilton is easily accessible from the Imperial Palace, being only 3-4 minutes away by monorail.)
Friday 10:30 AM Dynasty
- Contemporary SF Authors I
- - Veronica Hollinger: "Technology, Sexuality, and Performance in The Female Man"
- - Rhoda M. Martin: "Surviving the Known World"
- - Erica G. Marsh: "Girl Power, Feminism, and the Women of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents"
Friday 1:30 PM Osaka
- Science Fiction as Politics, Politics as Science Fiction
- - Session Chair and Organizer: Lisa Yaszek
- - Patrick Sharp: "The Real Nuclear Terror: Phillip Dick and the Critique of Postwar Suburbia"
- - Lisa Yaszek: "An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man"
- - Doug Davis: "George W. Bush, SF Grand Master? Science Fictions of Mass Destruction and the Poetics of National (In)Security"
Friday 1:30 PM Koko
- The SF of Ursula K. Le Guin Session I
- - Michael McClintock: "Disputing with Le Guin"
- - Ria Cheyne: "Ursula K. Le Guin and Translation"
- - James Bittner:
{la morte e una!} { } -- Rereading Le Guin {una e la vita! } - - James Bittner:
Friday 1:30 PM Samurai
- SF, Myth and Folklore
- - Ivan Wolfe: "Storytelling at the End of Time: The use of oral folklore in science fiction and fantasy"
- - Mary Pharr: "The Lab and the Woods: Science and Myth in Les Yeux sans visage"
- - Judith Leggatt: "Native North American Dystopian Fiction"
Friday 1:30 PM Dynasty
- Contemporary SF Authors II
- - Christine Cornell: "Rossum's Universal Robots Among the Ancients"
- - Kirpal Singh: "Science Fiction and the Asian Imagination: Wisdom versus Adventure"
Friday 3:30 PM Osaka
- The SF of Ursula K. Le Guin Session II
- - Lisa Hammond Rashley: "'Essays at the truth': Language, Politics, and Connection in Le Guin's The Dispossessed and The Telling"
- - Sonja Fritzsche: "Publishing Ursula Le Guin in East Germany"
- - Bradley Seymour: "'And the are no Footprints in the Dust Behind us…' Language as the Source of Human Power and Identity in The Telling"
- - Amy Clarke: "Quantum Skip: Churten Transilience and the Cosmic Do-over"
Friday 3:30 PM Koko
- SF and Games II
- - Loren Eason: "Video Games, the Army's Future Combat Systems, and Richard Morgan's Broken Angels"
- - Pawel Frelik: "Does Ted have to become a jelly? Science fiction and/in computer games"
- - Larisa Mikhaylova: "War Games: Releasing Aggression or Preparing for War?"
- - Vibs R. Petersen: "Work and Play: Which is the Game"
Friday 3:30 PM Samurai
- The Importance of Place in SF and Fantasy
- - Kimberly Knight: "Mapping Ideology: The Country and the City in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy"
- - Rebecca Janicker: "New England Narratives: Space and Place in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft"
- - Melissa Coleen Stevenson: "No Place Like Home: Real Identities/Virtual Realities"
- - Samuel H. Vasbinder: "Planetary Landscape in Science Fiction Painting"
Friday 3:30 PM Dynasty
- SF, Film and Media II
- - Kerry Gough: "Aliens in an Econ(c)omic World: Cheap at Half the Price -- From the Hollywood Blockbuster to the Comic Book"
- - Craig B. Jacobsen: "Buy Robot: SF Film Advertising and the Blurring of Narrative Boundaries"
Saturday 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Jade
- Bookroom and Conference Registration
Saturday 8:30 AM Osaka
- The SF Superhero
- - Elizabeth Monier-Williams: "Death is her gift? Female superheroes, fatalism, and the problematics of suicide"
- - Kerry Gough: "Negotiating Heroism: Ripley as the Female Superhero?"
- - Ryan J. Cox: "'I was not the first anomaly to exist' Placing Superhero Comics in a Poetic Tradition"
Saturday 8:30 AM Koko
- Open
Saturday 8:30 AM Samurai
- Contemporary SF Authors III
- - Neil Easterbrook: "Recognizing Patterns: William Gibson's Hermeneutic Phobias"
- - John F. Barber: "Prototypes for Cyberspace: Influences on William Gibson's 'consensual hallucination'"
- - Christine Mains: "In Possession of Vital Information: Sharing Knowledge-Power in Joan D. Vinge's Hegemony"
Saturday 8:30 AM Dynasty
- The SF of C. J. Cherryh
- - Ed Carmien: "Cherryh's Alchemy: The Classical and Romantic Transmuted in Angel With a Sword"
- - Jan Bogstad: "Living Alien: Alienated Humanity in Recent Hainish (Le Guin) and Foreigner (Cherryh) Novels"
Saturday 10:30 AM Osaka
- Science in/and SF
- - Joan Slonczewski: "Avian Flu, or The Birds Strike Back"
- - Neil Gerlach: "Cloning Jesus: Biotechnology and Myth in the Post-Millennial World"
- - Lisa Yaszek: "Not Lost in Space: Science as Women's Work in the Postwar SF Community"
Saturday 10:30 AM Koko
- The SF of Ursula K. Le Guin Session III
- - Sandra Lindow: "Wild Gifts: Anger Management and Moral Development in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin and Maurice Sendak"
- - Warren Rochelle: "Choosing to be Human: American Romantic/Pragmatic Rhetoric in LeGuin's Latest Teaching Novel, Gifts."
- - Richard D. Erlich: "Le Guin East and West (With a Word or Two on Gambling)"
Saturday 10:30 AM Samurai
- Star Wars Multimedia Presentation
- - Paul Brians: "The Roots of Star Wars"
Saturday 10:30 AM Dynasty
- "Libraries, Archives and E-Texts…oh, my!...libraries and the scholars who use them"
Join the discussion and let us know about your experiences! - - Leslie Swigart, moderator
- - Jan Bogstad
- - Hal Hall
- - Len Hatfield
- - Andy Sawyer
Saturday 1:30 PM Osaka
- The SF of Ursula K. Le Guin Session IV
- - Andrew Sawyer: "Ursula Le Guin and the Pastoral Mode"
- - Donald M. Hassler: "The Relation of Story to Idea: The Vines of Kress and the Gethen of Le Guin"
- - Alfred E. Guy Jr.: "Theorizing Gender Essentialism from Le Guin to Gibson"
Saturday 1:30 PM Koko
- Contemporary SF Authors IV
- - Joan Gordon: "Prospero Framed in Neil Gaiman's The Wake"
- - Amanda Dafoe: "Faith, Fantasy and Frontier: Neil Gaiman's American Gods"
- - Ruby S. Ramraj: "Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome: Science Fiction, Thriller, or Postcolonial Text?"
Saturday 1:30 PM Samurai
- "Science Fiction Teaching: How and Why"
- - Peter Brigg, moderator
- - Bruce Rockwood
- - Joan Slonczewski
- - Rhoda Martin
- - Dave Samuelson
- - Craig Jacobson
Saturday 1:30 PM Dynasty
- Nineteenth Century SF
- - Joe Sanders: "Paradise Denied: James Fenimore Cooper's The Crater"
- - Art Evans: "Jules Verne's America"
- - Sarah Canfield Fuller: "Some Fictions of Science, or Hypothetical Analogical Scenarios in Nineteenth Century Science Writing and Science Fiction"
Saturday 3:30 PM Osaka
- Contemporary SF Authors V
- - Mark Bould: "'Wanking away and pretending it's sex': Metaphor and commodity in the criticism and fiction of M. John Harrison"
- - Carol Franko: "Tim Powers' preternatural, gritty, gooey, moral realism"
- - Ben Fenwick: "Fate, Redemption and the King: Tim Powers' Last Call Compared to Drawing of the Dark"
Saturday 3:30 PM Koko
- SF and Spirit
- - Ed Higgins: "Inside/Outside Worlds: Speaking and Silence in Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day"
- - Graham J. Murphy: "Fantastic Journeys: (Cyber)Spirituality in (Cyber)Fiction"
- - Bruce L. Rockwood: "Looking Within: SF Explores the Future of 'Being Human'"
Saturday 3:30 PM Samurai
- Author Reading and Book Signing
- - John Barnes
- - Kij Johnson
Saturday 3:30 PM Dynasty
- "The Tiptree Award"
- - Margaret McBride, moderator
- - Brian Attebery
- - Ursula K. Le Guin
- - Michael M. Levy
Saturday 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM Royal Banquet Hall B
- Cash Bar and Awards Banquet
- Cash Bar (opens 6:00 PM) and Awards Banquet (7:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
Sunday 9 AM Dynasty
- Business Meeting
Participants
Participants in SFRA 2005 (Las Vegas, June 23-26), as of June 14, 2005.
If your name isn't here (and it should be), contact Peter Lowentrout, Program Chair, as soon as possible at <plowentr@csulb.edu>.
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