Our distinguished guest author will be Fred Pohl, and our featured
guest authors will be James Gunn and Allen Steele.
| Thursday, July 5 |
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| Noon - 6 p.m. |
Conference Registration |
Pershing Place Hallway |
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| 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Program Session 1 |
Pershing Place East |
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Classic Science Fiction #1
| Stephen A. Allen | | "And That Makes Them Human": Defining Humanity in ;Three
Novellas by Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
| Alan Elms | | Building "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard": The Raw Materials and
Architectural Design of Cordwainer Smith's Classic Story |
| De Witt Douglas Kilgore | | C/SETI as Fiction: James Gunn's The Listeners |
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| 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Program Session 2 |
Pershing Place West |
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Golden Age Science Fiction #1
| Geetha Bakelapodov | | Golden Science Fiction: Did We Ever Leave It Behind? |
| Mark T. Decker | | The Cold Exception: Reading Tom Godwin's "The Cold
Equations" Against Giorgio Agamben's State of Exceptions |
| Patricia Donaher | | I, Susan, Asimov's Woman of the Future |
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| 6:00 p.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting |
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| 7:30 - 9 p.m. |
Plenary Session |
Pershing Place East and West |
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The Importance of Robert A. Heinlein
Kathleen Ann Goonan, James Gunn, Fred Pohl, Allen Steele, ?? |
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Friday, July 6 |
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| 8 a.m. - Noon |
Conference Registration |
Penn Valley Room |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Program Session 3 |
Pershing Place West |
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Modern Science Fiction #1
| Janice Bogstad | | A Postcolonial Reading of Kim Stanley Robinson's Years of Rice
and Salt |
| Ritch Calvin | | Tanith Lee: The (Post) Modern Body and the Conservation of
Sexuality |
| Benjamin Blattberg | | Strange Bedfellows: Burroughs' Egg-Laying Princess and
LeGuin's Pregnant King |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Program Session 4 |
Shawnee Room |
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Fighting Futures: The Military-Industrial-Science-Fiction Complex
| Patrick Sharp | | Monsters from Darwin's Id: Gender and Evolution in Them and
Forbidden Planet |
| Liza Yaszek | | Shadows on the Cathode Ray Tube: Adapting Golden Age
Science Fiction for Television |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Program Session 5 |
Mission Room |
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Classic Science Fiction #2: Pohl Stars
| Steven D. Berman | | Human-Computer Relationships in Pohl's Gateway |
| Eric C. Otto | | New Worlds to Conquer: An Ecocritical Look at The Space
Merchants |
| Mack Hassler | | Where Utopia Meets Hard SF: Wells to Heinlein and Pohl to
Steele |
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| 10: 30 - 12 noon |
Program Session 6 |
Pershing Place West |
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International Science Fiction
| Amy Ransom | | Utopia, Dystopia, and Urchronia and the Science-Fiction Saga
from Quebec |
| Larissa Koraleva | | The Phenomenon of Alexander Beliaev: The Beginning of Soviet
Science Fiction |
| Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira Suppia | | Alert Limit: Science Fiction Detected in the
Brazilian Cinema |
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| 10: 30 - 12 noon |
Program Session 7 |
Shawnee Room |
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Golden Age Science Fiction #2
| Kevin Mulcahy | | Sturgeon's More Than Human and Posthumanism |
| Edward M. Wysocki | | Science Fiction and the History of Science and Technology |
| Rebecca Lynne Testerman | | Group Marriage in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress |
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| 10:30 - 12 noon |
Program Session 8 |
Mission Room |
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Classic Science Fiction #3
| Lyn Motai | | Butterflies, Pseudopods, Chaos and Complexity |
| Ian Roberts | | Strange Occultations: Astronomy and Pseudo-science in Wells'
"The Crystal Egg" |
| Richard Hanley | | Time and Other Dimensions: The Legacy of Wells's The Time
Machine |
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| 12:15 - 1:30 |
Brown Bag Symposium |
Pershing Place West |
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Artificial Consciousness/Artificial Intelligence
Kathleen Ann Goonan, ?? |
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Heinlein Centennial Conference Keynote Session: NASA Administrator Griffin |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Program Session 9 |
Shawnee Room |
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Golden Age Science Fiction #3: Heinlein
| Joseph Brown | | Heinlein and the Cold War: The Puppet Masters and Double Star |
| Roy Sheldon | | Emersonian Influences in Robert Heinlein's story "They" |
| Neil Easterbrook | | Two or Three Things I Know About Ethics, Including References
to You Know Who |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Program Session 10 |
Mission Room |
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New Critical Perspectives on SF Television
| Derek Maus | | Metaparodies of Fan Culture in the Revived Doctor Who
Television Series |
| Steven M. Stannish | | Orientalism, Egyptomania, and "The Pyramids of Mars" |
| Christine M. Doran | | Farscape: The Domestic in Danger |
| Robert Spirko | | Cylons vs. Cybermen: The Posthuman Future Without
the Humans |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Program Session 11 |
Penn Valley Room |
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Modern Science Fiction #2
| Sarah Canfield Fuller | | Appropriations of Canonical Authority in Gaiman's Sandman |
| Derek Thiess | | Bethlehem in the Rough Beast: Myth, Religion and Science
Fiction |
| Jason Embry | | Samuel Delany's Linguistic Architects of Reality |
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| 3:30 - 5:30 |
Program Session 12 |
Pershing Room West |
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Authors Read: Allen Steele |
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| 3:30 - 5:30 |
Program Session 13 |
Penn Valley Room |
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction Television is Now
| Craig Jacobsen | | Cyborged Media: Science Fiction Television and the
Hybridization of Narrative |
| Shelley Rodrigo | | Technofetishized TV: How Shows Like CSI and Bones fit Into
the Golden Age of SF Television |
| Karen Hellekson | | Everything Old Is New Again |
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| 6 p.m. |
Cash Bar |
Shawnee + Mission Room |
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| 6:30 - 8:00 |
Awards Presentation: SFRA and Campbell Conference |
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(N.B. this does not include dinner: plan accordingly) |
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Saturday, July 7 |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 10:15 |
Program Session 14 |
Pershing Place West |
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Author Reading: Kathleen Ann Goonan |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 10:15 |
Program Session 15 |
Shawnee Room |
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Giant Fallout: SF and Hollywood's Reaction to the Post-WWII Nuclear Threat
| Kelly L. Goodridge | | Pacifism and Paranoia in The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| Oscar De Los Santos | | Extra Large: Exploring Giant Creature Cinema |
| Bruce L. Rockwood | | Heinlein's Starship Troopers |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 10:15 |
Program Session 16 |
Mission Room |
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SF in the Classroom
| Barbara Bengels | | Collision Course |
| Commentators: | | Phil Snyder and Mike Levy |
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| 10:30 - 12:15 |
Program Session 17 |
Pershing Place West |
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SFRA Review Panel
| Ed Carmien |
| Meet SFRA Review staff and writers and hear selected SFRA Review contributions read by
their authors, followed by a discussion of the issues and challenges raised by our colleagues
in the Heinlein-themes issue. Heinlein's continued presence in our politics, classrooms, and
bookstores is well worth our time and effort. |
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| 10:30 - 12:15 |
Program Session 18 |
Shawnee Room |
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Media: Outer and Inner Space in Images
| Ezra Claverie | | Dangerous Desires in Matango: Gilligan, Syphilis, and
the Mushroom People |
| James Davis | | The Cold-War Rhetoric of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |
| Jason Ellis | | Subversion of the Self in the Battlestar Galactica Re-Imaging |
| Philip Kaveny | | Examining the Mono-theistic/Poly-theistic Dialogues in
Battlestar Galactica (new series) |
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| 10:30 - 12:15 |
Program Session 19 |
Mission Room |
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Golden Age Science Fiction #4
| Michael Page | | The Influence of Bruer and Williamson's The Birth of a New
Republic on Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress |
| Deanna Wells | | From Newspaper Headlines to the Nebula Awards: Revolutions
in Medical Science and Amazing Humans in SF: A Reading of
Heinlein and Pohl |
| Jari Käkelä | | Asimov's Foundation Trilogy-The Fall of Rome and the Rise of
Cowboy Heroes |
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| 12:15 -1:15 |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Program Session 20 |
Pershing Place West |
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A Woman's View
| Alice Waters | | Hoping for the Best, Imagining the Worst: Dystopian Anxieties in
Women's SF Pulp Stories |
| Maria DeRose | | The Women Men Don't See: Women's Strategic Invisibility as
Potential Empowerment |
| Annette Doblix Klemp | | Silencing the Female Narrator: Podkayne of Mars and the
Question of Audience |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Program Session 21 |
Shawnee Room |
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Authors Reading: Fred Pohl, Jim Gunn |
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| -- SFRA Program Ends Now -- |
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| 5:30-7 p.m. |
Heinlein Centennial Gala Banquet |
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Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Arthur C. Clarke |
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| 7 p.m. |
Heinlein Centennial Gala |
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Sunday, July 8 |
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| 9 a.m. |
SFRA Business Meeting |
Pershing Place South |
Contact The Westin Crown Center Hotel reservation desk directly - toll-free - at 1-816-474-4400. Identify yourself
as a participant in the Heinlein Centennial and Science Fiction Research Association meetings. The Conference rate is $96 per night
plus taxes. Book your room(s) as soon as possible to get the conference rate. SFRA activities will be mainly in the Westin Crown
Center.
The special Heinlein Centennial rate
for Hyatt and Westin rooms ran out June 18 at 5 PM.
You can still get a room, but it will be $136.00 or more per night.
You can also connect to the SFRA 2007 conference hotels via the direct link to the
hotel page of the
Heinlein Centennial website -
This will give information and direct links to the hotel web sites and reservation pages. Hotels can also be
reached from any Centennial web page.
The conference fee will be $150 for regular members, which includes
membership in the Heinlein Centennial.
